Great Movie, Terrible DVD

This is one of the great remakes -- a remake that actually doesn't just rehash the original. It takes the same premise in a different direction. And it has a 70s apocalyptic character -- edgy and just a little depressing. The original and this remake really reflect their times.

So the movie is fantastic. This DVD is one of the worst I've seen (I have a few hundred DVDs). The compression is terrible -- tons of artifacts indicating severe over-compression badly done. The "letterbox" version is not true letterboxing and is also hideously bad.

So it's six of one, half a dozen of the other. If the price is low enough, probably worth having because the film is so good.

Prophetic, or WHAT?!?

Given the progression of immorality in our western society, now being run over by hoardes of Christianity's epic enemies, the historical conversion-by-the-sword Muslims (witness Europe's declining birth-rates, the impunity with which Muslims parade down the streets of London calling for the murder of Christians while the police stand idly by, and the various mass-murders perpetuated by them in NYC and Madrid, for starters) and is it difficult to see the prophecy within Invasion of the Body Snatchers?

Yeah, I LOVED Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The prophecy and symbolism of what has transpired since it's advent is, frankly, terrifying.

For as it was located in the infamously homosexually oriented city of San Francisco, is there no vivid moral line of thought in the movie to convince even the most insensate beast of the overwhelming power of the influence of "tolerance" and "open-mindedness" to completely coopt traditional Christian moral values for the murderous Culture of Death tradition of "political correctness?"

As the true humans, desperately needing to continue loving, were no longer able to after their being hunted down and replaced by the soul-less pods who replicate in greenhouses, is there no parallel with stem cell research, the intense drive toward test tube babies in the 70's to the cloning mechanisms of today?

And all of this in the face of a tsunami of birth control (all abortiofascients) and abortions making the former normal function of sexuality driving the perpetuation of the species now a mere ploy for the sexual conquest of as many partners as a life can possibly contain? All the fun, followed by all the diseases (destroying thousands upon thousands of young men in San Franciso and across the U.S. in all the back rooms of gay bars and the hedonistic baths where Bette Midler got her start before greater wisdom in the city government shut them down), followed by all the burials, followed by all the latchkey, abandonded "mistake" kids who somehow got around their parents' conspiracry to kill them, preceded by skyrocketing divorce rates in the 1960's and 70's and the summary destruction of the family?

Anyone who's lived through it will not miss the parallels. As the culture goes, so goes the society. Is it any wonder what the former dominant western culture faces on the streets and public transporation of modern American cities?

Hey, we deserved it! We, as did the victims of the movie, fell asleep in our prayer lives, the evil one did exactly as what Christ said he would do in the parable of the seed?

"And those beside the road are those who have heard; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their heart, so that they may not believe and be saved."

Hey, we murdered our kids for our own material gain. What else shall we expect but the much feared nuclear or germ warfare attack which the government has stated is a matter of time?

Did any of the Body Snatcher victims survive?

Or, as Christ stated, "7:13. Enter ye in at the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there are who go in thereat.

7:14. How narrow is the gate, and strait is the way that leadeth to life: and few there are that find it!"

Will any of us find salvation in the face of so dire a stricture from the mouth of Christ?

Flawless, Better than the Original

This film is better than the original. But the other versions after this were just redundant. Leave it alone now. Donald Sutherland and Brooke Adams are great. Goldbloom as well. Your Horror movie collection won't be complete without this film.