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Host Sequel Has Multiple Monsters

Katana_Mind — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:08:24 PST

@TheN:
Hyping a movie seldom pans out. And even though you consciously try not to be swept away by the hype, it still affects you. I feel sorry that you missed out on a awesome discovery as me and my friend just picked it off the shelf without almost any notion of what it was.
We knew it had a monster in it.

So we were pleasantly surprised to see that it was such a sensitive movie, and the monster basically a plot device to drive the story.

But, stop me if I'm wrong here.
Wasn't it heavily hinted that the release of a thousand gallons of formaldehyde in the river was the mutating factor that created the monster in the first place? And now the storyline from the second movie suggests that the lay dormant somewhere and was stirred by the restoration of the river?

Katana_Mind

Host Sequel Has Multiple Monsters

El_Bandito — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:47:00 PST

I loved The Host and I can't even put my finger on why.

No. Wait a minute, it's the big, mutant scary piss-in-your-pants-monster that you see five minutes in. That's right! :D

And there's a Host 2?

SQUEE!!!!

*dies

El_Bandito

Host Sequel Has Multiple Monsters

stefan_jones — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:55:10 PST

I thought The Host was really well done and original, but a bit too grim and fatalistic.

stefan_jones

Host Sequel Has Multiple Monsters

Bellatrixie — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:37:59 PST

I was blown away when I saw it. It breaks free of so many of the stereotypical monster movie cliches! That said, my boyfriend's parents think it's one of the worst movies they've ever seen. We don't speak to them anymore.

Bellatrixie

Host Sequel Has Multiple Monsters

FunkyJ — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:24:23 PST

I had the exact opposite situation with the Host. Someone just gave me a DVD and said "watch it".

I was like "WTF? This is cool!!!"

FunkyJ

Host Sequel Has Multiple Monsters

TheN — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:47:52 PST

You know, I was disappointed by The Host. It was soooo ultra hyped in our little San Francisco film community thanks to the folks at The Orphanage (the FX shop) working on it. The film's director Bong Joon-Ho even came through and showed some of his earlier films at the Clay a week before The Host hit big.

I almost wish I hadn't gone to see them, since his Memories of Murder is a far superior film... with storytelling tricks he recycles (in a sensibilities, um, sense) for The Host.

If you haven't seen The Host its worth checking out, just dial down those expectations a few notches.

TheN