Red Mosquito

The Argonaut wrote:

simple schoolboy wrote: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 wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

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!

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.

Strat wrote:Think I’ll watch this again tonight with a few bourbons

epilogue wrote:

Strat wrote:Think I’ll watch this again tonight with a few bourbons

You know, I may put it on when I get home tonight, too.

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.

This movie is great.

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.

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.

epilogue wrote:Villeneuve adds some great touches, too, that aren't from the book but totally enhance the world and the vision of Dune.

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.

Farmer John wrote:

epilogue wrote:Villeneuve adds some great touches, too, that aren't from the book but totally enhance the world and the vision of Dune.

I'm curious what some of those moments are

epilogue wrote:

Farmer John wrote:

epilogue wrote:Villeneuve adds some great touches, too, that aren't from the book but totally enhance the world and the vision of Dune.

I'm curious what some of those moments are

The opening scene/voice over is one example. The Harkonnen spider-thing is another. Also, there's some bull fighter stuff, too.

Farmer John wrote:

epilogue wrote:

Farmer John wrote:

epilogue wrote:Villeneuve adds some great touches, too, that aren't from the book but totally enhance the world and the vision of Dune.

I'm curious what some of those moments are

The opening scene/voice over is one example. The Harkonnen spider-thing is another. Also, there's some bull fighter stuff, too.

I love when the Reverend Mother told that spider to get the fuck out

epilogue wrote:

Farmer John wrote:

epilogue wrote:

Farmer John wrote:

epilogue wrote:Villeneuve adds some great touches, too, that aren't from the book but totally enhance the world and the vision of Dune.

I'm curious what some of those moments are

The opening scene/voice over is one example. The Harkonnen spider-thing is another. Also, there's some bull fighter stuff, too.

I love when the Reverend Mother told that spider to get the fuck out

So fucking cool.

I've heard a couple of interesting theories about that spider, too. But it's not at all in the book.

epilogue wrote:I don't know why you think I haven't watched that trailer but okay.

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.