Dune

"LastFirstMI is my name" (donstone13) 09/10/2020 at 21:55 • Filed to: None

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If this movies sucks, it will be exactly what I expect from 2020.

I don’t like the soundtrack on the trailer, but I’ll watch it anyway so I guess it doesn’t matter. Anybody else excited/nervous about this?

On a related note, I worked with a guy named Paul Atreides. If he could see the future, he did a great job hiding it.

BaconSandwich is tasty. > LastFirstMI is my name 09/10/2020 at 22:09

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I watched Dune for the first time a few months ago. Honestly: it’s a neat setting, but a terrible story. Of maybe it was an okay story, but told in a terrible way. For never having seen it before, it seemed to introduce a ton of things, some of which were only semi relevent to the plot. It’s almost like it was trying to be Shakespeare in space, but fell flat.

I understand the appeal, though.

ttyymmnn > LastFirstMI is my name 09/10/2020 at 22:12

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I read Dune for the first time about two years ago and l oved it. Have not read the other books in the series. The book was hard work, and I don’t mean that in a bad way (I enjoyed Moby Dick , so there’s that). I remember large themes of the story , but I’m thin on the details. I also really like the David Lynch version, even for all of its flaws.

SO. I was a little worried about the casting, but I think it works. I just hope Chalamet shows  more emotion. Not surprisingly, what we see in this trailer is visually stunning. As memorable as the look of Lynch’s version was, I think this one will stand on its own. It also appears that there are references in this film to Dune sequels that I don’t know.

I will definitely watch it, either at home or in a theater.

ClassicDatsunDebate > LastFirstMI is my name 09/10/2020 at 22:15

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I’ll give it a shot. Looks pretty cool tbh. At least it’s not by Abrams.

Hey, I wrote a Dune Haiku 

Chariotoflove > LastFirstMI is my name 09/10/2020 at 22:17

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I’m not sure why people keep trying to do this movie. The first attempt was terrible. The miniseries was better. I don’t think it deserves a third attempt. 

LastFirstMI is my name > ttyymmnn 09/10/2020 at 22:23

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It’s not quite Matrix level of “stop after the first one”, but the rest of the series is not as good. His son/estate finished the series after some notes were “found”, and it answered some questions but also was barely worth the time. 

LastFirstMI is my name > BaconSandwich is tasty. 09/10/2020 at 22:25

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It’s the typical book-to-movie issue; trying to translate a complex story set in a very different world is difficult in a 2 hour movie. 

LastFirstMI is my name > Chariotoflove 09/10/2020 at 22:25

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But profit!

LastFirstMI is my name > ClassicDatsunDebate 09/10/2020 at 22:26

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The Force is strong with this one

ttyymmnn > LastFirstMI is my name 09/10/2020 at 22:31

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Even the sequels actually written by Herbert are bad?

phenotyp > LastFirstMI is my name 09/10/2020 at 22:36

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I, too, hope it doesn’t suck.

Chariotoflove > LastFirstMI is my name 09/10/2020 at 22:47

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That remains to be seen!

LastFirstMI is my name > ttyymmnn 09/10/2020 at 23:03

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It’s been a really long time, but I remember thinking “oh so that’s what happened” rather than “wow I’ve been reading for four hours straight and can’t put it down  this is amazing”. Good enough for fans but not outstanding. 

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > LastFirstMI is my name 09/10/2020 at 23:07

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It’s been a really long time since I read Dune . I don’t remember it being quite like that but my memory is likely flawed. It was a hard but rewarding book to get through. I’m not sure how a movie could really tackle the diverse themes present but I don’t remember enough to say what they were.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > Chariotoflove 09/10/2020 at 23:09

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I don’t think I could name a book I’d like less to be in charge of making into a movie faithful to the original. You simply cannot.

66P1800inpieces > LastFirstMI is my name 09/10/2020 at 23:10

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Agreed. I think at the time it was probably cutting edge, but many of the themes have been used by later authors, so if you have read lots of other Scifi it kinda falls flat. The new movie trailer seems more glacially paced then the book.

GLiddy > LastFirstMI is my name 09/10/2020 at 23:17

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Is reading Dune still a thing? Being an oldster I remember the kids in my high school carting around the thickest paperback novel I had ever seen. I never read it. I have an eye problem that limits my ability to read for extended periods, so I didn’t. I saw the David Lynch movie when it came out and it wasn’t awful, but maybe that’s because I didn’t know any different. I still have the moviegoers cheat sheet/glossary that was handed out at the theater. I ran across it a few months back in a pile of my old papers. Maybe I’d think differently of the movie if I saw it again today.  Perhaps it was awful.

LastFirstMI is my name > GLiddy 09/10/2020 at 23:40

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Books on tape FTW!

I remember liking the original movie, but in that era we were so desperate for sci-fi content that the bar was really low. Spaceballs could have won an Academy Award for best drama and special effects....

Chariotoflove > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 09/11/2020 at 00:08

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Agree. In order to read his story, you have to allow your mind to tacitly accept his weird rules about the way the human mind works. When said out loud, it risks looking silly.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > Chariotoflove 09/11/2020 at 00:19

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Yes, it was a different reality that shares little rules with that of our own, including the physiology . It was just so Dune that you can’t describe it any other way. That’s not a feeling that can easily be replicated in a cinema.

LastFirstMI is my name > phenotyp 09/11/2020 at 00:41

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Either there is an underground world of Dune memes or you just made these on the fly?

DAWRX - The Herb Strikes Back > LastFirstMI is my name 09/11/2020 at 01:00

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I’m going to maintain the only way to do this story anything close to p roperly is through a HBO series. I hope the movie isn’t bad but movies tend to eschew world building and dialogue (which is like 95% of the books)  in favor of dazzling action.

phenotyp > ttyymmnn 09/11/2020 at 01:01

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I actually thought (haven’t read em since 1992/3, so...) Messiah, the second one, was like the coda that the first book needed. Almost a final chapter, and really, really good.

After that, things got weird, then weirder, then super weird. Never read any of the non-Frank books.

But Dune was absolutely huge for teenage me. 

phenotyp > LastFirstMI is my name 09/11/2020 at 01:03

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I take no credit for creation, only distribution.

There are some hilarious Dune memes out there. 

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > GLiddy 09/11/2020 at 03:50

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I saw it back then, I love Dune, it’s just an amazing thing to watch. 

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > LastFirstMI is my name 09/11/2020 at 03:51

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Yea h the Floyd music is not what I want. I love 2049, something more like that.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > ttyymmnn 09/11/2020 at 08:31

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No. They are not. Usual trilogy rules apply...

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > LastFirstMI is my name 09/11/2020 at 08:38

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If it is half the impenetrable but epically enjoyable journey that the book is then it would be satisfactory...

ttyymmnn > phenotyp 09/11/2020 at 09:07

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I kind of feel like reading it again. Not sure if I'm up for it, though.

LastFirstMI is my name > DAWRX - The Herb Strikes Back 09/11/2020 at 10:33

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Totally agree. Could’ve been the next GoT for HBO