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Slant's 100 Best Sci-Fi Movies of All Time (100 movies items)"Each iteration of Invasion of the Body Snatchers speaks to its contemporary zeitgeist. In Don Siegel’s film, the corrosion of conformity represented by the affectless pod people cuts both ways: a free-floating metaphor readable either as an indictment of communist groupthink or as a condemnation of HUAC’s anti-communist witch hunts. Any way you cut it, Siegel infuses the material with a shadowy noir sensibility, doubling down on canted angles and low-key lighting as the film unfolds, and sho"
Psychiatrist & Psychologist and Patient (44 movies items)" Whit Bissell as Dr. Hill (Psychiatrist) Kevin McCarthy as Dr. Miles J. Bennell"
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (1950's) (126 movies items)" Notes: Since this movie has a really solid reputation, I was really eager to check it out. First of all, it is too bad that I saw before two really weak remakes ('Body Snatchers' and 'The Invasion'), without mentionning the countless copycats such as 'The World's End' as they slightly ruined the story for me. I mean, right from the very start, I already knew how the whole thing was going to play out and, as a result, it didn't have such a huge impact. Still, it must have been pretty neat to se"
Slant’s 100 Greatest Horror Films – 2018 Edition (100 movies items)"Each iteration of Invasion of the Body Snatchers speaks to its contemporary zeitgeist. In Don Siegel’s film, the corrosion of conformity represented by the affectless pod people cuts both ways: a free-floating metaphor readable either as an indictment of communist groupthink or as a condemnation of HUAC’s anti-communist witch hunts. Any way you cut it, Siegel infuses the material with a shadowy noir sensibility, doubling down on canted angles and low-key lighting as the film unfolds, and sho"
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (2020) (1001 movies items)" Notes: Since this movie has a really solid reputation, I was really eager to check it out. First of all, it is too bad that I saw before two really weak remakes ('Body Snatchers' and 'The Invasion'), without mentionning the countless copycats such as 'The World's End' as they slightly ruined the story for me. I mean, right from the very start, I already knew how the whole thing was going to play out and, as a result, it didn't have such a huge impact. Still, it must have been pretty neat to se"
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Movies Viewed in 2018 (361 movies items)"Don Siegel's classic sci-fi thriller has Kevin McCarthy as a doctor who suspects that his community may look and talk the same as they are not. Made in the 50's, this has been compared to what was happening in America with the Communist witchhunts. With its short running time, it cracks along at a terrific pace with the sense of paranoia hanging over the whole film. One of the best of the genre. "
Films that absolutely needed that remake. (10 movies items)"The original film was very good. The second, a 1977 version, was even better. (The third and fourth, not so much.)"
Films that did not need a remake. (21 movies items)"This film did not need to be remade, but, in 1977, Director Philip Kaufman made a superior remake. However, the film was remade again in 1994 (Body Snatchers), and 2007 (Invasion). The last two were certainly unnecessary. "
