The Earth continues to turn as the characters in "The Day the Earth Stood Still," a tailored-for- blockbuster remake of the 1951 classic of the same name, remain eerily immobile
The original film, directed by Robert Wise, became a revered sci-fi cult favorite. That fate will probably elude this revamped, updated version directed by Scott Derrickson.
It's not all the movie's fault: We've all become so familiar with apocalyptic fables defined by digitized disaster that yet another story of a thingie arriving from outer space to whup the backsides of hapless governments just doesn't do it for us anymore.