INVASION of the Pod People Executives??

They did a bunch of crap that were things similar to crap (but Invasion of the Body Snacthcers isn't crap) for todays generation, but they never a Manos: The Hands of Fate for todays generation!?! Why not?

It was boring and forgettable but is it actually worth calling a boring film the worst film ever?

Agreed, as usual I think moviewizguy takes what we said to much to heart, I would suggest that moviewizguy re-read my last post concerning this thread. Like I said the worst thing this movie along with Evening will most likely due is make me slobber all over myself from putting me to sleep (Not a pretty picture by the way). This movie just barely skims the top of the most prestiges honor of worst movie ever, Like I said before there is so much worse out there (Daddy Day Camp, Bratz anyone?). But I am sure our esteemed Razzie colleague will find saving graces with those 2 as well.

Note to HeadRAZZBerry: Suggestion for a new Razzie category, "Worst Picture that will most likely put you to Sleep"

 

One of the Wachowskis , Larry I think, had some surgery recently.

It was actually a story by Robert.A Heinlein that put pods on the backs of people which gave rise to the term "Pod People".  In Heinlein's book,  the invasion resulted in civil war, pitting the hero as the good guy and the aliens as the bad guys.  The book was a metaphor for the  conservative John Birch Society's fifth column scenario: infiltration by communists resisted by American patriots.
Robert Heinlein was a well know conservative, libertarian and friend to Barry Goldwater and a staunch anti-communist.

  The aliens attached themselves to humans and were thus easily spotted,  and the victims soon wore out and died of starvation or thirst.  Later, the aliens began to take better care of their victims, but the patriots soon had the upper hand.
This would have made a pretty good movie.

The Body Snatchers, on the other hand,  was a horror story, with zombies and gremlins everywhere.  It was supposed to be scarier because you couldn't tell who was infected.

Over the years, the plot lines of the two original stories has become tangled and the movies took on political overtones.
That it is being remade again says less about the novelty of the original and more about the lack of creativity in Hollywood. 

R.Heinlein would have scoffed at the pseudo realism of Sci-Fi movies being made today.   He would have laughed at the idiots who think computer graphics and explosions make up for bad character development and lousy plot devices.

Hollywood is headed for a record year in ticket sales, but not in attendance.  Most experts agree that once again,  it has been the sequels that have distorted the figures.  Whether the Indies make a big difference this year or not is still in doubt.

I finally bought the 1978 version and I liked it a lot, except for the ending, which was....well, bad.

So I finally watched it. Like the remake (2007) better than the 1978 version. I guess you could've seen this coming miles away. I liked it because it was faster paced....and it wasn't slow and quiet like the 1978 version. WATCH IT YOU GUYS! AWESOME MOVIE!

Well, I like the 2007 remake better, because it doesn't waste its time trying to explain the infection and where it came from and blah blah blah (which filled about an hour of the 1978 version). The 2007 remake actually assumes we've already seen at least one version of the movie, and know what we're getting ourselves into. I like that...