A thread about the Denis Villeneuve-helmed reboot of DUNE

So the spinoff series is kicking in

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More direct!

https://www.instagram.com/p/ClRCC_8Nihn/

I also managed to see this movie this week and was very pleasantly surprised. It's both visually stunning and surprisingly well cast. Not only the principals, but the smaller roles--Charlotte Rampling as Gaius Helen Mohiam, for example, and Sharon Duncan-Brewster as Liet-Kynes turn in solid performances. Unlike earlier efforts, this film did not betray my imagination.

People liked this???

Maybe it's just not for you?

it's just the plot of Dune with all the stuff from Dune it it, inert and unthrilling and unmemorable, stacks up very poorly next to Tenet, Alita Battle Angel, Jupiter Ascending, Dora and the Lost City of Gold…

Maybe it's just not for you?

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, January 13, 2023 1:13 PM (three minutes ago)

this is ilxor isn't it

stopped taking you seriously after Tenet tbh

I didn't realize anyone had started taking me seriously?

lol I disliked Dune but Tenet as a counter was def a surprise. I have not seen Dora

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well of course that doesn't matter! But Nolan is a complete hack cunt and all his movies are absolute nauseating shite and I cannot brook any other opinion.

Dora is a fun tween/young teen oriented action-adventure with positive messages about friendship, fitting in, and anticolonialism!

Dune is an unpleasant older teen/adult oriented action-adventure with confusing and kinda racist messages about ecology, fitting in, and anticolonialism

hibidtae

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMQ5iQ-NbFA

not a captain save-a-Nolan myself, the Batman movies are bad and Inception was the definition of "mid" but Tenet had me hooting/hollering, figuratively.

this is ilxor isn't it

Sir, this is a Wendy's

I used to think Villeneuve was as bad as Nolan in many ways, but recently re-watched Sicario and Enemy and the Blade Runner sequel, he's very good at what he does. Which is definitely not a compliment I'd offer to Nolan.

A rewatch with subtitles will help, but my general reaction throughout Tenet was "I don't know why you have a gun to her head but I trust you have your reasons"

Dune is an unpleasant older teen/adult oriented action-adventure with confusing and kinda racist messages about ecology, fitting in, and anticolonialism

― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, January 13, 2023 2:27 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

all true and yet whenever i see an adaptation of it i'm like "this is rad. worm big"

ya whatever messages may be encoded in the story are swathed in the dreamiest of vibes by villenueve, to the point of cozy suffocation, and i am hungry for those vibes

but if a silby isn't feeling it that's cool too

can't deny worm big

if they get to God Emperor and don't cut the All-Lesbian Army I will give this enterprise one quantum of credit

god this stupid series gets so stupid Frank Herbert was high as a kite

Seeing how Timothee Chalamet was cast to play Paul Atreides one must expect the dreamiest of vibes to waft from the screen like zephyrs on a summer's day. It's built-in.

I saw the Lynch version at the cinema when I was 12. A formative moment that I will never get to talk about on desert island discs!

That's why we are here. I also saw it in the theater when I was 9 and it was equally formative. I love that film and love all things David Lynch, and yet I think this new one might be a better film (though less endearingly bizarre). Beyond the dreamy vibes I also quite enjoyed all the very large spaceships, vehicles, and weapons constantly clunking on everything.

Dune was the one Lynch film I wish he hadn't made

It gave me a very mistaken impression of Lynch for many years

would love 2 see a Very Serious & Artful treatment of the ninja sex nuns from the later books

I'm sorry, but "this is stupid because its exactly like the thing it is based off of" is the dumbest complaint I ever heard.

...I tell a lie, Ive hear way dumber. But still. Eh?

It’s just not anything else, some handsome men are there in some big empty digital rooms

the Villeneuve vibe/$ with the Lynch production design might have ruled yah

one of the reasons Hollywood is shit in 2023 is this obsessive desire to keep remaking things until they're as smooth a facsimile to their source material as possible

also listening to fans is the worst possible artistic idea

This movie is gorgeous , when the ship rises from the water it floors me every time

Thing is, it’s not a very visual book, but Villeneuve makes it a visual experience (and a different one to the other intense visual interpretations it’s evoked). So I don’t agree it’s a slavishly literal adaptation.

Yeah, the books are very short on visual detail. I remember reading a reference to the color of someone's clothing in one of the books (can't remember which) and being surprised, not only by the colors described (something weird), but by the fact that they were described at all.

Villenueve maybe went a little off the reservation with the Sardaukar ceremony.

In the best possible way, of course.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMQ5iQ-NbFA

are you guys getting paid to post that or something

Nobody on ILX received compensation, part of Geneva Conventions

i am getting paid, they send me ned's pay also but i keep it

My last check from Soros bounced

I am also being paid

We're all paid

bringing u all in front of tribunal, shouldn't have told on urselves

not me i know the judge

I found it a bit sterile looking but still enjoyed it quite a bit. Really should have just actually went to Arrakis and used real sandworms. Same with The Northman and hell.