What movies have you seen recently?

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At the cinema, presumably?
I have it on order as 4k, with delivery expected at the end of December. Far too long to wait.

Apparently it's a great movie. Been meaning to watch it myself.

Dune: Part One was excellent.

Yes, at the cinema.

My friend has Sky Glass and gets two free cinema tickets every month I think, so I went to the cinema and followed his recommendation of seeing 'Dune'.

I didn't ask any questions and then I sat down and the movie title appeared on the screen:

"Dune: Part Two".

I whispered to him "you didn't tell me this was part two"!

I had never seen the first one, so it was all new to me. Apparently my friend hadn't seen the first one either but had played a video game of the same name?

I really liked the movie though, in any case. It had a great atmosphere/feel about the whole setting with the desert and all and the specific technologies that the two warring factions had. The fighting scenes with the blades were excellent.

I liked the whole thing with the drinking of the worm poison and inheriting memories from a particular lineage (I think that is what happened)?

It was a strange, yet fun movie.

The woman who had two voices appeared schizophrenic or as if she had multiple personality disorder, but apparently had two people living inside one body as far as I could tell?

I thought that Paul Atreides was a really good character/role.

Lawrence of Arabia -- an absolute classic

Oh dear, that convolutes things a bit.
Try to read the excellent original Frank Herbert stories.

Sounds like you're referring to "The Voice", the Bene Gesserit power?
https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Voice

Thank you for the recommendation!



I am not sure about that one. It could be - I'll let you figure it out when you get around to watching the movie.

Last night I watched:

The Mummy's Ghost [1944]
<=>"Nameless! Fleshless! Deathless!"



A harmless waste of an hour. (I'm sort of glad it wasn't longer, though.)

Last night I watched:

They Came from Beyond Space [1967]
<=>"These creatures use their powers to possess and then use humans as slaves!"



For a limited-budget British 1960's science fiction movie suitable for broadcast-TV (but perhaps not for the very youngest viewers), it's OK.

Finally watched The Whale, been meaning to get to that for ages.

Can't remember the last time a film made me well up but this did it. I liked how entirely non-judgemental it was. My partner felt that the audience was being asked to feel sympathy for a character who had behaved badly and then been the cause of his own suffering (and the suffering of others). I didn't see it that way. I didn't feel like I was being asked to feel sympathy, just to acknowledge the pointless sadness of it all.

Anyway, it's a bummer of a movie but not as miserable as Requiem for a Dream (another Darren Aronofsky movie).

Last night we watched:

Aliens ^{Special Edition} [1992]
<=>"This time there's more."
After Aliens was filmed it was deemed to be too long. They cut seventeen minutes of material from it for its 1986 theatrical release. Later, a "Special Edition" was released in 1992 with the cut material restored. Last night we watched the restored version.



FINALLY! Alien has been available on 4K disk for years but only this year have they finally released Aliens on 4K disk...which is what we watched last night.

The last movie I saw was the Eyes of Tammy Faye.

Just watched Wish! It's a great movie! Some cute moments and a great story. Good songs too! 9/10.

Last night we watched:

Chappie [2015]
<=>"Some families are assembled differently."



REALLY, REALLY\o/S T R O N G\o/RECOMMEND!\o/

REALLY, REALLYI wonder when an AI or robot will be considered conscious...

^{Sigh. Never mind.}