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
i was hoping 1 would have gotten a general theatrical re-release but if it did I missed it. I would not mind wasting an entire day watching these back to back in a theater.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 1 April 2024 15:53 (five months ago) link
otm. they did put part 1 back in theaters briefly, but at least in my area it was over & done with a week or two before part 2 came out, so there was no chance to double feature them, which was frustrating.
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Monday, 1 April 2024 16:03 (five months ago) link
I finally saw Dune part 1 on an airplane, surely not the ideal viewing configuration, but it exceeded my somewhat modest expectations. I loved the book as a young sci-fi fan, and enjoyed the Lynch film. This version is perhaps better. It does a good job of finding the core of the story and building suspense in the right places. The pacing seemed about right. It wasn't as ponderous as I had been led to believe.
― o. nate, Monday, 1 April 2024 16:09 (five months ago) link
here was actually surprisingly little up-close spice-related action or even conversation
― mark s, Saturday, October 23, 2021 3:36 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink
kind of weird to adapt dune and barely touch on melange
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 21:36 (five months ago) link
well there was a lot of different things mixed in there tbf
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 21:53 (five months ago) link
Melange definitely better than her sister Beyonce
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 23:42 (five months ago) link
https://www.nts.live/shows/the-nts-guide-to/episodes/the-nts-guide-to-inspired-by-dune-13th-march-2024
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 11 April 2024 09:29 (five months ago) link
^^^ music inspired by the book
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 11 April 2024 09:30 (five months ago) link
Saw the first film on Netflix a couple of days ago. Initial thought is this would've annoyed me if there was no sequel. It literally fucking stops.
Will watch the followup if it's still playing somewhere. Imagine waiting years for this. Not me mate
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 11 April 2024 11:47 (five months ago) link
The music was very funny when the subs were trying to convey..
Low tense musicTense musicDramatic musicLoud dramatic musicYodelling
Now forget but I wanted to make a poll on these
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 11 April 2024 11:49 (five months ago) link
amazing issue to take with a movie that has sequels baked in but yeah ok
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Thursday, 11 April 2024 12:07 (five months ago) link
👍
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 11 April 2024 12:52 (five months ago) link
The music in the first film is probably the closest I can think of to a film using the score as pure sound effects.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 11 April 2024 13:26 (five months ago) link
eraserhead is the original dune the movie
― mark s, Thursday, 11 April 2024 13:28 (five months ago) link