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As Good As It Gets

Back to the roots of cinema, i'm surprised to discover that those old movies stay as good still today: sure it says also that today cinema goes down for quality and moviegoer experience but here we have a nearly perfect movie: a really intelligent story in a remarkable setting with an outstanding cast, everything tied with a inspired director and in 80 minutes!This space invasion with green pods is a brilliant idea that modernizes the vampire subject with stunning visuals: this pods - eggs would inspire later Alien, Gremlins and this silent, soft takeover looks like the future Salem novel from Stephen King. The movie really pinches a good nerve because this paranoia was real in those cold war years and later, as a child, i was totally terrified to be taken away at night, with family that turns to be enemy! This fictitious town of Santa Mira is the idyllic small town, America between Smallville and Twin Peaks. But it's also a incredible slice of the American way of life because at that time, 1956, everything looks shining, new, modern and really cozy...The late McCarthy was just really good and i understand why Joe Dante appreciated him: His girlfriend Dana Wynter is much more than the poor screaming woman and is the proof that old fashion was not outrageous nor too much closeted!At the end, with today eyes, you feel that this movie reunites a lot of ideas, moments that would be used and abused long after. So instead of always going to the stupid, soulless reboots, prefer come back to the original source!

I decided to watch this one before the remake of 1978. I enjoy old time horror movies, they never scare me, but they can be fun to watch, either if they still hold up in some way or if they're so bad they're funny.Invasion of the Body Snatchers (amazing title btw) is lovable, though it doesn't hold too well into the 21st century. But I'll start with the things I like.There is a sort of noire like quality to it, not necessarily by plot, but just by how it looks, at least at night. I love the shot in the basement where Dr. Bennell finds the duplicate of Becky.The movie in itself is about a very unsettling topic, even if the movie itself doesn't scare as well as it might have back then. The concept of knowing people you know and love turn into mindless "robots"/"zombies"/"inhumans" is definitely scary.I really liked the special effects on the pods. Really well made for the time. The effects for the unfinished body they find in the beginning is not something to brag about, but I forgive it.The scene where the pods are given out to people by trucks works also really well. It's quiet, but we observe the whole arrangement, and realize how quickly it has become really bad.Also, bonus, surprisingly, this movie passes the Bechdel test.What I do find kind of (unintentionally) funny is the fact that it's like these characters know what kind of movie they're in. By that I mean that it takes little to no time before we're introduced to the whole "my uncle is not my uncle" thing, without any sort of build-up or any other theories. He doesn't act like normal, therefore he is an impostor, obviously. The same with the body they find at the Belicec house. I found it that they conclude a little to fast that this body isn't human. They don't realize that the body is a duplicate, but make assumptions only based on similarities in height and probably weight between the body and Jack, which I find kind of funny.The rules of how the whole transformation from normal human being to body double/alien doesn't seem to have grounded rules. We're introduced to that it takes a bit of time for a pod to produce a body, maybe not days, but maybe one day or some hours. But when Becky is finally turned, it happens in a matter of a couple of minutes, and there is no pod in sight either (it seems especially out of place since they're hiding in a cave).There's also some discontinuity in the scene where Becky and Miles are met by some of the aliens and pods are brought in to replace them. They're told they're gonna lose, the pods are brought in and put in another room, the other aliens/body snatchers go into the room with the pods, then Becky and Miles sit and are sad about their situation, but kind of as if they're trapped in the room, which they aren't at all. There's one other outside the door in the hallway, they can easily run away. When they do however overpower the body snatchers, they don't even bother to burn the pods. So the whole scene seems half-hearted, they're never really trapped, they could just run out of the room after the other two went into the room with the pods.All in all, it's an old horror/suspense movie with the charms of an old horror movie. It's not scary, but it's a nice watch, not particularly brilliant, but with several parts that catch the eye and attention, and plenty that are more boring, not because it's slow, but because of how they handle the situations.

'INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS' - 1956Directed by Don SiegelStarring Kevin McCarthy, Dana Winter and Larry GatesPlot Overview: In Santa Mira, California, Dr. Miles Bennell (Kevin McCarthy) is baffled when all his patients come to him with the same complaint: their loved ones seem to have been replaced by emotionless impostors. Despite others' dismissive denials, Dr. Bennell, his former girlfriend Becky (Dana Wynter) and his friend Jack (King Donovan) soon discover that the patients' suspicions are true: an alien species of human duplicates, grown from plant-like pods, is taking over the small town.This is such an entertaining movie. Please, if you have not, see this movie. It is such an intriguing, disturbing yet weirdly fun tale of mystery and wonder. I don't really know how to describe it. Very few movies mix political subtexts and SCIENCE-FICTION very well but I'd be lying if I didn't think this film nails it. Many people suspect this film is supposed to be a satire of the paranoia in the US at the time of release. If it was intentional, then very well done. It accomplishes that extremely well. But it never forgets that it is supposed to be a movie and by ensuring that it delivers us a wildly imaginative and masterfully suspenseful sci-fi drama. It is truly quite spectacular. Please see this movie, if you have not. It is most certainly worth your time.Mainwarring and Colins' story for this movie is incredibly well written. The plot is a phenomenal and intriguing and actually kind of scary story. What WOULD you do in that situation? That is a terrifying concept and it achieves more horror in a non-horror story than most modern day horror movies do. One thing that I will have to unfortunately fault about the film is that I was pretty disappointed by the ending. I understand the concept of leaving with a bleak offer of hope amongst a realm of worry and paranoia, and the effect that has on the audience. Doing that was a smart idea it is just that it kind of ended abruptly. The credits just rolled on screen and it just kind of happened without any real cause. Concept? Great. Execution? A little wobbly.While I'm on the subject of the writing, I MUST mention the ICONIC line: 'They're here already! You're next! You're next, You're next...!'. That is such a simplistic yet oddly captivating line. It offers no resolution but the implications of it are terrifying. It is a line that really should get more recognition because it is truly excellent.Kevin McCarthy was excellent in his role as Dr Miles Bennell. Not just in his fantastic delivery on the iconic life mentioned above but in the entire film as a whole. McCarthy sells the slow descent of sanity for Bennell over the course of the film flawlessly. It is a phenomenal performance.Dana Wynter was also excellent as Elizabeth Driscoll. She sold her concern and horror in every scene of the film and I applaud her greatly for that. I never felt she was being melodramatic and genuinely bought her terror from scene one. Both the leads in this film do incredible performances.Accompanying our leads are King Donovan's great Jack Bellicec, Carolyn Jones as his on-screen wife and Larry Gates as Dr Kauffman. This trio and all the other performances in this film are excellent. Their transformation from human to pod(?) is such a brilliant one. They sell their transformation perfectly and are so chilling when they are pods(?).Technically speaking, this film is very proficient. Both the cinematography and editing were both great and the film is very nice to look at.In conclusion, this film is amazing. Ignoring the possible subtexts and undertones and instead focusing on the movie, I can honestly say it is a fantastic movie. It does horror better than most horror movies and it doesn't even fall into that genre. If you haven't watched this film, I can highly recommend you do. It is a hugely enjoyable film that so much fun to watch. I'll rate Invasion of the Body Snatchers a solid 8 Pods out of 10!

"Invasion of the Body Snatchers" is one of the very good sci-fi films of the 1950s. The golden age of sci-fi films ran from the 1930s to 1946, but I think many of the better sci-fi flicks came out in the 1950s. Certainly, the decade had far fewer of the stinkers – the very low budget, poor script, funny creature films. Most of those were more laughable than they were scary. This film had an original, solid idea for a plot. And, it's a superb example of writing and acting that can create an interesting and entertaining film – without a single scary monster. The screenplay, directing, and camera work give it a film noir look and feel. Combined with the intrigue, it makes for a thrilling horror element without any ugly faces or the gore that so often populates such stories in more modern times.The movie takes place in the small fictional town of Santa Mira, California. It is based on a 1955 sci-fi novel, "The Body Snatchers," by Jack Finney. The idea proved so appealing that Hollywood has remade the movie three times, and it has had various TV series adaptations. This original film with Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter most closely follows the novel and is the best. A 1978 version under the same title was based on the revised book by Finney. It starred Donald Sutherland and included Leonard Nimoy and some of the people from the original film in small roles – including Kevin McCarthy. It was set in San Francisco and had a different approach that also was successful. But subsequent revisions have been poor in comparison. Here are some of the better sci-fi films of the 1950s and of all time. 1951 had two very good sci-fi flicks: "The Day the Earth Stood Still" with Michael Rennie and Patricia Neal, and "The Thing from Another Planet" with James Arness. Three very good 1953 sci-fi films included the all-time great "The War of the Worlds" with Gene Barry, and "It Came from Outer Space" and "Invaders from Mars." In 1954, the top sci- fi was a horror film, "The Creature from the Black Lagoon." Besides this film, 1956 yielded "Forbidden Planet" with a big cast that included Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis and Leslie Nielsen. Next was "The Incredible Shrinking Man" of 1957; and in 1958, two sci-fi thrillers, "The Blob" with Steve McQueen, and "The Fly" with Vincent Price made very good date movies.