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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Jesus's occupation); the fact that its success helped initiate what amounted to a new and potent movie genre - sci-fi - and, above all, the way it keeps faith with its roots in parable, telling a simple story in powerful terms, stressing a firm, easy-to-read moral and keeping the special effects to an almost homemade level. It is, in my opinion, one of the most lovable and watchable movies of the postwar era. (See the Top 10 1950s sci-fi movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Day the Earth Stood Still: Alienating | 12/12/2008 | See Source »

...years later, someone has had the not inherently bad idea of remaking the movie. The nukes continue to proliferate and we've added the potential for ecological suicide to our arsenals of self-destructiveness, so why not redraw Day's moral for a new generation? Unfortunately, the new director is a dope named Scott Derrickson, who has teamed with a morally deaf screenwriter named David Scarpa, and they have made what must be the worst major release in what may be the most disastrous year in recent Hollywood history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Day the Earth Stood Still: Alienating | 12/12/2008 | See Source »

...attributes and turning him into a zombie-like figure, awash in ambiguity; once he gets to meet a few humans he see that they're really not such bad sorts after all. The guy was never a ton of fun, but formerly he was at least a figure of moral weight and - especially rare in popular entertainments - a believably brainy one, a kind of public intellectual before that egregious term was invented. Now he's pretty much a drip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Day the Earth Stood Still: Alienating | 12/12/2008 | See Source »

Shokane said that she believed student movements, participation, and initiatives like the charity can bring a lot to Africa, including both the physical and moral support...

Author: By Youho T. Myong, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Charity Event Promotes Clean Water | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...nice to love the president. 13. FM: You have an uncanny ability to write about basically anything. You discuss everything from sexuality, humiliation, and isolation. Is anything off limits?JK: No, not at all. When I am a person sitting before you, I am a moral person I am a good person. But when I am writing, I have no loyalties. I am the most treacherous person, and that’s what I tell my students. When writing, betrayal is the word but when you stop, sainthood is required. 14. FM: How does your current life now compare...

Author: By Julia S Chen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Jamaica Kincaid | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

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