27th January, 2019.
Right …
It’s a late night for me: as I’ve started writing this at, what … ?
Just coming up to 11:30 … ish.
Just coming up to 11:30 … ish.
And, frankly … ?
I’m just about ready to go to bed …
after I’ve finished my coca.
As the situation with iMovie is getting ridiculous.
Frankly?
The second of those intro videos was done with a free piece of software I’d found on the App Store, and wanted to try.
The curse of unemployment is simply the fact you have a lot of time on your hands.
No money to do anything — like buy new software — but time on your hands.
Tonight … ? After having dinner with my family?
I had time on my hands … and a desire to catch up with quite a few things.
Not least, El Ministerio Del Tiempo: The Ministry of Time, if you want that in English
I think I’m getting withdrawal symptoms!
~≈§≈~
Then again … ?
Then again, tomorrow is another day.
That’s when I can start catching up with the second season of El Ministerio Del Tiempo.
Much as I wanted to get started, there?
I do know there’s a few films in my collection I wanted to watch.
The one I ended up with … ?
And had been meaning to see since I’d catch the original 1956 version?
Was the 1978, Donald Sutherland vehicle, Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
I think I’ve made the right decision, there …
~≈§≈~
This version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers is set in San Francisco: and opens with Dr Matthew Bennell (Donald Sutherland) of ’Frisco’s Public Health Department, raiding a local restaurant.
Meanwhile?
His colleague, Elizabeth Driscoll (Brooke Adams), has discovered an interesting flower on the streets: and taken it to the home she share with her partner, Geoffrey (Art Hindle).
Only to find, in the morning, that Geoffrey seems a little …
Distant …
It’s only when Elizabeth mentions this to Matthew … ?
That he suggests chewing it over with old friend, and noted psychiatrist, Dr. David Kibner (Leonard Nimoy.)
It’s only then, things start taking a downturn.
As, on the way to a book launch organised by Kibner, Matthew and Elizabeth see a hysterical man run down, and die: with the crowd unconcerned by his death.
And, at the party … ?
A woman, and client of Kibner’s, insisting her husband isn’t who he was.
All that … ?
And there’s a lot of blooming flowers around …
~≈§≈~
Right …
What do you think I’ll be saying, here … ?
Good?
Bad … ?
Indifferent … … ?
It’s the first of them, to be honest.
This remake of Invasion of The Body Snatchers is a great little film: the acting’s good, the writing, nicely done, the effects? Disturbing, without being gruesome.
It also sees a guest performance from Leonard Nimoy that I, for one, welcomed. I’m so used to seeing him as Spock, that seeing him in anything else is welcome.
And there’s quite a twist in the tail, as well.
Frankly?
The 1978 version of Invasion of The Body Snatchers is worth your time: and an improvement on the original
Invasion of The Body Snatchers
★★★☆
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