ANYBODY SEEN IT YET?..........................
See what the author did there, Dune fanboys?
Even though being a Sci-Fi reader and movie watcher since my youth, I stopped half way through when reading Dune back when. The 80’s movie was a cluster. I was going to try this reboot but changed my mind not knowing how long for sequel.
At the beginning of the movie doesn’t it say Part I?
Watched 1/2, pleased so far.
I liked it way better than the last one with Sting. Great choice for Chani. Stayed pretty true to the book Yes, chops off way too soon.
A story about...
Worms! Giant worms coming out of the Mojave desert trying to eat me. Why? These worms are protecting something?
Then I find out that these critters produce a weird kind of spice. Their tunnels have residue of it all over the place.
So we bring some home to our friends and try to decide what to do with it.
Consensus is we get a hooka, some coals and see what happens.
After a few minutes the First lady’s friend (Jennifer) says to the group, “I’m piloting a spaceship through a worm hole.”
Then Paul says, “I’m riding the worm!”
The moral of the story?
Leave the spice alone...
Pass me the Melange por favor.
5.56mm
I want to see it. When I was a kid, I remember seeing the book “Dune” in the paperback racks of the stores. The giant worm in the sand on the cover was so out there and intriguing… but I never got around to reading it. I did see the David Lynch version on VHS in the 80s. Very weird and you could sort of tell something was missing from the story. In the 90s, I saw a much longer version of Lynch’s version with many scenes and characters that were barely shown in the original version . It wasn’t perfect, but it did try to include more of the book. The directing credit says “Alan Smithee” which I think is a pseudonym movie studios use to salvage some big-budget disasters. Eventually, I read the books through till “God Emperor of Dune.” IMHO no movie will ever put “Dune” on the screen.
Dune 1984 Alternative Edition Redux [Spice Diver Fan Edit] [ENGLISH+SPANISH SUBTITLES] - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJykw3H4PDw
The original Dune story line was excellent (read the books), rivaling Foundation and other sci-fi classics. My guess is that the intention is to create a venue for extended episodes, not unlike the Star Wars universe. I mean, why not?
Great flick. 2.5 hours....whish it was 5 hours. Sadly they have not determined if making part 2 as of last week.
I’m bored already.
Dune is pro mind-altering drugs, and was born out of the sixties drug culture.
Let me know when it hits free TV
The first Dune movie bombed but I still liked it. It tried to cram in everything it could from the book. I thought the movie would be very confusing to the uninitiated and it was.
While the new one trims out more details it apparently requires a bit of concentration to follow still.
The music and effects were awesome. It really draws you into the grand scale of the conflict between two hostile royal houses. I didn't know it was only half a movie so when the end credits rolled I was disappointed.
In the spirit of our excessively inclusive times they changed a Character from a white guy to a black woman. Fortunately that was the only taint of Hollywierd I noticed, no queers were tossed in like The Star Trek movie I refused to watch.
I found it worth the watch. By the way if you have not seen 'The Rescue' go see it, it was very inspiring.
Interesting. There wasn’t much of space battling in the book.
Watched it. Passable. On the plus side, it’s a straightforward action epic that steers clear (so far) of anything sketchy in terms of woke Hollywood nonsense or gratuitous nudity or sex. The good guys are good guys and the bad guys are bad guys, ugly, and cruel as bad guys should be. Paul hasn’t become the Madhi yet so the holy war is still to come, in part 2. For those who don’t know the story, there is LOTS of violence, but Dune is (among other things) a big war story, and the violence is inherent in the source material. In texture, it’s basically Star Wars level violence. Some might even criticize the film for being too sanitary and thereby camouflaging the horrors of war. There’s no nudity or sex, and the men treat the women with respect.
I’d say it’s basically an old-fashioned film, so I don’t want to judge it too harshly. Aside from the modern special effects, there’s nothing in it that couldn’t have been shot in the 1960’s. My biggest complaint is that it’s about 45 minutes too long. It was also conceived and produced pre-covid explicitly as a big screen spectacular. I watched it at home. I’d probably have a much better impression had I seen it in a theater. David Villeneuve flipped out when Warner made a unilateral decision (without running the trap lines with the director and cast) to release simultaneously on HBO Max and in theaters. I see his point. It’s a much lesser film on a small screen.
It took me three tries to get through it. I fell asleep in 15 minutes the first time, but I had taken a long bike ride earlier and blame it partly on that. The second time, I just got bored and turned it off. But it wasn’t terrible, so I sucked it up and finished it just to check it off the list.
I watched it largely because of Dune’s stature as one of the foundational pieces of modern space science fiction. I read the books many years ago, when I had my youthful fling with science fiction. I was never a particular fan of Herbert’s stuff; Asimov, Heinlein and Clarke wrote much better sci fi, but Herbert rounds out the Big Four so I felt a cultural competence imperative to see what Villeneuve would do with the story.
It’s Frank Herbert’s universe, so interstellar travel depends on hallucinogenic drugs and, despite the presence of space ships and all manner of advanced weaponry, the serious battles are decided by sword fighting. It didn’t make sense in the 60’s either, but Herbert figured his readers were too drugged to care.
Herbert had a love affair with Araby so he turned the Fremen into cleaned-up jihadis. He was also writing a surrealistic tale for the drugged up hippies of the love generation, who liked the idea of hallucinogenic drugs as the gateway to the stars. On the plus side, Herbert invented giant sandworms, so give him that. We wouldn’t have graboids if Herbert hadn’t blazed the trail.
By the way, Apple tv has just rolled out a Foundation series as well. I started that out of a similar sense of obligation but gave up midway through the second episode. Heinlein wrote better stuff than Herbert ever imagined and the Foundation trilogy is essential reading if you’re into sci fi, but the current tv series is tedious beyond redemption.
Looping in the usual suspects.
I read the books. Saw the 84 version. I’m now in no more money to Hollyweird mode. No real desire to see this anyway. I’m all movied out.
about the best you can say for this rendition of Dune is that it is less bad than the last version of Dune.