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We've All Got The Same Color Eyes In The Teaser For THE HOST!!
The Kidd here...
As soon as Stephenie Meyer's name pops up on-screen, with the accompanying TWILIGHT name, some of you are going to check out of this with the quickness.
The teaser trailer for THE HOST, an adaptation of her novel starring Saoirse Ronan, has made its debut on Yahoo! today, and, if I didn't know that what I was watching was for a coming movie, I'd have thought Visine was getting creative in their marketing campaign.
From what I can tell of the book, THE HOST is set up like INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS with an alien invasion taking over Earth, except for the fact that one mind that won't allow itself to be overtaken. But you won't gather that from the teaser... only that dry eyes are bad.
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Damn, even if that movie is a pile, that was still a great teaser. Actually makes me want to know more.
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sweet stock photos at the end.
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Ben Stein. Get the red out.
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They couldn't do a worse job than we have.
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March 22, 2012, 6:03 p.m. CST
Whew, thought it was a remake of that giant monster movie
by Domi'sInnerChild
That could have been ugly
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March 22, 2012, 6:04 p.m. CST
So it's like that arc on Angel with evil peace-loving Goddess, Jasmine?
by sweeneydave
Movies about the removal of our free will for the sake of bettering man-kind are my favorite kinds of movies. It's because I like getting all philosophical up in there. I've always considered FREE WILL to be God's both greatest gift and yet has simultaneously contributed to mankind's greatest self destruction. Fun!
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It is basically like a sequel to Invasion of the Body Snatchers, after they have completely taken over. There are just a few regular humans left hiding out, and the main character who cannot be completely possessed.
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March 22, 2012, 6:23 p.m. CST
Good because Invasion of the Body Snatchers has only been done like 50 times
by Mugato5150
it's almost as rare as...the vampire genre.
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got it.
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I know Invasion of the Body Snatches has been done to death, but I don't know if cutting the Invasion part makes it more interesting. Like Daybreakers sounded good on paper but was pretty forgetable.
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March 22, 2012, 6:32 p.m. CST
This is like one of those weird japanese fan trailers...
by Purple_Tentacle
Tacky as hell.
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Not sure what the downside is here. You add uplifting music to that trailer and it would seem like a sugary sweet christian info commercial.
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March 22, 2012, 6:35 p.m. CST
Cronenberg/Pattinson's Cosmopolis teaser is the better twilight-related trailer
by Purple_Tentacle
Fuck yes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zaxvLFDpGw&
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I like my free will.... thankyouverymuch.
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March 22, 2012, 6:44 p.m. CST
Just...no. We have just about got rid of Twilight. WHAT FRESH HELL IS THIS?!
by Kill List Hammertime
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March 22, 2012, 6:45 p.m. CST
No way it will be as good as the Korean movie with the same name.
by frank
That is one of my favorite monster movies, ever.
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and the mention of Twiglit pushes me further away from its turdness!
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Love the monster movie,great fun
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March 22, 2012, 7:06 p.m. CST
it looks like a photomatic/proof-of-concept video to shop around to studios.
by Barnald
or a trailer for a novel. or just a really lazy teaser relying on a big dumb name.
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He ghost directed this, so it will be awesome.
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but might 'accidentally wander into the 'wrong' theater at my nearby multi-plex, and check it out. But only because of Ronan!
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March 22, 2012, 7:10 p.m. CST
So in this world is Michael bay still making movies because if not then I welcome our turtle overlords.
by JohnWayneWasGay
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...she's a twat.
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That girl is a really good actress and I am a sucker for an alien invasion flick.
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Seriously. He directed Gattaca, one of the smartest science fiction films in the past fifteen years. But now he's doing this? Did he like the book or something? Why not do another original science fiction screenplay?
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March 22, 2012, 7:32 p.m. CST
Twilight was one of the worst movies, but this looks pretty intense
by Jackson
I'll probably check it out in theatres
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I guess that's better than the usual rom-com nonsense, but it's interesting to see how THE HUNGER GAMES and this are designed primarily for a female audience. I can't think of another period of Hollywood in which these kind of movies were pitched at girls.
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Had to read this for a UCLA class. Excruciating.
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March 22, 2012, 7:59 p.m. CST
Hopefully they can do with aliens what they couldn't with vampires.
by TheMachinist
Aliens are malleable plot devices. Vampires...not so much.
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March 22, 2012, 8:30 p.m. CST
What I want to know is how the story will further push mormon values
by JackSlater4
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I honestly don't know. I only saw a couple of them with Rifftrax. Is it official Mormon doctrine to engage in abusive relationships?
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The only film of his that doesn't work for me is "S1M0NE," and you know what they say about comedy (add to that the fact that the majority of the cast were dramatic actors didn't help, like haveing Elias Koteas to play the unhinged genious - Pacino works well in "Scent of a Woman" because he plays his character and his madness straight and not crazy in a funny way). The power of his "The Truman Show" script are the philosophical ideas and the drama that drives their exploration - and, wisely, Weir focused on the dramatic structure instead of layering it with gags. The comedy is instead similar to that in "Lord of War": splashes of the surreal that underlie the overriding ironies that define its characters and their individual quests. Niccol's sensibility is a unique one: surrealistic (the twelve-fingered pianist in "Gattaca") and image-based. Look at how Deakins' cinematography in "In Time" adheres to the pallete of "Gattaca" - beautiful as it is, it is almost unrecognizeable as the work of Roger Deakins. It is more the signature of the director as opposed to the photographer. And that to me says something about the persausiveness of Niccol's overall vision. He is a potent and intelligent director. He has made some of the most interesting mainstream films of the past two decades - they stand out in the years of their release. And I include "In Time" among "The Truman Show," "Gattaca" and "Lord of War." I thought it was one of his most idea-driven films, one that is layered with the brilliance of its conceptive trope, that it is set in a world where time is money. From that one idea an entire world expands outward from it - and in order to make it palatable, it is cushioned within a timely Bonne-and-Clyde style love-and-crime spree. I could see someone writeing an economic treatise on the thing: by equateing quality of life with political power and by showing the relationship between currency and political power and quality of life, Niccol makes a somewhat complex idea into something exciting and moveing. I thought it was one of the most note-worthy films of the year - and one that captured the zeitgeist better than any crude comedy, even in a year of many great R-rated screen comedies. Only last year's "The Social Network" bests it in the perceptiveness of its observations and the sharpness and quality of its social commentary - I will say, as much as it didn't move me, "Moneyball" also seemed like a fascinateing critique of our economic-based estimation of life, so much so that it wasn't the baseball that was exciteing but the ways in which the story unfolds and how we see ideas manipulateing and affecting people's lives, and how in a Darwinian way some adapt and excel to this new system; interesting, but lacking in the potency I was hopeing for. "In Time" was one of my favourite films of the year and one of the most intelligent of this year's great crop of science-fiction stories ("Adjustment Bureau" and "Source Code" were awesome, but mainly focused on the human story and not the undergirding ideas. Only "Another Earth" could compete with "In Time" with the provocation its ideas provided. And "Contagion" was just genious and in a leauge of its own.) So whatever Niccol has his thumbprint on, I am interested in it. And, for what it is worth, of the great readers I know who delved in Ms. Meyers' world, they say that "the Host" is her best and most effective work.
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I actually prefer the 1978 remake with Donald Sutherland, but the original 1950's is great as well. I guess we are going to see more of our favorite genre tropes repackaged for the teen/young adult audience. Vampires & werewolves Body Snatchers/Things Dystopian game shows/futuristic sports like Battle Royale and Rollerball Probably zombies, robots, cyborgs, and xenomorphs will be next.
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March 22, 2012, 8:57 p.m. CST
The 70s "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" loses me at the naked Brooke Adams alien queen and action finale. Bizarre.
by ChaunceyGardiner
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March 22, 2012, 8:58 p.m. CST
In fact, I prefer the Nicole Kidman/Daniel Craig "Invasion." Thought it elaborated its ideas better. (And despite fiddleing, had an appropriate and potent ending.)
by ChaunceyGardiner
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March 22, 2012, 8:59 p.m. CST
Invasion" also more than any other film I know of does an adeqate job of depicting sleep deprivation. One thing that always bothered me about "Nightmare on Elm Street.
by ChaunceyGardiner
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March 22, 2012, 9 p.m. CST
"Nightmare" didn't seem to know what it means to have been up for multiple days. I thought it missed its opportunity.
by ChaunceyGardiner
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She just tweens out classic literature? Can't wait to see what she pisses on next.
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and your politically correct eyes.
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....fuck them....
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What class was that? I never took a film analysis class when I was in high school or college.
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March 22, 2012, 11:54 p.m. CST
Is anyone else bothered by the fact that movie trailers are using Daft Punk's Tron Legacy theme?
by Daniel Beaubourg
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What a shit trailer.
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March 23, 2012, 3:49 a.m. CST
For a moment there I thought Hollywood was gonna shit all over the best monster movie of recent times...
by workshed
...thank f*ck!
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Except for some special `chosen` one for fucks sake write something new. snooze.
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and everyone knows that to be true.
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March 23, 2012, 7:07 a.m. CST
The Kidd: "As soon as Stephenie Meyer's name pops up on-screen..."
by Big Dumb Ape
You're right, Kidd. As soon as her name appeared I did have a reaction. My stomach convulsed and I started a small upchuck that I managed to stifle. Unfortunately now I have that shitty taste in my mouth!!! For crying out loud, even as a simple teaser that clip is AMATEUR hour. Someone actually got paid to assemble something THAT crappy looking? And someone at the production company was actually SO stupid they thought THAT would make for a good teaser to even begin with? Fuck, I thought TWILIGHT was bad enough, but apparently Meyer isn't done pounding out more completely unwatchable shit. I have to agree with Topaz4206 above. Apparently this IS going to be Meyer's standard M.O. -- to just tween out classic literature, films or whatever else she feels like pissing on and ripping off next.
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There's a love triangle between the immune girl, alien boy and immune boy.
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March 23, 2012, 7:08 a.m. CST
Will the movie theaters offer "free penis removal" at the door?
by Meta
Because that's the only way they can make me see this tripe.
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and then I turned on the lovely bones and her narration of that film made me want to put my foot through the tv. what a glum sad sack. I have seen those ads she does for the irish film institute archive project. cheer the fuck up love...
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March 23, 2012, 8 a.m. CST
You mean that talentless Mormon chick couldn't even be bothered to come up with an original title for her latest "masterpiece"?
by mdk
I wish the Koreans who made the real The Host could sue.
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When I watch movies like Invasion of the Body Snatchers, or the Thing, I tend to think that the world would probably be a far better place if we were switched out with alien dopplegangers. Maybe we'd stop obsessing over dumb shit and actually do something with our (alien) lives.
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I'm not sure who the marketing people are these days, but are they even trying. That was extremely bad.
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The South Korean one about the giant guppy monster. This looks like the toilet paper after I wipe my ass with it.
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Am I crazy? I know it sounds generic, but I swear I've heard it in a few other trailers for upcoming flicks. Anyone know what it is?
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March 23, 2012, 11:31 a.m. CST
re: "So is this Meyer's M.O.? She just tweens out classic literature? Can't wait to see what she pisses on next."
by buggerbugger
It's bound to be something along the lines of 'Frankenstein' or 'Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde', if only for the fact that there are so many takes on those stories that she has ample material to 'borrow' from and then deny that she's read any of the novels or seen any of the adaptations.
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March 23, 2012, 1:07 p.m. CST
And also......wasn't there another film called the Host?
by LORDOFLIGHT
Some Korean or Japanes film recently. I've seen it on the shelves with all the other dvds.
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March 23, 2012, 1:09 p.m. CST
I stay away from ANYTHING Twilight related....and Harry Potter.
by LORDOFLIGHT
Can't stand both of those massively overhyped kids/teens bollocks.
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March 23, 2012, 3:43 p.m. CST
After reading more posts.....obviously there was another film called the Host.
by LORDOFLIGHT
I'm a poet and I fuckin know it!
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thinks The Hunger Games (novel) is the bees knees. Is it just me or is the Kidd is turning out to be one of the worst contributors aicn has had?
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Dated a Mormon for 3 years, got to know her peeps... They are really and truly creepy folk- Cool at first, then the aliens gradually start to show themselves... So a body snatchers creep-fest written by a hack Mormon chick might have some high points... And Gattica was great: Remember "Jaws"? An OK pop fiction novel that was turned into a masterpiece by our little Jewish movie-ninja. Nobody ever says "Jaws is my favorite movie because I just LOVE Peter Benchley!" So- this might be a good flick after all, but if so, I hate the fact that Meyer might make even more loot because of a visionary director who was smart enough to re-write her tripe.
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