gotta wait for Dune 3 for that stuff
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 18:16 (one year ago) link
I caught Covid at the last movie, that's what I remember most
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 18:18 (one year ago) link
im waiting for dune 5
― mark s, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 18:19 (one year ago) link
not sure why he says "it's a birthday cake" at the start of the trailer.
― ledge, Thursday, 4 May 2023 10:37 (one year ago) link
I think he's implying "eat my dust" 'cuz he's gonna ride that sandworm so hard later in the trailer.
― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 4 May 2023 15:15 (one year ago) link
I know the subject material dictates but, it's so very brown.
― MaresNest, Thursday, 4 May 2023 15:17 (one year ago) link
this was a weird quote for someone who wants to Be the Kwizah Haderach
"I don’t like sand. It’s coarse, and rough, and irritating, and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft, and smooth."
― a (waterface), Thursday, 4 May 2023 15:43 (one year ago) link
Dune 2? Yeah look what I’m Dune 2 ur mom— paige (@BonerWizard) May 4, 2023
― Random Restaurateur (Jordan), Thursday, 4 May 2023 15:44 (one year ago) link
They said, Kwisatz, HaderachLiving in the sand dunes, it's'a where it's atIt's like trying to find gold in a pre-spice massIt's like trying to drink whiskeyOhhhhh from a bottle of recycled sweat
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 4 May 2023 17:19 (one year ago) link
Okay so
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YUzQa_1RCE
A lot going on there.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 29 June 2023 16:13 (one year ago) link
good night gom jabbar
https://i.imgur.com/QTw5SaP.png
― mark s, Thursday, 29 June 2023 16:21 (one year ago) link
also (since somehow no one posted it yet): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r9uSs3FnB0
― mark s, Thursday, 29 June 2023 16:42 (one year ago) link
Dune II delayed to March 2024, actors' strike related
― StanM, Friday, 25 August 2023 06:44 (one year ago) link
Sucks but not surprising at this point. Also grimly hilarious that both films got delayed by completely separate events. I think Villaneuve said delays with the first helped post production so maybe similar here.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 25 August 2023 12:08 (one year ago) link
Well, whenever we get it -- HOT BALISET ACTION
https://gizmodo.com/dune-2-josh-brolin-gurney-halleck-will-play-baliset-1850785605
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 30 August 2023 01:54 (one year ago) link
Bring it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2Qp5pL3ovA
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 23:00 (nine months ago) link
fffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu ....
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 23:44 (nine months ago) link
yeah pretty much
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 01:46 (nine months ago) link
Still no Alia. Yet.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 02:03 (nine months ago) link
Needs more parasol
― spider alert: 🕷️🕷️ (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 02:55 (nine months ago) link
GHOST RIDE THE WORM WOOOOOO
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 02:57 (nine months ago) link
I've been waiting for the second part to come out so I can see both of them together; still haven't seen the first. I have a hard time with Chalamet in general. His vibe throws me off. I saw a Willy Wonka prequel ad which made me want to hurl things at the screen.
Rewatching the Lynch Dune and I'm always surprised by how bonkers it is. For every big weird scene that is burned in my memory, there are a dozen small things that take me by surprise. It's not good but it's fascinating. I wish Lynch could have made a sci-fi movie that wasn't anchored to such a laborious plot.
― Cow_Art, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 03:14 (nine months ago) link
Chalamet is fine, good even
Generally I weary of AAA film adaptations that are all-focus on “doing justice to the novel” rather than “creating a new and exciting work of cinema”, but I’m still gonna go to this and prob marathon the Peter Jackson LOTR films (extended) on Christmas Day too
― spider alert: 🕷️🕷️ (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 03:24 (nine months ago) link
I have to say this brought it, in terms of cinema art - not just scenes and dialogue and spaceships but lots of interesting choices and auteur moments. Maybe I’m a bit basic in tastes but it thrilled me in ways The Hobbit sure didn’t.
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 04:59 (nine months ago) link
Trust me, fully agreed with you there on the Hobbit films.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 05:10 (nine months ago) link
I fell asleep in the first Hobbit film and every time I woke up, it seemed to be only two minutes later
― Formica Jordan (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 05:15 (nine months ago) link
The first was unfortunately the best of the three.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 06:00 (nine months ago) link
The Hobbit seemed fine to me, wysiwyg insofar as “Benedict Cumberbatch as Smaug” is concerned, but the bizarre frame rate situation was what ended up consigning both films to the coffin, I skip cutscenes on my RPGs and I’ll skip those films also
Anyway new Dune looks good. Hope something in it makes me smile
― spider alert: 🕷️🕷️ (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 07:17 (nine months ago) link
I have only ever seen the movies so I recently watched a YT timeline breakdown of all the subsequent books and, ugh. Kinda hoping they don't get far past the first book really.
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 10:07 (nine months ago) link
God Emperor is pretty brilliant, almost as vivid and imaginative as the first. They’re two trilogies consisting of a landmark, world building first work and a pair of plot-heavy, dull followups.
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 12:11 (nine months ago) link
Agreed on that. It's the culmination of the overarching theme I'm not sure Herbert was even conscious of when he started the first book. It's an engrossing read.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 16:48 (nine months ago) link
Not to turn this into a hobbit thread but the decision to use CGI for all the orcs and goblins was one key catastrophic element. Obviously other catastrophic elements included stretching a brief novel to epic length, invented and terrible side plots, the portentous tone in the story which as a book is pretty delightful despite the fates of some characters, pacing that made the trilogy seem twice as long as the extended cut trilogy of LOTR, and Alfred Lickspittle.
― omar little, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 16:59 (nine months ago) link
I thought the first dune was pretty magnificent, and just deeply impressive in its commitment to having what I thought was an unnerving tone and really immersing you in something vv strange. It's not an exhilarating fun time movie, it occasionally veers kind of close to Roger Ebert's (positive) description of aliens making him feel bad and wrung out.
― omar little, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 17:02 (nine months ago) link
I think I said this upthread, but this is the first actualization of the novel that did not betray my imagination.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 17:05 (nine months ago) link
What are you talking about, witt incredible dialogue like:
"It's not our fight.""It is our fight."
― Formica Jordan (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 18:27 (nine months ago) link
Xxpost
― Formica Jordan (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 18:28 (nine months ago) link
Look if you want to hear (and see!) the three of us on the podcast vent about the Hobbit movies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6DK27zoiJE
ANYWAY, Dune.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 18:30 (nine months ago) link
I thought the first dune was pretty magnificent, and just deeply impressive in its commitment to having what I thought was an unnerving tone and really immersing you in something vv strange.
Arguably it could be even more strange but I do think it's just strange ENOUGH, if you will. If you look upthread when the initial images came out there was a lot of chatter about how flat/boring they looked, but the deeper we went with a lot of the design, costumes, staging etc. once it was released, a big positive. (And the sound design, really.)
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 18:31 (nine months ago) link
jimbeaux not only does it not betray but it elevates in some ways. Ornithopters felt like a throwaway historicism in the NOVEL, maybe because Lynch’s adaptation made them look silly and unworkable, but when I saw the eroded metal dragonflies with shuddering wings in this film I thought YES.
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 20:47 (nine months ago) link
I’ve no idea how I capitalised NOVEL there, did not intend to.
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 20:48 (nine months ago) link
My phone insists on capitalizing and de-apostrophizing CANT, I don’t know why
― spider alert: 🕷️🕷️ (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 23:42 (nine months ago) link
I'll also defend the choice of Chalamet because his presence is kind of what the book calls for, not some rugged cleft-chin handsome lad like Kyle, but a stripling kid whom everybody underestimates. I don't think he has a bunch of screen charisma, and oddly I don't get much chemistry with Zendaya despite their real-world relationship, but I'm content for him to remain an oddball.
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 14 December 2023 01:49 (nine months ago) link
Agreed, he is very well cast. Paul is the ultimate oddball.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 14 December 2023 01:59 (nine months ago) link
zendaya is dating tom holland, not chalamee
― kissinger on my list (voodoo chili), Thursday, 14 December 2023 02:09 (nine months ago) link
oops
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 14 December 2023 03:06 (nine months ago) link
They're all scooped from the same genetic vat.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Thursday, 14 December 2023 03:09 (nine months ago) link
Axlotl tank
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 14 December 2023 03:37 (nine months ago) link
she’s with a spider, not a worm
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 14 December 2023 14:43 (nine months ago) link
Okay, tickets on sale...
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 26 January 2024 18:27 (eight months ago) link
got an email from Fandango about this, kind of caught me off guard that it is coming so soon
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 26 January 2024 18:37 (eight months ago) link