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1 posted on 09/20/2020 5:14:36 PM PDT by tbw2
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Another Dune Remake?
https://libertyislandmag.com/2019/03/08/another-dune-remake/


2 posted on 09/20/2020 5:14:56 PM PDT by tbw2
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The sleeper has awakened.


3 posted on 09/20/2020 5:28:37 PM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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I know Syfy has made a number of B-list sci-fi movies, but their Dune remakes a decade ago were works of art.

I couldn't agree more. The SyFy series will be the benchmark on how I grade the new movie.

4 posted on 09/20/2020 5:28:44 PM PDT by SanchoP
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I heard about it, then watched the preview.

Paul Atreides looks effeminate, like a soy boy. Don’t like it.

I liked the three part series that came out in 2000. Wasn’t perfect, but I liked it. Didn’t like the movie with Sting.


5 posted on 09/20/2020 5:29:53 PM PDT by rlmorel ("Truth is Treason in the Empire of Lies"- George Orwell)
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“disastrous movie that came out in 1984.”

WTF?

You need to be REALLY high, and then watch it.

The Floating Fat Man is mind blowing.
The Beast.
Alicia Witt, before Hallmark.
Young and smoking hot Francesca Annis.

Draft Spaten and some Kona Gold in yer Hookah


7 posted on 09/20/2020 5:41:31 PM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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I wish more classic sci-fi novel series would get a high end tv series treatment today. The right way to do something like Dune, the Demon Princes or the Berserker series isn’t a movie in 2020. Or in the case of Dune a pair of movies.

Of course trusting them not to make random characters homosexual for no reason beyond ‘inclusion’ would be asking a lot. So on the other hand maybe it’s better they stay away.

Freegards


11 posted on 09/20/2020 5:47:09 PM PDT by Ransomed
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Official trailer:

https://www.imdb.com/video/vi3049046297?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1

eh...


14 posted on 09/20/2020 5:58:47 PM PDT by dynachrome (The panic will end, the tyranny will not)
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My question is that whoever is playing Feyd Rautha isn’t listed in the cast, so is the character not even in the movie? Seems weird as he’s Paul’s foil.


15 posted on 09/20/2020 6:00:45 PM PDT by struggle
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They’ve been out of original ideas for years. Can only make re-makes now.


16 posted on 09/20/2020 6:14:10 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (Religion. It's like a History class. Without the facts.)
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Looks good. I’m looking forward to it. But they cast Imperial Planetologist Liet Kynes a woman. I don’t know how the purists will react/are reacting to it.

FWIW, I enjoyed David Lynch’s movie from the 80’s, even though it felt incomplete and rushed. The two Sci-Fi Channel miniseries from the early 00’s covering the first trilogy I thought well done on balance—even excellent in places—despite the cheap production and uneven casting. I like it better than Peter Jackson’s treatment of Tolkie’s material.

The documentary called “Jadarworky’s DUNE” that was released some years back was also very entertaining and enlightening concerning the efforts he and others made in getting Frank Herbert’s book to the big screen.


17 posted on 09/20/2020 6:18:30 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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Hopefully it will not be as dull and have an ugly character like Baron Harkonnen to stare at as in the 1984 Dune movie.


23 posted on 09/20/2020 7:03:23 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....He the master will plant more cotton for the democrat party)
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I think Dune is one of those properties that is impossible to effectively translate to the screen. I’ve believed that for years.


25 posted on 09/20/2020 7:13:22 PM PDT by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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Why be so human-centric? Let the worms win this time!


29 posted on 09/20/2020 7:31:13 PM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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Yep... A total LGBGT cast will guarantee box office success...


30 posted on 09/20/2020 7:31:28 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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The make new “Dunes” every year during hurricane season at the beaches.

However, I’m still in love with Sean Young.


32 posted on 09/20/2020 7:43:47 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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I’d rather have a good Starship Troopers movie.


34 posted on 09/20/2020 8:13:22 PM PDT by ebshumidors
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I’ll watch it. I LOVED the first one. Especially the 4 hour version.

SPICE!


39 posted on 09/20/2020 10:31:05 PM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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The 1984 movie was generally pretty good.

The new one, which has been under production for some time, is cinematically spectacular.

Not sure I like this incarnation of Paul, though.


40 posted on 09/21/2020 4:04:57 AM PDT by sauropod (I will not comply.)
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Uncanny ability to take a terrific book and destroy it through film.

Too many lazy minds feel Dune is the book In movie form and they have no idea just how deep and rich and complicated the story is.


43 posted on 09/21/2020 7:29:50 PM PDT by Hulka
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I see they re-did “ THE STAND “ and Woopi Goldberg is in it. May not watch it.


55 posted on 12/22/2020 1:38:08 PM PST by jetson (chiwowa)
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