The Day the Earth Stopped (2008)

Highly Overrated But Still Good

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

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.

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!

The special effects, acting, and directing is on par with your average B movie. No surprises there. And there are a lot of scenes I might have done differently had I done this film. But that's half the fun of it, thinking about what I would do differently. The SFX weren't too bad either. Well, the robots were pretty good at least.And the story is far more faithful to the original 1950's movie than that Hollywood piece of drivel they pumped out with the A-list actors and the so-well-known title. I'd say it's worth watching. And none of that crap about the environment in it. They stuck to the "humanity is too dangerous to be allowed free reign in the universe" line of the original. With a few twists thrown in for some flavor. All in all a fun little film.

The Day the Earth Stopped Spoilers Ahead! This is desperation TV watching, at its finest.Hey I like quality challenged movies as much as the next guy. But this.....This was definitely challenged! This movie never darkened a theatre. Why it was so popular, it went straight to DVD! Yeah. A real brain clogging movie extravaganza! No acting. No plot. And all the robot action is contained in the trailer.Were there any good parts to the movie? Well let's see.Guillermo J. Silberstein musical masterpiece, definitely tied the contact lens acting and thinly veiled plot line all together into one cohesive ball of cheesy challenge.Rated as 1 out of 10 by 40% of the viewers on the Internet Movie Data Base, you know that this is going to be a complete waste of the next 90 minutes of your life.The best thing: This movie is currently available at just about any RedBox, for the paltry sum of $1 (plus taxes, which vary).If I had this to do over, I'd spend the buck on a lotto ticket!