A thread about the Denis Villeneuve-helmed reboot of DUNE

A sandworm wouldnt swallow it but look here we are

the bene gesserit would know about this lie of political convenience given that they usually author them, but you've reminded me that the book at least tells of jessica nearly discovering him when she misreads darth yueh's switch to the dark side.

iirc she is probing Yueh's hatred of the harkonnen when she receives an interrupting vision that her thopter warranty has expired. Herbert foresaw everything.

at that stage in the story herbert is pedal-to-the-metal on the "strategics of love" vs the "tactics of hate" i think, leto glumly and somewhat self-hating talking to paul abt the atriedes propaganda flooding arrakis, about how he's kind and not cruel and etc, and then we see the power of loyalty unfold vs how the harkonnens do things, and the harkonnens are kinda dumb -- their thing nearly fully fucks up right at the start and carries on fucking up despite them now having all the resources and also all the imperial support. except of course FH's moral is "well hate is bad adn stupid yes, imagine now that you have a supersmart leader-prophet that ppl adoringly follow out of love -- imagine how much WORSE that might be!"

Folks, I'm sorry in advance but I'm going to shit up the thread...

My reaction to this is that you could see this on a double/triple-plusIMAX++++ screen with MBV's sound system and none of it will do any good because this script (and what to leave in or out) was by the same dudes who gave you The Concorde Airport '79, Forrest Gump, The Postman, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, the latest A Star Is Born, Prometheus, Doctor Strange, and Passengers. It's one heck of a foundation of wet cardboard to build a space opera on.

I may be the only person in the world who went to see it in a theater and came away disliking it - like serious dislike - all the flaws in sharp relief the size of a building.

I mean it was OK enough first seeing it on my laptop screen in a haze of Moderna booster, but taking it on again as a proper movie in a theater just exposes it for what it is as a very good looking book of art stills populated by people who don't want to be there.

Gawd, yes, Elvis, felt the same about after being in the cinema....and even the visual side was a let down, in the sense that it really didn't linger on many of the big moments..for example, they asked Stellan Skarsgård to sit in a vat of oil or whatever and I expected this scene to start revelling in the weird, macabre aspects of the harkonnen but it flashes by without any poignancy, like the rest of the film. It lacked a trust in the actors to bring the story to life and the cast looked bored amongst the stale green screen set pieces

Half of Villeneuve’s movies, especially the large release science fiction ones (Arrival, BR 2049, this Dune) remind me of Underworld’s song Pearl’s Girl because at some point you’re going to see lingering shots of

the water on stone
the water on concrete
the water on sand.

lucky he had some caladan material to sneak that in, along with the very moist harkonnens

baron's floating, baron's floating

Baron Saturday?

st eloise of the knife

https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/56250ed56015429a1debbd21/master/w_2560%2Cc_limit/eloise-illustration-01.jpg

part 2 needs a rival aesthetic intruding against the relentless malickness, alia is the correct character to hang this on

part 2 needs a rival aesthetic intruding against the relentless malickness, alia is the correct character to hang this on

Split directing duties between Villeneuve and Paul W.S. Anderson. He knows how to shoot deserts, too (cf. Monster Hunter, the third or fourth Resident Evil). He’s good with slow motion too.

split the difference and give it to wes anderson

get Ken Loach in, the pisshead guy who played Les Battersby can replace Bautista

"wes anderson's dune" parody sketch practically writes itself, but i for one think Owen Wilson would make a fantastic Feyd-Rautha

worm is a long line of schoolchildren in worm masks

White Stripes = we're going to be Fremen on the soundtrack.

Animal Farm by The Kinks over worm riding montage

We come from the land where sandworms blow
From the hot-ass sun where the spice must flow

watched it again with Dad this past weekend, liked it a bit more but it's still like an excessively packaged double swirl vinyl rerelease of a classic album where it's been remastered and brickwalled all to hell... I predict Half Price Books will contain roughly 500 copies of this on Blu-Ray within a year.

does this movie sync up with dopesmoker y/y

Michael Mann's Dune, featuring 30 mins of unreleased Audioslave songs.

bummed to find that this has already been booted down from all the *really* big screens in NYC for our planned rewatch. guess i'll have to hope for an auteurist Villeneuve series at Metrograph or something.

read that as an amateurist series and why not eh

Yeah I wanted to go see it on IMAX or whatever the next best is, but it was only on "standard screens" as of last week. So we turned out the lights and watched on HBOMax on our TV.

If you’re in the DC area this will be back at the Smithsonian IMAX in northern Virginia the last two weekends of November.

The biggest complaint I have about seeing this in a theater: having to watch - I shit you not - 10 freaking trailers before the movie started

Trailers are good tho

cinemas back baby

We didn't get any adverts or trailers because of a problem with the projector and I'm still a bit sore (not about the adverts though).

I love trailers, but have a slight punctuality impairment so usually miss them.

I used to like them when I was a young and naively enthusiastic enough cinema goer to think some of this garbage might turn out to be good!

They weren’t all bad, and some of these are things I’ll probably see. It’s just … 10 trailers is a LOT.

Yeah the enjoyment curve for trailers peaks around 6 for me, and after that it starts getting annoying. 10 would be tough to bear

Finally got around to seeing this this weekend. Loved the look of this movie. Kind of difficult to judge otherwise since despite the length it only feels like half a movie. Watching the movie I couldn't help but feel that somebody who hasn't read the books would be a bit lost, but I think there's enough random info thrown in here and there to make a person understand a lot in a very broad sense. I went with my son who was totally unfamiliar with Dune and he seemed to mostly get it, though he didn't really get what the Bene Gesserit's role in all of this is supposed to be or why they have superpowers.

I was on a panel chat last night talking about the film and we pretty much all agreed that Hans Zimmer’s score was forgettable(in that none of us remembered anything about it) but the sound design was top-notch

Stops streaming on hbo after this weekend. Watched it for the third time with my mom last night. =D

Stops streaming on hbo after this weekend. Watched it for the third time with my mom last night. =D

Some Ghost in the Shell soundtrack vibes at the end

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTPNaUsjksM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHPkdMGI6D4

Coming back to IMAX, baby!

dune, but make it set at a start up pic.twitter.com/gFZC98URbm

— Morgan A Baila (@morganbaila) November 24, 2021

oooooo i'm stoked for that IMAX news!

a million deaths are not enough for yueh (and that's why he's not in that picture)

pic.twitter.com/0s7Ym9kjNa

— Good Faces (@good_faces_bot) November 26, 2021

the ONLY good faces iirc

Of course it would be at Walmart.

Repeating the phrase "limited edition pain box" over and over in my head until it sounds normal pic.twitter.com/4RDBa4H1VJ

— RTL3 (@RussellLatshaw) January 12, 2022