BlankSystemDaemon posted:

The whole "Will Dune II get made???????" is C-level executive bullshit from the studio forced upon the actors, directors and everyone else working on the movie, to try and generate more buzz.
There's no loving way Denis Villeneuve signed on to do half a movie based on a book that he's been wanting to make a movie out of, ever since he was a kid.

BlankSystemDaemon posted:

The budget was 165$ million and its already made $134,251,980 - and that's with several international markets not mentioned.

AlternateAccount posted:

Confirm. It's kinda amazing how hard you can crank it before it starts too look overdone.

Steve Yun posted:

How do homing missiles work without computers

Pffft

sebmojo posted:

Collapsing Farts posted:

man you have a lot of friends

Alchenar posted:

oh four friends AND a partner well look at mr la dee dah here

Alchenar posted:

Seriously though what was the actual setup you saw it in? Something like a high end home cinema system or cheap-rear end projector and PC speakers?

feedmyleg posted:

DV wants to make "at least three" Dunes

Halloween Jack posted:

I like the part where Paul says he'd rather have a song than a fight from Gurney, and it makes no sense because there is no context to know that Gurney Halleck is a bard. Lots of little things like that.

HK5000 posted:

I like how they never touch on Duncan's surname as it's just to silly to take seriously.

Hodgepodge posted:

Why's that not great?

Hodgepodge posted:

The point is that this human computer is a fish out of water.

Also Herbert was writing under the illusion that nice monarchs are naive and suffer from lacking the will to be maximally evil. And also that civilization makes people weak and soft.

So it may be easy for a reader not suffering from these delusion to miss that Thufir is being characterized as foolishly naive.

However, the point is also that people deemed experts, no matter how impressive the results of their knowledge and training, are often complete idiots when interacting with an indigenous person because their knowledge lies outside of the specialized vocabulary and assumptions of the fields the scientist is familiar with.

Normally this is masked by an extreme power disparity which means that the indigenous person cannot challenge a scientist, no matter how completely wrong the scientist is, say because they're working off first principles as if science was still taught straight out of Aristotle instead of listening and thinking. People like Kynes represent real and important exceptions, usually as overlooked as s/he is outside of their disciplines.

So this is being extremely gentle with the audience's prejudices here, and for good reason. I doubt you're at all racist, for example. But considering that was written like thirty years before Avatar, it's going pretty hard on deconstructing stuff audiences take for granted.

Eason the Fifth posted:

The thing about explaining things is that explaining things sucks turgid rear end. Star Wars is better without an extended universe that explains the most inconsequential details, like the dice on the Millenium Falcon. Star Trek was better when it didn't explain the Borg. Reader imagination is always, always better than what the creator can come up with, but explanations are profitable, so here he are.

This is me with an original thought that nobody has ever come up with before. Surely.

Kurzon posted:

How were the Harkonnens going to cover up the fact that the Emperor orchestrated the whole thing to eliminate the Atreides? There were Sardukar on Arrakis.

THE AWESOME GHOST posted:

Bene I always pronounced as Benny because it is Arabic for “sons of” (and I’m guessing Hebrew too?) and I assumed it was one of many Arabic words

My wife’s complaint about chani was she actually looks like a popular actress in a movie where the casting seemed very good otherwise. Especially with how good the fremen are otherwise (I’m still mad at Stilgar being pasty waterfat drunk uncle in the miniseries, Bardem is the stilgar I always pictured)

Kurzon posted:

Shouldn't those stillsuits be colored white instead of black so as not to absorb sunlight? In the Dune miniseries, they had a light color.

4000 Dollar Suit posted:

I wonder if that was the original intent but Zendaya went all diva and said he had to include everything she filmed.

jisforjosh posted:

I don't like agreeing with Ben Shapiro but his whole "feels strangely 15 minutes too long and 2 and a half hours too short" in his Dune review described it pretty well.

Uncle Wemus posted:

Origami Dali posted:

Did I miss a part where the movie explains what drum sand is? When Paul steps on it and says "drum sand!" panicked, it was as if we were supposed to know what that means, but since the audience hasn't been told what it is, it was a big ??? moment in the middle of what was supposed to be a suspenseful scene.

Gonz posted:

I accidentally misread this as “Jay Z as Feyd-Rautha”.

Trump posted:

This is my favorite post in all of CD

Halloween Jack posted:

I mean, they could just get a fresh-faced young actor who is actually talented and can play older. But let's be serious, they're definitely going to hire some feted European thespian for gravitas.

Xealot posted:

Yes. I agree with whoever said it'd be great to get 3 Dunc movies covering the first book and Messiah, then some kind of HBO miniseries interpreting Children / God Emperor.

That'd pretty much cover everything relevant about Dune.

neurotech posted:

Gotcha. I've been considering reading Dune for a while, and after seeing the movie I feel like there was a lot of stuff portrayed that I wanted to know more about. Do you get more exposition in the book?

neurotech posted:

Is that a good oh boy or bad oh boy?

I wasn’t sure on whether I should spoiler that - went with precaution.

Cerv posted:

and why not

porfiria posted:

In dune messiah theres a dwarf named bijaz. A character uses super ninja voice inflection to tell an 80 year old woman shes not a sex object. The bene gesserit try to make paul and his sister gently caress.

bushisms.txt posted:

Do the books go more into Duncan and Gurney's relationship? In the movie at least, I was sure they were a couple.