I do not agree with most of these comparisons of the original and the remake.
I've seen both, one after the other.
Both have good acting, good dialog and the best special effects available at the time. And both have a stupid premise --- a supposedly advanced alien comes to Earth to enforce unfair hypocrisy.
In the original, the alien says humans are too violent. "Either stop fighting, warring and being violent, or our robot police will destroy you."
So? You want us to surrender our freedom and self determination to your fleet of robot police who were not elected, and we cannot communicate with? No thank you. Freedom comes at the price of risks. And what if another alien race destroys your robot police? How are we supposed to defend ourselves?
And? How did your race of aliens get from your original primitive form to this "advanced" form of evolution? Weren't you guys violent at one time? Didn't you guys have war? Didn't you develop technology to defend yourselves from your enemies? Well? Why can't we have the same experience?
I gave both movies a 7 for entertainment value, good acting, good dialog, and best special effects available at the time. I would have given both a 10, but both premises were both stupid.
(The remake premise is just as stupid. The difference is, the supposedly advanced alien says we humans are destroying the planet. So to save the planet, he's going to destroy the humans.
In a conversation with a scientist, the alien realizes his own race of aliens faced their own environmental crisis. And survived. The human scientist says, "Give us the same experience and challenge of dealing with our own environmental crisis.")
I've seen both, one after the other.
Both have good acting, good dialog and the best special effects available at the time. And both have a stupid premise --- a supposedly advanced alien comes to Earth to enforce unfair hypocrisy.
In the original, the alien says humans are too violent. "Either stop fighting, warring and being violent, or our robot police will destroy you."
So? You want us to surrender our freedom and self determination to your fleet of robot police who were not elected, and we cannot communicate with? No thank you. Freedom comes at the price of risks. And what if another alien race destroys your robot police? How are we supposed to defend ourselves?
And? How did your race of aliens get from your original primitive form to this "advanced" form of evolution? Weren't you guys violent at one time? Didn't you guys have war? Didn't you develop technology to defend yourselves from your enemies? Well? Why can't we have the same experience?
I gave both movies a 7 for entertainment value, good acting, good dialog, and best special effects available at the time. I would have given both a 10, but both premises were both stupid.
(The remake premise is just as stupid. The difference is, the supposedly advanced alien says we humans are destroying the planet. So to save the planet, he's going to destroy the humans.
In a conversation with a scientist, the alien realizes his own race of aliens faced their own environmental crisis. And survived. The human scientist says, "Give us the same experience and challenge of dealing with our own environmental crisis.")