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
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 31 March 2024 02:23 (one month ago) link
The plot summary for Tideland makes it sound horrifying.
― default damager (lukas), Sunday, 31 March 2024 03:51 (one month ago) link
There's horrible things but the naive viewpoints of the girl and young man take the edge off
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 31 March 2024 04:56 (one month ago) link
nope
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Sunday, 31 March 2024 09:55 (one month ago) link
gilliams lens makes it worse than the plot tbh
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Sunday, 31 March 2024 09:56 (one month ago) link
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.
― scanner darkly, Sunday, 31 March 2024 17:14 (one month ago) link
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)
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 31 March 2024 20:54 (one month ago) link
Tideland is much older than I thought. Ferland has mostly been in horror films and television
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 31 March 2024 21:00 (one month ago) link
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.
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Monday, 1 April 2024 13:16 (one month ago) link
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).
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 1 April 2024 13:21 (one month ago) link
i dont mean to gripe but if ever movies needed watching at the cinema its these
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 1 April 2024 15:32 (one month ago) link
Thanks be to Odeon Luxe reclining seats in respect to that.
― nashwan, Monday, 1 April 2024 15:42 (one month ago) link
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.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 1 April 2024 15:53 (one month ago) link
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 (four weeks 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 (four weeks ago) link
Melange definitely better than her sister Beyonce
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 23:42 (four weeks 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 (two weeks ago) link
^^^ music inspired by the book
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 11 April 2024 09:30 (two weeks 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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks ago) link
👍
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 11 April 2024 12:52 (two weeks 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 (two weeks ago) link
eraserhead is the original dune the movie
― mark s, Thursday, 11 April 2024 13:28 (two weeks 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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks ago) link