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.
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Monday, 1 April 2024 16:03 (one month ago) link
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.
― o. nate, Monday, 1 April 2024 16:09 (one month ago) link
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
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 21:36 (one month ago) link
well there was a lot of different things mixed in there tbf
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 21:53 (one month ago) link
Melange definitely better than her sister Beyonce
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 23:42 (one month ago) link
https://www.nts.live/shows/the-nts-guide-to/episodes/the-nts-guide-to-inspired-by-dune-13th-march-2024
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 11 April 2024 09:29 (one month ago) link
^^^ music inspired by the book
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 11 April 2024 09:30 (one month ago) link
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
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 11 April 2024 11:47 (one month ago) link
The music was very funny when the subs were trying to convey..
Low tense musicTense musicDramatic musicLoud dramatic musicYodelling
Now forget but I wanted to make a poll on these
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 11 April 2024 11:49 (one month ago) link
amazing issue to take with a movie that has sequels baked in but yeah ok
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Thursday, 11 April 2024 12:07 (one month ago) link
👍
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 11 April 2024 12:52 (one month ago) link
The music in the first film is probably the closest I can think of to a film using the score as pure sound effects.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 11 April 2024 13:26 (one month ago) link
eraserhead is the original dune the movie
― mark s, Thursday, 11 April 2024 13:28 (one month ago) link
god emperor leto ii: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603aa393a223fc1ceb1a5cf8/1622405909416-0ZCXOILXPS34DV6QDHUT/Babyraserhead.jpg
― mark s, Thursday, 11 April 2024 13:29 (one month ago) link
what we need is prequels
“i don't like sand. it's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere”
― scanner darkly, Thursday, 11 April 2024 14:28 (one month ago) link
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.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 19:45 (one month ago) link
Zendaya and Timothee - bad actors, zero chemistry for their great love that ends in betrayalall 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
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 26 May 2024 04:03 (three days ago) link
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
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 26 May 2024 04:13 (three days ago) link
Wasn’t that kind of the point tho
― It was on a accident (hardcore dilettante), Sunday, 26 May 2024 05:29 (three days ago) link
Lesser Harkonnen seemed pretty serious about it and that was his rite of passage to take over from Drax
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 26 May 2024 05:36 (three days ago) link
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.
― It was on a accident (hardcore dilettante), Sunday, 26 May 2024 06:00 (three days ago) link
Hard agree that Ferguson got the short end of the stick this time around. She deserves better than to look arresting & spew portents.
― It was on a accident (hardcore dilettante), Sunday, 26 May 2024 06:01 (three days ago) link
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*
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Tuesday, 28 May 2024 02:55 (yesterday) link
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.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 28 May 2024 03:57 (yesterday) link
Sure, but it'll have been chopped out at the "getting the book down to two films" stage of writing, I'd expect.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 28 May 2024 07:23 (yesterday) link
Denis says “non”: https://collider.com/dune-deleted-scenes-denis-villeneuve/
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 28 May 2024 07:50 (yesterday) link
Really enjoyed the second film. This might actually get me to reread the book for the first time in like 25 years.
― octobeard, Tuesday, 28 May 2024 08:21 (yesterday) link
milo z so otm about this. what a drag! pretty to look at, but man not much there for me
― a (waterface), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 13:22 (twenty-eight minutes ago) link