A thread about the Denis Villeneuve-helmed reboot of DUNE

honestly the only thing i like about Momoa being in it at all is that he ~spoilers~
(though admittedly he seems well-cast as Duncan)

not much of a fan myself

Ok, saw this last night **spoilers**
This is a very sombre movie, sombre colour palette/ costuming, positively, its faithful to the books, the bits I remember, much more than Lynch (who was all over the place, in that regard). I thought I would feel the same about this as I did about blade runner 2049 and that proved to be true. It's not completely style over substance but I did struggle with the dialogue and attitude to storytelling, there's a real lack of weight in so many scenes that it flits by leaving you struggling to connect with the characters. I thought immediately afterwards, was there a single line of dialogue that felt delicious, that cuts through a scene and leaves you smirking with joy or gasping? No, not for me...I know this ensemble is way more capable than this and you do wonder if many scenes were finished and they looked at each other and thought, 'well, I hope that will come good in post". It left me feeling I need to stop watching movies and read more books or go to the theatre.

"Step one: be Jason Momoa."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8y30Uyqc1E

US tickets on sale.

And one last trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0HgHet0sxg

Separately, though, of all the mockbusters that ever mockbusted thanks to Asylum...wow. Just wow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwVZ-2WuJo4

“There’s more than one worm!?”

camp is the mindkiller

should I watch this or

um YES

Watch all the versions at once.

now?

Whenever you’re of a mind.

leaked

Sean Young is in Planet Dune? Wtf?

Is she in the David Lynch version? Is it some sort of tribute?

Very much loved this, but was expecting to given I loved Villeneuve's last two sci-fi movies. Kinda feel Swanswans' point that the dialogue could be sharper, but the visuals, the atmosphere, the characters... it's what I wanted a Dune movie to be

I did too, watched it last night, I couldn't help but run dialogue from the Lynch version in my head though, to see what the contrasts were like. Agree about the dialogue, v sad not to have seen a Guild Navigator also.

Saw it tonight and I vote...pretty good! No, not perfect -- and I won't compare it to Lynch as that's its own thing with his own obsessions -- but I liked it a lot better than his Blade Runner film and it generally hits a really solid run of key beats from the book. I would like to see part two happen for sure.

v sad not to have seen a Guild Navigator also

We do get that one...thing, though. The 'pet' on Giedi Prime.

hey, this was good

Know nothing about the lore, never read the books or seen other adaptations: really enjoyed this. Wanted it to keep going.

i didn't know it was only part one and was increasingly like 'wait how are they gonna fit all this other stuff in' until i realized

I think it was smart of them to have the 'Dune Part One' on the title card, honestly.

I only just figured out that they have not filmed part 2 yet - thought it was filmed but the expensive post-production was not done. It's gonna be an eternity to get that second part, if indeed it happens at all

Yeah part of me is all "They really should have just done this like LOTR and did the whole damn thing," but on the flip the book covers three years' time so...it could work? Though there's still a key moment in the book that hasn't been reached before the big time jump to the final section said three years later.

I assume Tiny Tim will need to eat some protein between shoots.

My guess would figure the cut off would be after Jessica takes the water of life and then Paul rides the sandworm for the first time being the end.

You’ll see!

I don't expect to read the novel, so when I watch this weekend I hope to enjoy it at the level of Tolkienland, whose books I also haven't read.

Yeah part of me has been so steeped in the whole thing all this time more than once I was asking myself "How would I be taking this in if I didn't know anything about it?" It was kinda hard to do! But it seemed like it would land?

does Chalamet appear in a loin cloth or

A few minutes in you'll behold a lot of his pale wonder, if you will.

One thing it absolutely has over the Lynch is that it avoids the static shot/voiceover moments, which were meant to be translations of the constant interior comments in the story. My sense is that they didn't lose anything by avoiding that this time out.

Was it weird that the Emperor wasn't in this at all? or did I nod off at some stage...

is there ANY sci-fi tale in which Palpatine doesn't figure?

The way in which the plot kinda ossifies the relationship between Paul and his Mother after Leto's death and the struggle to escape, was always, for me, the least appealing and darkest part of the story and it translates pretty much the same to this new version, it's so grim that part.

I like that the Emperor was offscreen and this hidden stringpuller — he doesn’t surface in the book until the end anyway.

no pugs no credibility

i failed to recognize charlotte rampling : /

It took me a good while to realise I was watching Stellan Skarsgård, I was sure The Baron was being played by Peter Stormare

I will say this -- they were wise to drop this from the final cut. VERY wise.

Okay so now _Dune_ is out and I can talk about things from the art book that detail scenes that didn't make the final edit, including this one with the WORLD'S WORST JOKE. Would have made the Baron a 1970s James Bond villain or something. pic.twitter.com/pJ6zDoG3Y4

— Ned Raggett (@NedRaggett) October 22, 2021

loool

Alternately if the whole film had been like that, fuck, bring it on!

It took me a good while to realise I was watching Stellan Skarsgård, I was sure The Baron was being played by Peter Stormare

Dune was pretty good. No big surprises but it met my expectations. Cool Baron, cool sandworms.

I did like the, for lack of a better word, quotidian sandworm moments, like you'll be out there somewhere and whoops, another sandworm goes by.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoAA0sYkLI0

"And here is where I poked him in the eye."

This was so bland and boring. I wasn't even planning to watch it, and I'm sorry I did.

(MALIGNANT remains the best movie of 2021.)

malignant was some scooby doo ass bullshit