He’s perfect and I won’t hear a word against him
― default damager (lukas), Sunday, 24 March 2024 01:46 (six months ago) link
Thought this was solid and looked cool. Props to my wife for sitting through it despite not seeing the first one, or having read the book, or having any idea what it was it about.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 24 March 2024 03:31 (six months ago) link
Got to praise Bautista again for really seeming the Anti-Rock in routinely playing tough looking guts who get their ass kicked by a smaller dude
― nashwan, Sunday, 24 March 2024 11:26 (six months ago) link
guts? guys
i dunno, if villeneuve ever brought berserk to the screen i could see bautista playing guts
― 龜, Sunday, 24 March 2024 11:51 (six months ago) link
I agree with the second post. It is unnecessary to make this. A lot of these remakes, reboots feel like shameless attempts to cash grab and squeeze whatever's left of the intellectual property. Like the Beetlejuice 2 trailer came out a couple days ago and I'm just rolling my eyes. I don't even know if it's a bad thing because people seem to enjoy them, but I can't be bothered watching stuff like this anymore.
― Vintage, Monday, 25 March 2024 00:20 (six months ago) link
Dune has never had a very good screen interpretation. I'm glad when they remake films that didn't work out well the first time (as much as I like a lot of it, Lynch's Dune did not work out), rather than remaking things that were good. This is a very good interpretation of the book.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 25 March 2024 00:22 (six months ago) link
XPgenerally agree with that except for a case like to this. I watched the first half hour of the Lynch Dune last night and as much I like pretty much everything else Lynch has done that movie is terrible. It's ok to remake or readapt bad movies
― silverfish, Monday, 25 March 2024 00:28 (six months ago) link
Yeah, we watched Lynch’s dune last week and hoooooboy. I have a pretty high tolerance for bad movies, esp if they’re interesting / quirky / offkilter (which this was) but my god, I just kept wishing it would be over.
― It was on a accident (hardcore dilettante), Monday, 25 March 2024 06:38 (six months ago) link
Always makes me laugh when people cover for Lynch's Dune with "but he didnt have final cut!" as if that was the main issue
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Monday, 25 March 2024 15:28 (six months ago) link
I feel like Lynch's Dune serves as a bit of a rebuttal to the obsession with Jodorowsky's "lost" version. Like, you can imagine a scenario where the Lynch one got scrapped and all that remained was some production design images and there would be this whole, "Imagine what David Lynch's Dune would have been like!"
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 25 March 2024 15:54 (six months ago) link
i think the backlash to jodorowskys dune vision and the work in putting it as far as it went is gone a bit far mainly because the documentary and documents that do exist and the stories around the entire effort seem to me to be more than enough output/justification
jodorowskys dune did get made, in the same way that lost in la mancha is gilliams don quixote
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 25 March 2024 15:56 (six months ago) link
good take
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 25 March 2024 15:58 (six months ago) link
in the same way that lost in la mancha is gilliams don quixote
Didn't his Quixote movie finally come out though?
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Monday, 25 March 2024 17:05 (six months ago) link
it did and absolutely no one watched it. i have no idea if it's any good or not.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 25 March 2024 17:31 (six months ago) link
I stopped paying attention after he turned into a total crank old man. Shame he disappeared and never made any more movies
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 25 March 2024 17:39 (six months ago) link
Shame he disappeared and never made any more movies
Brazil was a hell of a note to go out on, though.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Monday, 25 March 2024 17:49 (six months ago) link
i got time for parnassus actually
but he as a persona i could do without pretty much from day 1
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 25 March 2024 18:08 (six months ago) link
it was bad. but even if it had been good, it would have been redundant next to lost in la mancha anyway
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Monday, 25 March 2024 20:05 (six months ago) link
to live and die in la mancha
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 25 March 2024 21:38 (six months ago) link
parnassus was alright, I didn't like some of the CGI effects but I thought he worked around Ledger's death in an interesting way. Zero Theorem was dire. I never got around to watching Tideland which had awful reviews, but the one person I personally know who actually watched it really liked it.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 25 March 2024 21:44 (six months ago) link
Btw I haven't seen new Dune and I'm not really dying to, and I don't always love Hans Zimmer scores, but I thoroughly enjoyed this podcast on the process. Seems fun to have an unlimited budget to hire musicians and engineers to create bespoke sample instruments for your every whim!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI28oowy4Dc
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Monday, 25 March 2024 21:45 (six months ago) link
tideline execrable in more ways than i have ever found any piece of creative work and ill never watch a gilliam movie again as long as i live after it
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 25 March 2024 21:56 (six months ago) link
xpost Relatedly, a pretty good promo VF bit from here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGLEVXJoetU
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 25 March 2024 21:56 (six months ago) link
i am stoked for this to stream, so i can watch it again. i feel that i surely missed something. or i'm like, too dumb for its fine points.
― schrodingers cat was always cool (Hunt3r), Monday, 25 March 2024 22:26 (six months ago) link
The spice is oil
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Monday, 25 March 2024 23:27 (six months ago) link
Coconut oil
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, 25 March 2024 23:43 (six months ago) link
cocaine oil
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 00:12 (six months ago) link
shai and muad’s trap hole
― schrodingers cat was always cool (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 01:16 (six months ago) link
― It was on a accident (hardcore dilettante), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 04:31 (six months ago) link
lol thx. kind or mock-kind i can't say but still-- this seems like a lot of work for a heavily referential pile of-- not that much?-- that is like, very overly emphasized?
― schrodingers cat was always cool (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 04:36 (six months ago) link
Mental oil
― Nabozo, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 08:38 (six months ago) link
btw, I think I asked before, but how is this guy about to make such convincingly tactile and lived in looking FX when most movies can't come close?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 28 March 2024 01:08 (six months ago) link
I think because I've seen so many Marvel movies I kind of forgot that VFX can actually look good. It's crazy that so many other huge budget movies look so terrible when it's clearly possible to do it right.
― silverfish, Thursday, 28 March 2024 13:23 (six months ago) link
doing it right:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GJokEW5WAAAQDtb?format=jpg
(courtesy twitter's @drawbrandondraw aka bluesky's @drawbrandondraw.com )
― mark s, Thursday, 28 March 2024 13:32 (six months ago) link
I suspect both Dune movies had longer post-production time than a typical Marvel movie these days, probably a big help re refined vfx. Maybe the realism of the actual muad'dib demonstrates this as well as anything.It's not really dealing with many 'improbable' or 'magical' fx either though (Emperor's ship and the fire effect around it excepted) and nothing radical or OTT (apart from the infrared aspect Giedi Prime looks p boring). Most MCU films are trying to show actual 'magical' powers, 'aliens' and creatures etc. and with a kids appeal. Guardians 3 did all that pretty well.
― nashwan, Thursday, 28 March 2024 14:40 (six months ago) link
Tideland which had awful reviews, but the one person I personally know who actually watched it really liked it.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, March 25, 2024 9:44 PM (six days ago)
Did it have awful reviews? I recall a bunch of people saying it was one of his best films (I think it is). I like Zero Theorem too
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 31 March 2024 01:58 (six months ago) link
yeah, 31% positive on Rotten Tomato's critic tally
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Sunday, 31 March 2024 02:02 (six months ago) link
I know it was hardly a hit but I recall people being enthusiastic about it, definitely worth trying if you like Gilliam, I've cooled on it a bit but I still think it's among his better films
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 31 March 2024 02:23 (six months ago) link
The plot summary for Tideland makes it sound horrifying.
― default damager (lukas), Sunday, 31 March 2024 03:51 (six months ago) link
There's horrible things but the naive viewpoints of the girl and young man take the edge off
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 31 March 2024 04:56 (six months ago) link
nope
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Sunday, 31 March 2024 09:55 (six months ago) link
gilliams lens makes it worse than the plot tbh
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Sunday, 31 March 2024 09:56 (six months ago) link
it was horrifying and i’ll never watch it again but it was an interesting contrast to pan’s labyrinth in that both dealt with children dealing with unimaginable horrors, but tideland really felt like it was _her_ story told by herself (i don’t know if it would be tolerable told in any other way) while labyrinth felt very much like an adult telling the story.
― scanner darkly, Sunday, 31 March 2024 17:14 (six months ago) link
There's some fun in it too, I recall Jodelle Ferland being good in it (she will be 30 this year, how is that possible? I'm turning to corpsedust)
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 31 March 2024 20:54 (six months ago) link
Tideland is much older than I thought. Ferland has mostly been in horror films and television
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 31 March 2024 21:00 (six months ago) link
Saw the first film for the first time yesterday, really liked it. It was all good and didn’t feel like it was as long as it was. Easily my favourite part was when the desert mouse is shown and our small tortoiseshell cat froze and stared at the screen and tried to get a better look. 10/10 motion capture, obviously.
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Monday, 1 April 2024 13:16 (five months ago) link
Rewatched it last night in anticipation of seeing the second part. I enjoyed it more, probably in part because I watched it on a TV with good sound as opposed to my iPad with headphones. It's visually stunning, and even if it's mostly vibes, well, so is the book (which I now need to read for the fifth (?) time).
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 1 April 2024 13:21 (five months ago) link
i dont mean to gripe but if ever movies needed watching at the cinema its these
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 1 April 2024 15:32 (five months ago) link
Thanks be to Odeon Luxe reclining seats in respect to that.
― nashwan, Monday, 1 April 2024 15:42 (five months ago) link