A thread about the Denis Villeneuve-helmed reboot of DUNE

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.

he's fine, this is still a dumb thing to say ffs, yr all nuts

I don’t really know who he is but ppl in the replies to that tweet are really enraged at his disloyalty to the Disney corporation

theyre dumb too

the harkonnens is where he's a viking

He played sting in this & made no impression on me = deep deep character

different character!

he played this guy:
https://i.imgur.com/OPbjHJs.jpg

there's some debate whether the string character will appear in this version

i call him string

String theory

I'm not a Guardians of the Galaxy fan, but his role in that was far more memorable

https://summary.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/dave-bautista.jpg

I've found a pic of him auditioning for Death of a Salesman in some regional theatre

Attention must be paid. Basketballs don't hold grudges

looks like he’s the one who killed the salesman

such a sensitive artistic soul as he - constantly getting offered scripts to play monstrous psychopaths, bouncers, skullcrushers etc with credited names like "mongo" and "bear" is just not on mate!

This was dope.

can’t knock Bautista or anyone not feeling satisfied in their career and trying to make the most of it.

Even in GotG where he is walking around shirtless saying stupid shit he's very good at it and gives a great comedic performance.

dunerereadwatch: the paul of the book is exhausting and i wish a sandworm wd roll over him

i) he can do anything and easily overcomes all narrative obstacles
ii) he never stops mumbling that "the jihad must not happen"
iii) i have read DUNE MESSIAH and i know that, whatever else does not happen, the jihad *does* happen (he blames his mum)
iv) it is p funny when stilgar and his mum lose patience with his self-regard and massively neg him when he's expecting praise lol