Went to a theater yesterday. Who am I supposed to discuss it with now?
Who am I supposed to discuss it with now?
It's streaming on the 22nd. You could start this thread again a few weeks after it streams. Around the 12th next month? People will stream it and certainly grab torrents for it.
It's mostly a faithful retelling of the first half of the book with a bunch of exposition scenes taken out.
It's the Iran/Iraq War. Except Reagan is 400 lbs and rides around on a giant hoover chair and has sex with his nephews. And Walter Mondale actually travels to Iran to do advanced maths and sword fighting in defense of the Revolution.
It's alright, I guess. It's fun to see the story you like reimagined as a big-budget movie with cutting-edge effects and it does provide the spectacle, but there's something missing.
The movie seems to shy away from particularly weird shit that I love about Dune. Like they don't show navigators, there's no mention of mentats and their abilities, nothing about Orange Catholic Bible or Suk Doctor conditioning. The "cutting age US military gear projected into the future" school of design (there's probably a smarter name for it) is serviceabile but I expected something more interesting from a visionary director.
In the end of the day I can't think of a decision Villeneuve made that I found particularly interesting or exiting. Take my opinion with a grain of salt because I generally don't connect with Villeneuve movies for some reason and a lot of people are raving about this one.
there’s no mention of mentats and their abilities, nothing about Orange Catholic Bible or Suk Doctor conditioning
Da fuq
Sounds like Troy where they took the mythology out of the Iliad.
Like it's an entirely different story at that point
I mean, Thufir Hawat and Yueh are in the movie. It just doesn't show or say what's particularly cool about them.
It just doesn’t show or say what’s particularly cool about them.
I'm having a hard time visualizing how you tell the first third of the story w/o getting into Yueh's conditioning and how De Vries breaks it. De Vries also becomes a boring character if you've taken mentats out of the universe.
Also how the fuck do you take mentats out of a universe that's banned computers. Lame
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Piter is literally a non-character in the movie. He just hangs out around Baron and has like two lines in the whole movie to facilitate Baron's monologues.
Yueh is just a traitor. The whole "we have a traitor but who can it be" mystery subplot is omitted.
It's curious that the banned computers thing that's supposed to be a big deal for the setting is never brought up and it seems like people for whom this movie is their fist interaction with Dune don't really care.
That basically confirms my fears from the trailer. Lynch's version was deeply flawed but at least he got that Dune is strange. This looked like they turned it into the more boring parts of Mechwarrior without the mechs.
