12 Most Insulting Changes To Movie Remakes

In 1951, the nuclear age was on the horizon and the horrors that swept the world were the threat of atomic power and violence through War.

The message of the original is a genuinely prophetic one about the dangers of nuclear war and how we as a race must all get along. The remake is a pale imitation that desperately needed an issue to hammer home and make a point.

The remake instead doesn't really have any message to say at all. Klattu is just there to tell Earth he's there to kill them in order to save the planet and you are left wondering why he is delaying his mission that he seems dead set on doing. Keanu Reeves performance is also so emotionless and bored compared to Michael Rennie's more sympathetic take that Klattu being convinced of humankind's worth saving doesn't seem genuine.

Instead of a deep puncturing look at the cruelty and malice of humankind, we get treated to pretty CGI visuals of a digitized cloud eating everything in sight for vague reasons.

You can argue that it is open to interpretation just what destruction Keanu-Klattu is hinting at, but with the film's plot already so incoherent it just makes an already slow film drop dead with no real emotonal goal for the audience to latch onto.

If this was remade today, the message about humankind working together instead of shelling each other into oblivion would actually be scarily timely.