Dune
If anything gets me back to the cinema this year, this will likely be it.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 9 Sep 2020, 17:49,
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I'm getting nothing from the trailer
What makes Dune worth seeing?
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Extinct Jesus Dossier "...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Wed 9 Sep 2020, 18:18,
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Denis Villeneuve. Sicario, Arrival, Blade Runner 2049. That's not a bad back catalogue. He might totally have dropped the ball on this one, but I'm willing to go and find out.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 9 Sep 2020, 21:31,
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Ok, I actually watched the David Lynch one tonight.
This could be fun for visuals etc, but I hope they don't waste too much time on shooty-bangs.
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Extinct Jesus Dossier "...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Wed 9 Sep 2020, 22:54,
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Then again, so does every trailer over the last 20 years or so.
Why do film studios have to make all trailers so shit and utterly interchangeable?
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Because the films they're advertising
are also overwhelmingly shit and utterly interchangeable.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 9 Sep 2020, 19:17,
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I remember seeing the trailer for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind on TV after having been to the cinema to see it
and had to do a lot of work to convince a friend that it wasn't a vapid rom-com and was well worth watching, so badly did it represent the actual film.
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Wed 9 Sep 2020, 19:26,
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It's as if trailers are assembled by the movie equivalent of a versificator
working within incredibly tight parameters
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You obviously haven't seen the cinematic trailer for Anal Raiders 7
Daisy's double ender
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herd of chickens First part only £1.99 and comes with a free, Thu 10 Sep 2020, 8:51,
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That's Denis Villeneuve for you. I find his movies somwewhat detached.
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It is odd that the trailer did that.
I guess it's trying to give Dune the memberberry treatment, but if mainstream audiences remember anything about Dune, the received wisdom of the time stated it was a messy flop with crap effects.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Wed 9 Sep 2020, 20:49,
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Well
if nothing else it has a budget large enough to be able to afford Pink Floyd's royalties.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Wed 9 Sep 2020, 21:37,
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I watched Lynch's film on Channel 4 one afternoon once.
Well, I tried to. It was impenetrable and incoherent, so I gave up.
Then I borrowed the book from a schoolfriend, thinking that it would make sense if I read that first. It didn't. I found it to be even more impenetrable and incoherent than the film, with added fucking footnotes and appendices.
Years later, I watched the film to its conclusion. I was glad that I had, and I thought it was slightly less impenetrable, but still incoherent. I haven't attempted to read any of the books again, because life's too fucking short.
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I think it's the longest sci-fi novel I own.
Only managed to wade through it once and never dared to revisit. And Herbert somehow managed SIX of the bastards.
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