Log Entry #2: 9/21/10

When people try to classify "true science fiction movies" they state movies like Star Trek or Star Wars. But personally, I believe people should be quite familiar with the movie "The day the Earth stood still" for multiple reasons. First off, the movie demonstrates many crucial themes of science fiction: aliens invasion, people uncertain by what has come to their presence, and also aliens saying that the world might be in trouble. Secondly, it showed cutting edge video effects for its time, which set the board walk for future science fiction movies. Moreover, I believe if you're a fanatic of the Star Trek or Star Wars movies, you should defiantly see this movie because it also dealt with humans and aliens and their conflicts with each other. In my opinion, I truly loved this movie due to it had many conflicts (aliens & humans) and I just love the fascination of extra terrestrials taking over the world. I don't think I would have changed anything to make it better (1950's version), but if they recreated it in this time period, it would have the potential for being one of the best current science fiction movies.  It might also make things look more life like and not "1950's screen glitchy", which would/could be a crowd pleaser. Even though they did not create a new version of the movie, I would defiantly suggest the 1950's version movie to a friend.