A thread about the Denis Villeneuve-helmed reboot of DUNE

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

Something like Dune (new version) has more in common with a Cecil B DeMille blockbuster, or an Irwin Allen disaster movie, than one-off, idiosyncratic auteur genre exercises like Rosemary's Baby or Texas Chainsaw Massacre. This new Dune is a big, Oscar-aspiring studio product that doesn't WANT laughs, in the same way that the solemn religiosity of Ben-Hur would be undermined by Chuck quipping his way round the chariot track.

peplums! in! spaaaaaaace!

This still needs to happen

Henry James in Space

Saw this last night, came away with the same tepid feeling I had for the previous Villeneuve sci-fi films. It’s fine, but I didn't find much there to be absolutely in love with.

than one-off, idiosyncratic auteur genre exercises like... Texas Chainsaw Massacre

hooper produced a ton of crazy movies that aren't exactly like tcm but eaten alive surely suggests it wasn't a one-off

I can't believe they did it. pic.twitter.com/ORx6iiSuE9

— 🎃 Doomavon "Spooky" Indoscreamo Crawley 🎃 (@hellodonavon) October 27, 2021

eat it or snort it, kids.

I've seen folk suggesting that by Dune Messiah, Paul has been transformed into a blind fascist dictator and embraces death camps and systematic genocide. That will be a good opportunity to inject some running gags 'n' funnies into the franchise!

not so much embraces, more like "oh well, I caused billions of people to be killed, guess I'll go brood on this for a bit"

Gonna see how they handle Paul turning Irulan into his council meeting stenographer.

that 2006 extended cut of Dune 1984 is not good, can see why Lynch disowned it. NTR sounding presenter with intrusive voiceover doing unwanted Dune-splaining, rubbish illustrations while the prologue is read out by the same voice. Lol it even opens up with a closeup of a paperback copy of the book. I reckon there could be something better than the heavily cut theatrical release put together from the 4 hours Lynch apparently shot.

holy shit this fucking movie

That can be read numerous ways (which seems appropriate for Dune)

"smile Gurney"

"I am smiling"

^^^

ffs this is another joke!

I had insomnia last night and went a bit into the book and remembered that Gurney is a warrior/troubadour, lol yeah I forgot about Patrick Stewart's oversized mandolin! And in the book he has a scar on his face from some adventure in a Harkonnen dungeon.

I would struggle to see how it could have been any better, tbh

Gonna read thread now and get furious at any slight criticism

All the humour was condensed in advance into the diana trailer which i fucking pissed myself through and the more so when my brother leaned over and suggested owen wilson a better casting decision than the chosen starlet

I had insomnia last night and went a bit into the book and remembered that Gurney is a warrior/troubadour, lol yeah I forgot about Patrick Stewart's oversized mandolin!

lol It's a not-so-well disguised Chapman Stick!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-zEMitTkaU

they really shouldve had josh brolin play

in the book it's more about baudy shagging songs with Gurney. Paul advises him not to let his mum hear him singing this stuff or parts of him will be mounted on the walls.

Jaysus lads how some of ye upthread follow movies at all bewilders me ye come out of them so clueless of what happened in front of ye

Brad as always otm obv

in the book it's more about baudy shagging songs with Gurney.

I felt it was missing a scene in a rowdy Arrakis pub.

Dune: Messiah adaptation with Kyle Maclachlan as Paul/Muad'Dib