A thread about the Denis Villeneuve-helmed reboot of DUNE

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.

👏👏👏 you forgot these Alfred 👏👏👏

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.

like the Stones working with the Dust Brothers and walking out with a song sampling k d lang

i was expecting to dislike zimmer's score, and i def eco the feeling that the vocalizations are very played out. there were def good moments though, especially the hair-raising sounds during the gom jabbar scene and the scene on the sarduakar planet

More accurate, Hans Zimmer noises.

lol yes there was plenty of that one particular hans zimmer noise, which really only makes sense in a theater, and even then is not quite what it was a decade ago

I did think less soundtrack than sound design (and as such enjoyed it). It really almost wanted to be the anti-Toto soundtrack, barely anything resembling a hook!

it's pretty amazing that Toto brought way more chunky guitar riffing than you get from virtually any other sci-fi epic, who'da thunk?

Watched the new one this past weekend. It's so dull! And that scene near the end where Paul says DESERT POWER is like a Chevron commercial. Lynch Dune is 1000x better.

what was the deal with the bagpipes then?

Has Villeneuve explained why Paul no longer has a younger sister?

Because said younger sister hasn't been born yet in the movie's timeline.

He mentions he knows his mother is pregnant and there's that one vision sequence where she's holding a baby with blue eyes, which will almost certainly be Alia.

what was the deal with the bagpipes then?

Ah the bagpipes. Exact quote from the art book, I kid you not: "A week before filming the Atriedes landing on Arrakis, Denis woke up with an idea. He had been dreaming of bagpipes."

as one does

is that a Sting lyric

Would have been awesome if instead of bagpipes it was, like, a New Orleans brass band.

If I were Villeneuve I would have had some alien playing space bagpipes, not a Scottish guy from 10 millennia ago

i for one noticed how many hooks were in the zimmer score. it was v striking to me

pic.twitter.com/BhMAJAQ1LT

— Timothée Chalamet (@RealChalamet) October 26, 2021

Would be funny if it was already done, much like how they didn't announce it was Part 1 of 2 until well into the advance PR campaign.

That would kinda great.

Anyway, amazing:

In honor of the new Dune film, here’s a photo I took in 2018 sitting across from Timothée Chalamet reading dune on the F Train pic.twitter.com/yfxFSUp1lo

— Matt Starr (@HelloMattStarr) October 26, 2021

they actually have 9 dunes in the can

lol wtf are those huge yankees sneakers

Chalamet in that picture about as far into the book as many make it.

Chalamet's hair as far out of the cap as I would allow.

when you're alone
and life is getting you lonely
ye can always go
ach
dune two

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjhNhM1_CmA

Amazing picture, lol

not a Scottish guy from 10 millennia ago

In all fairness, the only thing we can be truly sure of is death, taxes, and some Scottish guy playing the bagpipes

Planned release date is October 2023. Seems quick but hey.

i wanna see more of the dune

Extended Dune.

Dune Cut: The Dune, The Whole Dune, and Nothing But the Dune (Part One).

feel like they should be able to make a dune in one year dont see the problem

Dune in tomorrow and find out!

Tagline: "It Continues."

All the sand was a total David Lean ripoff

I heard they actually used some of the same sand used in "Lawrence," in homage.

https://64.media.tumblr.com/12dd5d08313d57fb2b82468a551623ec/3001ef43ce57206d-01/s540x810/e07cde4537fe398c3209767643ea7b9d9b9f5d91.gifv

Part 3: "Dune Done"

Yeah if they ever actually get around to a third movie I can't wait for some of the attempted explanations beforehand.

"Wasn't Jason Momoa killed?"

"...yes...but he'll have a love interest!"

Anyone else notice the distinct lack of buggies in this movie? Was that an oversight, or did Villeneuve intentionally cut them out?

I thought it could have benefited from an english patient or two

*taps mic*

I said

DEUXN

— A Pope, Not THE Pope (@Schwindter) October 26, 2021

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