Booked for Dune Part 2 on Friday, very much looking forward to it!
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Going on Saturday. Giddy with excitement.
Slightly concerned about this chat around him taking on Dune Messiah next though. Whilst I adored the first novel, I seem to remember it taking a rapid nosedive thereafter…
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Saw Wicked Little Letters last night. It’s catching some hate, but I laughed like a drain.
Puerile and all the better for it.
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Off to see Perfect Days this evening. A little zen moment of calm before the eye and ear drum-buggering spectacle of Dune 2 at the weekend.
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I can’t recommend Perfect Days highly enough. Really beautiful film that made my life feel horrendously cumbersome.
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Saw Zone Of Interest last night. Utterly chilling.
If you were totally ignorant of the Holocaust you could almost take it at face value as the Commandant and his family having a nice jolly old time out East in their new home. But the subtleties in use of sound and film as to what was really going on are incredible.
What a run of films we’ve had the last couple of month’s, shame the Oscars boreathon is upon us and is likely give everything to Oppenheimer as they all deserve something
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Yep, TZOI (very intense on decent headphones) and AOUS blew me away last weekend. I also found a Brandon Chronenberg flick I hadn’t heard of, Antiviral, really enjoyed that, and had a rewatch of No Country For Old Men. It was quite the Saturday night!
Got Poor things for this weekend, really can’t wait.
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There were a cpl different theories between me and my wife. Won’t spoil for anyone, but would be interested to hear others take on it too.
I loved it.
Dune Pt 2 WOW!
Not much more I can say until others see it. Sooo good!
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Off to see it in a few hours!
Loved the sound design and soundtrack of the first part. Came out and googled when the second one was coming and read that they had even started!
Waited a long time for this!
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The sound is immense in this. We saw it on a Dolby system on the iSense screen at our local Odeon. Blew us away
Caught Dune 2 yesterday. Pretty amazing. It felt like the script was doing quite a lot of heavy lifting at the start and was a little clunky but it soon got into its groove. Visually incredible . Really nailed the strangeness of book.
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Watched Perfect Days this evening. It’s a great movie and leaves the curious viewer with plenty to contemplate. As an ode to simplicity and finding joy in the seemingly mundane, it feels like a direct challenge to the digital/social media/selfish whirl we live in. Makes me want to throw a lot of stuff away and think harder about what actually matters.
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Oh yeah, looks good.
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Looks like it would be good double bill with Past Lives, wonder why Cinemas don’t do them anymore.
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Saw “Perfect Days” last night and thought it was a beautiful film about “being”. (Possible spoiler alert 
) The focus on simplicity and being present in as many moments of the day as possible was refreshing in an age of distraction and often wilful chaos. The interlude with his family did raise questions for me about whether he’s truly living in the moment, escaping/avoiding a fracture or trauma in his life or a mixture of both. Likely the latter, IMHO, which makes the film even more human and engaging.
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Saw Dune: Part Two last night
As with nearly all Denis Villeneuve’s recent films it leaves your head spinning as you leave the cinema. There are some awe inspiring moments, and its truly a visually stunning piece of cinema. I never read the book or saw the original so some of the Prophecy stuff left me confused, not sure how well that has translated in this iteration. Some subplots and charcaters feel underdeveloped but nevertheless I’m not sure there’s been an art house blockbuster as hallucinatory as this before. See it in IMAX for the seat rumbling experience
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American Fiction - really liked it, particularly the parts about family and love, but it didn’t quite get the ending right. Still a really good watch.
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Yeh agree with that. I went and read a few explainers after which made it clearer.
Surprisingly I didnt feel it was too long.
Definitely needs to be seen on the big screen. Especially for the audio which I thought was incredible.
Just watched Dune Pt1. Unpopular opinion perhaps but what a fucking snooze fest 
. Every scene was exactly the same, the plot makes zero sense (OK, exposition/setting things up but even so…)
It’s just a weird mash up of Star Wars/Lord of the Rings/Prometheus. Seen it alllll before…
And yet another film where key points of the plot are fucking mumbled AND whispered. Absolutely infuriating 
That was a real struggle to get through
Best bit for me was the Emporer dude looked like Syd Barrett when he’d got really fat and gone batshit. And I quite enjoyed him floating around like Vic Reeves in the Masterchef sketch
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