the best possible encounter with this movie is NOT this reworking

As memorable encounters with movies go my first in depth (stoned) viewing of this movie occurs some times in the 60's,  a memorable time in and of itself despite hypotheses to the contrary by persons who may have observed from greater or lesser distances but who clearly were not really there but who nonetheless have a quarter-baked notion of the singularity that was the decade.  Anyhow, I chanced upon this movie the old fashioned way as have many: late  night showing quiet too quiet nothing for it but to dwell on the existential and ontologic implications of such a story as this, dwelling comfortably enough to conclude that not only was a real life rendition of this story  possible but likely, a thought brought home by the second thought  "that'd be cool".   Given the proclivities of the human race I've observed over the intervening fifty mostly odd years I wonder that Klaatu would even bother to stop by to offer his counsel a second time. In short, if you collected the original late night experience in your younger days there would seem to be little reason to subject your self to this reworking.  But the existence/ontology questions remain.  They are more accessible here in 1951.