Movie of the Week: The Host

[jacey]

For some reason I forgot to blog this a couple of weeks ago and now I find I can barely recall anything about it except that it wasn't as bad as I feared it might be. Aliens have invaded Earth by taking over human bodies, so on the surface everything looks the same,at least in the USA, I'm not guessing what the slims of Calcutta look like. They behave like super-civilised humans, except they are still looking for the few unconverted humans and replacing their personalities with tiny alien controllers. The heroine, whose name I can't remember, sorry, gets taken over, but instead of wiping her original human personality it continues to exist alongsiode the alien one, causing the alien to have a crisis of conscience even though it's the one in control of the body. The alien/our heroine escapes to find one of the last bunch of human survivors, meeting up again with her pre-takeover boyfriend and her little brother, but understandably they believe she's not the origonal person but the thing that killed her. Predictably the little brother 'gets it' first and the alen begins to integrate with the group.

Anyhow, trying to avoid major spoilers, complications ensue and resolutions are found. The eventual outcome is positive if not earth-shattering. There are a few plot-holes. It's generally quite bland, but watchable.

Um... that's about it really.

Comments

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

The book put me to sleep, so I avoided the movie.

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

I didn't try reading the book, having found that the first Twilight one was enough, but the trailer didn't look too bad, so I gave the movie of The Host a chance. Where Cloud Atlas was a delightful buffet of a movie, richly textured and exotically flavoured, The Host was a cucumber sandwich.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

That makes sense. Well, if it turns up on Netflix streaming, I'll probably take it in. Might be better as a movie than as a book.

[cthulie.livejournal.com]

Eek! Not to be confused with this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Host_(2006_film)

which I highly recommend!

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

Absolutely no relation.
:-)