A thread about the Denis Villeneuve-helmed reboot of DUNE

I don't like much about Villeneuve movies so far apart from the Blade Runner sequel, which took me a 2nd viewing to realise it was more than just franchise product and actually a very good movie. But this one I expected to like, because I saw the Lynch version at the cinema when I was 13 and it was a wonderful and daft headfuck with seriously fucked up psychosexual undercurrents and allsorts of weird shit going on for a PG cert movie. This adaptation is a bit more normal but still it rocks bells and the soundtrack is just as good as the Toto one.

scolds: “there is no humor on this movie!”

thufir huwat, holding his little parasol: *smiles gently*

i watched that video upthread of villaneuve breaking down the gom jabbar scene and it was dope. gonna fall asleep to the movie tonight

Yeah that was one of the better such ones I've seen.

I loved this! In particular I loved that it felt like a unique fight-choreography language was devised. I am going to watch this a second time for sure

Just had to google "gom jabbar," which underscores the different levels of "Dune" familiarity in this thread.

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In particular I loved that it felt like a unique fight-choreography language was devised.

Yeah I read something about that in the art book -- paraphrasing but the idea was that if indeed 'the slow blade penetrates the shield' then fighting has to be incredibly adept to do just that, combining fast and slow moves.

If you dropped a big boulder on someone with a body shield, would they survive but just be stuck there?

Presumably like the bombs used on the ships, as Spencer noted above, gravity could do the rest but it seems like you need a little something extra.

i didn’t know what “gom jabbar” was before seeing the movie either

I have to remind myself sometimes that I've been familiar with the term longer than some of you have likely been alive.

Bo shuda.

i liked the movie but i do think this is right about it and villeneuve, idk if its right about the book since i never read it

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we want the shields to make sense but probably they dont its just some cool shit

his Blade Runner 2049 recaptured much of the shine but little of the soul

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I'm so familiar with the gom jabbar scene that I noticed the set-up and took my pee break accordingly

Which then led me to be like "wait Charlotte Rampling was in this?!" at the closing credits

his Blade Runner 2049 recaptured much of the shine but little of the soul

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do people like that movie i couldnt get into it, seemed like an elaborate perfume commercial

Has anyone tweeted about making their own stillsuit so they could pee in the theater and not miss anything?

and dune was 2.5 hours of exfoliation propaganda xp

lol

Blade Runner 2049 was maybe a more attractive film to look at, but this was considerably more entertaining

writing it's "not a prestige hardcover" is a good way of signalling one is a total wanker without changing your name by deed poll to Barry Wanker.

interesting that villeneuve and nolan are two of the big mainstream auteurs, theyre pretty similar they both make highly competent visually bold seamless films that are also kind of dull and lifeless, you could even throw fincher into that basket although hes obvs much better, films that seem a more like works of technology than art

no no i don't agree with this thesis at all

call it a perfume commercial if you want but the sex scene in 2049 is probably one of the most emotionally vivid scenes i've ever seen in a hard sci-fi-ass movie, which it undoubtedly is

i dont think i made it that far but i might give it another shot

Nolan inspires intense loyalty among straight men under 40, i.e. not me.

its true its weird its almost like hes... incepted them

I really liked Villeneuve's Blade Runner and liked Arrival, too, iirc. The difference between him and Nolan is that Villeneuve's movies are filled with lots of ideas, and Nolan's movies are usually built around *one* idea, and often a dumb one at that (as much as I've liked more than a few of his movies).

i dont want to offend anyone here because i know the movie touched a lot of people i will just speak to my personal experience which is that arrival was one of the most singularly stupid things ive ever encountered

is this something: CHOAM NOMSKY

nom nom nom

like at least inception wasnt trying to be deep about the meaning of life, it was men running in suits all the way down, where arrival was meeting an alien who gives you a hallmark card

we do not watch movies the same way.............. and that's ok

I think Inception *was* trying to be deep about deep stuff, just wasn't that successful at it. "All that we see or seem ..." etc.

Tbf, I haven't seen "Arrival" since it came out, but aspects and elements of it definitely stuck with me.

yeah i mean obvs inception was trying to be deep but it was just so dumb and bland, where the glib sentimentality of arrival was more offensive to me personally particularly with the super hackish dead kid storyline i was just like you cant possibly be trying to pull this one over on us

you know what other scifi evoked the dead kid, and totally extraneously in this case, was gravity, which wouldve been a much cooler movie with out all that character building

I appreciated his making Dunkirk. We needed more movies making Churchill a hero and celebrating the English fighting spirit.

lol

matthew mcconaughey whispering through his daughters wall from the fifth dimension... we go to space when really all we wanted... was to come home

i only vaguely remember what sort of bullshit was in the martian, im mad at scifi now, anyway dude was cool in that it was more about cool shit than fake deep shit

went to see this at the actual cinema last night, my wife hated it, more on the fence myself, certainly the cinematography and sound was excellent, yet it didn't quite draw me in enough, it was really very pretty but uninspiringly so. could not stand the action scenes (with a few exceptions all fighting on screen is of no interest to me), and would have liked a lot more of the expected mesmerising hallucinatory dialogue-free long tracking shots.

in the real world where nobody is throwing away their money on sci-fi epics in the tarkovski or even malick mode, then I am happy that this exists, it just isn't for me.

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liked this a lot, although i read the book recently enough that i cant get a sense of how well it explained everything bc the details are all fresh in my mind.

only complaint is tbh i am sick beyond measure hans zimmer and his booming bellowing featureless sonic mush, when will we be free of this guy already. in particular hated that recurring vocalization, which felt extremely hack & lazy to me. wish western filmmakers & composers would find a different sound to denote 'exotic religion' & 'desert landscapes' in 2021 ffs

wish western filmmakers & composers would find a different sound to denote 'exotic religion' & 'desert landscapes' in 2021 ffs

Joel Osteen singing psalms flying over Arizona desert.

I watched some promo piece about how Zimmer went about writing this soundtrack, just thousands of hours of creating instruments and talking to disparate musicians and experimenting and then we get the soundtrack and... it's just more Hans Zimmer noises.