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Offline 3 fingers

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Dune 2020
« on: September 06, 2020, 08:47:59 AM »
Am I the only one didn’t know about the remake of dune ?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mAR2KhjZFU8

Offline Leunstoelgeneraal

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Re: Dune 2020
« Reply #1 on: September 06, 2020, 10:05:14 AM »
There most certainly is another remake of Dune, but it is not this trailer, which is about the 1984 by David Lynch. The one you mean is made by Denis Villeneuve and unfortunately I could not find a trailer yet.

Offline TheBlackCrane

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Re: Dune 2020
« Reply #2 on: September 06, 2020, 10:25:45 AM »
This is the only thing I've seen as yet, not sure a full trailer has been released so far

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EI-UrAweXE

Offline Mammoth miniatures

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Re: Dune 2020
« Reply #3 on: September 06, 2020, 10:41:23 AM »
The trailer for the new ones is released on the 9th (odd birthday present but I'll take it, cheers Denis.)
If anyone can make dune interesting it's Villeneuve, but I think the age old problem of dune being kind of dull might curse this movie too.

Offline Arundel

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Re: Dune 2020
« Reply #4 on: September 06, 2020, 01:46:09 PM »
Just curious, what did you chaps think of the first film from the 80s? (I haven't seen it.)

Offline has.been

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Re: Dune 2020
« Reply #5 on: September 06, 2020, 02:12:40 PM »
It is a rare occurrence in our house. My wife, not having read the books, thought it a good film.
For once I had read the books. I was disappointed with the film.
Several chapters of GRADUALLY persuading the Fremen that he was the chosen one,
reduced to the level of, 'I'm the Chosen one'...'OK'.
 

Offline Dezmond

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Re: Dune 2020
« Reply #6 on: September 06, 2020, 02:21:21 PM »
Just curious, what did you chaps think of the first film from the 80s? (I haven't seen it.)

It’s legendary. Stylish. Mysterious. Exotic. Sublime film making.

Back in the day I used to watch the Shield Fighting scene over and over on VHS.

‘The Bene Gesserit Witch Must Leave’

So good.

Is entirely possible you had to be there, but it’s a *foundational* movie.
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Offline Mammoth miniatures

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Re: Dune 2020
« Reply #7 on: September 06, 2020, 02:33:57 PM »
Just curious, what did you chaps think of the first film from the 80s? (I haven't seen it.)

It's about as good as a film based on dune could have been at the time. Honestly I think it's about as faithful to the book as it could have afforded to be because a faithful scene for scene dune movie would give Horlicks a run for their money in the "putting people to sleep" department.

It's biggest issue is just the weird things it had to do to try and get across alot of the ham fisted "political" stuff and janky dialouge from the book into the movie without having everyone twiddle their moustaches all the time, So you have the strange voiceovers and peepshow-Esq internal monologue that are strange out of the gate.

Offline Arundel

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Re: Dune 2020
« Reply #8 on: September 06, 2020, 03:23:45 PM »
Interesting. I may have to watch it one of these days!

Offline Cypher226

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Re: Dune 2020
« Reply #9 on: September 07, 2020, 12:15:55 PM »
Other posters have summarised admirably, but I'd say the Lynch version is not well-liked by hardcore Dune aficionados.
As also said though, it's probably as good as it could be at the time.

I will say I like a lot of the design work in the Lynch version, they did a lot to make it very different to other SF of the period - which it had to be, really.

The world building in the novels is excellent, the pacing and such, not so much.

Offline Easy E

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Re: Dune 2020
« Reply #10 on: September 08, 2020, 05:38:51 PM »
It’s legendary. Stylish. Mysterious. Exotic. Sublime film making.

Back in the day I used to watch the Shield Fighting scene over and over on VHS.

‘The Bene Gesserit Witch Must Leave’

So good.

Is entirely possible you had to be there, but it’s a *foundational* movie.

What this guy said!  The battle scenes...... they are the stuff that makes people into wargamers; especially the Harkonnen attack on House Atreides on Arrakis.
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Offline CookAndrewB

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Re: Dune 2020
« Reply #11 on: September 08, 2020, 06:26:54 PM »
Agreed that it is worth a watch. It is weird, but that is what you get from Lynch as a director. It is like Twin Peaks in that respect. Either you love the artistic license and vision, or you just seem to suffer through it to complain about how it wasted your time later on.

Either way, the visuals are amazing. I mean, if you haven't seen the movie and I show you this picture, and your brain doesn't immediately say "WHAT IS GOING ON THERE!? I gotta see that  :o" then I'm not sure you are human.


By the way, this scene is still a running joke between me and my son. If for no other reason I love the movie for giving us a bonding moment.

More on-topic, I'm pretty excited to see the remake/reinterpretation. Despite the political stuff, the Dune story has all the makings of a good sci-fi film. It would have been something to see the Jodorowsky version brought to life. Seeing his collaborations with Moebius for stories like the Incal series make me think he might have done a much better (and more over the top) version.

Offline Arundel

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Re: Dune 2020
« Reply #12 on: September 09, 2020, 01:48:13 PM »
Well it's true then, I must be human.  :D The presence of the cat alone is enough to make we want to...learn more...

Offline Malebolgia

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Re: Dune 2020
« Reply #13 on: September 09, 2020, 04:47:13 PM »
https://youtu.be/n9xhJrPXop4

Goose bumps all over. The imagery, the atmosphere, Pink Floyd's Eclipse...wow.
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Offline Emir of Askaristan

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Re: Dune 2020
« Reply #14 on: September 09, 2020, 05:04:22 PM »
I quite enjoyed the lynch film, in all its weirdness. Certainly I enjoyed it more than the book, which I haven't read since before I watch that movie.

I like the look of this one a lot!

 

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