BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

Also Villeneuve owns and is the best possible director they could've picked for the project.

basic hitler posted:

I recommend The Jesus Incident

basic hitler posted:

i want a choam gang tag.

Ramrod Hotshot posted:

As loopy as Lynch’s Dune was its probably the most stoner friendly space movie ever made.

Murray Mantoinette posted:

Mein Kampf Enthusiast posted:

Which story was that?

JacquelineDempsey posted:

I'll second recommending Wolfe. If you enjoy Herbert's world building style of giving you just enough info to get an idea in your head, but not spelling it out, that was what I grew to love when I read his Book of the New Sun tetralogy. The narrator just mentions stuff as if you know what he's talking about. It frustrated me at first because I was just a teen on my first read and used to being spoon fed descriptions in scifi/fantasy, but then it finally grew on me. I read those before I read Dune, so that was a big part in Dune grabbing me and never letting me go.

Same style of using corruptions/far-future evolutions of words we're familiar with, too. Like, I don't think Herbert ever gets into exactly what an ornithopter looks like, does he? But you can parse the first part meaning "bird" and clinging to the ancient (to them) word "helicopter", and form your own idea of an aircraft with flapping wings. I love that sort of linguistic play.

Dyna Soar posted:

if i were to recommend something, check out crash, high rise and concrete island from his mid-period. it's all bleak, twistedly funny satire of 70s england. then from his newer work i liked super-cannes and millennium people, but cocaine nights is good as well. those deal with more modern issues such as a jaded, disillusioned middle class and instead of some made-up future, shows our modern society as a dystopia.

he's my favourite writers, really.

the problem with dick (heh) is that he was truly insane, he had a massive substance abuse problem and since he was basically a pulp writer employed by magazines, he got paid by the word. he has a few themes (paranoia, drugs, the concept of reality) and he writes about those same themes over and over again. his best work is phenomenal, his worst is like bad p.k. dick fanfiction.

paul_soccer10 posted:

It also had a rat taped to the side of it for some reason lol

paul_soccer10 posted:

movie kicks so much rear end

Lathespin.gif posted:

read the entire thread, didn't see this posted yet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIzTat3OD3w

dune owns.

ToxicSlurpee posted:

It''s suggested that each House usually hires at least one Mentat because, gently caress, why wouldn't you? The suggestion is that one is ultimately enough and affording two might be cost-prohibitive.

Mister Speaker posted:

What is the significance of the Guild Navigator's dialogue in the opening of the Lynch film:

DebonaireD posted:

Roles still in the air, the major ones as I see them -

Feyd Rautha Harkonnen - Justin Bieber
Emperor Shaddam IV - Robert De Niro
Liet Kynes - Russell Crowe
Alia - role given as a prize to winner of Miss Alabama under 5's beauty pageant
Princess Irulan - Melissa McCarthy
Thufir Hawat - The "Bazinga" guy
Duncan Idaho - The Rock
Dr.Wellington Yueh - Quentin Tarantino
Piter deVries - CGI Tarkin from Rogue One

Place your bets, people. Sky's the limit, it seems.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

I remember some old fact books that probably count as EU fluff saying that most of Tatooine's population live in the planet's equivalent of the polar regions or at least the cooler latitudes, since the rest of the planet is basically uninhabitable to creatures not specialised in that biome.

Phil Moscowitz posted:

So how are the ways "no computers/AI" and "no nukes" affect ability to genocide?

1. No ICBMs or orbital bombardment or anything else that requires continuously calculating trajectories, complex navigational or targeting instruments, or fly-by-wire (do shields stop missiles?)
2. No drones or killbots except hunter seekers I guess
3. ?

Still have poo poo like autocannons, chain guns, and miniguns, explosive rockets, dumb bombs, sand worms, whatever pre-programmed scripts a mentat can come up with, hot lava pits, iron maidens, stabbing lots of people, etc.

Phanatic posted:

Arrival was the best sci-fi movie since Moon.... 2049 was literally the most anyone could hope for from a Blade Runner sequel, especially one that didn't get made until that long after the original.

RipVTide posted:

Sure I'll bite, what's this?

Temaukel posted:

I think this is the first instance of fully-erect-megahorny Frank:

Frank posted:

He felt twining bodies, the sounds of sex, rhythms laced in every sensory impression: lips, breathing, moist breaths, tongues. Somewhere in his vision there were helix shapes, coal-colored, and he felt the beat of those shapes as they turned within him. A voice pleaded in his skull: ‘Please, please, please, please …’ There was an adult beefswelling in his loins and he felt his mouth open, holding, clinging to the girdershape of ecstasy. Then a sigh, a lingering groundswelling sweetness, a collapse.

Honky Dong Country posted:

https://soundcloud.com/user-641725526/beefswelling

Tree Bucket posted:

I love the sandworms and Dune to bits, but the idea of an ecosystem with only one species in it makes my brain itch. It doesn't woooooork.

Mad Hamish posted:

I can't even tell if this is real or fake and that makes me both angry and happy enough that I'm not looking it up to find out.

Tree Bucket posted:

...it can't be safe having a naked blade just sitting there like that. Unless their armour is just really, really good?

Joke Miriam posted:

I like that the stillsuits have well-defined poo-pouches on the thighs.

euphronius posted:

This will be the best movie ever and I will construct elaborate defensive constructs to justify it

Prolonged Priapism posted:

kiimo posted:

Happy 65th anniversary of the publishing of Dune

Durf posted:

thank god. maybe we won't have Atriedes Funko Pops

Murray Mantoinette posted:

I believe this involves footage of someone rock climbing their way out of the Sareer.

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

wait i gotta back up a second. so are we going to go to the theater and sit in a pod to watch dune? is that the theory?