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The Invasion (2007)
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"So, a remake (2007) of a remake (1993) of a remake (1978) of a film (1956) based on a piece of literature (1954). Not too shabby, I must say, especially considering that the aspect of the original--film, at least--most people remember is the laughably cheese-tastic term "pod people." Seriously, how many other works have been through this many permutations without delving into idiocy? Maybe Arthur Conan Doyle´s "The Lost World?" Some of the superheroes we all know? But to survive over 50 years and spawn four movies? That´s something to be proud of. The space shuttle Patriot falls from the sky in an unscheduled trip back to Earth. With pieces of the vessel strewn from Washington, D.C., to Dallas, Texas, investigators scramble to figure out what happened. For Washington psychiatrist Carol Bennell (Nicole Kidman), it´s just another day of dealing with abusive spouses and her own fractured family. But when reports start coming in from around the world of a disease affe ... "
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"The Invasion is a remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, a great movie, and it's worse than pointless. A pointless movie would have merely been a retread of the first film but not done as well. This picture takes an intelligent and suspenseful film and dumbs it down it down practically to the level of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, and adds MTV editing so that the most ADD person in the audience won't get bored. I would feel sorry for Nicole Kidman, a great actress, for appearing in it, if I didn't think it was for any reason other than to cash a paycheck. If you remember, the original Don Siegel film (which itself was based on the novella Sleep No More by Jack Finney) starred Kevin McCarthy involved a small town slowly being taken over by aliens that grew in plant pods that landed on Earth. They grew an identical version of you and replaced you when you slept. You still had all of your memories, but no emotion. I saw the movie when I was kid and it really scared me. I remember ... "
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"Do all good things come in fours? Apparently not. Knowing that final cut was taken away from Oliver Hirschbiegel, (director of Downfall) I am hoping a directors cut will be released and it will be a completely different film. Much tighter and smarter, but the truth is I have no idea what was added or taken away from the film. The end product I saw could very well be close to what Hirschbiegel created, so I must take the film as it is. From the beginning, The Invasion is an utter mess of a film. To much happens to fast. The beauty of the 1956 Don Siegel version (Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, one of my favorite films) is it's pacing. It has a big exciting opening, but than relaxes and slowly builds into some sort of masterpiece. All 4 film have the same basic idea, and all deal with the problems of their time. In The Invasion it's the war in Iraq. And yet this time it doesn't really say anything important. One of the biggest problems with the film for me is the acting. ... "
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The Nanny Diaries - The Invasion
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"We'd like this off our resumes, pleaseThe setting is Manhattan's Upper East Side. A fresh college graduate, eager to put some sort of imprint upon the world but clueless about how to properly do so, takes a job – so easily gotten! -- as a nanny. If she squints really hard, this young woman can see the position being sorta-kinda related to anthropology, the field she eventually wants to enter. She's thrilled. Until she finds out that the exhausting, humiliating, and often just plain impossible mother-child-nanny power struggle she's now engaged in is its own circle of hell. If The Nanny Diaries sounds familiar, it's because you've seen it before – only it was called The Devil Wears Prada, with a fabulous spring collection standing in for the baby that a slave-driving "
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"The Invasion is about an intelligent alien bacteria that modifies the essential nature of humanity without changing its physical nature. The Invasion attempts to teach us something about our essential nature but instead teaches us about our nature to be suckered into a dull movie. A shuttle crash brings with it an alien parasite that enters the human population. Dr. Carol Benell (Nicole Kidman) is thrown in the middle of the outbreak when her ex-husband, a doctor for the Center for Disease Control, Tucker Kaufman (Jeremy Northam) visits their son, Oliver (Jackson Bond.) While Oliver is visiting his father, he and Carol get separated and Carol has to try to find him in the middle of the outbreak. Her and her colleague, Ben Driscoll, (Daniel Craig) set out to find him. The only way to move through the ever transforming sea of the infected unnoticed is to pretend that you have no emotions. The first twenty minutes of the movie is director Oliver Hirschbiegel’s attempt at ... "
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"Nicole Kidman’s streak of high-profile disappointments looks like it’ll continue with The Invasion. Dennis Harvey’s review confirms the bad buzz: “Perhaps the sole distinguishing element in this Invasion is that it provides a new transmission oh-so-characteristic of our filmic era: projectile barfing.” Jennifer Aniston will join Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Connelly and Kevin Connelly in He’s Just Not Into You, making the New Line project surely the most star-studded movie based on a self-help book ever made. Rosario Dawson is teaming with the creative team behind the hit animated sci-fi web video series Afterworld to star in and produce The Gemini Division, a 100-episode “live-action/motion-capture animation online sci-fi serie "
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