A thread about the Denis Villeneuve-helmed reboot of DUNE

I had this weird book of alien concept art as a kid called Barlowe's Guide to Extra-Terrestrials,

I spent a full hour the other day trying to remember the name of this book so I could track it down and get a copy for my young nephews, 1000 thank yous for posting this

the guild navigator staff lack a gobshite supervisor who is barking orders at them to clean up properly and get their high viz on etc

The Office: Dune

XP - Ah, you're welcome. I was on eBay thinking about grabbing a copy for myself, I'll have read a bunch of the books mentioned in it probably by now.

this is really just sketched notes in advance of a genuine deep essay on the politics of the books (and the author) but i like that it takes note of dune messiah as a story with a purpose rather than a mis-step (i like it bcz this is also what i think, and as always im correct)

my issue with Dune Messiah is less about the message and more about the smallness of the scope. it feels like it shrinks the Dune universe.

it's a lurid court melodrama plus we meet edric the navigator and duncan the ghola

The Odd Couple. Shoulda been a sitcom.

Anyway besides Momoa I hope they signed Stellan Skarsgard to a long term contract...

it's cheers except sam gets eaten by sandwyrms

but at what cost? WHAT? COST?!?!

my biggest take away from last night's screening is that Jason Momoa does indeed steal the show, but I have my doubts that we'll see him again in ghola form

My big doubt lies in him and Alia having a romance shown on screen given she's, what, still a late teenager at that point?

I think if they get that far they will definitely go for it, probably by making her a bit older and giving him a more youthful style. Not sure that the book ever specifies that his clone is the same age he was when he died. Couldn't the clone be younger?

Momoa has past form in onscreen romances with characters who have been dramatically aged up from the source material...

was gonna say, Daenerys was supposed to be 13!

and I'd say that depiction goes waaaaaay beyond "onscreen romance"

case could be made that the ghola is p much the exact same age as alia, give or take a few months: at least if if you begin the count with the start of being grown in a vat (which had to be very shortly after duncan died)

folks i'm excited this did well enough to get the 2nd half made but i don't think there's a chance in hell they're going past the first book

how can they not be going here
https://www.bashfineart.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/11262_detail.jpg

that's what happens you drink too much watter of life!

in that pic they are asking him kindly to go back to the desert for a bit because he's a bit much these days

"Om shanti, my supplicants." "Er yes anyway."

I think the money people would be concerned that a giant wirrum with a human head is perhaps a bit too Rick & Morty

i wanna see it

My spoiler-free review of DUNE:

That was the single most humorless movie I have ever seen. There is one joke, delivered by Jason Momoa, in the first ten minutes. Cherish it. There will not be another.

— Kingfisher & Wombat (@UrsulaV) October 28, 2021

Apparently the sci fi channel miniseries managed to do three books so that’s what DV has to beat

(I am going to watch it instead of reading them)

I don't what happened in this movie - I was too busy cherishing the one joke in it until another came along to break me out of this state of cherishment.

Re cataloguing jokes for whatever reason, there was also that “smile/I am smiling” bit which was fine but could have been ported straight over from any of the hundred modern blockbusters chronically afflicted with these kinds of boilerplate quips, idk I was fine with there not being more of that

what about the spitting scene? that was definitely played for laffs

For sure

Also the 1984 one has way more funny parts but if you went through counting “jokes” you might get similar results

even David Lynch's darkest material is full of humor though

i will let you know when i find the first joke in the book

folks i'm excited this did well enough to get the 2nd half made but i don't think there's a chance in hell they're going past the first book

― goole, Thursday, October 28, 2021 12:04 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

theyll prob do a trilogy no just cause thats what showbiz likes to do

if there is part in the Lynch Dune that cracks me up it's when the Baron is lusting after an oiled up Sting in some skimpy briefs and then he goes into a rage about having a boner for his nephew and starts yelling for medical assistance - or something like that!

yeah no way they're going to do 15, hollywood has no sense of true art

I'm not sure there is any part in the David Lynch version that doesn't crack me up. This is a movie that features Big Ed and Agent Cooper bro-ing it up on the back of a giant worm.

Hey what’s up I’m Johnny Knoxville and this is me putting my dick in the box from Dune

— meg “Mr. Snrub” bitchell (@MeganBitchell) October 28, 2021

I’m only up to the hunter seeker part but so far this fscking rules

Re: humorless

This has always always always struck me as a ridiculous reason to criticize a film. Who fucking cares? Not everything needs jokes! It’s crazy, people can enjoy art/entertainment that doesn’t sprinkle in some yucks.

I have also enjoyed entertainment that is sexless or horrorless, believe it or not.

strong agree

Don't like to repurpose posts here, but nevertheless...

I suppose the question that should be asked is if Denis Villeneuve can make a movie that doesn’t rely on parenting and/or children as a crutch to give its characters emotional heft. FFS… pic.twitter.com/KnlckLiXcv

— Chris Barrus (@quartzcity) October 27, 2021

continuing… pic.twitter.com/0Yt5ogO1GK

— Chris Barrus (@quartzcity) October 27, 2021

Re: humorless

This has always always always struck me as a ridiculous reason to criticize a film. Who fucking cares? Not everything needs jokes! It’s crazy, people can enjoy art/entertainment that doesn’t sprinkle in some yucks.

― circa1916, Thursday, October 28, 2021 7:46 PM (fifteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

feel like when people say this theyre not so much pointing at lack of jokes its more a ponderousness or absurd super seriousness, but maybe having a spaceship movie be super serious is actually......funny idk, i personally think a movie can be super serious and good

I get that, I just don’t think I’ve ever read that word in criticism and agreed with it as a mark against a film. Like even for a movie I don’t like I generally don’t think the reason it sucks is because “too srs”.

I mean Dune is a story that features dudes riding giant sand worms and it plays it totally straight and it kinda works just fine?

As bad as that Space Captain Hugh Laurie show turned out, I'm still in favor of Iannucci doing Dune.

Realized last night that Chalamet looks like an anime character in this, and his personality is very Shinji from NGE.

Dune's overwhelming seriousness is in itself a bit funny.

What I definitely found funny is my partner spent the whole film thinking Paul belonged to something called "The House of
Trade-ies", so named because they were good at trading.

I love that. Might start using it.

lol

The Lynch Dune is so serious it's funny like when the Doctor starts weeping when he gives up Leto and he's in like a space corner crying at the spice club