The thread for movies that aren't going to get their own thread but are still in theaters

hbi2k wrote:
Eleima wrote:
hbi2k wrote:

Also, like, it's a story about people who can see the future. Getting spoiled is just putting yourself in a position to better relate to the characters. (:

I have a few thoughts on that.

Spoiler:

Wow. Way to miss the entire point of The Dune Chronicles. The entire crux and crucial plot points of the series of books is that prescience, trying to see the future, will trap you. That you’ll be railroaded into it, with no escape.
“ The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the human condition faces a beautifully empty canvas. We possess only this moment in which to dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence which we share and create.” (Children of Dune)

“ To know the future absolutely it to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future.” (Children of Dune)

“ The people who demand that the oracle predict for them really want to know next year’s price on whalefur or something equally mundane. None of them wants an instant-by-instant prediction of his personal life.” (Heretics of Dune)

Wow. Way to take a lighthearted offhand comment way too seriously. Should I have boldfaced the smiley?

If you’re just going to appeal to humor then I really don’t see the point in any discourse. Shame.

Saw it again. This time on the big screen (with Atmos). Was definitely worth it. Zimmer's scoring really popped.

I caught way more details then I did on the first watch, even some deep cut stuff from the books like

Spoiler:

the thumper Kynes deployed was all plastic as was the spice coffee machine and cups and the book that mentions the Fremen manufactured all sorts of things from spice, including plastics. I thought it was a nice detail to include.

I'm even more in love with how they portrayed the ornithopter, which was something I never could quite picture from the books and that I thought Lynch's movie wasn't very successful at.

I can already tell this is going to be one of my all time favorite movies. It's a faithfully deep depiction of the book. The visual design is both stunning and simple and yet somehow communicates the age of the Imperium much more so than Lynch's version.

I know some thought the acting was wooden, but I thought it was an accurate reflection of the character's mindset from the books. Rebecca Ferguson's and Javier Bardem's portrayals of Lady Jessica and Stilgar respectively were standouts for me as well as Sharon Duncan-Brewster's take on Kynes.

My only real criticism is that it's going to be years before we get part two.

Dune was such a Tremors ripoff. They copied everything from that movie. Oh look sandworms so original, NOT. Dune had people running in sand just like Tremors. There was guy in Dune and guess what there was guy in Tremors. There was also a lady. Dune just had to add women because they were afraid to be original.

In tremors there was a scene in a kitchen. In that kitchen you can clearly see a SPICE RACK FULL OF SPICE!. Come on, really. They copied everything literally everything. Please don't see Dune watch the movie it stole from instead, Tremors. I must say this is a worse ripoff than when Snakes on a Train ripped off Snakes on a Plane.

Baron Of Hell wrote:

Dune was such a Tremors ripoff. They copied everything from that movie. Oh look sandworms so original, NOT. Dune had people running in sand just like Tremors. There was guy in Dune and guess what there was guy in Tremors. There was also a lady. Dune just had to add women because they were afraid to be original.

In tremors there was a scene in a kitchen. In that kitchen you can clearly see a SPICE RACK FULL OF SPICE!. Come on, really. They copied everything literally everything. Please don't see Dune watch the movie it stole from instead, Tremors. I must say this is a worse ripoff than when Snakes on a Train ripped off Snakes on a Plane.

Yeah!

1990 and 1964... which one came first?

OG_slinger wrote:

Saw it again. This time on the big screen (with Atmos). Was definitely worth it. Zimmer's scoring really popped.

I caught way more details then I did on the first watch, even some deep cut stuff from the books like

Spoiler:

the thumper Kynes deployed was all plastic as was the spice coffee machine and cups and the book that mentions the Fremen manufactured all sorts of things from spice, including plastics. I thought it was a nice detail to include.

I'm even more in love with how they portrayed the ornithopter, which was something I never could quite picture from the books and that I thought Lynch's movie wasn't very successful at.

I can already tell this is going to be one of my all time favorite movies. It's a faithfully deep depiction of the book. The visual design is both stunning and simple and yet somehow communicates the age of the Imperium much more so than Lynch's version.

I know some thought the acting was wooden, but I thought it was an accurate reflection of the character's mindset from the books. Rebecca Ferguson's and Javier Bardem's portrayals of Lady Jessica and Stilgar respectively were standouts for me as well as Sharon Duncan-Brewster's take on Kynes.

My only real criticism is that it's going to be years before we get part two.

There's a LOT of little things that they do that if you didn't read the book you wouldn't know.

Last viewing I noticed that:

Spoiler:

during the duel while Chani only warned Paul about Jamis' fighting skill in general. Jamis' death was while swapping the blade to the other hand which is what Chani's warning in the book was about. His propensity to swap hands in a fight.

OG_slinger wrote:

I'm even more in love with how they portrayed the ornithopter, which was something I never could quite picture from the books and that I thought Lynch's movie wasn't very successful at.

Yeah this was a high point, they were spectacular.

ranalin wrote:

1990 and 1964... which one came first? :P

The answer is 1962. We'll never top Peter O'Toole's portrayal of Paul as he leads a Fremen attack on a Harkonnen spice train...

Chiming in to say I saw dune as well and loved it. First movie I’ve seen in theaters since the pandemic. Saw it in dolby vision with atmos, which was well worth the extra cost. Something about sound being that loud and intense and really rattling the bones really seems to up the intensity of the experience.

Having read the books many moons ago I had a rough idea of what was going on. My fiancé, having not read the books, was very confused by the end (notable quotation: “why did the floating snake man have to leave Iraq in the first place?”). Very excited for the next movie, and hopefully for an extended edition of this one.

WellAdjusted wrote:

(notable quotation: “why did the floating snake man have to leave Iraq in the first place?”). Very excited for the next movie, and hopefully for an extended edition of this one.

This was the best laugh since my boyfriend, on seeing Star Wars (IV/V/VI, that's all that exist *handwave*) for the first time, pointed at some Empire attack droid said "Is that a Dalek?"

MotleyWizard wrote:

This was the best laugh since my boyfriend, on seeing Star Wars (IV/V/VI, that's all that exist *handwave*) for the first time, pointed at some Empire attack droid said "Is that a Dalek?"

There are only 3.5 canon Star Wars films: Star Wars, Empire, the half of Jedi that's left after you fast-forward through all the Ewok scenes, and Spaceballs. It is known.

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So what's the deal with Duncan's name? I keep seeing memes about it, but don't understand why

ranalin wrote:

So what's the deal with Duncan's name? I keep seeing memes about it, but don't understand why

Hot take culture

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I haven't watched Dune because I read the book once in high school and didn't quite grok it, but what boggles my mind is why the discussion is here and not in its own thread.

It is a Bene Jeserit conspiracy.

sometimesdee wrote:

I haven't watched Dune because I read the book once in high school and didn't quite grok it, but what boggles my mind is why the discussion is here and not in its own thread.

We used to have single threads for individual movies, and trailers, but since Farley and I along with others were essentially spamming the forums with new threads everyday Certis had us consolidate to one discussion thread and one trailer thread.

We've also have had Dune discussions off/on over the years in the Book thread.

Gotcha. So this is *the* movie thread at this point, and the title is a bit of a misnomer?

I feel confident that something will come along soon to supplant Dune in our focus. Maybe the Eternals or Spiderman.

It has been awhile since we have had much to talk about in terms of new movies.

Or the new Candyman which was great! It was a perfect Halloween night movie

I'm still working my way through the Frank Herbert books-- just finished "Children of Dune"-- and wouldn't be averse to a dedicated Dune (books and movies) thread.

Spoiler:

I had a hard time getting as immersed in the end of Children as I think I was supposed to be, because I couldn't envision Leto as anything but Finn in Jake suit.

sometimesdee wrote:

Gotcha. So this is *the* movie thread at this point, and the title is a bit of a misnomer?

There are exceptions but they're generally done for large franchises. Star Wars. Marvel. DC.

It's pretty accurate title still. Thread for movies that don't have their own thread.

Usually Marvel stuff goes in the Marvel thread.

But lately with movies releasing on digital too, sometimes there is cross talk in the HBO thread or Netflix thread.

Matrix will probably get discussed there more than here

Baron Of Hell wrote:

Dune was such a Tremors ripoff. They copied everything from that movie. Oh look sandworms so original, NOT. Dune had people running in sand just like Tremors. There was guy in Dune and guess what there was guy in Tremors. There was also a lady. Dune just had to add women because they were afraid to be original.

In tremors there was a scene in a kitchen. In that kitchen you can clearly see a SPICE RACK FULL OF SPICE!. Come on, really. They copied everything literally everything. Please don't see Dune watch the movie it stole from instead, Tremors. I must say this is a worse ripoff than when Snakes on a Train ripped off Snakes on a Plane.

Love it.

Tremors is a Dune prequel. Earth is Arrakis. Remo Williams and Footloose are the first Fremen. They already drink pisswater beer so stillsuits are a natural evolution.

JLS wrote:

Love it.

Tremors is a Dune prequel. Earth is Arrakis. Remo Williams and Footloose are the first Fremen. They already drink pisswater beer so stillsuits are a natural evolution.

If Arrakis isn't Earth how did we get there to use the spice to travel through space?

There was older FTL drive which still is in use as a backup system. It was deprecated for most travel because it was more dangerous, with one in ten ships disappearing. So the Old Empire spread using that drive before the early events leading up to the Dune stories.

Watched The Eyes of Tammy Faye and liked it. I never paid attention to the drama while it was happening. I don't know how much is true but it was entertaining watch. And I just realized the Jim Baker in this movie is the idiot selling covid cure kits right now. I guess prison didn't teach him anything.

Oh god, people my age lived through all the Bakker’s bullsh*t. We don’t need to relive it again. I have horror flashbacks involving Tammy Faye’s pancake makeup and that Skarsgaard clown grin…

Robear wrote:

Oh god, people my age lived through all the Bakker’s bullsh*t. We don’t need to relive it again. I have horror flashbacks involving Tammy Faye’s pancake makeup and that Skarsgaard clown grin…

Exactly why i haven't watched it, but i'm sure for folks who don't know it's a crazy story.

The shoes...

Actually, the growth in popularity of those two in the 80’s was one of the things that deeply worried me about the direction Republicans were taking us. I knew they and their followers were not country club material, and that set the alarm bells off…