Movie: Dune (2021) (It’s alright; you should bother)

[Simple Torture]

I love so much with Sarsgasrd floats up and growls "My Arrakis; my DUNE!" So visceral and terrifying.

My wife texted me and asked if I wanted to try the Little Debbie Christmas Tree Cake ice cream and I texted her this back as a reaction gif. She didn't get it; I feel like it was wasted on her.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Mecca]

I love so much with Sarsgasrd floats up and growls "My Arrakis; my DUNE!" So visceral and terrifying.

My wife texted me and asked if I wanted to try the Little Debbie Christmas Tree Cake ice cream and I texted her this back as a reaction gif. She didn't get it; I feel like it was wasted on her.

Sorry to hear about the divorce

[epilogue]

I will be seeing this today at 4pm. In a theatre. Very excited.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Simple Torture]

I love so much with Sarsgasrd floats up and growls "My Arrakis; my DUNE!" So visceral and terrifying.

My wife texted me and asked if I wanted to try the Little Debbie Christmas Tree Cake ice cream and I texted her this back as a reaction gif. She didn't get it; I feel like it was wasted on her.

Sorry to hear about the divorce

Update: this ice cream was fucking terrible.

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[Bi_3]

[epilogue]

This movie is great.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[epilogue]

I'll say more later. Probably tomorrow. I'm watching MNF. But this thing was all around impressive and satisfying. I loved it.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[simple schoolboy]

Tried watching it on my TV and it did not look great. Watched it in theater on IMAX, much better.

[Ensign9]

I could've used just a little more explanation about what the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood is all about. What are the implications of Jessica's pregnancy, and what are their overall goals?

They’ve spent thousands of years executing a breeding program to produce Space Jebus to save the human race from its inevitable self-destruction. They are finally one generation away from producing him and Jessica derails it by giving Leto a son and heir instead of the daughter she was instructed to produce. Said daughter would’ve bred with a Harkonnen to produce Jebus.

Jessica is pregnant with a daughter at the moment but…stay tuned.

So I’m guessing that

Spoiler: show

if there’s a prophecy about a BG descendent breeding with a Harkonnen, then Paul + Zendaya would have the same result?

Dune, Part 3 (Messiah) and books mega-spoilers:

Spoiler: show

P+Z's offspring does end up having quite an impact. Ultimately, Paul turns away from his destiny as the KS and, even more ultimately, Duncan Idaho v869 ends up being the Uber KS thousands of years in the future.

[The Argonaut]

Tried watching it on my TV and it did not look great. Watched it in theater on IMAX, much better.

Yes, and masturbating while eating an orange feels a lot better, but in the end you're intaking the same amount of Vitamin C.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Tried watching it on my TV and it did not look great. Watched it in theater on IMAX, much better.

Yes, and masturbating while eating an orange feels a lot better, but in the end you're intaking the same amount of Vitamin C.

[Monkey_Driven]

Almost done with this. Think I might try to sneak in a 9 pm showing some night too.

[epilogue]

Part of the reason I think Fight Club is such a brilliant movie (aside from all the normal film criteria) is that it's masterful in the way it elevates the source material by doing things that a book can't do. It uses a visual/auditory medium to explore and enhance themes/elements/ideas in a way that the written word can't.

Villeneuve's Dune is the same kind of adaptation. He does so much visually and in the sound design to give us insights into the story, that reveal the world of the novel and vital plot elements/themes that are so much better in a visual medium than book form (the visions and concept of prescience/possible futures is a HUGE example of this).

The acting is stellar all around. There isn't a weak link. Obviously the photography is stunning. The sound design and the score are each breathtaking. My wife has never read the book, never seen Lynch's film, knows zero about the story at all and she was literally on the edge of her seat for large chunks of the movie.

It's full of action and excitement without sacrificing the quieter more nuanced parts of the story. It's a big budget action movie but it's also still a weird psychedelic space opera. It trusts it's audience and allows room for intrigue and doubt. It allows us to hold our confusion with trust that we'll get there eventually. Every aspect of the movie works toward that end.

There's a lot left out but the gist is all there. I'd love to go a little deeper on some things but they do such a great job of giving everything you need. Villeneuve adds some great touches, too, that aren't from the book but totally enhance the world and the vision of Dune. The result is an equally satisfying and stunning experience for those that know the book(s) well and those that have never heard of Dune before.

This movie is great.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Monkey_Driven]

It's full of action and excitement without sacrificing the quieter more nuanced parts of the story. It's a big budget action movie but it's also still a weird psychedelic space opera. It trusts it's audience and allows room for intrigue and doubt. It allows us to hold our confusion with trust that we'll get there eventually. Every aspect of the movie works toward that end.

Thank you for articulating what I was trying to tell my wife this morning!