A FAILED REMAKE
Posted: December 12th, 2008, 12:40 pm
Some of you who have been on Studio8 for a while might remember that in THE ADVENTURES OF HERMAN UTIX, ( appearing in these pages two years ago) I based my story somewhat on one of my favorite movies, Robert Wise's 1951 sci-fi classic, THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, which remains one of the best sf movies ever made.
Also, you might remember that in 2005-06, I also have the "errorists" torturing one of my characters by making him listen to a tape of Keanu Reeves reading Tennyson with "an "English" accent" . . .
(link to that pagel)
http://www.studioeight.tv/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=8253
Now, my comic strip is proven fully prescient:
Keanu Reeves stars in a re-make of THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, which contains, according to many reviewers, a plethora of unintentional laughs:
(new movie review)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28166691/
Ah-- you can't even write satire any more-- Google news outdoes ya . . .
Wagging his pen for your delectation,
Umberto
Also, you might remember that in 2005-06, I also have the "errorists" torturing one of my characters by making him listen to a tape of Keanu Reeves reading Tennyson with "an "English" accent" . . .
(link to that pagel)
http://www.studioeight.tv/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=8253
Now, my comic strip is proven fully prescient:
Keanu Reeves stars in a re-make of THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, which contains, according to many reviewers, a plethora of unintentional laughs:
(new movie review)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28166691/
Ah-- you can't even write satire any more-- Google news outdoes ya . . .
Wagging his pen for your delectation,
Umberto