Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Leofwine_draca THE DAY THE EARTH STOPPED is the Asylum version of THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, the needless Keanu Reeves remake of the 1950s science fiction classic about aliens visiting Earth and discovering that it comes up short. I thought the Reeves version was pretty pathetic in itself, and this cheap rip-off is even worse.It's probably the most heavy-handed film that I've seen in a while, containing nausea-inducing scenes in which the alien characters discover the value of human life by witnessing love and family relationships here on Earth. Plus we get a ton of religious inference, no surprise when a production company called 'Faith Films' is listed as one of the film's backers.Pity poor old C. Thomas Howell, who not only acts - badly - as the film's wooden protagonist, but directs to boot. He does a bad job in both roles. Mainly this is about Howell travelling around with a female alien (who is supposed to look like Angelina Jolie, which is a real stretch by anyone's imagination) while a CGI robot stands guard over the city. It's lamentably bad, and if you don't laugh then you'll be crying.

berniebosma OK, so it lacked the razzamataz special effects that carry most modern scifi flicks beyond their plot and character failings. This is a movie that clearly didn't have a mega-budget but did exceptionally well in spite of that. The plot is similar to the remake of the original DTESS, We're bad and we're going to be removed for the sake of the planet. Prove that we're worth survivability and the removal will be negated. Obviously we survive. Yet the reasoning in both movies is similar; the demonstration, through a single individual, that there is merit within us. In the very original of course, we were simply given a warning, both the latter movies went a step further. I like all three and this particular version is as good as the others.

Bobby Mckeown This is another low budget rip off of a blockbuster remake from the Asylum film company. It's when you watch these films that you realise how they came up with the name 'Asylum'. Last night, it was my misfortune to watch this absolute bag of s**t. I watched it deliberately and, somehow, watched it all the way through. Where do I begin? I'm going to give you the entire film.Hundreds of massive robots land on earth and just stand around in the major cities of the world. A government taskforce, which is comprised of a bunch of w*******s, a 12 year old boy and C.Thomas Howell, sets up shop in a warehouse where there is a pointless bloke-needing-a-p*ss scene. Meanwhile a spacepod crashes in the woods. The pod contains an alien man and woman, both naked, who for some reason or another become separated. The taskforce shows up and captures the male after he has taken out half a dozen men using magic. Yeah, magic. The taskforce then assume that there must be another alien, what they base this assumption on is unclear. Anyway, still en route to the scene is Howell and his boyfriend. They find the female alien tarting down the road, give her a coat and take her with them. Once there, she then does the magic thing and is promptly shot and captured. The aliens are then taken to a low security warehouse for questioning but they ain't talking. Later on the woman learns to talk after reading Howells mind. She starts by repeating exactly what he is thinking. Apparently he thinks the bint looks like Angelina Jolie. Maybe he's blind or using a comparison of the way she likes to tart about with her tits out. She warns that earth poses a threat to other planets with its weaponry and that they are to be destroyed unless Howell can prove to her the meaning of humanity. He's got until the end of the day to do this otherwise the earth will be destroyed which we later learn will include the stopping of the earths core. Meanwhile, the military are having a go at these robots with missiles. Cue the worst scene of a fighter pilot supposedly in his cockpit. Missiles useless. planes destroyed. Then the woman uses her magic again and stops all things in the world that depend on electricity including cars leading me to question the purpose of the robots if she can do this. Anyway, with the power out Howell helps her to escape and takes her to his car. The car don't work though because she's knackered everything up. Howells commanding officer shows up to stop them escaping, aiming his gun at Howell. Tart magics the car into life and they drive off without any opposition from the c/o. As they drive around with Howell racking his brain as to how he can prove the meaning of humanity, they are carjacked. The carjacker says something along the lines of "there's aliens all over the world and you've got the only working car, blah blah blah". Reiterating that this car is the only car in the world that is working. After he's buggered off with the car and Howell and the tart are walking down the road, behind them another car drives past. Yes, another working car.it's possible, I suppose, that it's the same car and the bloke who nicked it just doesn't know where he's going. Later on, Howell see's his car that was just jacked and pulls out his gun and goes to get it back. It turns out that it's not his car but a similar looking and fully operational one driven by his boyfriend. They run and hide. Their pursuers catch up with them and Howell kills 2 of them and smacks his boyfriend with a truck door. A brilliant way to prove that humans are every bit as bad as the aliens think they are. During this scene another car drives past outside. Howell and the tart then get into the car and bugger off again. Down the road a bit, they come across a couple in the road who need to go to the hospital as the woman is in labour. En route to hospital, Howells boyfriend shows up again in another working car. They manage to escape to a warehouse where the baby is born. Howell uses the miracle of life to prove the meaning of humanity. The mother dies and the tart magics her back to life. slowly. job done. now to get her back to her spaceship. She gets shot and Howell has to carry her there. Then he gets shot and they both die on the ground at the feet of one of these robots. robot vapourises the bloke who shot Howell. Then the male aliens magically appears and brings Howell and the tart back to life. The male alien features at various points n the film but this is the only real purpose of him being in it at all. The aliens beam up into the robot and they all bugger off.

Malcolm 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.