Notices by SnoopJ (snoopj@hachyderm.io), page 3

I think this is the only thing other than ALIEN that I've seen Veronica Cartwright in.

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Cool effects on the unraveling pod. A year before ALIEN, too!

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We've passed the halfway mark and it sometimes feels like the second act has barely even started. This is a strange pace.

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VFX definitely the star of this show for me. But maybe the last 30 minutes will have more going on and be more interesting

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ah, and some *immediate* footage re-use. I guess production really felt like they needed to justify the VFX budget or something

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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.

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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.

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the dog effect hahahah

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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

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even pod people can be forklift certified

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Number of movies I have now seen with Leonard Nimoy and a bagpipes rendition of Amazing Grace: 2️⃣

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"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.

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It's a 70s flick, you've got to get in a topless scene. I think it was the law back then.

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"Elizabeth noooo"

You say you love her but you can't accept that she's eepy?

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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)

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10 whole minutes for Matthew to run around doing… whatever. I'm not really very invested at this point.

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Soundtrack continues to be excellent, second favorite part of the movie after the high-budget VFX bits.

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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!

Say what I will about this movie, the VFX people must have had a fun time working on it.

Look at all these pyrotechnics!

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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:

https://hachyderm.io/@SnoopJ/111004128276431553