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Watch thread: INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1978)
all of these things that Elizabeth has seen…
…just off-screen
the soundtrack is good but I sure do hope some more things happen in this movie
Well, young Jeff Goldblum is here. That's something at least
and Leonard Nimoy!
All we need now are some events
Love the shot with the badly distorted reflections, very cool
I think this is the only thing other than ALIEN that I've seen Veronica Cartwright in.
We've passed the halfway mark and it sometimes feels like the second act has barely even started. This is a strange pace.
Cool effects on the unraveling pod. A year before ALIEN, too!
ah, and some *immediate* footage re-use. I guess production really felt like they needed to justify the VFX budget or something
VFX definitely the star of this show for me. But maybe the last 30 minutes will have more going on and be more interesting
One of my favorite things about movies from the 70s are sustained shots. This movie doesn't have particularly long ones, but compared to modern movies which often cut on <1s timescales, it's practically contemplative.
Okay, now that the action scene is over, it's time to bring the pace back to a crawl. We've got a whole 30 minutes to fill out here.
It's been a while since I've seen the original but I remember it being far more compelling than this take on the story.
Maybe I'm in the wrong mood for it
the dog effect hahahah
even pod people can be forklift certified
"What are we going to DO?"
If I had to guess based on the rest, you'll spend most of the next 15 min pissing about until you find an answer to that question in the last 3 minutes.
Number of movies I have now seen with Leonard Nimoy and a bagpipes rendition of Amazing Grace: 
"Elizabeth noooo"
You say you love her but you can't accept that she's eepy?
It's a 70s flick, you've got to get in a topless scene. I think it was the law back then.
10 whole minutes for Matthew to run around doing… whatever. I'm not really very invested at this point.
I did really like the on-sceren chemistry between Donald Sutherland and Brooke Adams, though. There just isn't a lot of room in this movie for a romance subplot
(somehow, despite a 2 hour runtime)
Soundtrack continues to be excellent, second favorite part of the movie after the high-budget VFX bits.
Say what I will about this movie, the VFX people must have had a fun time working on it.
Look at all these pyrotechnics!
The camera fucks off into Donald Sutherland's mouth making the meme face.
If I wasn't watching this one for #Monsterdon I would have considered turning it off. But I liked some of what it had going on.
See you all next week!
If you're reading this, you're at the tail end of a long stream of posts on the feed about #Monsterdon, a fediverse community movie-watching event. This week we watched INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1978). See the post at the top of this thread for more info: