kalel posted:

speaking of flags, I'm surprised no one has brought up that one quick moment after the nuke where two sardaukar are righting a toppled flag. it looks an awful lot like this imo

kalel posted:

what the gently caress is wrong with you

kiimo posted:

Every 70mm IMAX showing in every theater is nearly all full with only single rando seats in stupid places like the front row.

ChairmanMauzer posted:

I've seen it twice so far in IMAX, and ya its been a full house each time. If your theater has pre-purchasing (and these days what theater doesn't), I'd recommend reserving seats like a week in advance. I think its definitely worth the effort to IMAX it.

One thing I noticed between the two showings was the difference in sound quality. It was way louder and more immersive on my 2nd showing where I was closer to the center sweet spot versus the first showing where I was back row.

Shaddak posted:

Bubblyblubber posted:

all you loving water fat morons out there IMAXing while you should do like me and be DUNEMAXing* your life

* making GBS threads in a bag, spitting on people's tables, clearly high all day, screaming prophetic bullshit at passersby

Bubblyblubber posted:

all you loving water fat morons out there IMAXing while you should do like me and be DUNEMAXing* your life

* making GBS threads in a bag, spitting on people's tables, clearly high all day, screaming prophetic bullshit at passersby

Antiquated Pants posted:

My Dune loving friend saw the movie and was so mad about the changes that she declared it the worst movie she'd ever seen and will in no way endorse or see the third one... Like drat, I understand having critiques and/or disappointments because things had to be cut, but it's a movie adaptation and things always have to be cut. Even if you take the DUNE out of it, it's a great film in general. The effects, both digital and practical were awesome, I am always in awe at how cool lasguns are, and was giggling in my seat when they did the worm invasion.

The explosion momentarily contained inside the ornithopter shield was a thing of beauty. I was disappointed that we didn't get a creepy off-putting child that spoke like an adult and stabbed the baron, sure. I love the weird poo poo that comes with this series, but I understand that Villeneuve didn't want to do a big time skip after already having a montage. It makes sense cinematically to do a time skip between films, which is clearly planned since they already cast a grown Alia in a vision. Instead, it was shown that Alia was basically controlling Jessica from the womb by the end of the movie... which is Frankly creepy enough for me!

Antiquated Pants posted:

I was disappointed that we didn't get a creepy off-putting child that spoke like an adult and stabbed the baron, sure. I love the weird poo poo that comes with this series, but I understand that Villeneuve didn't want to do a big time skip after already having a montage. It makes sense cinematically to do a time skip between films, which is clearly planned since they already cast a grown Alia in a vision. Instead, it was shown that Alia was basically controlling Jessica from the womb by the end of the movie... which is Frankly creepy enough for me!

Bubblyblubber posted:

all you loving water fat morons out there IMAXing while you should do like me and be DUNEMAXing* your life

* making GBS threads in a bag, spitting on people's tables, clearly high all day, screaming prophetic bullshit at passersby

kalel posted:

if you want to talk about the artistry of adaptation, fetus alia's integration into the story is pretty seamless. like if your starting parameter is "let's compress the timeline of dune's second half" then I challenge anyone to come up with a more elegant solution without eliminating her character entirely.

pnumoman posted:

I want to say it's some completely unrelated series, but then I squint and think about a game of telephone with Dune and Russian and I think maybe?

Cool covers nonetheless

Scags McDouglas posted:

I was skeptical as anyone about adult vision Alia being dropped into the story but that beach scene after Paul drinks the water is pure badassery.

Scarabrae posted:

Your friend is right, I said before its an amazing spectacle but a bad movie

kalel posted:

speaking of flags, I'm surprised no one has brought up that one quick moment after the nuke where two sardaukar are righting a toppled flag. it looks an awful lot like this imo

Vim Fuego posted:

I'm looking forward to the worms

Vim Fuego posted:

I'm looking forward to the worms

Tree Bucket posted:

A thing I just noticed:
Feyd asks if Chani is Paul's "pet;" this is the same word the baron used to describe the messed-up spider thing in Dune 1. Chani is very very lucky she didn't find out what harkonnen "special attention" was.

priznat posted:

(Attaching 4+ extra limbs)

Improbable Lobster posted:

i could use a couple extra arms tbf

MrMojok posted:

Yeah. The first time I saw Dune1, I wondered if maybe that ghastly spider-thing was Yueh’s wife, like they’d made her into that.

galagazombie posted:

I know the Harkonnen’s are evil and all but really how are they not running out of servants? Paul could have just waited and they’d probably depopulate Geidi Prime themselves with the rate they kill them. Darth Vader is a safer boss, at least he only killed you when you screwed up.

MrMojok posted:

Yeah. The first time I saw Dune1, I wondered if maybe that ghastly spider-thing was Yueh’s wife, like they’d made her into that.

kalel posted:

(Waiting) to reclaim their water
(Waiting) to retake the city
(Waiting) to follow the worms
(Waiting) to put on a stillsuit
(Waiting) to drive out the weaklings
(Waiting) to blow up their shield walls and start holy wars

WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:

The whole black sun thing is so loving interesting to me. I want to know more about dark stars