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Randalor posted:Serious answer to obvious joke question: they have some level of computers, just nothing "smart" enough to get to the point of possibly wanting to overthrow humanity. After all, how was Paul's pet lightbulb following him unless they cramed a human brain in there? You could kinda game it, the rule is you can't machine machines that think in the manner of a human mind. Human minds can do arithmetic, but a missile guidance system is something else entirely. also humans don't emit light and follow you around. I dunno, the rules may be a bit more specific than we think.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrW_8M3xJow Visually there's just no comparison. The actual storytelling and acting are better in the new one, but for production design and sheer visuals, it's not even close.
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A Buffer Gay Dude posted:Please see my earlier post about not responding to this poster. I think he might be a troll. Saying that Villenueve's Dune might have worked better as one long film given WB's hesitation to secure production for the second film is probably the least-trolly opinion possible. I know there's a 95% chance Dune Part Two will happen, but if it doesn't, that will be devastating whatever this is has been taken down by WB already! (at least in the US)
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# ? Oct 25, 2021 19:53 |
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The lack of Feyd in the first movie has me wondering if Villanueve will bother with the post-battle fight between Paul and Feyd at all. It might work better to have Paul fight Rabban during the battle and then demand the throne from the emperor. The more I think about it the more the knife fight at the end feels a bit like the Battle of the Shire
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# ? Oct 25, 2021 19:59 |
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Hashtag Banterzone posted:The lack of Feyd in the first movie has me wondering if Villanueve will bother with the post-battle fight between Paul and Feyd at all. It might work better to have Paul fight Rabban during the battle and then demand the throne from the emperor. The more I think about it the more the knife fight at the end feels a bit like the Battle of the Shire It's open to go both ways. On the one hand we get early on 'there are other options', on the other hand every time we see the Baron its 'my planet, my arrakis, my dune' - no hint that there's any sort of generational game being played on his end. So I think it was deliberately left open so a) they don't have to cast yet and b) they can decide if these characters even exist in this version of the story.
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# ? Oct 25, 2021 20:09 |
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AlternateAccount posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrW_8M3xJow I would argue a lot of it is Lynch being weird just to be weird. Villeneuve’s designs were a lot more reasonable.
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# ? Oct 25, 2021 20:09 |
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You could put a moth brain in the missile. Like it just needs "if [condition] then follow." We don't know what that condition is, whether it's detecting the brightest visible light, heat, light at a very specific frequency that you'd see from a certain kind of engine, even vibrations from the ornithopter wings. You'd just need a moth brain and and provide it with the stimuli from a camera to think whatever it's supposed to follow is the moon.
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# ? Oct 25, 2021 20:16 |
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Xiahou Dun posted:There is a really high correlation in people commenting in this thread how they missed important details and also coming up with increasingly bizarre misspellings of “Chalamet”. He's the pre-evolved form of Adam Driver
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# ? Oct 25, 2021 20:27 |
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In case you haven't seen it already, here's Villeneuve walking you through his thought process for the gom jabbar scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoAA0sYkLI0
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# ? Oct 25, 2021 20:33 |
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steinrokkan posted:Love to see the same people arguing that the Lynch Dune was stupid or some such poo poo coming up with galaxy brained ideas like "the Baron should turn Yueh's wife into a spider and then barbecue the spider and then eat the spider" idk what this post means
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# ? Oct 25, 2021 20:52 |
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AlternateAccount posted:The actual storytelling and acting are better in the new one, but for production design and sheer visuals, it's not even close. The 1984 version has some good production design occassionally, but it has plenty of stuff that looks like dogshit. Pedro De Heredia fucked around with this message at 20:55 on Oct 25, 2021 |
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There's a Kickstarter for the graphic novel and the Gom Jabbar tier is fuckin PIMP.
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# ? Oct 25, 2021 21:08 |
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I’ve never actually seen video of Frank Herbert before. Way more personable than I’d have thought.
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# ? Oct 25, 2021 21:11 |
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Pedro De Heredia posted:The 1984 version has some good production design occassionally, but it has plenty of stuff that looks like dogshit. Every stage on Giedi Prime after Piter’s juice mantra looks like “the budget ran out” big time.
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# ? Oct 25, 2021 21:14 |
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Jack B Nimble posted:Regarding the Harkonnen, I don't think wanting All of the Money and living in a culture that prizes an appearance of austerity are mutually exclusive. Yeah consider how Melania Trump did the White House Christmas decorations. I can imagine the Harkonnens having the same aesthetics as yuppies.
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# ? Oct 25, 2021 21:19 |
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Polo-Rican posted:whatever this is has been taken down by WB already! (at least in the US) Ah it was a direct comparison of the Box of Pain scene from 1984/2021. Josh Lyman posted:The production design struck me as a mix of Alien (which makes sense given Jodorowsky’s Dune) and Brazil which was released just a few months later. For me, a lot of it goes back to the question, "Is it plausible that these people live and work and exist in this place? That these (admittedly beautiful on the surface) vistas are actually used for their supposed purpose?" I get that '84 Dune's production design reach exceeds its grasp, often by a lot. But Dune '21's hyper-sparse and oversized simple geometric layouts look more like storyboarding or concept art. At no point is it plausible to me that these are the places these characters inhabit, despite their appeal for sheer aesthetics.
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Shifter posted:Every stage on Giedi Prime after Piter’s juice mantra looks like “the budget ran out” big time. It looks great. The brilliant green walls, fountains of crude oil, the whole thing being open to the air like some bizarre office layout/maze, it's a nightmare world. The spider thing was neat too. It is probably meant to be some weird genetic freak the Harkonnens just bred for shits and giggles. I do wonder if the filmmakers were concerned that making the Baron too opulent and flamboyant might play into the queer coding that's been in all other versions but, so this version is more animated solely by money and spite.
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# ? Oct 25, 2021 21:28 |
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Maxwell Lord posted:I do wonder if the filmmakers were concerned that making the Baron too opulent and flamboyant might play into the queer coding that's been in all other versions but, s Dude was absolutely a pedophile in the book with a preference for boys, but not exclusively. I am not sure why it gets tiptoed around. edit: is Jessica being the product of rape a retcon from a later book?
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# ? Oct 25, 2021 21:33 |
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I think it's from messiah, but it's more of a reveal than a retcon.
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# ? Oct 25, 2021 21:35 |
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Randalor posted:. After all, how was Paul's pet lightbulb following him unless they cramed a human brain in there? You can do a surprising amount of automation with electromechanical systems. Maybe Paul has an IR light switch on his person and the drone just follows the light when it's turned on.
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# ? Oct 25, 2021 21:43 |
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Baron von Eevl posted:I think it's from messiah, but it's more of a reveal than a retcon. Nah, that she's the Baron's daughter is in "Dune": quote:He had seen two main branchings along the way ahead--in one he confronted an evil old Baron and said: "Hello, Grandfather." The thought of that path and what lay along it sickened him. All other information is failson.
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# ? Oct 25, 2021 21:45 |
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Maxwell Lord posted:It looks great. The brilliant green walls, fountains of crude oil, the whole thing being open to the air like some bizarre office layout/maze, it's a nightmare world. The green set looks like complete and utter poo poo. It doesn't look like a "nightmare" it just loving sucks.
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# ? Oct 25, 2021 21:47 |
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Arglebargle III posted:I think the early hype for this suggested it was a potential Fellowship of the Ring level juggernaught, and it isn't. So it could have been better. Fellowship made $40-something million opening weekend, it was a comparative slow burner
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# ? Oct 25, 2021 21:49 |
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Stephen Henderson Wright talks about deleted Thufir scenes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzFMB5FfBZU
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Dr. Fishopolis posted:What did you want him to do? Not make the movie? Dune has already been adapted once as a movie and once for TV. You could just adapt a different book, or make sometihng original, rather than produce another adaptation of Dune that's awkwardly split in two.
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flashy_mcflash posted:There's a Kickstarter for the graphic novel and the Gom Jabbar tier is fuckin PIMP. Steve Yun posted:Stephen Henderson Wright talks about deleted Thufir scenes Llamadeus posted:I know a lot of people wanted this movie to be made and consider it a success (artistically), but this is worth considering. The two mini-series are a completely different can of worms, but the book needs a proper film adaptation. BlankSystemDaemon fucked around with this message at 22:31 on Oct 25, 2021 |
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# ? Oct 25, 2021 22:25 |
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I watched the movie without knowing anything going into it and I think I understood well enough what the director was trying to get across with the characters and the set design. My impression was that the set design was meant to invoke isolation and hopelessness for Paul and his family from the point they arrive on Arrakis. Like yeah it's completely unrealistic that there are like 3 guards in the hallway in front of Oscar Isaac's room and the rest of the palace is apparently abandoned with the lights all turned off, in reality in a palace that doubles as the administrative center for the entire planet there would be 24/7 activity and security checkpoints at every corner. It's not "realistic" but it does help convey and reinforce the point that these people are completely clueless about what's really going on in this planet and the schemes that are unfolding around them, and it serves to enhance the continuously growing sense of doom that pervades the atmosphere from the time they arrive on the planet. I also thought the portrayal of the Harkonnen's was fine.. I mean we mostly see them through the character of the Baron, and it seems like they stayed true to the character in the book being a shockingly unhealthy and gluttonous individual - to the point that he is immobile and seems to struggle to speak or even breath after the lightest bit of exertion. The fact that this character sits around in a steam room or on his couch all day looking miserable seems pretty on point to me. I don't think the characterization would be enhanced by having him doing some gross poo poo with kids or flying around a room laughing evilly under a rain of blood as his torture dolls squirm around on the floor beneath him.. that's some BS that would just take me right out of the movie.
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# ? Oct 25, 2021 22:49 |
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I'm a fan of both versions and one thing I really liked in this version is the lack of compression for the initial flight into the desert, in particular the inclusion of the chase into the storm. This scene was great and for me provided the effective climax of part 1 (sorry Jamis) as it combined tension, frenetic action, exciting visuals, and the symbolism of Paul's "terrible purpose take the wheel!" moment. It is the last touch of chaos on the outcome - everything after is reactive - gotta get to the rocks, gotta run from the worm, gotta gain the respect of the fremen, gotta kill a man ... I vaguely remember it being that way in the book as well, but maybe I'm off.
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Llamadeus posted:I know a lot of people wanted this movie to be made and consider it a success (artistically), but this is worth considering. lmfao
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Llamadeus posted:I know a lot of people wanted this movie to be made and consider it a success (artistically), but this is worth considering. Posts like these make me think the haters are just trolling.
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# ? Oct 25, 2021 23:21 |
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It could be trolling but I don't think it has to be taken that way. That's basically what kojima said in his review, that denis is kind of wasted on tentpole blockbusters. I'm somewhat sympathetic to it
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# ? Oct 25, 2021 23:24 |
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Denis feels like one of those directors with a fantastic visual sensibility who's ultimately at the mercy of the script he's working with. I feel like his next project should be Koyanisqaatsi 2.
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Llamadeus posted:I know a lot of people wanted this movie to be made and consider it a success (artistically), but this is worth considering.
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# ? Oct 25, 2021 23:44 |
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The United States posted:It's impossible to make space scifi that is not derivative of Dune, so you might as well go to the source I dont think its impossible You could rip off Foundation instead
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# ? Oct 25, 2021 23:48 |
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Why doesn't Ahab try hunting seals? Or maybe fishing?
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No Mods No Masters posted:It could be trolling but I don't think it has to be taken that way. That's basically what kojima said in his review, that denis is kind of wasted on tentpole blockbusters. I'm somewhat sympathetic to it Maybe in general but Dune is specifically a passion project of his from what I understand, that’s why he was willing to commit to part one with no guarantee of part two.
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# ? Oct 25, 2021 23:50 |
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If the banquet scene was actually shot then the directors cut will be my favourite movie ever. The scene is big and complicated, with lots of one-off characters and elaborate dialogue. Its a reasonable thing to not have in an already big movie. It's also a good scene, which builds characters and the world and even has done rare humour in it. If they dared shoot that, then I can retain my hope that other scenes and subplots were also shot. The directors cut could end up being my favourite movie, longshot though it may be.
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# ? Oct 26, 2021 00:04 |
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There will not be a directors cut. Just put that out of your minds as a possibility. ”Denis” posted:The Director’s Cut is what people are watching in theatres right now. There will be no other cut. Yes I could have made a much longer, more contemplative movie, but that was not the plan. ”Denis” posted:It is true that if Joe [Joe Walker, the editor] and I had let go, we could have done a version of several hours because I filmed a lot. But the final version is really the one that ends up on the screen. I have never done a director's cut of any of my films.
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# ? Oct 26, 2021 00:21 |
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To be fair, I don't think there has been a very big outcry of demand for a director's cut of any of his other films. But for dune, I could see him changing his mind especially if the studio gives him a mountain of cash to do it.
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porfiria posted:Denis feels like one of those directors with a fantastic visual sensibility who's ultimately at the mercy of the script he's working with. I feel like his next project should be Koyanisqaatsi 2. I literally just told someone he should make a move called "Denis Villeneuve directs beautiful scenes for 2 1/2 hours" and would make 90 million dollars. FLIPADELPHIA posted:To be fair, I don't think there has been a very big outcry of demand for a director's cut of any of his other films. But for dune, I could see him changing his mind especially if the studio gives him a mountain of cash to do it. He can easily side step it and not call it a directors cut. Call it a "expansive world cut" or some poo poo. He's the few that could still command as "close to final cut" rights as possible and I feel this is a "cinema vision" of dunc. Also he's need to start wheeling and dealing to generate post-movie revenue to get a part 2 filmed. Being amenable to the thought of a larger cut would go a long way. incoherent fucked around with this message at 00:44 on Oct 26, 2021 |
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