A thread about the Denis Villeneuve-helmed reboot of DUNE

sand-wise, this makes Lawrence of Arabia look like Waterworld

And here we go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Way9Dexny3w

may thy posts chip and shatter

(not you ned)

I think I might see this film

excited for the addition of princess irulan, can't wait for her to pop in every few minutes with an excerpt from one of her 300 books.

A Child's History of Muad'Dib
Analysis: The Arakeen Crisis
Arrakis Awakening
Collected Legends of Arrakis
Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib
Conversations with Muad'Dib
Count Fenring: A Profile
Dictionary of Muad'Dib
The Humanity of Muad'Dib
In My Father's House
Lecture to the Arrakeen War College
The Lens of Time
Lessons of the Great Revolt
Manual of Muad'Dib
Muad'Dib: Conversations
Muad'Dib, Family Commentaries
Muad'Dib, The Man
Muad'Dib: The Ninety-Nine Wonders of the Universe
Muad'Dib: The Religious Issues
Paul of Dune
Private Reflections on Muad'Dib
Songs of Muad'Dib
The Wisdom of Muad'Dib
Words of Muad'Dib

time for a poll!

this year.... ride the worm

we're going on a worm hunt!
we're going to catch a big one.
what a beautiful day.
WE'RE NOT SCARED.
uh oh SAND!
deep grainy sand…
we can't go over it.
we can't go under it.
oh no!
WE'VE GOT TO GO THROUGH IT!

— from a child's history of muad'dib, by the princess irulan

In 2023...the worm will turn

Looks like the worm ride is the main part of the movie, sandwiched with some boring palace intrigue and pensive desert musings

And some explosions, no doubt

needs more gholas, tleilaxu face dancing, stone burners, things of that nature

Some damn Navigators

gotta wait for Dune 3 for that stuff

I caught Covid at the last movie, that's what I remember most

im waiting for dune 5

not sure why he says "it's a birthday cake" at the start of the trailer.

I think he's implying "eat my dust" 'cuz he's gonna ride that sandworm so hard later in the trailer.

I know the subject material dictates but, it's so very brown.

this was a weird quote for someone who wants to Be the Kwizah Haderach

"I don’t like sand. It’s coarse, and rough, and irritating, and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft, and smooth."

Dune 2? Yeah look what I’m Dune 2 ur mom

— paige (@BonerWizard) May 4, 2023

They said, Kwisatz, Haderach
Living in the sand dunes, it's'a where it's at
It's like trying to find gold in a pre-spice mass
It's like trying to drink whiskey
Ohhhhh from a bottle of recycled sweat

Okay so

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YUzQa_1RCE

A lot going on there.

good night gom jabbar

https://i.imgur.com/QTw5SaP.png

also (since somehow no one posted it yet):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r9uSs3FnB0

Dune II delayed to March 2024, actors' strike related

Sucks but not surprising at this point. Also grimly hilarious that both films got delayed by completely separate events. I think Villaneuve said delays with the first helped post production so maybe similar here.

Well, whenever we get it -- HOT BALISET ACTION

https://gizmodo.com/dune-2-josh-brolin-gurney-halleck-will-play-baliset-1850785605

Bring it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2Qp5pL3ovA

fffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu ....

yeah pretty much

Still no Alia. Yet.

Needs more parasol

GHOST RIDE THE WORM WOOOOOO

I've been waiting for the second part to come out so I can see both of them together; still haven't seen the first. I have a hard time with Chalamet in general. His vibe throws me off. I saw a Willy Wonka prequel ad which made me want to hurl things at the screen.

Rewatching the Lynch Dune and I'm always surprised by how bonkers it is. For every big weird scene that is burned in my memory, there are a dozen small things that take me by surprise. It's not good but it's fascinating. I wish Lynch could have made a sci-fi movie that wasn't anchored to such a laborious plot.

Chalamet is fine, good even

Generally I weary of AAA film adaptations that are all-focus on “doing justice to the novel” rather than “creating a new and exciting work of cinema”, but I’m still gonna go to this and prob marathon the Peter Jackson LOTR films (extended) on Christmas Day too

I have to say this brought it, in terms of cinema art - not just scenes and dialogue and spaceships but lots of interesting choices and auteur moments. Maybe I’m a bit basic in tastes but it thrilled me in ways The Hobbit sure didn’t.

Trust me, fully agreed with you there on the Hobbit films.

I fell asleep in the first Hobbit film and every time I woke up, it seemed to be only two minutes later

The first was unfortunately the best of the three.

The Hobbit seemed fine to me, wysiwyg insofar as “Benedict Cumberbatch as Smaug” is concerned, but the bizarre frame rate situation was what ended up consigning both films to the coffin, I skip cutscenes on my RPGs and I’ll skip those films also

Anyway new Dune looks good. Hope something in it makes me smile

I have only ever seen the movies so I recently watched a YT timeline breakdown of all the subsequent books and, ugh. Kinda hoping they don't get far past the first book really.

God Emperor is pretty brilliant, almost as vivid and imaginative as the first. They’re two trilogies consisting of a landmark, world building first work and a pair of plot-heavy, dull followups.

Agreed on that. It's the culmination of the overarching theme I'm not sure Herbert was even conscious of when he started the first book. It's an engrossing read.

Not to turn this into a hobbit thread but the decision to use CGI for all the orcs and goblins was one key catastrophic element. Obviously other catastrophic elements included stretching a brief novel to epic length, invented and terrible side plots, the portentous tone in the story which as a book is pretty delightful despite the fates of some characters, pacing that made the trilogy seem twice as long as the extended cut trilogy of LOTR, and Alfred Lickspittle.

I thought the first dune was pretty magnificent, and just deeply impressive in its commitment to having what I thought was an unnerving tone and really immersing you in something vv strange. It's not an exhilarating fun time movie, it occasionally veers kind of close to Roger Ebert's (positive) description of aliens making him feel bad and wrung out.

I think I said this upthread, but this is the first actualization of the novel that did not betray my imagination.

What are you talking about, witt incredible dialogue like:

"It's not our fight."
"It is our fight."

Xxpost

Look if you want to hear (and see!) the three of us on the podcast vent about the Hobbit movies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6DK27zoiJE

ANYWAY, Dune.