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davidspackage posted:The whispered inner monologues are such a blunt method of adapting a book that lets you read any character's thoughts, but it gives the movie a unique quality. Maybe Villeneuve should have the characters speak their thoughts directly in the camera, like panto performers. Reading this thread is not only bringing back memories of reading the novel and watching Lynch's adaptation, but also National Lampoon's Doon, where a galactic conflict is fought over control of the mind-altering substance, beer. Also ribbed were the internal monologues, conversations where everyone is hiding their true intent, "Aaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh", Drunken Omaha, Safire Halfwit and - a joke I didn't get until years later - NOAMCHOMSKY. Edit: I just this second realised who "Safire" is mocking. Small Strange Bird fucked around with this message at 13:54 on Jan 23, 2020 |
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Sidenote: I'm re-reading Doon (thanks, ebay!) and there are so many jokes I didn't get when I first read it as a teen. Herbert's literary style is ribbed even more mercilessly than I remember, as well. Definitely worth a read if you can find it.
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Just realised that the first line of the thread should have been: A N I D A H O
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Gonna be fun for the studio publicity guy who realises he has to find a way to sell a story that's essentially 'the rise of Mohammed, and Islam's Jihad against imperialist capitalism' to the Star Wars and Marvel crowd. How far will "...but with giant sandworms!" go?
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Feb 6, 2020 18:09
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Now he looks like the wrathful Buddha. Now he looks like he's in a wind tunnel!
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Apr 13, 2020 15:22
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Samovar posted:What's that from? I think I recognise it... drat, now I'm picturing Joe Don Baker as Lynch's Baron.
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Apr 14, 2020 22:02
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Don't you mean "Ahhhhhhh-h-h-h-h"?
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MrL_JaKiri posted:I assume this is the bit where the spice miner gets eaten?
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May 12, 2020 15:58
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Edit: Freezeframe anime intros. "You're probably wondering who I am and how I got here..." [Montage of character names superimposed Michael Bay-style on stylised freeze-frames. Whoomp, PAUL! Whoomp, LETO! Whoomp, DUNCAN! Whoomp, GURNEY!]]
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Michael Bay's Dune: a stuntperson is killed during the filming of one scene, so footage of Shockwave's giant worm is awkwardly cut into the movie (with ornithopters CGI'd in to cover any Transformers) as a replacement for the missing shot.
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TheOmegaWalrus posted:https://theplaylist.net/dune-sneak-peek-inception-re-release-20200616/
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spanky the dolphin posted:https://twitter.com/DRMovieNews1/status/1301573216255832064?s=20
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Sep 6, 2020 22:19
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'The Robots of Death' was actually the trigger for the Butlerian Jihad.
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Mulva posted:It helps to remind yourself that all helicopters work on the theory that the helicopter is too stupid to know it shouldn't work, and must be distracted from all times from realizing the unnatural state of it's existence, least it return to it's natural resting state of "lying at the bottom of a burning crater". (The version I heard was: the only reason helicopters can fly is that they're so ugly, the ground pushes them away.)
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Sep 9, 2020 09:12
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Maybe Villeneuve is taking a "the actors' faces are the most important thing in a shot and nothing should distract from them" approach, but that felt... sterile. All these huge, expansive spaces with not a lot going on in them, as if background detail had been deliberately toned down. Still, maybe that's because I was viewing it on a phone and it'll look far more impressive on a giant screen... ah.
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Sep 9, 2020 18:54
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MY WIFE has gone to bed early, so gonna drink wine and watch LynchDune tonight, because why the gently caress not.
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Sep 11, 2020 20:48
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Ha, I'd completely forgotten that in the Lynch film, ultra-badass fan fave Duncan Idaho (played by, um, the national security advisor from The Hunt For Red October? Yeah, I didn't recognise him either) appears in like three scenes and is merked by some random Harkonnen soldier in five seconds flat.
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Sep 11, 2020 22:09
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MikeJF posted:It'll be at the very end of Part I, won't it?
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Sep 15, 2020 12:04
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Microsoft's lawyers suddenly perk up and are not quite sure why.
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Sep 15, 2020 14:12
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Filming the first half of a novel without any commitment to making the rest is just a mind-blowingly  decision. Lynch's film may have been something of a train wreck, but at least it told a complete story. So is this just going to end with a card saying "Baron Harkkonen died on the way to his home planet"?Dune's a densely-packed story, sure, but it's still a single book. If you can't condense it even to a three-hour epic, you're not trying hard enough.
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I just have a grim feeling that with the glut of big movies waiting to be released, Dune - which is anything but a fun and exciting four-quadrant spectacular with a traditional uplifting hero's journey storyline - will get good reviews only to be kerbstomped at the box office by Bond or Fast 9 or whatever Marvel movie is cued up. And "it's only half a story!" will be touted as one of the reasons. 
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Feb 10, 2021 16:11
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Mention of the Butlerian Jihad made me think: it's been a long time since I read past the first book (think I got as far as God-Emperor in my teens), but is Ix the only known world that isn't a feudal nightmare run by warring aristocrats or conquered by brutal religious fanatics? I remember thinking it sounded like the only planet where I might remotely want to live; is there a catch?
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Jul 17, 2021 19:59
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Odds that the two "pause the trailer to give the audience a chance to laugh" quips are the only jokes in the entire movie?
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Jul 22, 2021 15:54
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Jewmanji posted:It's like having multiple Christs. There can be only one.
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I have to admit, I'm still concerned that we're going to end up with half a story that never gets finished. "Should we go for a three-hour runtime and try to get the whole book in there, even if it means truncating or dropping some aspects? I mean, Titanic and Avengers Endgame were three hours long and people sat through those." "Nah, two and half hours max, and we'll leave Paul leading the Fremen against the Harkonnens until part 2. After all, what are the odds that some kind of global emergency will massively affect the potential box-office returns on our $160 million movie?"
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Aug 20, 2021 16:15
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Maybe Part 2's going to be like part 2 of Atlas Shrugged, where it's made on half the budget and with a totally different and cheaper cast.
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Aug 20, 2021 22:46
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Groovelord Neato posted:It's not getting unanimous praise unfortunately.
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porfiria posted:Is there any reason why in Dune the preferred method of fighting isn't to ram SUVs into each other? Wouldn't a shielded SUV ramming into a shielded dude still gently caress the dude up really bad from getting thrown around? D U N C (buggy)
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Sep 10, 2021 23:58
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THE AWESOME GHOST posted:I am struggling to find the quote now but I remember reading that when the police caught and arrested pedophiles in the US they were almost always Star Trek fans Small Strange Bird fucked around with this message at 08:40 on Oct 10, 2021 |
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Oct 10, 2021 08:05
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Jewmanji posted:The baron is not very Trumpy. I know, it's "Barron"
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Tankbuster posted:Look it sets up the Sardaukar as a pretty cool elite villain. Its just the fight scenes felt kinda like a football riot with slightly more jumping around
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Oct 23, 2021 22:31
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Fast & Fremen.
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Dune adjacent: the NYT has an article about AI being used to create production stills from a movie that never existed - in this case, Jodorowsky's Tron. (The AI was trained mostly on his Dune production art, and the results are, IMO, pretty drat cool.)
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