Body Snatchers

this is either the third in a series or the second remake depending on how you look at it. i look it as a second remake. a remake that pales in comparison to the first two (and is way better than the next one). back in 1993 i saw this in the theatre and subsequently a few times over the next few years on television. i was 14 years to probably 18 years of age. each time i loved it and thought it was pretty damn good. suspenseful, original, a very sexy gabrielle anwar, fantastic effects and glorious cinematography, cut to 2012 and i am 33 and watching it on dvd for the first time in 15 years... read more

yeah, this one's bad. very bad. like, you know it's bad when the lifeless narration kicks in. and you know it's really bad when, for no inexplicable reason, a "scary" black guy tells our protagonist about the body-snatching pods, and the scene ends with allegations of the man having a knife. and this one's a matter of taste, but you know it's bad when the megadeth kicks in. (this is all in the first ten minutes of the movie.) honestly, i regret seeing clips of this movie on a site that shall not be named here, because i had no clue the protagonist was a teen (gabrielle anwar wasn't a teen read more