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Trailer—The Day the Earth Stopped

This film was kind of compelling to watch, just see how crap it could be. Acting? Do me a favour! The kids in a pre-school nativity play can act better than that. Special effects? Ha! The effects in the 1951 movie from which this was ripped off were much better. Even the screens in the control room were CRTs instead of LCD panels - bear in mind this was made in 2008! Plot? Please! Find out why humanity is worth saving by tea time, otherwise the planet is going to be zapped. I thought they had finally cracked how to show new born babies. Apparently not, as we're shown a clean six month old toddler that had just been born. I probably have seen a worse science fiction movie, but I can't remember when.

The Day the Earth Stopped(480P)

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there is really no reason to trash this film. Plot wise, its pretty solid with a nice tale. The effects are about what one would expect of a rather low budget film but they are OK. The cast is pretty solid, tho not Oscar worthy. The story revolves around a mysterious alien invasion that no one can figure out. There are religion undertones, and not so subtle ones at that. The aliens turn out to be powerful, God like entities that have come to determine the worth of the human race. Plan B it to knock the planet off its axis and destroy us. C Thomas Howell is fun to watch and he is a promising director. The movie moves along at a decent pace and never hits any truly boring stretches. I felt reasonably entertained and no, its far from the worse movie ever made like some sniffy Star Wars nerds commented here.

My grade-school aged children confused this with the similarly named Hollywood movie. I tried to warn them, but they insisted this looked good. The acting was so bad I left the room about 30 minutes in. My son called me back a few minutes later to point out how bad the *lighting effects* were. He's never critical of acting, let alone of lighting. Honestly, if a 5th grader is able to find serious flaws everybody involved with this film should be ashamed. I'd like to say something good about this film, but I can't think of anything. At least in my case it was a free rental, so I didn't waste any money on it.

Here goes. This movie was so bad, it wasn't even so bad that it was good like some movies I know... this one was just long, boring and rotten. Stay away, far away from this one! This movie was so bad, it wasn't even so bad that it was good like some movies I know... this one was just long, boring and rotten. Stay away, far away from this one! This movie was so bad, it wasn't even so bad that it was good like some movies I know... this one was just long, boring and rotten. Stay away, far away from this one!