Legendary buys film and tv rights to Dune [movie] Dune 2021

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Wed Oct 20, 2021 10:18 am

hepcat wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 9:50 am A few of us are going Saturday afternoon. I've got my bene gesserit outfit all ready.

The Flash has one too.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Wed Oct 20, 2021 10:20 am

He's actually dressed as a badly thought out traffic cone.

YellowKing · Post by **YellowKing** » Wed Oct 20, 2021 10:28 am

I read Dune in my teens, but didn't remember anything about it. I'm back on the hype train, however, and have been listening to the audiobook in preparation for the movie. My interest was first piqued by the Dune: Imperium solo board game which I picked up awhile back without any real familiarity with the IP. However, I wound up loving it.

I'm enjoying the audiobook quite a bit - it's a bit of a hybrid of the straight text combined with a dramatization. " While there's a narrator reading the text, dialogue is mostly performed by different actors, without the "He said, she replied" text. They also have music going on between chapter transitions, etc. It's an approach I had not seen before.

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Wed Oct 20, 2021 7:17 pm

pr0ner wrote: ↑Tue Oct 19, 2021 10:22 am
Nothing at all indicates this is going to be the case.

Did we know this would be the case during the initial LOTR run? I did not, I was not expecting a forthcoming full-assed version so I got suckered into the half-assed version (but it was at Zaxxon's house, so that reduced the sting some). Now, I've not had my finger on the pulse of physical media for quite sometime, and I don't know if directors are still releasing full-assed versions of things they edited to crap initially. Most movies I frankly don't care, but Dune is one of my all-time favorite books...so much so I've read it 4 times. But it is not unlike LOTR in its epic scope, so I'm leery...especially when the half-assed/full-assed scam has been perpetrated before.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Wed Oct 20, 2021 7:35 pm

Neither were half ass versions.

Also, you’ve read the Brian Herbert books too, so you must not be THAT big a fan of Dune.

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Wed Oct 20, 2021 7:37 pm

hepcat wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 7:35 pm Neither were half ass versions.

WTF you talking about Willis? One version was chopped to shit, the other version had the shit added back in. Half-assed/full-assed.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Wed Oct 20, 2021 7:39 pm

It wasn’t chopped to shit. They added some deleted stuff later for a home version. The theatrical release still won awards. It still was good.

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Wed Oct 20, 2021 7:41 pm

hepcat wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 7:39 pm It wasn’t chopped to shit. They added some deleted stuff later for a home version. The theatrical release still won awards.

And it could have been better if they released the full-assed version from the start. How could anyone be happy with a version that wasn't what the director intended in the first place?

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Wed Oct 20, 2021 7:43 pm

Could have been better does not automatically equal half ass.

TheMix · Post by **TheMix** » Wed Oct 20, 2021 7:47 pm

hepcat wrote: ↑Tue Oct 19, 2021 10:15 am You could watch it twice you kn.....

DAMN IT, what am I doing!?!

Psssstttt... ^^^

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Wed Oct 20, 2021 7:48 pm

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Wed Oct 20, 2021 7:49 pm

hepcat wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 7:43 pm Could have been better does not automatically equal half ass.

In every job I've ever had, "could have been better" is the very definition of "you did things half-assed."

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Wed Oct 20, 2021 7:51 pm

You know, you’re right. You should avoid this movie.

<hey Mix, better?>

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Wed Oct 20, 2021 7:56 pm

Well, it's unlikely I will have opportunity to see Pt. 1 before Pt.2 comes out. So I might as well wait to see if a full-assed version is forthcoming.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Wed Oct 20, 2021 7:56 pm

You really should.

$iljanus · Post by **$iljanus** » Wed Oct 20, 2021 8:04 pm

hepcat wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 9:50 am A few of us are going Saturday afternoon. I've got my bene gesserit outfit all ready.

Try to avoid mixing up your box of Jujyfruits with your pain amplifier box!

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Wed Oct 20, 2021 8:09 pm

I always get gulab jamun and Gom Jabbar mixed up.

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Wed Oct 20, 2021 8:12 pm

hepcat wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 8:09 pm I always get gulab jamun and Gom Jabbar mixed up.

The Gom Jabbar is what Republicans thing they are getting with the Covid Vaccine.

Freyland · Post by **Freyland** » Wed Oct 20, 2021 8:41 pm

Jeff V wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 8:12 pm
hepcat wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 8:09 pm I always get gulab jamun and Gom Jabbar mixed up.
The Gom Jabbar is what Republicans thing they are getting with the Covid Vaccine.

I insist the Dune movie thread be moved to R&P!

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Wed Oct 20, 2021 9:26 pm

Freyland wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 8:41 pm I insist the Dune movie thread be moved to R&P!

That's something a Harkonnen sympathiser would say.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Wed Oct 20, 2021 9:37 pm

Jeff V wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 7:17 pm
pr0ner wrote: ↑Tue Oct 19, 2021 10:22 am
Nothing at all indicates this is going to be the case.
Did we know this would be the case during the initial LOTR run? I did not, I was not expecting a forthcoming full-assed version so I got suckered into the half-assed version (but it was at Zaxxon's house, so that reduced the sting some). Now, I've not had my finger on the pulse of physical media for quite sometime, and I don't know if directors are still releasing full-assed versions of things they edited to crap initially. Most movies I frankly don't care, but Dune is one of my all-time favorite books...so much so I've read it 4 times. But it is not unlike LOTR in its epic scope, so I'm leery...especially when the half-assed/full-assed scam has been perpetrated before.

Rather than a scam, think of the difference between theatrical and home release.

Studios know that few people will buy tickets for a three-hour movie. Two hours+ is already pushing the limit.

If you're a director who can create and edit a viable theatrical release and then follow up with a high-quality longer version, you're not a scammer. You're an artist appealing to different audiences.

I've read DUNE every four or five years for the past four decades. If someone created a nine-hour version, I would welcome it.

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Wed Oct 20, 2021 9:46 pm

I've been disillusioned ever since Erich von Stroheim was disillusioned by attempting to release a full-assed version of Greed. Based on one of the best books I ever read (Frank Norris' Mc Teague), the 9 hour director's cut was trimmed mercilessly and the full-assed version got lost to posterity, which is why I'm not a fan of studio's heavily-edited cuts.

Even Bolcom's opera was trimmed to an anemic 3 hours, but Ben Heppner was incredible as McTeague.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Wed Oct 20, 2021 9:46 pm

Holman, no! Get out now before it’s too late!

Edit: too late.

TheMix · Post by **TheMix** » Wed Oct 20, 2021 9:51 pm

hepcat wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 7:51 pm You know, you’re right. You should avoid this movie.

<hey Mix, better?>

TheMix · Post by **TheMix** » Wed Oct 20, 2021 9:52 pm

hepcat wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 7:56 pm You really should.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Wed Oct 20, 2021 9:54 pm

I’m just telling him what he obviously wants to hear though. It’s a zen approach to Jeff. Bend like a reed in the wind.

TheMix · Post by **TheMix** » Wed Oct 20, 2021 9:56 pm

But you forgot the other rule... engage as little as possible.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Thu Oct 21, 2021 7:53 am

Oh great, now I have to go all zen with you too.

You’re right, mix.

Carpet_pissr · Post by **Carpet_pissr** » Thu Oct 21, 2021 8:42 am

Wow, 80% more “ass” talk in this thread than I was expecting.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Thu Oct 21, 2021 9:06 am

edit: whoops, I misunderstood your post and thought you were upset at the ribbing going on.

Freyland · Post by **Freyland** » Thu Oct 21, 2021 9:07 am

Carpet_pissr wrote: ↑Thu Oct 21, 2021 8:42 am Wow, 80% more “ass” in this thread than I was expecting.

I'm unwilling to go back and search each post, but I believe the ratio of "full ass" and "half ass" translated to only about 67% more ass than expected in a Dune thread. Carry on.

Carpet_pissr · Post by **Carpet_pissr** » Thu Oct 21, 2021 9:09 am

hepcat wrote: ↑Thu Oct 21, 2021 9:06 am If that was directed at me, please be aware that at no point was any of it actually serious.

Fixed, for clarity. Freyland gets me.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Thu Oct 21, 2021 9:10 am

I didn't get the connection until Freyland hipped me to it. My mistake.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Thu Oct 21, 2021 9:30 pm

I’m back from seeing DUNE, and I’m still just basking in the experience. It’s amazing. It’s 2.5 hours and feels too short.

I'll have more to say about it later, I'm sure, but my first full impression is this: while it’s obviously science fiction with all the trappings thereof (spaceships, antigravity, shields), what it FEELS like (and often even looks like) is a Greek tragedy. This movie does a great job of realizing that aspect of the novel's ambition that even the novel didn't fully achieve.

McNutt · Post by **McNutt** » Fri Oct 22, 2021 7:45 am

Watched it on HBO Max. It was good. It has a very nice asthetic. The music is terrible though and was distracting at times with how awful it was. That's shocking considering it was done by Hans Zimmer, who is amazing.

Are they saving the pugs for Part 2?

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Fri Oct 22, 2021 8:57 am

There’s a Brian Herbert sequel featuring House Pug that they’re trying to bring to the big screen. It all hinges on who they get to play Baron Barkonnen.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Fri Oct 22, 2021 10:03 am

McNutt wrote: ↑Fri Oct 22, 2021 7:45 am Watched it on HBO Max. It was good. It has a very nice asthetic. The music is terrible though and was distracting at times with how awful it was. That's shocking considering it was done by Hans Zimmer, who is amazing.

Are they saving the pugs for Part 2?

Wow. Opposite impression here. I saw it on a big screen (not IMAX), and I thought the whole sound experience was terrific.

Archinerd · Post by **Archinerd** » Fri Oct 22, 2021 10:28 am

One of my work friends said he fell asleep trying to watch it last night.

Roman · Post by **Roman** » Fri Oct 22, 2021 10:35 am

Holman wrote: ↑Fri Oct 22, 2021 10:03 am
McNutt wrote: ↑Fri Oct 22, 2021 7:45 am Watched it on HBO Max. It was good. It has a very nice asthetic. The music is terrible though and was distracting at times with how awful it was. That's shocking considering it was done by Hans Zimmer, who is amazing.

Are they saving the pugs for Part 2?
Wow. Opposite impression here. I saw it on a big screen (not IMAX), and I thought the whole sound experience was terrific.

My impressions of the movie - was meh. I think because I mismanaged my own expectations based on my emotional response to the trailers. I was thinking that this is going to be one heck of a movie with everything I thought it would be - hence the lunchbox letdown.

The score was good IMHO. I watched an interview w/ Zimmer and Villneuve where Zimmer said that he wanted to create sounds that were altogether other wordly as is befitting the theme of Dune. I think he did quite well on it.

I am eagerly looking forward to the 2nd part.

Post by **ImLawBoy** » Fri Oct 22, 2021 10:40 am

Archinerd wrote: ↑Fri Oct 22, 2021 10:28 am One of my work friends said he fell asleep trying to watch it last night.

i fall asleep watching stuff (even good stuff) all the time. That's the peril of only being able to watch something starting at 10:00 pm or later . . . .

I'll probably try to watch this tonight, but I suspect I'll fall asleep midway and have to figure out where to restart it for attempt two at some point.