Gunny Walker

  You know there is one thing that I missed in both versions of The Shining.
here or here.) It's the whole "redrum" reference. When Jack Torrence is sitting in the bar drinking his red rum and looks in the mirror behind the bar and sees "redrum" reflected there. That's when you know things are just about to go bonkers.
  If you don't know what I am talking about then you should write redrum on a paper and look at it in the mirror. It's been to long since I read The Shining. Maybe I should go hunt down my copy and read it again.
  I was watching The Day the Earth Stood Still and was amazed how that Klaatu threatened the Earth. Mankind was on the verge of strapping nuclear devices to rockets and sending them into space. Of course, if we wanted to destroy each other that was fine, but on the course that we were on we would destroy more than our own planet. Klaatu said that it would not come to that. If we continued on our current course, then the other worlds would destroy us first. It's interesting that violence (or war) would lead to our demise.
  Of course, this is a common approach for all of those old fifties films. Be it giant ants, living dead, or even comic books, these things all base themselves off of the bomb, and ultimately off of nuclear war. They play off of fears of destruction of all mankind by that power. Of course, not such things play as well today.
  In 1960, The Time Machine showed a world destroyed by war, but in 2002, The Time Machine portrayed the world destroyed by the destruction of the moon in an attempt to build a gated community there.
  In I, Robot, it is the efforts of one company that ends life as we know it. Spider-Man and Terminator both show what happens when corporations get too involved in the designing of weaponry. (Of course, there is the government aspect there too, but that seems to always be prevalent.)
  I'm not trying to make a point here. It's just that when I was watching The Day the Earth Stood Still, I was thinking how it would not make it today. We don't really have any nuclear threats. (Of course, if Bush is right, then it's only a matter of time.) Today, we seem to fear big business and the rich instead. I just found that funny.