epilogue wrote:
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!
I really enjoyed the movie. Thought it was top notch but really disliked the soundtrack.
Tried watching the first Dune last night, what a fucking train wreck. I couldn’t last more than 20 minutes. JUst painful to watch.
Think I’m going to try being kind to everyone a chance.
Steve Albini wrote: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.
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epilogue wrote: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.
Steve Albini wrote: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.
Last edited by tragabigzanda on Sat January 10, 2026 6:08 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Steve Albini wrote: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.
Last edited by tragabigzanda on Sat January 10, 2026 6:08 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Steve Albini wrote: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.
Last edited by tragabigzanda on Sat January 10, 2026 6:08 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Steve Albini wrote: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.
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