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On Sun, 8 Dec 2024 11:45:06 -0800, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
wrote:

>On 12/8/24 11:22 AM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:
>
>> On 12/8/2024 10:06 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
>>> On 12/8/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
>>>
>>>> What did you watch?
>>>
>>> What did you watch?
>> 
>> 
>> Another day of vegging out.  I watched:
>> 
>> Invasion of the Body Snatchers (4K disc) 1956 sci-fi movie based on the 
>> 1954 novel by Jack Finney
>> 
>> Invasion of the Body Snatchers (4K disc) 1978 sci-fi movie based on the 
>> 1954 novel by Jack Finney
>> 
>> Seedpeople (Amazon streaming) 1992 direct to video movie written by 
>> Charles Band about alien pods that come to Earth and take over by 
>> copying people.
>> 
>> Body Snatchers (blu-ray) 1993 sci-fi movie based on the 1954 novel by 
>> Jack Finney about alien pods that come to Earth and take over by copying 
>> people.  This version moves the action to an army base which means there 
>> are plenty of weapons and people trained to use them to fight back. This 
>> is a very underrated movie with a great cast that includes Meg Tilly, R. 
>> Lee Ermey, and Forest Whitaker.
>
>And Gabrielle Anwar!!
>
>> The Invasion (4K disc) 2007 sci-fi movie based on the 1954 novel by Jack 
>> Finney about alien virus that come to Earth and take over by, I have no 
>> idea what.


For some reason Youtube keeps trying to get me to watch one of their
Shorts from this movie.
 
>> The Puppet Masters (1994) sci-fi movie based on the 1951 novel by Robert 
>> A. Heinlein about aliens that come to Earth and take over by controlling 
>> people. 

One I both watched and read the original book many years ago. The book
is sitting in a pile with other books about 15 feet from me.

>You missed "Assimilate" in this little lineup.
>