I was thinking more like
https://www.sagindie.org/media/MeAndYou-kids.jpg
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 18:06 (four years ago) link
[opening of Dune trailer][Arnold Schwarzenegger as Baron Harkonnen]: SPICE to meet you!— š¢ (@smashedmcdouble) September 9, 2020
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 18:20 (four years ago) link
Also I'm seriously envious Geoff Barrow didn't recognize the music:
Thatās literally the worst trailer music Iāve ever heard... What song is it? It sounds like a gospel version of The back street boys https://t.co/MXhY0QR9Ot— Geoff Barrow (@jetfury) September 9, 2020
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 18:25 (four years ago) link
music for trailer, DUNE 2: SARAUKAR DRIFT:
i've got a worm you can ride it if you learn / it's a nice wormi'd give it to you if i could / kwisatz haderach
― mark s, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 18:32 (four years ago) link
SARDAUKAR ffs
― mark s, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 18:33 (four years ago) link
xxp lol he's not wrong
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 18:45 (four years ago) link
this looks pretty good to me, someone who has read the first dune book but isn't particularly invested in it and also really liked blade runner 2049
― na (NA), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 20:05 (four years ago) link
don't really like Villeneuve and blade runner 2049 was bad Imo but will watch the hell out of this
the shai-hulud looks good
― rascal clobber (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 20:10 (four years ago) link
i read dune #1 for the first time earlier this year and really enjoyed it while simultaneously thinking its just one of those books that if/when attempting to render it visually will just fundamentally always look & seem silly. That being said this looks pretty watchable and non-silly so I'm cautiously optimistic. Cant blame them for going super grim and monochromatic and somber bc theyve gotta fight against all that inherent silliness.
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 20:19 (four years ago) link
actually they don't have to and probably shouldn't but
― mark s, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 20:24 (four years ago) link
Silliness?! In a giant worm flick?!
― Every body is interested in pigeons (jmm), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 20:30 (four years ago) link
http://images2.minutemediacdn.com/image/upload/c_crop%2Ch_1133%2Cw_1685%2Cx_293%2Cy_0/v1592785618/shape/mentalfloss/61181-universal_pictures_home_entertainment.jpg
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 20:43 (four years ago) link
i have never read Dune, i think itās finally time to attempt now that iām trapped indoorstrailer looks coolalso OSCAR ISAAC
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 20:51 (four years ago) link
i'm gonna go out on a limb and suggest that Dune, cracked in your 40's, is likely not gonna be a lot of fun
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 20:52 (four years ago) link
I read it early this year, at 35, and enjoyed it
― rascal clobber (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 20:53 (four years ago) link
I read it less than 10 years ago (I am 48) and enjoyed it a lot more than when I tried and gave up in high school.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 20:55 (four years ago) link
yeah i read it for the first time around 40 and i liked it. i've never been a big sci-fi reader either.
― na (NA), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 20:55 (four years ago) link
I'm mad that they skipped past "All that you eat" on the shot of the worm eating the spice harvester.
― Every body is interested in pigeons (jmm), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 21:10 (four years ago) link
Ween would have been more appropriate than Floydā unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Wednesday, September 9, 2020 12:50 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
ā unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Wednesday, September 9, 2020 12:50 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Or TMBG.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTxXVhdmdZc
― peace, man, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 21:23 (four years ago) link
my spouse just finished dune for the first time in her mid-30s and liked it a lot
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 21:28 (four years ago) link
hi, new to ILX, but after watching trailer all the "unneccessary" talk wayyyy upthread is OTM imho tbqh.
also: did they show the guild navigator(s) in the trailer? must've missed them.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 21:32 (four years ago) link
holy shit, I had it playing in the background a while ago and in the back of my mind I thought, is that a slowed down spooky Pink Floyd cover, can't be, seems too on the nose even for one of these epic event films. And then just now I got to watch it properly all the through and, yep, slowed down spooky Pink Floyd.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 21:45 (four years ago) link
xxps Maybe I'm Wrong About Dune!I should probably try rereading it; my only memories are junior high school ones.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 22:05 (four years ago) link
i (29) read dune for the first time this summer and liked it a lot!
― ptah el dude (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 22:22 (four years ago) link
guild navigators aren't even in the book - not that I wouldn't love to see them.
― justice 4 CCR (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 22:22 (four years ago) link
im not much of a reader of sci fi, had always been dune-curious but had been scared off by ppl saying its super dense, super boring, etc, but i dunno i got caught up in it and found it pretty fun
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 22:47 (four years ago) link
it is super dense, but that's part of the charm. i love how herbert refuses to hold your hand even as he throws all these weird terms and characters at you for the first couple hundred pages. and i don't think it's boring, it's just that the plot is a bit oblique and is secondary to the world-building.
how any of this will translate onto the silver screen is anyone's guess
― ptah el dude (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 22:53 (four years ago) link
guild navigators are in the second book
― the late great, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 23:32 (four years ago) link
sorry
― the late great, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 23:34 (four years ago) link
i recently managed to score a dune encyclopedia (pb, berkley 1984) ... i've been meaning to reread the first four (five and six are objectively bad) again with the encyclopedia at the ready but never got around to it. this might be the time.
also i'm excited for this because why the hell not
― the late great, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 23:37 (four years ago) link
wow rare find! I've been looking for that for a while but copies on ebay are too costly.
― justice 4 CCR (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 10 September 2020 00:07 (four years ago) link
holy shit! is it because of the movie? mine was like $40 at a brick and mortar
― the late great, Thursday, 10 September 2020 00:13 (four years ago) link
no it has been costly for a while - it's the only Dune adjacent book out of print (and will remain so) since Brian H de-canonized it.
― justice 4 CCR (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 10 September 2020 00:15 (four years ago) link
dang didnāt realize it was such a score ... last I checked on internet most copies were in the $50 range
i like the cool british edition with the cotton candy pink and blue cover but the one i got matches my paperbacks which is cool too
― the late great, Thursday, 10 September 2020 00:18 (four years ago) link
actually i only paid $35, the receipt is still in it!
and look at the bookmark that fell out when i flipped through it
https://i.postimg.cc/fTk4xm88/72-F91981-9-B2-A-4-E7-E-B6-A4-DA75507-EF2-E7.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/4xhr0Zkt/1-F3-ED44-C-E539-43-BC-A6-D0-A526777-BB628.jpg
i mean ... that explains it right? my copy is cursed :(
― the late great, Thursday, 10 September 2020 00:35 (four years ago) link
lmao
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 10 September 2020 00:37 (four years ago) link
I should have held on to my copy of that -- fun slumgullion of random stuff. I especially liked the entry on Gamont, an actually truly funny bit.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 10 September 2020 00:38 (four years ago) link
Anyway, scene by scene breakdown:
https://io9.gizmodo.com/breaking-down-the-spice-worms-and-pain-boxes-in-dunes-1844676132
There is, admittedly, a truth here:
I tried explaining the plot of DUNE and DUNE MESSIAH to my wife recently while she was driving and she said if I didn't stop she would pull over— Jordan Hoffman (@jhoffman) September 9, 2020
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 10 September 2020 00:56 (four years ago) link
jeeze, Brian Herbert having dominion over Dune canon is like putting Jared Kushner in charge. I tried to read one of his prequels and it was the worst cringe fanfic Iāve ever slogged through.
― assert (MatthewK), Thursday, 10 September 2020 00:57 (four years ago) link
I loved the Dune Encyclopedia as a kid, but don't have it anymore.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 10 September 2020 01:11 (four years ago) link
My sci-fi nerd cousin dragged me to the Lynch movie when were 10 and I did not dig it; I finally read it in my very late 30s and liked it more than I expected. Not enough to read any of the others but enough to read this thread
― joygoat, Thursday, 10 September 2020 02:30 (four years ago) link
xps
If Herbert wrote it today, the 1965 novel would be at least three fat volumes. It's dense with characters and incidents he could have developed at far greater length (I suppose his recognition of what he'd left on the table prompted the sequels). It's fast-paced in a typical 1960s SF style, a bit disjointed like most fixups from magazine stories, but it kept surprising me and making me want to know and see more. Unfortunately the sequels didn't scratch that itch -- I read Dune Messiah and wasn't inclined to go farther.
I wasn't expecting that trailer to look so much like the Lynch film!
― Brad C., Thursday, 10 September 2020 03:16 (four years ago) link
Repeating my reservations from elsewhere:- Zimmer makes terrible movie music, I donāt trust him not to fuck this up even if what weāve heard so far is pretty OK (for Zimmer).- Everything on the screen could be recreated using three of the pages from my Benjamin Moore fan deck, namely the cold browns- Chalametās not a total wimp, but is he up to this? His voice definitely isnāt in the same league as MacLachlanās. I got expectations, man.- the ornithopters and the shields donāt look weird enough. Dune is weird. Arrakis is weird.
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Thursday, 10 September 2020 03:43 (four years ago) link
The last two points are key for me. Still I appreciate the ornithopters looking strange enough.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 10 September 2020 03:57 (four years ago) link
Strangely, nothing about milking cats
― Harthill Services (Neil Willett), Thursday, 10 September 2020 06:22 (four years ago) link
https://www.scribd.com/doc/38049415/Dune-Encyclopedia
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 10 September 2020 07:28 (four years ago) link
the ornithopters and the shields donāt look weird enough. Dune is weird. Arrakis is weird.
Yes, the designs are achingly tasteful and subdued. Not seeing much of a visual personality in that trailer.
― chap, Thursday, 10 September 2020 08:00 (four years ago) link
I've read Dune two or three times (but not in the last 10 years) but never any of the other books - are any of them worth checking out?
― chonky floof (groovypanda), Thursday, 10 September 2020 08:48 (four years ago) link
perhaps perversely -- hi there! -- my favourite as a teen was dune messiah: possibly somewhat swayed by bruce pennington's cover art (also it had way less windy lectures on ecology and grown-up alia was hott and badd) (spoilers)
https://i.imgur.com/Mzwtjuh.jpg
― mark s, Thursday, 10 September 2020 09:18 (four years ago) link