So yeah, the Host was as bad as I expected. It wasn't really any of the actors' fault, Saoirse Ronan and Diane Kruger were actually pretty good. It was just let down by a poor script and a poor story. Very little was properly explained. The entire movie would have sat with me a lot better if there was actually a good reason for the aliens wanting to eliminate all human resistance. The humans aren't doing particularly much to harm the aliens, so the fact so much effort is put into hunting them down doesn't make much sense. Yes, Seeker did have a personal reason for wanting to hunt Wanda down, but the rest going along with her just didn't seem right.
Another thing that irked me was visual. Low saturation. I'm getting really tired of this trend. Some movies use the effect well, and it's great when that happens, but when it's low saturation for the sake of it, it's lame. Yes, a lot of it was in the desert, but that doesn't call for artificial looking desaturation. On the upside, the effect they used on the actors' eyes to show alien possession looked kinda cool.
Anyways, this isn't a full blown review or anything, so I'm not gonna say much. Over all the movie had poor story, script, visual effects and direction. It's definitely not the worst I've seen, but meh.
Haha, I was reading down from the top, and since they've all been talking about books, I thought you actually put time into reading The Host.. I'm so glad that you didn't. lol
ReplyDeleteOf course I didn't. I've got much better things to read, as you can see. :p
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