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An original monster movie that rolls suspense, drama, and comedy all into one. The US film industry can take a few pointers from film making overseas. They always seem to make better original films since the remake outbreak arrived in hollywood. All I'm trying to say is, I bet the remake is gonna suck dick compared to the original. If you like smart monster movies then you'll love this. Of course, the english dubbing has its awful moments but the movie will make you forget about it, highly recommended.
Posted By: KirkAnthony at 6:26pm, September 1, 2009
For once, surprisingly, I agree with the majority. "The Host" is a less-than-impressive 'monster' movie about a girl who has been kidnapped by a mutated something in the Han River. When she is learned to be alive, her family -- her irresponsible father, nutty grandfather, drunk uncle and failure athlete aunt -- goes against the government's judgment and searches the sewers for her. It starts out immediately as a very fast-paced thriller that was at the same time fun and diverse in many ways.
My problems with it? I have one, but it's one of the most monumentally huge problems you can have with a movie that's an hour and fifty-nine minutes long:
While most movies respectably have small slow-ish parts, this was utterly boring. It felt intentionally boring, to be honest. It was dragged for so long for really no reason. The family was pretty much just driving around and walking around and yelling out names. And an hour later (at least it felt like it), when the action picks up, I've lost so much interest that the already-dullish action sequence where Grandpa dies just can't hold my interest.
After the grandfather's death, the family separates, the father being captured, the other two going into seperate hiding, and it seems to come to a complete halt.
Now, I've had boredom in movies, but I simply can never stay awake through it! The first time I watched it, I did, but every other time I couldn't handle the incredible sluggishness.
If it hadn't been for that, I would've liked "The Host" a LOT. But I just didn't.
Haven't seen it since it came out in theaters but I recall really enjoying it. Not quite what you'd expect from a creature feature. Definitely interesting and original. By no means a classic but it has it's moments.
Overall, this movie was a little long but still fun to watch. The main family characters are entertaining to watch and made me laugh out loud a few times. A good creature feature and highly recommended!
When this started out with the monster attacking people I thought this was going to be a hell of a movie. Once we got involved with the family screaming and crying and some terrible acting it got boring then it picked up again at the end. This could have been one of the greats with more monster, gore and blood. Hopefully the remake learns something.
Posted By: Protecious at 2:19pm, September 30, 2008
Had the creature looked a bit more realistic and not average cgi'd , i would have enjoyed this movie much much more, overall the story itself is good and very entertaining from beginning to end, however i feel the crappy cgi work takes away the experience some.
So one sunday comes along and I got my handy free movie ticket that's finally redeemable due to its 'fun' restrictions and I don't know what movie to see, so I roll the dice and choose The Host because of its hype from Korea. From start to finish the movie is sub-titled, like The Passion or Apocalypto but just like them I was used to it in seconds. On to the movie! First off, when's the last time you saw a good monster movie? Maybe Godzilla in '98? Well finally we got another one that's actually pretty good (and funny). The movie is based around one family who owns a food stand near a river - a few years back something made it into the water that made a mutant evolve into a people-eating monster that can swim and run on land. So of course our focus family has their youngest abducted by the monster and it's up to the family to rescue her. Along the way you get some pretty good laughs and some great action. If you can handle the sub-titles go check it out for sure!
The monster was cool, not the coolest but a good one. The main characters were stupid. There was talk of a disease that could have been something more but only ended up taking away from the creature.
I thought it was just ok. Some good and original stuff but the dialogue is stupid, the main character is dumb, the CG are bad, it's boring in a middle and the movie is not funny at all...
main character pretty stupid...too much ridiculous crying, and some bad CG knocked the score down...but way to go busting out a modern monster flick...thanks for the fun!
Less of a horror film than a drama about the loss of a child that happens to have been caused by a monster. I enjoyed it but was a bit underhwhelmed as I expected it to be more of a horror/sci-film than a drama about a family dealing with the loss of a loved one. It was good for the drama though the best parts were the monster coming out of the water and attacking as it appeared shockingly realistic and may have even been the inspiration for Cloverfield based on the monster attacks. When you see the monster on film you actually believe it's a living creature and not a special effect. The way it moves and the swiftness of the attacks must have been modeled after real animal attacks. It almost reminded me of watching a bull attacking in a rodeo, with people's responses being the same.
Awesome monster movie. I thought it looked really sweet and the story was really good. The only thing is I wish there would have been a little more gore and that the main character wasnt so stupid. But other than that a great monster movie.
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