A thread about the Denis Villeneuve-helmed reboot of 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. 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."

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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?".

Roffle.

Full array of the fashion looks from the premiere (including the spoilery bit per the tweet)

https://gizmodo.com/dune-2-premiere-fashion-zendaya-star-wars-chalamet-pugh-1851261555

With all respect to your son but a TON of stuff happened in the first one

yeah I just rewatched it and was surprised how fast it moves. there's some setup in the first hour, but starting from the escape from the spice harvester, it's almost nonstop action

As I recall it, the worms were pretty subdued in the first installment even though they are the five-star attractions in the eyes of any normal 12 year old lad - much more so than Paul the Sadsack Quizzer-Ack (sp?).

Kwisatz Haderach
Give a dog a bone

I just

Kwizatz
Kwizatz
Kwizatz to where you haderach

[Billy Preston solo on keys]

There’s a Villeneuve festival on at Lincoln Center right now.

https://www.filmlinc.org/series/denis-villeneuve/

As I recall it, the worms were pretty subdued in the first installment even though they are the five-star attractions in the eyes of any normal 12 year old lad - much more so than Paul the Sadsack Quizzer-Ack (sp?).

Yeah, pretty much this. A lot of stuff did happen for sure, but I can absolutely see how this might be too slow for a current 12 year-old more attuned to the pace of MCU or other contemporary stuff.

we saw Dune part 1 in IMAX a few weeks ago and it had a sneak preview of Dune 2 that was basically Muad'dib ridin' his first sandworm and the crowd went NUTS

(we also saw a screening of the Lynch Dune this past weekend and I reaffirm my position that it is 1000x better, although I'm still kinda excited to go see Dune 2)

dune part one is mainly about timmy chalét going on a hike with his mum iirc

oooh, do you know if there are more screenings of the Lynch Dune? I haven't seen it on the big screen since I was a kid

xp

dunelynch dwindles greatly once they reach the desert and start hiking: director lacks feels for sand imo, those stretches feels both rushed and unending lol

but it's the MOVIE4U if u luv whispered exposition, the weirding module, pugs

^^h.m.bateman's the man who enjoyed dune messiah

the new film's lack of pugs is inexplicable and a major flaw

(the screenings of the Lynch Dune were a Fathom event on the 18th and the 19th... sorry!)

Universal has beautiful 35mm prints of Dune ‘84, so ask your local Cinematheque to book it. A 70mm print of it screened at the British Film Institute last year

haha, the print Fathom used was... not great