David Lynch | Dune

I remember being underwhelmed watching Dune as a teenager when it came out and it's even worse today. Hard to believe but it's 7 years older than Star Wars and about 70 years behind in effects.

I thought I might enjoy picking up on David Lynch's Direction of the movie but to be honest he's totally out of his depth. The acting sucks and the props are often comical. 

The books though are very trippy.

For Whom The Bells Toll

I recall the book "For Whom The Bells Toll" lying around the house as a youngster and I read it but don't have too many memories apart from Greek partisans who fought against the Nazis and whom I later learnt were the first victims of the CIA installing the same Fascists they had been fighting against when the war was over as the "New" enemy was communism.

All this goes to show what a load of shit war is and how the State just uses people to keep on to their wealth.

Anyway Ingrid Bergman is an 'off-the-charts' boyish looking beauty in this movie, and the old mother who looks after the partisans is a character but the rest of the movie is a honker. It's full of cliché rough types who need a good shower and some fluffy towels instead of living like armpits.

Silkwood

I wanted to like Silkwood as it's an activist movie and there is a connection to the whole Israeli nuclear smuggling deal. 

However in the final analysis, even though there are some quintessential white trash 70's scenes by cute couple Kurt Russell and Meryl Streep, the movie hasn't aged all that well and arguably Cher is the best actor in it.