What was it with filmmakers in the 1950s and their inability to craft a reasonably good science fiction movie?I got bored about 15 minutes into this movie and it's just the same for "The Day the Earth Stood Still." Just boring, boring, boring.
They're not scary in the least, not disturbing or grotesque. In any art form, there's never been a greater difference of quality between 1950s sci-fi and modern sci-fi. It's night and day. Beatles records still hold up. Paintings from the '50s don't get worse with time.
These sci-fi attempts just stink.
Fun fact: Reading up about this film, many people adopt a theme of socialist paranoia and how it was enveloping the nation due to McCarthyism and whatnot. Producer Walter Mirisch later wrote that any communist sub-themes were all incidental and that there was no intention of taking on such a hot-button issue. Rightfully so.
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