David Lynch’s Dune is returning to theaters in February for 40th anniversary
David Lynch’s Dune is returning to theaters in February for 40th anniversary
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I just watched this the other night for the first time since the 80's. It's so bad! 😆
And I say that as a lover of the book.
Oh god, the weirding modules!
"Muad'dib!" Pew! "Muad'dib!" Pew!
Lynch didn't want it to be a "kung fu movie", but the whole fucking book was kung fu! That's what made the Fremen better warriors.
They touched on the prophesy stuff, but never even hinted it was planted by the Bene Gesserit hundreds of years ago. The locals were chanting Muad'dib when he landed on the planet! He didn't pick the name himself. I think I'm wrong about this. I think I was thinking of the other terms: Mahdi or Lisan al Gaib.
So many unnecessary changes to the plot like Leto being confused on who was who and blowing the poison in the wrong face.
And I never get tired of being angry at the "monitors are projectors" special effect trope. You ever stare into a projector that's focused on your face? You can't see anything but a bright light. You ever look at someone who's looking at a monitor? You don't see the words on their face! "But it looks cool!" No it doesn't! It looks like shit because it's so antireality.
I'll probably go see it.
Just read an ArsTechnica article about David Lynch's unfinished Dune Messiah's script. It was a long, but interesting read
Your thoughts on the matter? Personally, I found all the fervor I felt in the first Dune novel to kind of have its wind knocked out of it in Messiah, though there are things that would lend themselves well to cinema.
I just read both for the first time in the last few weeks and I totally agree. Nothing interesting happens at any part of Messiah. I'm reading through Children of Dune now and I'm hoping it goes somewhere worthwhile.
It's been a while since I've read the series, but I don't recall feeling the same excitement with the successive novels as I did with the first. I did read all 6 of them, but honestly by the time I started God Emperor I felt as though the storyline was getting a little too off base.
Regarding the Dune movie, it's what got me into the books, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. As with 90% of adaptations, there is no way for a film to capture the nuances of the source, doubly so for a book such as Dune
Fuck yeah!!!! I never got to see this on the big screen!
Ok, but... why?
For the same reason movie theaters will re-show anything. Because foolish people with money will pay to go see it. Like me.
You’ll have a lot more fun in life if you ask “Why not?” instead.
Why not, not release it again?
Heh, cool. I saw this theaters when it first came out. I was about ten.. there may have been some scarring.
I want to watch the new Dune. Pandemic took that away from me. It would be a great theatre movie.
Which version? Uncut? Directors cut? Studio cut? TV mini series cut?
Still holding out for Jodorowsky 😔
We'll need to resurrect Dali so he can play the Shaddam Corrino IV
They should show the spicediver cut.
release the Snyder cut
Wow, TiL. I only knew of 2 different versions of the movie differentiated by the opening narration