yeah idk i kind of like the low-key style. not everything has to be a comic book imo. it’s sad that we’ll never get the jodorowsky dune but i don’t know that i’d want to see anyone else attempt that and miss the mark.
i just like the way villeneuve shoots landscpaces, i think it will be pretty
I’d be all in on an Alphaville/Rome 78 style Dune where it’s just people in regular outfits standing around on street corners telling each other that they’re folding space in their minivans.
I mean, the primary appeal of a Villeneuve movie is how the lighting catches whatever particles (dust, fog, sand) happen to be in the frame while the score throbs in its particular way of the moment, so
There’s something about the Amercanized Tactical “Tanto” form, reduced to its most basic “slab of stock with some bevels ground on + tsukamaki of sorts,” that strikes me as both the laziest and maybe one of the most appropriate possible decisions for an adaptation of Herbert’s lazy goulash of Assorted Orientalisms Through The Wine Press of Science Fantasy.
triple most
Variety describing Paul: “Think Greta Thunberg, only she’s a Jedi with a diploma from Hogwarts.”
remember when greta thunberg had to stay with those Bedouins who taught her to live off her own piss
then they blew up some some planes together
“Think Lawrence of Arabia, but less overtly gay, and somehow more masochistic, but still the product of generations of tightly controlled breeding. Only in space now. And instead of letting down the Other he joined for political purposes then lying about his identity to join different branches of the military before dying in a motorcycle accident, he becomes a Space Tyrant and kills tens of billions of people. Then his son becomes a giant psychic worm? idk man I didn’t read that far Frank Herbert is only a passable stylist when compared to his son”
The self-described cinephile that I used to work with had a huge distaste for Villeneuve as a “completely racist fuck” possibly based on some quotes of his? I don’t remember it entirely though and my cursory searches aren’t coming up with anything.
They need to read other books and watch other movies.
also it’s sad to me that we’re complaining about what this looks like when it has oscar isaac in it looking like this
what else do you want people. is this delightful man not enough for you.
Given they’re just doing the first novel and probably not all the follow-ons that deconstruct it, it just seems like flushing money down the drain for white savior-y bullshit.
Pretty sure there are other novels out there to adapt.
I can’t say it being a two-parter and that it’s a Jon Spaihts screenplay puts me at ease.
Dune without at least Dune Messiah ain’t Dune imo
Villeneuve’s aesthetic looks dull as shit. I detested 2049, it struck me as five moral and intellectual steps back from the original blade runner.
I trust Villenueve to make a screechingly beautifully filmed but conservatively designed and written plodding monstrosity with some striking moments.
I hope that Dune’s visuals take after Arrival and Blade Runner 2 but its writing is somehow more along the lines of Prisoners or Sicario. (Or even Enemy, I guess, though in that case it’s the very last scene that really carries the whole thing for me.)
I’m not a huge fan of either Blade Runner movie. I might have liked the first one more had Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep not already been one of my favorite books when I got around to seeing it. But I found both worthwhile just for how the settings were realized.
I was underwhelmed with Arrival because it focused so much on sentimentality and not as much as I’d have liked on linguistics.
yea arrival seems like its going to be interesting in the beginning re: linguistics but the resolution is like infuriatingly nonsensical. i still liked it just because it’s so pretty, those opening images of the spaceship hovering over the land are A+ to me
Arrival pissed me off because the short story it’s based on is way more interesting, less maudlin, and ends with a twist that is much more existentially disquieting, interesting, and sensical than the movie’s.
I was glad to see a blockbuster sci-fi movie trying to be philosophical and the fact that it didn’t completely do away with the short story’s focus on linguistics was nice, but it could have gone a lot further.