DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, THE(1951)
I had already written up a review for this! Somehow
it got deleted!(Happened to a lot of my reviews!)
But even though I don't really need to re-watch this
to give it an accurate review, I'm doing it because
this is the BEST SCI-FI MOVIE EVER
MADE!! A++++++++++
From IMDb.com:
In every sense of the word, THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL
is Timeless: the Message is Eternal, the film-making flawless
(as a whole, the "goofs" listed here on the IMDb notwithstanding).
In terms of Entertainment Value alone, THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD
STILL overshadows most of what came before and most of what has
come since. It's one of those must-see movies that no serious
fan of the genre (or of superior movie-making in general) can
pass up. Michael Rennie set the standard for Extraterrestrial
Emissaries (and may very well have inspired the stoic Spock on
STAR TREK) and Robert Wise raised the bar for thoughtful Science
Fiction films. (Although, of late, we've seen a sad degeneration
to video-game stupid "sci-fi," THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL
proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the genre was a viable
vehicle for the dissemination of speculative ideas.) There
aren't very many movies regardless of genre that can stack
up against THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL. It remains a Timeless
Masterpiece. - poe426