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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Oct 12, 2024 15:15:21 GMT
Rewatched it last week, enjoyable reboot of the Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) or The Puppet Masters (1994), or maybe a little of both? The Faculty (1998) even addresses this, which prompted me to watch all the movie versions afterwards.  Haven't seen it, or this thread, in years. How'd it feel now? If I recall some of the CG effects weren't great, but were used pretty sparingly. If it had been made now they'd look better but would be massively overused, and they'd never have shot on film, so it would have a flat, glossy, digital look with none of the richness and texture of this movie. They might be able to find some good young actors now, but this was a pretty strong cast at the time, and most of these people have gone on to have real careers. They even look like high schoolers, which was often not the case. I remember mostly liking it, but finding the direct post-scream self referential movie name dropping a bit tiresome. And there was a cover of Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall that I kinda recall being a bit hokey. Hadn't seen this since the 90's. It's definitely The Breakfast Club meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but not as bad as that description makes it sound. Totally forgot this was directed by Robert Rodriguez, who was obviously moonlighting from his own stuff and doing the director for hire thing momentarily. The teens did all go on to have actual careers, and the faculty themselves are an odd assembly of character actors too. Most surprised to see Jon Stewart in this, temporarily forgot he used to act in movies. It acknowledges that it's a homage to similar movies of the past, and it's also riding on the then white hot Scream wave of teen thrillers too. |
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