I and another Sci-Fi fanatic liked this movie very much.
It was like being in the Robert Heinlein novel; but suitably
updated and adapted to the screen. The father-son tension
was there; but, thankfully, the sophomoric mail-female relations--a
Heinlein hallmark--was jettisoned.
You want bad adaptation?
Read the isaac Asimov shot story, "Nightfall," and then see the 1988
movie starring David Birney. The Mystery Science Theater 3000
crew would be left speechless.
Another bad adaption: The Stephen King book 'Salem's Lot and it's 1978 adaption "Salem's Lot: The Movie", which did the book no justice at all.
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No the worst adaptation had to be L. Ron Hubbard's Battlefield Earth! I don't see how Travolta could think he could squish a novel that is as big as LOTR (all 3 books) into a 2 hour movie! I mean, LOTR is 12 hours on extended version!
shareFunny I liked that one...Salem's Lot. I was 13 when it 1st aired so I was scared s(*&less(especially that kid scraping at the window). James Mason was gay and creepy, and that nosferatu looking fiend-who never talked...loved it!
I liked this movie as well, I watch it several times a year.
A census taker tried to test me once, I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti
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I agree, it wasn't THAT bad a film, I've seen far worse, it was a good film with some very goos acting, pity that humans won, isn't it.
"White horses rode by as the devil passed by, taking souls to Hades by twilight"!
Nothing wrong with it
shareI admit it is rather generic and we've see this type of creature many times before, most notably in the Hidden,..but despite it's hackneyed formula, the film works and keeps you on the edge of your seat. What more can you ask for?
just go ahead and say it...admit it. Im an A_hole!
I liked the first half-hour of The Puppet Masters, which I found intriguing and pretty exciting, but it never really took off like I thought it would. I mean, the last half-hour, which features humans deep in alien-possessed territory, wasn't particularly suspenseful or thrilling. The movie just kept building without really delivering the pay-off.
shareyes, the ending scene in the "hive" was awkward and clunky. The sets looked a little too cheesy, with that nylon stretched out to look like membranes of the hive.
some People on this board are saying "there's no way Sutherland could have walked around with the alien on his back" throughout the whole movie -- but that's not how I took it. I thought the alien latched onto him when he was peering into that hole in the hive and that crap fell down onto him. But I will agree that suddenly forgetting to maintain the limp was not how an alien with all that collective memory and brain power would behave.
It wasn't that bad, but I not recommending it to anyone.
I love sci-fi and I enjoyed this movie. I read the book afterwards. I still like the movie. I just took it as them having to crunch some things into the movie's time frame and also having to leave some things out.
It still made sense and was a fun movie.
There's something here that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick.-Doctor Who
This is a movie that is great when there is nothing else on. I enjoyed it. Not a classic by any means, but one I can watch again every now and then. The scene with the president in the elevator was also very good and it took me a minute to figure out what was going on. I have not read the book, so I was not as dissapointed as others in it. I think a 6 is a fair score for it.
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