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Paul Kersey of usenet

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The Invasion [2007]


I just spent two hours at my aunt and her family's house watching The Invasion. The Invasion of Body Snatchers is one of my favorite sci-fi movies of all-time, so this new adaptation was a disappointment. It wasn't as cold, nihilistic and paranoid as Philip Kaufman's version. The only truly freaky element on The Invasion was Daniel "Bond" Craig's weird, blonde hairstyle which covered up his Bond status.
The problem with The Invasion was the sudden flat end. I was expecting a hella lot more money use for the settings, explotions and power because Joel Silver was the producer. One thing they could had explored in the movie would had been scenes in the eyes of Nicole Kidman's kid. I was really expecting to see the claustrophobia through his eyes, but it never happened but briefly at the grocery store.

The idea behind the movie is still relevant, but I thought they didn't capture the paranoid atmosphere The Thing and Invasion of Body Snatchers had.

I can't give any more than

*** stolen corpses out of *****


-- Edited by Nope at 21:19, 2008-04-02

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There was a 1978 version of IOTBS.

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Paul Kersey of usenet

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The Invasion of Body Snatchers from 1978 is the Philip Kaufman version, and Invasion seems to have followed Kaufman more than the original (1956). Donald Sutherland's curly and red afro was scary in itself.
The pessimistic end was removed for the 2007 version and the end was hacked. American audience demanded hope and got comfort.

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Nope wrote:

The Invasion of Body Snatchers from 1978 is the Philip Kaufman version, and Invasion seems to have followed Kaufman more than the original (1956). Donald Sutherland's curly and red afro was scary in itself.
The pessimistic end was removed for the 2007 version and the end was hacked. American audience demanded hope and got comfort.







 Yea newer movies are too quick edited. In older ones you could watch and enjoy a scene for more than ten seconds. Now it is the thing to bombard with 1 second scenes especially in action movies.



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Much as I despise Nicole Kidman in general, I liked "The Invasion",....EXCEPT FOR the ending.

They should have gone for "hopeless" instead of "hopeful",....more in the spirit of the original and the (AWESOME) 1978 version. Anybody remember the guy who ends up with his dog's head on him??

I also don't like how they messed with the ending of the "I Am Legend" movie........it was going SO WELL until the last ten minutes.

-- Edited by PippiLongstocking at 00:29, 2008-04-04

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Paul Kersey of usenet

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I remember only thedog and dude combination scene in Tim Burton's "Mars Attacks!"

Invasion wasn't bad remake, but the end was abruptly flat. Kidman was able to portrait fear well by thinking of her ex-husband's scientology friends taking over the world.



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Dusthead wrote:

Nope wrote:

The Invasion of Body Snatchers from 1978 is the Philip Kaufman version, and Invasion seems to have followed Kaufman more than the original (1956). Donald Sutherland's curly and red afro was scary in itself.
The pessimistic end was removed for the 2007 version and the end was hacked. American audience demanded hope and got comfort.





 Yea newer movies are too quick edited. In older ones you could watch and enjoy a scene for more than ten seconds. Now it is the thing to bombard with 1 second scenes especially in action movies.



Michael Bay and his fast-cutting style has been 'the invasion' in action movies. I haven't seen the latest Die Hard, but I'm sure it's like that. In the seventies and before that the scenes would have more calm before the storm. Sergio Leone was master with it. He'd let Clint Eastwood, Charles Bronson and Lee Van Cleef stare for minutes before violence breakouts.



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