A thread about the Denis Villeneuve-helmed reboot of DUNE

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.

Well, whenever we get it -- HOT BALISET ACTION

https://gizmodo.com/dune-2-josh-brolin-gurney-halleck-will-play-baliset-1850785605

Bring it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2Qp5pL3ovA

fffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu ....

yeah pretty much

Still no Alia. Yet.

Needs more parasol

GHOST RIDE THE WORM WOOOOOO

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.

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

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.

Trust me, fully agreed with you there on the Hobbit films.

I fell asleep in the first Hobbit film and every time I woke up, it seemed to be only two minutes later

The first was unfortunately the best of the three.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I think I said this upthread, but this is the first actualization of the novel that did not betray my imagination.

What are you talking about, witt incredible dialogue like:

"It's not our fight."
"It is our fight."

Xxpost

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.

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.)

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.

I’ve no idea how I capitalised NOVEL there, did not intend to.

My phone insists on capitalizing and de-apostrophizing CANT, I don’t know why

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.

Agreed, he is very well cast. Paul is the ultimate oddball.

zendaya is dating tom holland, not chalamee

oops

They're all scooped from the same genetic vat.

Axlotl tank

she’s with a spider, not a worm

Okay, tickets on sale...

got an email from Fandango about this, kind of caught me off guard that it is coming so soon

Ha, I've been waiting for the tickets to drop; it's my birthday weekend, so.

Sorry Ned

https://x.com/sablaah/status/1750676045403992521?s=20

yes but

I have an idea https://t.co/K2ga5c6osr pic.twitter.com/fBL34MXPRJ

— Kristi Yamaguccimane (@TheWapplehouse) January 26, 2024

wau lol

Haha yeah saw those earlier

took almost ten minutes and 350 clicks to get the error messages to stop and get my opening night tix but they are acquired

Okay, two weeks out (if you count preview day). I'll tell ya what's been causing me to scratch my head -- still no word as to who Tim Blake Nelson is playing in this. My outside guess is Count Fenring but we'll see I suppose.

Maybe they’ll bring Scytale forward à la Lynch’s plan

reprising his role from o brother where art thou

I will accept all these options.

She's playing Cornholio https://t.co/DelafoN7DF

— Charles Bramesco (@intothecrevasse) February 15, 2024

lol

I'm excited for this one, though my son (who watched the first one with me but found it to be way too slow for his 12 year-old tastes) had a nice zing at this a few weeks ago when we went to see Wonka in the theater and the trailer for part two played, "so is this going to be the good half where stuff happens?".