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Mister Speaker posted:I heard that when the Lynch film was released, theatregoers were given pamphlets that set the stage and established characters, like ultra-detailed play programmes. Is this true? It sounds pretty far-fetched but then again the theatrical cut does kind of just throw you into the plot, Virginia Madsen's creepy monologue aside. I don't think so. I attended the SF Bay Area premier, at Zellerbach Hall on the UC Berkeley campus. We got a program, but it had very little text beyond lists of characters and such. Lol, there were four stills from the movie in it and none of them were in the cut we saw.
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Dec 2, 2018 11:45
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LoudPipesSaveLives posted:it'll take a lot to drag me away from you 
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Dec 22, 2018 03:04
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Dune: Genesis is worth reading just for the phrase "pot of message". https://vasil.ludost.net/dunegenesis.pdf
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Jan 1, 2019 00:16
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steinrokkan posted:Asimov always felt like somebody who wanted to write academic polemics rather than fiction, and that's what makes his fiction both stiff and intriguing at the same time. And why filming his books would have been a travesty. But I was excited for an Asimov movie nonetheless. I re-read the Foundation trilogy last year. It does not hold up well at all. The male characters are cardboard, and the women are worse. The prose is stiffer than the cardboard. It's a classic, but not a timeless one.
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Jan 5, 2019 03:45
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D. Ebdrup posted:Only Heinlein thing I knew had been adopted was --All You Zombies-- which got called Predestination and was a pretty okay version of the book.. They did Puppet Masters in 1994. So so movie, but an actually really creepy book. I should re-read it to see if it turner terrible too.
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Jan 8, 2019 01:40
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exmachina posted:The revolution was Capital-L Libertarian (for the times). But Heinlein recognized that these situations never last. And Hazel Stone calling a govt authoritarian might not mean said Govt is what you and I call authoritarian. Yeah, "too authoritarian" for her encompasses a lot of things, including "failed her ship on inspection over Cr 50 worth of air filter spares".
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Feb 6, 2019 08:17
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I want the timeline where Dune was a standalone novel and Whipping Star got 5 sequels. And Destination Void was made into a landmark film eclipsing 2001. Better Skynet than Ship
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Feb 10, 2019 10:26
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:and most importantly The Cook, The Thief... Yeah, he's good.
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Feb 15, 2019 06:58
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Pissed Ape Sexist posted:Alia Shawkat as princess Irulan because the world needs more of her in our lives I am fully behind this. She can pull off "academic princess" no problem.
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Feb 15, 2019 06:58
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Elissimpark posted:All those are pretty cool, but that's an awesome ornithopter. That's amazing artwork.
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Feb 16, 2019 06:13
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I do wonder if they'll be true to the book in how Jessica is basically the protagonist for the first half, and specifically notices when Paul starts to take charge of his own destiny. Now I'm anticipating the backlash against a woman being the protagonist in a major SF blockbuster. gently caress. But that's a good observation and they'll probably cut the first movie right after that scene.
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Feb 21, 2019 05:06
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Rockopolis posted:Huh. I wonder if the MUDs are any good? Is there a current MUD/MUSH ? I was involved in the DuneMUSH & DuneMUSH 2 run out of the UCB CogSci department back in the day. I wish I knew then what I knew now about bash scripting. C'mon, fess up... there has to be another DuneMUSH alumni in this thread.
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Feb 27, 2019 08:15
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phasmid posted:So are the Jorj McKie books. I wish we'd gotten six of those, the Consentiency was an interesting place. Four of the Destination: Void books was a nice treat though.
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May 4, 2019 19:07
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free hubcaps posted:I picked up a copy of The Dragon in the Sea at the local used book store, is it any good? there’s not enough nautical sf in the world imo Dragon in the Sea, Hellstrom's Hive, Destination: Void, Green Brain, Whipping Star, and Dosadi Experiment are all superb novels. Personally, I'd rather have had 4 more Dosadi books and had the Dune series end after Messiah, but we're in the bad timeline so we got what we got.
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Jul 15, 2019 16:39
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Pham Nuwen posted:There's only 12 comments when I looked at it, and they all seemed pretty normal and fine except for this specimen: This guy is just fantastically, hilariously, mega wrong. An almost perfect specimen of the stupidest possible human has crossbred with an anti-prescient to create MAGAman.
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Sep 5, 2019 08:17
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sebmojo posted:If you find a copy of Doon, grab it because it's legit hilarious. It's funnier than Bored of the Rings, which is a high bar to clear.
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Oct 15, 2019 07:27
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Surf rock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wsCxxyw4Zo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wpuOc7SSSE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdMTybElVgk
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Jan 23, 2020 09:10
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:It's an 80s thing, I have no idea why. It's awful but endearing; off the top of my head I think Predator does it, too. Yeah, that's 80s.avi right there.
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Feb 10, 2020 02:46
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Tree Bucket posted:I guess Dune is built around examining the things we do to survive. The desert hawk eats carrion, the Fremen drink poop water, and the nobles have all their kanly forms to obey. Dune asks us to consider which of these we consider more or less good or disgusting, and why. Herbert keeps asking if ecological drives and pressures are tools for humans to use, or laws for humans to transcend, or an inescapable tragedy to which we can only respond by singing something sad with our baliset.... I saved a copy.
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Feb 18, 2020 04:28
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I dont know posted:Yeah, it's explicitly mentioned that the hive makes sexual stumps out of both men and woman. Body horror indeed. I'd stand in line to volunteer to hand-carry a backpack nuke into the hive. I've read a fair amount of horror, and the hive just inspires an existential loathing like nothing else. If it existed, I'd need to do anything to eradicate it.
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Mar 28, 2020 09:15
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pentyne posted:Stranger in a Strange Land: Everyone should be loving everyone else as much as they can to save the world That's about right, his most consistent message was 'it's okay to gently caress whoever turns you on'. That's a good summary of Starship Troopers, but let's not forget The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress where the Loonies claim association with everyone on Earth's revolutionary holiday and end up with a tricameral legislature where the third house exists solely to review and repeal legislation passed by the other two.
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Jun 4, 2020 09:29
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Pham Nuwen posted:Yeah Hellstrom's kicks rear end. One of the creepiest novels ever written.
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Jun 22, 2020 04:01
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:My guess is that he had something on the side but who knows. He got way into Tantric sex magic, that much is obvious from the descriptions of the white light of ecstasy. e. extremely shameful snipe 
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Jul 2, 2020 07:46
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uber_stoat posted:hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm The exact opposite of a 'pro follow'. I hope the artist is making good money off of that.
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Jul 18, 2020 07:14
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Based on what little I bothered with of the first novel, it's mediocre prose with occasional spikes into aggressively, throw-this-book, bad. But not bad enough to read it for laughs.
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Aug 3, 2020 04:45
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Rappaport posted:Someone made a (sort of) shot by shot comparison of the DUNC trailer and the two previous iterations, and I thought it was pretty rad, esp. the WORM comparison shots, and I wanted to share this with my Dune posting pals Nice ! This makes it look like they're more updating Lynch than acknowledging the SciFi miniseries. Can't blame 'em personally.
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Sep 13, 2020 09:29
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Ironically, the violently disinherited scion of a noble house adapting to, and rising to lead, an insular indigenous people is an ideal character to be the audience exposition stand in. But then there's the whole "know your ways as if born to them" thing.
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Sep 14, 2020 01:45
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!Klams posted:Prove to me that Jeff Bezos isn't consuming staggering amounts of hard disks with bitcoins saved on them? You're thinking of John McAfee.
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Jan 25, 2021 23:00
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Ventral EggSac posted:Yo mama so fat she flouted the Great Convention and had the Ixians build her a cart Yo mama so fat, she has to fold space to go get her nails done.
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Feb 2, 2021 03:37
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Johnny Aztec posted:Is any of Frank's other works worth reading? I think people here have said before that most of his previous works were just building up to Dune. Destination: Void and sequels are very good Hellstrom's Hive is creepy as hell. Whipping Star/Dosadi are a setting I'd have loved see see another half-dozen volumes in.
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Jun 21, 2021 16:24
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Mister Speaker posted:Somewhat related, I've been watching The Handmaid's Tale and it occurred to me that Joseph Fiennes is like Jared Leto if he didn't totally suck. The show is open to criticism, but the acting (and directing) is superb from just about everyone, and the leads more so. Every Emmy has been earned.
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Jul 1, 2021 03:36
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ElBrak posted:*Twenty goons piss into a well, nearby Fremen gasp in awe and whisper among themselves* They give water to the stupid!
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Jul 24, 2021 19:20
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skasion posted:You think that’s gross, you should read Hellstrom’s Hive Hellstrom's Hive is easily Herbert's best standalone novel. The Hive is so goddamned creepy. Human enough that we can have POV scenes on the inside, but it's all so loving wrong. Every time I re-read the book, everything that tells me who I am, that tells me what I am, spends the entire book screaming in horror. It's the ultimate replacement nightmare, but so far removed from any merely human threat that the fascist tropes don't apply. I would stand in line for the opportunity to carry a backpack nuke into the Hive
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Oct 8, 2021 08:23
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Earwicker posted:has anyone itt read any of herbert's non-dune books or series? my dad had one with books called destination void and the jesus incident that seemed to be mostly about ai and clones and an ocean planet called pandora. i tried it as a teenager but couldnt get into it The Dune series isn't Herbert's best work. Dune itself is great, but Destination: Void, Helstrom's Hive, and Whipping Star just to name three are better that (at least) any of the Dune sequels. Destination: Void is a challenge to build a true AI or die, and leads into the Pandora cycle which combines ecology with spirituality the same way Dune remixed ecology and politics. Helstrom's is straight horror, and deeply effective at it; you get some proto-Tleilaxu poo poo like "reproductive stumps". Creepy as hell. Whipping Star is wonderfully bizarre, and has some short stories and The Dosadi Experiment as sequels; Dosadi is about an experiment in creating supersoldiers that succeeds too well. When you give up on the Dune sequels, Herbert still has more of the good stuff.
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Nov 22, 2021 17:45
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skasion posted:Also any discussion of crazy 20th c SFF authors would be incomplete without Cordwainer Smith, who was apparently perfectly nice personally but also a batshit insane propaganda master for the nationalist chinese His godfather was Sun Yat Sen, cut the guy a break. During the Korean War he was writing propaganda leaflets that had phrases that sounded like "Duty, honor, country" in Chinese, but "Don't shoot" in English. Anybody who can do that kind of linguistic trickery is bound to be a little unusual.
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Jan 18, 2022 10:44
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Lincoln posted:What the gently caress are you people talking about. Really, really, strong post/avatar combo.
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Dec 29, 2022 09:27
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priznat posted:can ya tie em in a knot? Do they weigh an awful lot?
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Feb 22, 2023 06:46
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Mister Speaker posted:Found in the Memes Thread: Yeah, that's a little on the nose.
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Yeah, no.
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