
Originally Posted by
Elly
The Host
imma keep it simple... don't discount this movie because it's Stephanie Meyer's work...
i read the book when it first came out and it was great Science Fiction that was accesable to everyone, not just hardcore Sci-Fi fans... now the movie didn't dissapoint, of course there was a lot of voice over work for Melanie since she was mostly communicating internaly with Wanderer, the Alien Lifeform currently inhabiting her body, but it was handled well and wasn't cheesy as i expected it to be... all the actors nailed their parts and Uncle Jeb was as lovable as he was in the book...
the most impressive part was how true it stayed to the source material, you can easily take the movie script and have an abridged telling of the novel without losing anything important... there were a couple of scenes that did not make it to the movie that could have fleshed out the characters a bit more but i can see why they were dropped in the final cut due to time constraints... i hope there's a Directors Cut when it hits BluRay...