Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Stellead Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

antoniocasaca123 SCI-FI movie very interesting, especially considering that was made in 1951. For the time, the film contains a bold and courageous message. The lead actors are fine. Much better than the remake of 2008, which I had seen before and did not like. The usual with the remakes of classics, (almost) always quite inferior to the originals (liked to know why they insist so much on continuing to make remakes, no more original ideas?), this even more with the (almost) always lousy Keanu Reeves.

hamikid Before I get started,I.\'m not sure if i'm spoiling but I put it in anyway. You know, just to be safe. Now, the story in this is film is on the better side, an alien invader comes down and will only speak to the world leaders. He, along with Gord (his alien friend) begin to walk around D.C, watching and learning. It shows modern people and the effect of said people WWII had on people (as evidence by the Arlington cemetery scene.) There's religious details in this film, I do love those! I am a man of philosophy if I do say so myself. But the problem I have, is a huge but under the radar thing. Klattu, at the end, says (and i'm paraphrasing here) "the universe needs peace, and if you use violence, we will respond with violence." Now, on the surface not to bad, but he's doing the exact same thing that Earth was doing in the cold war, which "coinicidentally" the movie was taking place in. So, in short, the hypocrisy of Klaatu took me out of a well rounded film, with memorable characters and lines. Overall, this movie is an amazing movie, one of the better ones to come from the 50's, I hope this helped and maybe shed a new light.

dncorp After many Movies depicting Aliens as Monsters that only wanted to take over Earth and Enslave Humanity, a Strong fear and extreme paranoia during the 1950s of the U.S.S.R. (Russians), The Day The Earth Stood Still 1951 would become one of the Best Science Fiction Movies of History.The idea of the Use of Atomic (Nuclear) Energy for anything other than Atomic (Nuclear) Weapons was as alien a concept as Gort (Advanced Robotics, Galactic "Policeman" with Advanced Artificial Intelligence).The Special Effects of The Day The Earth Stood Still 1951 are still very convincing. Especially Gort's directed energy weapon and the results, that would be similar to later 1953 War of the Worlds (Color) brief illumination of the target then gone.

swissonbrownrye We come to you in peace. Unless you do exactly what you are told WE WILL WIPE OUT ALL LIFE ON THIS PLANET! We will KILL EVERYTHING THAT MOVES, including whales, mountain gorillas, hummingbirds, puppies, kittens, butterflies, seal pups, grandmothers and little babies. We are doing this because you are a violent people. Nobody seems to spot the irony here. This intergalactic playground bully shows up on planet earth with his all powerful robot and threatens to blow us away unless we renounce war. Well, suppose that there is another even more powerful civilization than Klaatu's that is watching all of this unfold and they tell Klaatu that if he wipes out all life on earth then they will wipe HIM out for being violent. The sheer hypocrisy of Klaatu's whole mission is so glaringly ridiculous it's almost parody.