A thread about the Denis Villeneuve-helmed reboot of DUNE

part 2 needs a rival aesthetic intruding against the relentless malickness, alia is the correct character to hang this on

part 2 needs a rival aesthetic intruding against the relentless malickness, alia is the correct character to hang this on

Split directing duties between Villeneuve and Paul W.S. Anderson. He knows how to shoot deserts, too (cf. Monster Hunter, the third or fourth Resident Evil). He’s good with slow motion too.

split the difference and give it to wes anderson

get Ken Loach in, the pisshead guy who played Les Battersby can replace Bautista

"wes anderson's dune" parody sketch practically writes itself, but i for one think Owen Wilson would make a fantastic Feyd-Rautha

worm is a long line of schoolchildren in worm masks

White Stripes = we're going to be Fremen on the soundtrack.

Animal Farm by The Kinks over worm riding montage

We come from the land where sandworms blow
From the hot-ass sun where the spice must flow

watched it again with Dad this past weekend, liked it a bit more but it's still like an excessively packaged double swirl vinyl rerelease of a classic album where it's been remastered and brickwalled all to hell... I predict Half Price Books will contain roughly 500 copies of this on Blu-Ray within a year.

does this movie sync up with dopesmoker y/y

Michael Mann's Dune, featuring 30 mins of unreleased Audioslave songs.

bummed to find that this has already been booted down from all the *really* big screens in NYC for our planned rewatch. guess i'll have to hope for an auteurist Villeneuve series at Metrograph or something.

read that as an amateurist series and why not eh

Yeah I wanted to go see it on IMAX or whatever the next best is, but it was only on "standard screens" as of last week. So we turned out the lights and watched on HBOMax on our TV.

If you’re in the DC area this will be back at the Smithsonian IMAX in northern Virginia the last two weekends of November.

The biggest complaint I have about seeing this in a theater: having to watch - I shit you not - 10 freaking trailers before the movie started

Trailers are good tho

cinemas back baby

We didn't get any adverts or trailers because of a problem with the projector and I'm still a bit sore (not about the adverts though).

I love trailers, but have a slight punctuality impairment so usually miss them.

I used to like them when I was a young and naively enthusiastic enough cinema goer to think some of this garbage might turn out to be good!

They weren’t all bad, and some of these are things I’ll probably see. It’s just … 10 trailers is a LOT.

Yeah the enjoyment curve for trailers peaks around 6 for me, and after that it starts getting annoying. 10 would be tough to bear

Finally got around to seeing this this weekend. Loved the look of this movie. Kind of difficult to judge otherwise since despite the length it only feels like half a movie. Watching the movie I couldn't help but feel that somebody who hasn't read the books would be a bit lost, but I think there's enough random info thrown in here and there to make a person understand a lot in a very broad sense. I went with my son who was totally unfamiliar with Dune and he seemed to mostly get it, though he didn't really get what the Bene Gesserit's role in all of this is supposed to be or why they have superpowers.

I was on a panel chat last night talking about the film and we pretty much all agreed that Hans Zimmer’s score was forgettable(in that none of us remembered anything about it) but the sound design was top-notch

Stops streaming on hbo after this weekend. Watched it for the third time with my mom last night. =D

Stops streaming on hbo after this weekend. Watched it for the third time with my mom last night. =D

Some Ghost in the Shell soundtrack vibes at the end

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHPkdMGI6D4

Coming back to IMAX, baby!

dune, but make it set at a start up pic.twitter.com/gFZC98URbm

— Morgan A Baila (@morganbaila) November 24, 2021

oooooo i'm stoked for that IMAX news!

a million deaths are not enough for yueh (and that's why he's not in that picture)

pic.twitter.com/0s7Ym9kjNa

— Good Faces (@good_faces_bot) November 26, 2021

the ONLY good faces iirc

Of course it would be at Walmart.

Repeating the phrase "limited edition pain box" over and over in my head until it sounds normal pic.twitter.com/4RDBa4H1VJ

— RTL3 (@RussellLatshaw) January 12, 2022

I have not seen it. I read the first book for the first time at age 11 and have loved it ever since. My brother, who is as much of a devotee as I am, loved it, but . . . I just don't know.

pain box packaging is kraken me up

One new answer from forksclovetofu - thought Dune was somehow eligible for the TV poll

lol

that weird slimy dog thing should get an oscar for best actor

i know it’s not real
i know it’s not in the book
i do not care

vinnie, put your hand in the pain box and vote

I'm not sure how widespread this is, but at least in NYC, they've put this back into multiplexes, including IMAX screens, for at least a few times this week. Must be part of their Oscar campaign? I've gotten a lot of For Your Consideration ads for it lately.

their Isaac campaign

rules in IMAX. the second viewing definitely highlighted some issues for me (including a couple of takes from Chalamet that rang a little false this time around)..... but also let me just kick back and embrace the audiovisual journey. this thing gets so much more value out of its CGI just by slowing the fuck down and letting me sit in the weirdness of these alien worlds. still, part ii better stick the landing.

It's kind of wild to me how much better this was in IMAX, don't think I've felt that way about a film before

There's less notable contrast at certain points in IMAX but it is a truly immersive and striking watch that way, no lie.

Pretty good watch, this. Did not expect the Lee "Scratch" Perry mention.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L2MzJKWAuQ