A thread about the Denis Villeneuve-helmed reboot of DUNE

Tideland which had awful reviews, but the one person I personally know who actually watched it really liked it.

― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, March 25, 2024 9:44 PM (six days ago)

Did it have awful reviews? I recall a bunch of people saying it was one of his best films (I think it is). I like Zero Theorem too

yeah, 31% positive on Rotten Tomato's critic tally

I know it was hardly a hit but I recall people being enthusiastic about it, definitely worth trying if you like Gilliam, I've cooled on it a bit but I still think it's among his better films

The plot summary for Tideland makes it sound horrifying.

There's horrible things but the naive viewpoints of the girl and young man take the edge off

nope

gilliams lens makes it worse than the plot tbh

it was horrifying and i’ll never watch it again but it was an interesting contrast to pan’s labyrinth in that both dealt with children dealing with unimaginable horrors, but tideland really felt like it was _her_ story told by herself (i don’t know if it would be tolerable told in any other way) while labyrinth felt very much like an adult telling the story.

There's some fun in it too, I recall Jodelle Ferland being good in it (she will be 30 this year, how is that possible? I'm turning to corpsedust)

Tideland is much older than I thought. Ferland has mostly been in horror films and television

Saw the first film for the first time yesterday, really liked it. It was all good and didn’t feel like it was as long as it was. Easily my favourite part was when the desert mouse is shown and our small tortoiseshell cat froze and stared at the screen and tried to get a better look. 10/10 motion capture, obviously.

Rewatched it last night in anticipation of seeing the second part. I enjoyed it more, probably in part because I watched it on a TV with good sound as opposed to my iPad with headphones. It's visually stunning, and even if it's mostly vibes, well, so is the book (which I now need to read for the fifth (?) time).

i dont mean to gripe but if ever movies needed watching at the cinema its these

Thanks be to Odeon Luxe reclining seats in respect to that.

i was hoping 1 would have gotten a general theatrical re-release but if it did I missed it. I would not mind wasting an entire day watching these back to back in a theater.

otm. they did put part 1 back in theaters briefly, but at least in my area it was over & done with a week or two before part 2 came out, so there was no chance to double feature them, which was frustrating.

I finally saw Dune part 1 on an airplane, surely not the ideal viewing configuration, but it exceeded my somewhat modest expectations. I loved the book as a young sci-fi fan, and enjoyed the Lynch film. This version is perhaps better. It does a good job of finding the core of the story and building suspense in the right places. The pacing seemed about right. It wasn't as ponderous as I had been led to believe.

here was actually surprisingly little up-close spice-related action or even conversation

― mark s, Saturday, October 23, 2021 3:36 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

kind of weird to adapt dune and barely touch on melange

well there was a lot of different things mixed in there tbf

Melange definitely better than her sister Beyonce

https://www.nts.live/shows/the-nts-guide-to/episodes/the-nts-guide-to-inspired-by-dune-13th-march-2024

^^^ music inspired by the book

Saw the first film on Netflix a couple of days ago. Initial thought is this would've annoyed me if there was no sequel. It literally fucking stops.

Will watch the followup if it's still playing somewhere. Imagine waiting years for this. Not me mate

The music was very funny when the subs were trying to convey..

Low tense music
Tense music
Dramatic music
Loud dramatic music
Yodelling

Now forget but I wanted to make a poll on these

amazing issue to take with a movie that has sequels baked in but yeah ok

👍

The music in the first film is probably the closest I can think of to a film using the score as pure sound effects.

eraserhead is the original dune the movie

god emperor leto ii:
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603aa393a223fc1ceb1a5cf8/1622405909416-0ZCXOILXPS34DV6QDHUT/Babyraserhead.jpg

what we need is prequels

“i don't like sand. it's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere”

I finally finished this and was surprised that Feyd was not also a skarsgard, because the actor was doing a pretty good skarsgard impression, and made me wish Jessie Armstrong had adapted Dune as the next season of Succession.
Also, House Skarsgard sounds like a credible Dune faction.

Zendaya and Timothee - bad actors, zero chemistry for their great love that ends in betrayal
all the charismatic actors from the first one are dead (papa Atreides, Khal Drogo, the Dr from Strange New Worlds) or sidelined to glower and yell (Rebecca Ferguson)
the Harkonnens and Emperor just let all 500k mujahideen roll up 100 yards away from the emperor's ship because they couldn't see them over a hill?
whole lot of dragging in the middle - could have either been an hour shorter or split into three normal length movies

the gladiator scene with the lesser Harkonnen who looks like an extra from Fury Road - oh you tried to KILL ME by... not completely drugging one of the guys who's been in a dungeon for months. Seems more like changing the video game difficulty from rookie to easy IMO than a real test

Wasn’t that kind of the point tho

Lesser Harkonnen seemed pretty serious about it and that was his rite of passage to take over from Drax

It was political theatre tho, like yeah he was supposed to make a big show if it but it wasn’t a CONTEST it was a SHOW, like Barron Trump “running” in 2032.

Hard agree that Ferguson got the short end of the stick this time around. She deserves better than to look arresting & spew portents.

Zendaya and Timothee - bad actors, zero chemistry for their great love that ends in betrayal

The ending was hilarious.

"Sorry, love of my life, gotta marry this white girl for politics, you understand...you'll be sticking around for the holy war, though, right?"

*Zendaya makes her default pissed-off face, leaves to catch the bus*

I think it would be cool if they did special editions of these with extra scenes, if they exist. The second one in particular feels like it had a bunch of stuff chopped out, everything happens very abruptly.

Sure, but it'll have been chopped out at the "getting the book down to two films" stage of writing, I'd expect.

Denis says “non”: https://collider.com/dune-deleted-scenes-denis-villeneuve/

Really enjoyed the second film. This might actually get me to reread the book for the first time in like 25 years.