is it really possible that we don't as yet have a thread about DAVID LYNCH'S DUNE?

It really bugs me that I can't seem to find an explanation for the Doctor and his brief excursion into beat poetry when he's treating the Baron, "Put the pick in there, Pete, and turn it 'round real neat."

"catch it on cable and keep watching despite commercials": no this is alien3 sorry if this offends

the Alien 3 assembly cut is decent though it drags, the most interesting aspect to me was how warm the usually dastardly Charles Dance's presence was, and how much it alters the mood of the movie when he gets got

I appreciate a lot of things about Alien3 but its ability to hold my attention when frequently interrupted by detergent and car-insurance ads is not one of them. for me personally! it's such a mood piece, and a very specific mood at that. Resurrection is like channelsurfing into Demolition Man or something.

i feel like DAVID LYNCH'S DUNE would also pass this test btw but i cannot say that i have ever noticed it in any cable listings ever

first half maybe, second half is simultaneously too compressed and too draggy

Dune would definitely be improved by watching it as a long basic cable sunday afternoon showing with lots of commercials. Possibly with "popup video" style trivia blurbs popping up occasionally.

it's no Lawnmower Man

― calzino, Wednesday, November 4, 2020 5:09 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

lol, brutal

popup-video-style trivia blurbs but they're all quotations from the princess irulan's histories of mau'dib

might substantially improve the film, if i'm honest. more expository narration! more lost internal monologue!

If lead poisoning facilitates recognition of teh awesomeness of Dune we have to ask, is lead poisoning really all bad?

you haven't watched lynch's dune until you've watched it on whippits

i definitely see how that would help

you haven't watched lynch's dune until you've watched it on whippits

― @oneposter(✔️) (Karl Malone), Thursday, November 5, 2020 9:43 AM (one minute ago)

whippets or pugs?

you haven't watched lynch's dune unless you are a dog on whippits

all Alien movies are good except for the AvP ones which are actually Predator movies and not judged as Alien product

i remember 3 or 4 being pretty bad but i can never remember which one it is. i think the david fincher one.

3 is fincher and very dark and orangey-brownish. prison planet, charles dance, charles s. dutton, shaved-head ripley.

4 is jeunet and much brighter and greener. winona ryder, dan hedaya, ron perlman, weird clone hybrid alien.

can we put a pin in this alien derail & go back to Dune

the spice must flow

I might have said it upthread but what I like about the sets so much is that everything looks so heavy and you hardly ever see that, love seeing that big container being rolled into the room and it looks like it weighs tons. Just gives everything more presence and reality when people actually build proper sets for films, money well spent.

yeah that Navigator traincar thing was p dope

can we put a pin in this alien derail & go back to Dune

"everyone please talk about this movie that you like and I hate!"

i hate derails more than i hate Dune movie

they pushed that big container thing into the room on de rails

Need a gif of Jack Nance working that contraption (what was it?), I love that

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if steampunk actually looked like this movie instead of fucking pocketwatches and stovepipe hats I'd have gone that way.
On that note does burning man ever have Dune shit out there because that'd be tite.

steampunk needs more pustules

steampustule

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpkfjDAF-Ks

Just a still, not the gif unfortunately
https://www.agonybooth.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/dune1984.0803.jpg

I think he’s playing semuta music, but I don’t know the name of the thing

this is finally getting a high quality 4K UHD release via Arrow Video at the end of August, pre-order is available now

Arrow had teaser flyers for tucked in their new releases like a year ago so I knew this was coming but still: yessssss

Indeed! Here's a link to the region free UHD in particular

https://arrowfilms.com/product-detail/dune-limited-edition-uhd/FCD2175

'Indeed!' is a big trouble reference; get it straight ned

See here, you

4K UHD versions are shipping now

I've still never seen Flash Gordon and I probably should.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, November 4, 2020 8:14 PM (nine months ago)
Oh yes, you most certainly should

― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Wednesday, November 4, 2020 8:20 PM (nine months ago)
you should

― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, November 4, 2020 8:23 PM (nine months ago)

Yes you should.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, November 4, 2020 8:23 PM (nine months ago)

Aside from the automatic spectacle of Blessed, I'm sorry to say it didn't do much for me. The documentary about the aborted Roeg version was pretty good though.

like if Flash Gordon but fuuuucked up

― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 4 November 2020 01:40 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

on uk netflix now and tombot otm - at least as a way of appreciating some of its more outré moments. not going to hash over any of the particularly good or bad decisions made except when i saw the standard bearers running into battle, and then patrick stewart carrying the pug, i thought 'lol you all deserve to die'.

why is gen x like a dromedary
because we came of age between two dunes
(needs some work)

lol

As posted by Chaki

This was the wrap gift for the crew in Lynch's Dune. pic.twitter.com/qnGA9zijbr

— Chaki (@ChakiFunkWizard) January 21, 2022

This piece of shit

I'm reluctant to watch the new one just because I don't want to be so disappointed yet again.

what's wrong with you? they are both ace!

I saw the Lynch version when it came out. I was enraged. He made a mockery of the book.

or improved upon it?

Only problem is the abrupt wrap up montage

It's even very abrupt in the extended cut - but what can you do