Can you people hop off the bandwagon long enough to give this movie a chance? Just because you hate Twilight (a major bandwagon) you haven't given this movie a fair shot. I watched it today and have to say, it was way better than I thought it'd be! It is probably one of the best book to movie adaptions I have ever seen, though it has been a while since I read the book.
Seriously though, not everything from Stephanie Meyer is horrible. This proves it.
I personally really enjoyed it. It met my expectations. I really like it when they combine teen romance stories with fantasy/sci-fi/adventure stories. I think they pair well together to make really interesting tales.
shareThis movie was fantastic. Such amazing writing and acting. This movie was so great that I had no desire to poke my eyes out. I am looking forward to the sequel. Hopefully I can get back to Bizarro World to watch it.
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I don't hate it but isn't keep you interesting...it's boring.
and the acting isn't good either.
"Don't try too hard, just a lovely ride"..
I definitely don't hate it. I thought it was quite compelling.
I wouldn't say it was a brilliant movie. But it did have (at least for me) some brilliant moments and an endearing character.
I wanted to like this movie because the director also gave us Gattaca (my favorite movie ever) and Lord Of War, and I thought Twilight as a movie was rather decent (and better than I expected; although I didn't like its themes and central message). But The Host was just... awful.
In spite of a promising premise, decent lead actors, and apparently good filming equipment and visual effects potential, the filmmaker managed to bore me almost to death with drawn out scene chewing, uneven dialogue, flat characters, cheesy writing, plotholes galore and no artistic vision whatsoever. Sorry Andrew Niccol, but you did much better in the past.
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What were these plotholes galore? Dialogue could've been better, so I'll give you that.
2013: Ain't Them Bodies Saints, Her, Short Term 12
I got a bit carried away and used the term loosely. Sorry for that. But a lot of things in this movie didn't make much sense.
- How did this "polite", "trusting", "civilized", "privileged" and rather meek race of alien light beings ever manage to invade and dominate the humans, without the help of the humans?
- The aliens apparently don't have an appreciation of the pleasures of human life; their society, which reflects their character, is very much sterilized. But why then does Wanda kiss Jared back upon their first meeting? (to which Melanie has to tell her to stop it.)
- Why do the aliens need human bodies (or hosts) to survive? A human life lasts for 80 years or so; the aliens travel the galaxy and it is specifically mentioned that by the time they reach a new inhabited planet, a human individual would have already died for long by then. So it seems to me the aliens spend most of their time outside a host, and are perfectly fine that way. So why the need for seekers who specifically hunt for suitable hosts?
- The two guys in the truck committed suicide because that way they avoided their bodies to be taken over by the aliens. But Melanie committed suicide and her body was taken over by an alien. Oh wait; Melanie was still alive when Wanda was implanted, because Melanie was exceptionally strong. That's also why Melanie was still present in the body when Wanda took over. So that means that all Souls have to endure an annoying nagging voice in their head? No, only Wanda (Melanie) and The Seeker (Lacey) were like that; in the rest of the Souls, the original human souls were already dead. Or gone. Or whatever. No, no, no, the original human souls were not gone or dead, they were merely repressed; they were simply too passive but they were still present in the human body. As soon as the alien leaves the human host, the human soul could and would take over again. Because the alien Souls wouldn't have any use for a "dead" human body. Yeah, but Wanda is ultimately transfered to the body of Pet, who was already "dying" (in spite of the canisters with magic healing spray); so that means that Wanda won't be able to use that host body for a long time, would she? Or... huh???
- According to how the events in the movie unfolded, The Seeker was hunting down Wanda/Melanie all this time because it wanted to learn how to peacefully leave Lacey's body? Eh?
- At the end of the movie, the Jeb/Ian/Melanie group found out to their big surprise that they are not the only "non-alien-inhabited" humans left. Then where the heck did they find Pet?
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last listened to: Michel Fugain - Une belle histoire
http://y2u.be/qFWv3g4y2Pg
- The aliens apparently don't have an appreciation of the pleasures of human life;
- Why do the aliens need human bodies (or hosts) to survive?They don't need humans to survive, per se, as much as they need them to live. They are in stasis when transporting from world to world and they live on different worlds for the experiences they can enjoy from them.
- The two guys in the truck committed suicide because that way they avoided their bodies to be taken over by the aliens. But Melanie committed suicide and her body was taken over by an alien.
- According to how the events in the movie unfolded, The Seeker was hunting down Wanda/Melanie all this time because it wanted to learn how to peacefully leave Lacey's body? Eh?
- At the end of the movie, the Jeb/Ian/Melanie group found out to their big surprise that they are not the only "non-alien-inhabited" humans left. Then where the heck did they find Pet?
Thanks for your reply. However, the answers in your post either refer to elements in the book that were completely absent in the movie (leaving the movie with seeming contradictions), or still don't solve the underlying problems in my complaints, in my opinion. For example:
- According to how the events in the movie unfolded, The Seeker was hunting down Wanda/Melanie all this time because it wanted to learn how to peacefully leave Lacey's body? Eh?Yes, I was aware of that. What I meant (and probably that meaning got obscured because I used a description that was too sarcastic and too concise) was that it didn't make sense that from one moment to the other, the Seeker's motivation suddenly changed from "I have to find a way to get Lacey's mind out of this body, and I'll stop at nothing to reach that goal" to "I will be content with peacefully leaving Lacey's body" -- that's a complete 180 degrees turnaround, out of nothing.
She was trying to figure out how to get Lacey's mind out of the body. Lacey was more angry and belligerent than Melanie and was driving the Seeker crazy.
The idea of vampires that sparkle is just too much for me to handle, my Wife likes the Twilight series and that is fine by me.
However... I really liked this movie! We just got through watching it on Netflix and except for a few awkward moments, I really didn't feel like I was watching a run of the mill chick flick.
My final verdict, good solid Sci-fi and way underrated. Watch this movie become a cult classic.
I honestly tried to like it, but it was probably the worst film I saw all year.
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I liked this movie... I'd give it a B+... Much better than Twilight!