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Aliens return to Earth to save it.

Great pacing and straightforward plot. Features Keanu Reeves as himself.

• Trailer
• Based on Farewell to the Master – (1940 story), by Harry Bates

• A remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still – (1951 movie)

• 2023-01-31

• Watched before; notes not taken.

2023-01-31 ∞

• 1:00 — 1928 – Karakoram Mountains – India
• 3:15 — I’m not clear on what prompted him to go out there..

• 5:30 —

  • Princeton University – Present Day
  • Thiobacillus
  • Bacterium
  • Sulfuric acid
  • Deinococcus radiodurans
  • Radioactive waste
  • Callisto (moon)
• 6:45 — World of Warcraft

• 11:30 —

  • Nuclear physics
  • Astronomer (Astronomy
  • Geologist (Geology)
  • Astrobiology
  • Fossil record
  • Microbiology
  • Civil engineering
• 11:45 — I recognize that guy from Dark Angel – (2000 show)
• 12:00 — That’s at Fort Lee, New Jersey – New Jersey – United States

• 13:15 —

  • Spaceguard (Potentially hazardous objects)
  • Asteroid, Ellipse [ 1 ]
  • Hyperbolic orbit
  • Free fall
  • Crisis response team
• 16:15 — Extinction event
• 17:30 — Boston – United States

• 25:15 —

  • Anesthetic
  • General anaesthetic
  • Local anesthetic

• 28:00 —

  • Sleep and dreaming
  • FMRI
  • Times Square

• 28:45 —

  • Stock exchange
  • Central Park
  • New York Stock Exchange
  • The Nikkei
  • Hang Seng
  • President of the United States
  • Vice President of the United States
• 30:30 — I also recognize that actor from Dark Angel – (2000 show).
• 31:45 — That thing would be strapped down..

• 34:45 —

  • Pizarro
  • Inca Empire
  • Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire
  • Columbus
  • Voyages of Christopher Columbus
• 37:15 — She’s not that kind of doctor..

• 38:45 —

  • Interrogation
  • Polygraph
• 44:00 — Apocalypse
• 50:00 — McDonald’s
• 54:45 — Ignoring the fact that the container exists in the first place, they should fill it with concrete.
• 55:00 — Highlands, New Jersey – United States

• 59:00 —

  • Okavango (I don’t know which)
  • Gobi
  • Baku – Azerbaijan

• 59:15 —

  • Cephalopod
  • Squid
  • Octopus

• 1:06:15 —

  • An ark
  • The flood

• 1:07:00 —

  • Nobel Prize
  • Biological altruism
• 1:09:15 — Bach

• 1:09:45 —

  • MRI
  • Thermal imaging
  • PET scan
• 1:13:00 — Reason
• 1:20:15 — Wilhelm scream
• 1:23:30 — Why don’t they have helicopters now?

• 1:30:30 — How could they tell who is in the vehicle?

Footnotes

1. Curious how looking up “asteroidal ellipse” on Wikipedia gives this movie. [ ↩ ]