A thread about the Denis Villeneuve-helmed reboot of DUNE

My wife said last night that a lot of the shots of Chalamet in the first half brought to mind Caravaggio.

you mean the great painter or Jarman's Caravaggio?

The former, sorry.

HBO Max allowed people to take in a 'new' franchise at if they were subscribers however much that may have cut into the initial box office

OTM. I'm sure the studio would have preferred the up-front money from a pre-pandemic theater run, but in the long run that may be more valuable overall.

Dune book sales are through the roof and any number of moments have escaped into wider memedom, and while they're going to have to explain a LOT of shit in Part Two for those who remain nonbookreaders ("So Alia is, well, it's complicated," etc.), a wider audience now is much more aware of what the deal is in general. Reminds me of nothing so much as when LOTR first hit (almost twenty years ago now!).

an almost grotesquely brutal movie, both aesthetically and emotionally. (jason momoa is the exception)

I guess I'm the only one who really liked Brolin in this? I wanted to give Gurney Halleck a hug.

Also, in that video breaking down the gom jabbar scene, Villeneuve said that Dune is about the triumph of the human spirit?

??

I mean yes it came up in the context of the Buterlian jihad but his statement was ... broader.

as someone who only read the book for the first time late last year, i highly recommend giving it a whirl to anyone considering checking it out

obv theres the requisite names of things/people/entities that takes some getting used to, but the way he cranks up the plot almost immediately, and being so inspired by ecology & psychology (and psychedelics) … it is kind of wild to see how it all sprang from his brain so clearly (and so cinematically!)

Literally the only thing I don’t like about the book was how much it propelled you into needing the sequel - basically a cliff-hanger … and then how completely he dropped the ball on said sequels.

It’s as if the LOTR went straight from the ending of the two towers to the epilogue.

PAUL: “Here we are, on the verge of launching a holy war that will consume the universe! Let all the children …”

FREMEN JIHADI: “Boogie!!”

*Intermission*

*curtain riaes*

NARRATOR: 12 years later, having successfully executed said holy war, our hero broods. “Should I have done such a thing?” he asked himself

and so on

man I wish there was a 15-minute edit window

yeah i was going to read the sequel
but then i saw how far ahead it jumped &
paul in full megalomania
i was very ._.

The art book for the new movie had a pretty astute point about Herbert in that a lot of the 'action' scenes one would expect *aren't* there in his books -- like they're described afterward or only vaguely noticed/observed at a distance in one form or another. Dune Messiah starting where it does fits that brief perfectly.

yeah thats v otm

Having a massive intergalactic space war that claims billions of lives happen completely off stage, and instead focusing on this little neighborhood drama, is a supremely weird choice.

Maybe I’m missing the Trv B3avty of his artistry or something, but I found it an intolerably boring choice.

yr intolerably boring

:D

Ohhhhhh, heeeard THAT

dune (the book) rules, and one of the things i like about it is the tug of the plot forward... but the worst thing is definitely the way each sequel gets progressively worse

feeling better and better about following my "keep away" instincts with the sequels tbh

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from the outside, as someone who will never read dune, the sequels... fascinate

I really liked the first book and am sorely tempted to read the sequels, but...I will not. I will resist.

xp I have a feeling you would love them

God-Emperor is one of the strangest love stories ever, from what I remember.

“He’s a god emperor worm who’s lived thousands of years! She’s an Ixian ambassador planned to engage his interest! Can they get along in the suburbs?!?”

My somewhat face-blind wife was talking about how the guy from the Good Place was surprisingly good in Dune, which led to finding she thought these guys are the same person. pic.twitter.com/H0TnE9SaoZ

— John Herreid (@HerreidJohn) October 31, 2021

that poor woman. such a terrible affliction ;_;

Some of us are only married because of the availability of face-blind wives tyvm

lmao

Jason Mantzoukas is also kind of hot though

jeez burnt

love mantzoukas in the boba fett tv show

mantzoukas is attractive but confusing him w oscar isaac is straight up crazy talk

Well yes

iirc Mantzoukas dated Connie Britton!

!

I saw this again tonight on a standard screen after going to IMAX last week. Wasn't too bothered by the smaller screen, but it was much darker, and the colors were much more washed out, it was almost like a dim black and white film.

A thought

he concept of Paul Stanley as Paul Atreides has been dreamed up and now I must alert the world.

“AWRITE! FREMEN! THEY TRIED TO SAY YOU COULDN’T STOP SPICE HARVESTING! YOU SHOWED THEM THEY WERE WROOOOOOONG!”

— Ned Raggett (@NedRaggett) November 7, 2021

piter criss, ace frehmen, gene gesserit

i'm here all week

sadly for you

meanwhile:

Dave Bautista says his role in #Dune was a blessing. "I’m not just a guy in Guardians walking around shirtless and saying stupid s***. [The role] just gives me the opportunity to just play these like really, really deep characters. So that’s a blessing,” he said. (Via: @abcnews) pic.twitter.com/9VgypuKvG8

— Binge Watch This (@BingeWatchThis_) November 6, 2021

lol next he's in an adaptation of The Neanderthal Parallax after that typecast breaking role in Dune

yeah wondered if he was in any danger of getting typecast when I saw that. Glad he feels he's having extra dimensions added/being stretched by the wardrobe difference.

avoiding type-casting by demanding a different primary colour of all-body paint with each new film

i'm with bautista here, honestly. i think going from "grunting good guy that we love" to "convincingly unpleasant bad guy that we dislike" does display some kind of range as an actor and screen presence, which would help you in being taken seriously for a greater ranger of parts in the future.

Wasn't he barely in this movie? I don't remember him doing or saying much at all. As opposed to his role in "Blade Runner," which was fleeting but made an impression.

He was very good in a five min role in blade runner

Personally id have him nailed on to play both mitchell brothers in a big screen eastenders, why not

someone has to be the guy who smashes Ryan Gosling straight through a studded wall

so people are taking umbrage at him talking down marvel movies, so good on him.

Bautista was very good in the Blade Runner sequel; he was good in Army of the Dead; he was good in Stuber; he was good in Bushwick. I think he's a much more thoughtful and talented actor than people assume, and the more different kinds of things he wants to try, the better.