Skinnymansbeerbelly posted:

I maintain that the correct way to read Dune is to find an old, yellowed paperback copy in some backwater branch library that smells like 🚬 and .

William Bear posted:

Speaking of the New York Times, Paul Krugman just used his column to positively review Dune (and contrast it to the lame Foundation TV show):

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/26/opinion/dune-movie-foundation-series.html

The Bloop posted:

I'm sure someone can improve it, but this post really inspired me:

Prolonged Panorama posted:

tfw u dunc but they still suk'n

Ramc posted:

also its this season again isnt it

The Bloop posted:

!Klams posted:

Just saw the new film.

Guys it's loving amazing

BeanpolePeckerwood posted:

https://www.indiewire.com/2021/10/denis-villeneuve-dune-part-2-theatrical-window-non-negotiable-1234675222/

Sourdough Sam posted:

Heck, the theater we saw it in on opening weekend was full of teens who were stoked to see Zendaya.

No Mods No Masters posted:

It was good to have someone give a recognizably human, emotional performance in the movie full of space weirdos. It fell to a woman so the usual Skylar arguments are going to have to play out

Imagined posted:

I'm glad to hear my subjective opinion is objectively wrong.

uber_stoat posted:

just wanted to note that i thought it was cool that they depicted specialized shield piercing munitions during the Harkonnen attack and you can see the shells piercing the shields, exploding within and being contained in the shield before then erupting when the shield generator fails. details!

Panfilo posted:

Was that the reason? I never knew why he didn't marry her. Did Leto know who her real father was?

Yadoppsi posted:

Really, I think we all can agree this would have been a superior movie if there were more Marvel style quips throughout.

Automatic Slim posted:

PLANNED BENE GESSERIT BREEDING PROGRAM

code:

                                      Vladamir Harkonnen + Gaius Helen Mohiam
                                             I                              I
                                             I                              I 
                                             I                 Lady Jessica + Leto Atreides
                                             I                                 I
                                             I                                 I
                                    (nephew) Feyd-Rautha   +  "Paula" Atreides
                                                                        I
                                                                        I
                                                        Kwisatz Haderach

That's some quite intentional inbreeding.

e: SA posting messed up my well diagramed family tree

Buller posted:

Anyone else thinking about dune??

kalel posted:

I'm thinking about going to see it again, tonight, this time in imax

euphronius posted:

DV’s obsession with people seeing this theaters was strange . It was fine on a tv. I guess he gets less money with less box office idk

Mister Speaker posted:

So what's the consensus on the Baron's creepy 'pet' creature? Is it Wanna?

quote:

At one stage during filming of Dune at Origo Film Studios in Budapest, visual effects supervisor Paul Lambert, having implemented a raft of sand-colored screens–rather than blue or greenscreens–on the backlot there, was asked by the line producer on set whether this meant everything would now need to be rotoscoped.

As they walked Lambert took a picture of the backlot covered in ‘sandscreen’ with his iPhone, brought this into a standard app and made a negative (inverted) image of the scene. “That’s when he realized that the entire thing was a bluescreen,” says Lambert.

Automatic Slim posted:

Mods, please change thread title to A Spider Thing Called Wanna.

uber_stoat posted:

just saw a post stating that the Sardaukar are actually speaking English, just a version of it that's brutally attenuated and has had lots of syllables stripped out. i kind of noticed it when he said "emperor" but didn't make the connection.

stratdax posted:

I rewatched the miniseries, first time since it aired.
It's quite good. I mean ignoring some of the acting and production and bad CGI and low budget sets and directing, narratively I think it a better adaptation of the novel than Dunc was. It had lots of the little touches Dunc stripped out that shows more humanity, more to the characters, and more to the universe and Arrakis especially than just 3 or 4 armies fighting each other.

quote:

I also think their version of the voice was better than Dunc.
The voice as described in the novel would just sound like "these aren't the droids you're looking for" so I get the adaptations have to do something different, but Dunc was a bit over the top, especially with Jessica commanding the three guys in the ship.

uber_stoat posted:

https://twitter.com/bigblackjacobin/status/1458891075578441735?s=20

Earwicker posted:

i am bad at math personally but that example seemed like a rather easy math problem?

euphronius posted:

In the context of the movie , Fremen society is working and almost utopian

In comparison!:

The Biden-esque fore-story of “liberal mandates” is incredibly depressing and Leto rightfully dies quickly.

(Talking movie only here )

euphronius posted:

In the movie the fremen are living a wonderful life outside the scope of liberal history . The liberal appropriation golem can’t even see their green fields. They are way beyond the sterile world of harkonesn and atriedies

I’m Just talking movie here . Books are different

Prolonged Panorama posted:

"How do you call among you the little bird, the bird that drinks?"

Stilgar frowned. "We call that one deceiver-of-boys. It makes a mockery of the thermodynamics, and though it appears to drink, and conserve water inside itself, it instead evaporates the water in to the air for its fun. A hateful, wasteful machine." And he made a fist near his right ear. "We will speak no more of it."

uber_stoat posted:

i said this in my mind in Javier's accent, fukken cool. lmao