A thread about the Denis Villeneuve-helmed reboot of DUNE

I saw the Lynch version at the cinema when I was 12. A formative moment that I will never get to talk about on desert island discs!

That's why we are here. I also saw it in the theater when I was 9 and it was equally formative. I love that film and love all things David Lynch, and yet I think this new one might be a better film (though less endearingly bizarre). Beyond the dreamy vibes I also quite enjoyed all the very large spaceships, vehicles, and weapons constantly clunking on everything.

Dune was the one Lynch film I wish he hadn't made

It gave me a very mistaken impression of Lynch for many years

would love 2 see a Very Serious & Artful treatment of the ninja sex nuns from the later books

I'm sorry, but "this is stupid because its exactly like the thing it is based off of" is the dumbest complaint I ever heard.

...I tell a lie, Ive hear way dumber. But still. Eh?

It’s just not anything else, some handsome men are there in some big empty digital rooms

the Villeneuve vibe/$ with the Lynch production design might have ruled yah

one of the reasons Hollywood is shit in 2023 is this obsessive desire to keep remaking things until they're as smooth a facsimile to their source material as possible

also listening to fans is the worst possible artistic idea

This movie is gorgeous , when the ship rises from the water it floors me every time

Thing is, it’s not a very visual book, but Villeneuve makes it a visual experience (and a different one to the other intense visual interpretations it’s evoked). So I don’t agree it’s a slavishly literal adaptation.

Yeah, the books are very short on visual detail. I remember reading a reference to the color of someone's clothing in one of the books (can't remember which) and being surprised, not only by the colors described (something weird), but by the fact that they were described at all.

Villenueve maybe went a little off the reservation with the Sardaukar ceremony.

In the best possible way, of course.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMQ5iQ-NbFA

are you guys getting paid to post that or something

Nobody on ILX received compensation, part of Geneva Conventions

i am getting paid, they send me ned's pay also but i keep it

My last check from Soros bounced

I am also being paid

We're all paid

bringing u all in front of tribunal, shouldn't have told on urselves

not me i know the judge

I found it a bit sterile looking but still enjoyed it quite a bit. Really should have just actually went to Arrakis and used real sandworms. Same with The Northman and hell.

Is Timothee nude in this

everyone is nude

it's the fremen way

Dune + Nude = Dudenune

J/K I've seen this. Solid.

Dune nude Darude *Sandstorm intensifies*

PS apologies if I was rude Silby. I get your argument now, but I did enjoy the movie. I'm not a hardcore bookfan though so nothing to ruin for me.

Naw you’re good. I’m not even a colossal fan of the book either I haven’t read it since I was a teenager. Among other ways this could’ve been better is if they had made it one four hour movie

sitting at the Wendy’s drive thru and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMQ5iQ-NbFA

New trailer tomorrow, in the meantime:

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_fit,f_auto,g_center,q_60,w_1315/c3a5055ad55ba3443bb6037c2761de1e.jpg

Plus this for now

Trailer Tomorrow. #DunePartTwo pic.twitter.com/1XlacqAukz

— DUNE (@dunemovie) May 2, 2023

https://www.theonion.com/dune-part-two-to-pick-up-right-where-viewers-fell-as-1850378546

It must be true

yesss

Dune, where the mythic meets the epic, and they both meet the gothic, and they all sit down together and chat.

A trailer for a trailer appearing the next day

once again, the sand is the real star here

sand-wise, this makes Lawrence of Arabia look like Waterworld

And here we go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Way9Dexny3w

may thy posts chip and shatter

(not you ned)

I think I might see this film

excited for the addition of princess irulan, can't wait for her to pop in every few minutes with an excerpt from one of her 300 books.

A Child's History of Muad'Dib
Analysis: The Arakeen Crisis
Arrakis Awakening
Collected Legends of Arrakis
Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib
Conversations with Muad'Dib
Count Fenring: A Profile
Dictionary of Muad'Dib
The Humanity of Muad'Dib
In My Father's House
Lecture to the Arrakeen War College
The Lens of Time
Lessons of the Great Revolt
Manual of Muad'Dib
Muad'Dib: Conversations
Muad'Dib, Family Commentaries
Muad'Dib, The Man
Muad'Dib: The Ninety-Nine Wonders of the Universe
Muad'Dib: The Religious Issues
Paul of Dune
Private Reflections on Muad'Dib
Songs of Muad'Dib
The Wisdom of Muad'Dib
Words of Muad'Dib

time for a poll!

this year.... ride the worm

we're going on a worm hunt!
we're going to catch a big one.
what a beautiful day.
WE'RE NOT SCARED.
uh oh SAND!
deep grainy sand…
we can't go over it.
we can't go under it.
oh no!
WE'VE GOT TO GO THROUGH IT!

— from a child's history of muad'dib, by the princess irulan