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[–] 13 points 8 months ago (8 children)

Honestly that sounds better than teenage angst and sparkly vampires.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    Its a love story about the alien parasite being enamored by humanity, joining their side, and falling in love all while inhabiting the body of an unwilling host whose mind refuses to fade like the rest. Not bad, but definitely still a tween romance novel.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    No, it's an existential horror novel about having your body stolen so some alien can get laid. It just has romantic tie-ins with the alien trying to get laid.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    The movie should have leaned into that instead of, uh, whatever it was doing.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Wait there's a movie? Please link me a wiki page lmao

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Fair warning: its as bad as the Percy Jackson movie, same vibe

    https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_host_2013

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Holy shit, just reading the plot from the wiki page I can tell it was bad. Honestly the way you described it initially made it sound way more interesting, as if there was only the one alien struggling to navigate human society as it falls in love with a human.

    Instead it's full of post-societal Armageddon survivor main-character tropes that could only have been written by the same person that decided vampires sparkle instead of smolder in the sun.

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