Aliens arrive complete with giant robots - plural - to deliver the message that humans need to get their act together and prove their worth, or else higher galactic powers will pull the plug. Mankind's response is, of course, to break out the machine guns, so said higher powers turn off electricity to show they mean business.
If this all seems strangely familiar to you, then that is probably because it is, of course, The Day The Earth Stood Still - the plot is the same as both the original and the remake. Even the title...
Given the film industry's propensity to rip off ideas (viz. the familiar phenomenon of similarly themed films coming out at nearly the same time), the makers of The Day The Earth Stopped probably felt a bit hard done by to be sued by 20th Century Fox (per IMDb's trivia page) just because this, er, inexpensive film came out shortly before Fox's expensive TDTESS remake. However, this isn't a case of copying an idea. It isn't even a case of plagiarism - it's outright larceny.
My mate C (for so my mate C. Thomas Howell likes to be known), as hack-for-hire, does as good a directing job as you can do with a budget of ninepence. He and the rest of the cast say their lines in the right order. There is a pretty lady with bare boobs. I do not recommend this film.
Incidentally, note and marvel at the way that the military personnel often have no insignia of any kind on their uniforms.
If this all seems strangely familiar to you, then that is probably because it is, of course, The Day The Earth Stood Still - the plot is the same as both the original and the remake. Even the title...
Given the film industry's propensity to rip off ideas (viz. the familiar phenomenon of similarly themed films coming out at nearly the same time), the makers of The Day The Earth Stopped probably felt a bit hard done by to be sued by 20th Century Fox (per IMDb's trivia page) just because this, er, inexpensive film came out shortly before Fox's expensive TDTESS remake. However, this isn't a case of copying an idea. It isn't even a case of plagiarism - it's outright larceny.
My mate C (for so my mate C. Thomas Howell likes to be known), as hack-for-hire, does as good a directing job as you can do with a budget of ninepence. He and the rest of the cast say their lines in the right order. There is a pretty lady with bare boobs. I do not recommend this film.
Incidentally, note and marvel at the way that the military personnel often have no insignia of any kind on their uniforms.