They used it waaay to much in the film. When that kid falls down from the helicopter.... and takes the opportunity to scream.... probably one of the funniest things I have ever seen... :D
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Yeah, that was one of the most poorly done scens I've ever seen in movies that are otherwise decent.
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Never actually saw the end of this one(my satellite cut out due to poor weather)
Can someone kinda summarize it for me(ex: how they found out the brother was Snatched, etc.)
Shaun: Pete! [to Ed] Maybe he's not in.
Ed: Oi prick!
Both: He's not in
The kid falling to the ground was absolutely terrible. First of all, the effect was horrendous, even for a 1992 film, and really stood out in this movie which otherwise had superb effects. Also, the kid appears to be falling a great distance from the helicopter to the ground when the chopper is shown in the next shot to be quite close to the ground. Finally, the pointing and screaming on the way down seemed to be quite absurd, even for a plant or whatever the kid was, :-).
That, and the character Tim's sudden awareness of remaining unemotional when just a (seemingly, anyway) moment before he was clueless to the whole situation was dumb. I sense a scene was edited out.
But, really, that's it. "Body Snatchers" is a fine horror film in nearly every respect.
One last thing. The scene with Meg Tilly and the husband where she lets him know she's one of the creatures is awesome, and when she screams and points at the door...that shot there is actually SCARY. 15 years later, it still frightens me.
Don't know why, but it's really creepy. Love it. Tilly, come back, damnit.
Personally I think the creepiness points to a certain psychology that people share*. All of us live in a more or less ordered world. We expect things to happen in a certain way, for example, that our family will care about us and take care of us. But we have doubts, fears actually, that the order will break down, that we will lose the things we count on, like people we love will stop loving us. When she screamed, and the whole base turned on the humans, it went to the heart of our fears of losing love. The scene was symbolic for people that you love and need suddenly not loving you anymore, and so it was frightening.
*Maybe I shouldn't use the word "share". I am really only talking about myself. Years of self analysis led to the conclusion that the reason that movies like this scare me is because they symbolize my fear of losing love as I explained above. But it's quite possible that this is the reason that it scares people in general and why horror movies are so popular.
Sean4554, "The scene with Meg Tilly and the husband where she lets him know she's one of the creatures is awesome, and when she screams and points at the door...that shot there is actually SCARY. 15 years later, it still frightens me."
Agreed. I actually thought her performance when she tells her husband everything was more scary than the actual scream. That whole part including the scream is one of those movie scenes that will stay in my head for years, even longer than the nudy scenes :D
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"I actually thought her performance when she tells her husband everything was more scary than the actual scream. That whole part including the scream is one of those movie scenes that will stay in my head for years"
Herreken, it was terrific. I've always wondered why it never received any serious attention like the doomed nurse shot in "Exorcist 3" (I'm sure you know what scene I'm referring to). Both are classic examples of modern horror at their very finest and the "Body Snatchers" one seems to have made little to no impression.
"Herreken, it was terrific. I've always wondered why it never received any serious attention like the doomed nurse shot in "Exorcist 3" (I'm sure you know what scene I'm referring to). Both are classic examples of modern horror at their very finest and the "Body Snatchers" one seems to have made little to no impression."
I haven't seen the Exorcist 3 or the 2nd one. Honestly, I'm not a real fan of horror movies. I didn't even like the first Exorcist either.
DISPLAY thy breasts, my Julia!
"I haven't seen the Exorcist 3 or the 2nd one. Honestly, I'm not a real fan of horror movies. I didn't even like the first Exorcist either."
Really..? I wasn't expecting to hear that. Well, "Exorcist 2" isn't one to watch, but "3" really is excellent; I like it a little more than the original, actually.
Oh, you have to check out Exorcist 2 and watch Richard Burton trying to put out a fire by beating it with a crutch. It's amazing.
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I am not sure at what point in the movie your tv went, but they found out the brother was snatched when they were attempting to fly away in the helicopter and he tried to grab the controls. His sister (She clearly loved her brother very dearly. I thought it was very sweet.) did not want to believe that her brother was a pod, but the male soldier kept screaming that he was, and the boy was thrown out of the helicopter screaming.
After that they flew away from the military base that was now under the control of the aliens (before they flew away they fired their missiles at some of the trucks that were transporting the pods to other parts of the country) and presumably hours later they landed at some other military base. At the end of the movie, Meg Tilly's voice was saying "where are you... there's no one like you left". While it's clearly impossible that no one human is left (since a short time earlier only one base had been taken over by aliens and they were only starting to send pods to other parts of the country), it is however likely that no one will believe the two youngster's story about aliens, and will instead think that they stole the helicopter and put them in jail, where at some point, the alien invasion will reach where they are, and they too will be copied. Scary thought.
Thanks; my satellite cut out just after the killed the dad
John Doe: I took a souvenir...her pretty head.
served that little alien punk right
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I don't think taking the kid would have been a good idea, he would have fought them at every chance, and may have crashed the copter. Also, who knows if an examination would have revealed the kid is an alien, or if the authorities would have even examined the kid. The child would have said he was kidnapped and the authorities would likely believe him and put the other two in jail and not bother to examine the child. After they fired their missiles at a truck carrying the pods maybe they should have landed momentarily and taken a pod like you said. No one would have disbelieved their story then.
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The alien screams were awkward and the helicopter/kid scene hilarious.
Boycott movies that involve real animal violence! (and their directors too)
The falling kid was too much, I agree. But I felt the rest of the screams were just right.
shareOther than helicopter boy I didn't see any problem with their use of the alien screams.
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