MOVIE DISCUSSION

The movie was pretty good overall, but there seemed to be this huge glaring plot hole that made think the whole thing was just too stupid.

The aliens are capable of traveling through space on solar winds and are essentially going from planet to planet merging with the dominant life form that lives there without really changing much of them except for their "feelings".

That by itself is not stupid, but their whole method of merging with their host is.
They can somehow create a whole blank slate of a person in these pods, but to finalize it they need the person to be asleep. This seems to be a backwards ass way to survive in a new planet when they gain absolutely nothing and are shown to be fully capable of modifying life forms to suit their needs.

All they had to do to succeed as a species after modifying plants was to try and evolve from the plants into a more advanced life form than humans. Either by using the materials in the plants themselves or by trying to incorporate more complex life forms into the mix.

Over time they could have evolved into a much more complex species capable of surviving on their own without the need to just take bodies and thus avoid resistance or destruction by the species they're trying to take over.

But no, they took the Canadian approach to taking over earth "Hey we sort of want to take over your planet, but we don't really want to bother anyone too much so we will take away all your feelings of anger and hate and sort of piggyback ride on that for a while until your planet dies and we have to go."

And that's pretty much Invasion of the body snatchers.

Also there's some boobs near the end and a naked pod woman screeching.

And Jeff Goldblum and Leonard Nimoy are in it.