how does that happen? how does this film happen?
new incomprehensible answers.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 13 September 2012 00:06 (eleven years ago) link
I think about this movie a lot; really a very beautiful film and so close to being great. The first 10 minutes or so are fantastic.
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 13 September 2012 00:08 (eleven years ago) link
Saw this on Bluray recently. I think it's a lovely film, even if it is a poor adaptation of the book.
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Thursday, 13 September 2012 00:10 (eleven years ago) link
it is a "haunting" film
― /\ /\ Delete post (admrl), Thursday, 13 September 2012 00:11 (eleven years ago) link
Where was it shot?
Churubusco Studios, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico(studio)
Estudios Churubusco Azteca, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico(studio)
Imperial County, California, USA
Samalayuca, Chihuahua, Mexico
― /\ /\ Delete post (admrl), Thursday, 13 September 2012 00:12 (eleven years ago) link
Imperial County - I drove through there last week
http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~joel/g148_f09/lecture_notes/colo_desert/algodones_dunes03.jpg
― /\ /\ Delete post (admrl), Thursday, 13 September 2012 00:13 (eleven years ago) link
Wonder about that parallel universe where this turned out great and was a big box office smash and Lynch was doing big Hollywood stuff for a few more years.
― circa1916, Thursday, 13 September 2012 00:14 (eleven years ago) link
TS: universe where this was a success vs. universe where Jodorowsky version exists vs. universe where Lynch directed The Return of the Jedi.
― ledge, Thursday, 13 September 2012 11:41 (eleven years ago) link
Love this interview with Lynch from right before the movie came out - he was already working on the script for the sequel!
http://www.davidlynch.de/duneinttrans.html
― Godzilla vs. Rodan Rodannadanna (The Yellow Kid), Thursday, 13 September 2012 22:17 (eleven years ago) link
This was great, when i finally saw it, it was like "What's the fuss all about? This isn't a bad movie at all!" Maybe the boils were too much for people.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 13 September 2012 22:19 (eleven years ago) link
love this movie - altho when I saw it as a kid the pacing seemed totally off to me. but there's too much great stuff in it to dismiss it.
Jodo version probably would've been even better.
― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 13 September 2012 22:23 (eleven years ago) link
is it really possible that we don't as yet have a thread about DAVID LYNCH'S DUNE?how does that happen?
ASK MAUD'DIB (FORMERLY KNOWN AS CAN WE TALK ABOUT DUNE, DEAN?)
― lil queequeg (peter grasswich), Thursday, 13 September 2012 22:27 (eleven years ago) link
The Jodorowsky probably would have only worked with a 300 million dollar budget.
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 13 September 2012 22:51 (eleven years ago) link
"Maybe the boils were too much for people."boils are fine; it's baron spitting a big phlegmy ball of spit on vanessa redgrave's face. did he save up for that loogie?
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 13 September 2012 23:32 (eleven years ago) link
sounds great to me! Hollywood's spent larger sums on infinitely worse crap
― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 13 September 2012 23:34 (eleven years ago) link
like a scenic drive at 100mph, definitely needed more time or better editing
― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Thursday, 13 September 2012 23:40 (eleven years ago) link
is the movie or the book closer to the video game?
― webber, Friday, 14 September 2012 00:12 (eleven years ago) link
it's just an unfilmable book in a 2hr time limit, isn't it? Everyone has tried and failed. That's why Jodorowsky's initial plan was a 7hr movie or whatever.
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 14 September 2012 00:25 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, Lynch's version was as faithful as a feature-length adaptation of Dune could've possibly been. But still incoherent. But also great to look at.
― This Whole Fridge Is Full Of (Old Lunch), Friday, 14 September 2012 00:29 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFTS5-cIHgQ
― scott seward, Friday, 14 September 2012 00:45 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvCeLzC2sNs&feature=relmfu
― scott seward, Friday, 14 September 2012 01:03 (eleven years ago) link
I am watching an extended version of this tonight, just short of 3 hours. Not sure if it is the David Lynch approved cut or the version that he requested his name taken off. Not arsed tbh because it is still very good.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Friday, 15 November 2013 21:13 (ten years ago) link
Watched this a couple times last year - turns out it's great! Love the special attention paid to dogs, Picard brandishing one as he charges into battle. Der Schtingle. The sleeper has awakened!
― CANONICAL artists, etc., etc. (contenderizer), Friday, 15 November 2013 21:51 (ten years ago) link
I adored this as a 12 year old. The inscrutability of the plot made it seem thrillingly mysterious and grown up. Not sure I've really revisited it since.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Saturday, 16 November 2013 04:22 (ten years ago) link
Minneapolitans Swede this POS movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIzTat3OD3w
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 11 January 2014 15:44 (ten years ago) link
i just saw this for the first time a few weeks back. not as bad as advertised (though what could be that bad?) but yeah not exactly a triumph either. but of course there's that lynchian je ne sais quoi that makes it worthwhile--there's something tactile about the world building in this that's missing in other similar movies (maybe it was all that puss, haha). wish he'd made another movie like this with more freedom.
― ryan, Saturday, 11 January 2014 18:12 (ten years ago) link
Has anyone been to a screening of this yet?
http://jodorowskysdune.com/index.html
― andrew m., Saturday, 11 January 2014 18:24 (ten years ago) link
was about to ask the same thing
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 11 January 2014 18:53 (ten years ago) link
There are so many cool ideas and great (expensive) props and costumes and sets in Lynch's film. I always think of the one shot where Kyle Maclachlan shouts at the floor with his ~weirding~ powers and punches a dent in it - it's so sudden and intense and ~weird~ and at that moment you get "yeah, David Lynch is perfect for this material." But what gets left by the wayside is a lot. The most interesting things about the book to me - the long-term eco-planning Gaia hypothesis stuff, and Paul's burden of knowing he's in a messiah plot that can only end in tragedy - are brushed over or just can't come into their own as themes. Kind of into watching it again though.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 11 January 2014 19:43 (ten years ago) link
best part of the movie is where kyle maclachlan says (or rather, thinks out loud, like many of the lines in the movie) "Where are my feelings??"
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 11 January 2014 19:47 (ten years ago) link
And a great post here from Ron Miller
http://io9.com/i-made-the-spice-flow-my-work-as-a-concept-artist-on-l-1509730566
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 27 January 2014 23:12 (ten years ago) link
Nice read! I'm always charmed by old fashioned positive accounts like that.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 02:34 (ten years ago) link
Has there ever been a rapper nerdy enough to reference this with "Make it rain like Paul Atreides"? Google says no so just adding it to the internet here. "Make it rain like Muad'Dib" doesn't work as well.
― Spencer Chow, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 00:27 (eight years ago) link
I got the dough, got the flow down pizzatMake it rain... KWISATZ
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 05:09 (eight years ago) link
nice.
― Spencer Chow, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 13:49 (eight years ago) link
there are so many ridiculous/great moments in lynch's film
― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 13:56 (eight years ago) link
Is there any place online to watch that 3 hour fan edit (DUNE SAGA)?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 14:36 (eight years ago) link
^^^
I feel like the film's underrated because it splits the difference between Lynch's sensibility and the source material, which results in some jarring narrative leaps and shifts in tone. These things don't bother me so much when stacked against the film's best moments - the Baron, the opening sequence with the emperor, the worms, "fear is the mindkiller", the creepy sister etc.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 15:20 (eight years ago) link
http://i60.tinypic.com/ad2m2c.png
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 16:02 (eight years ago) link
the moments don't really add up to any sort of narrative whole, it's more like stuff just happening left and right
― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 18:26 (eight years ago) link
and a pug
That photo is amazing.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 18:34 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/Kyle_MacLachlan/status/765390472604971009
pretty accurate iirc
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 12:51 (seven years ago) link
Lol
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 14:15 (seven years ago) link
now I need an emoji of kenneth mcmillan's face from this.
― a basset hound (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 14:16 (seven years ago) link
hahahaha
― brimstead, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 19:05 (seven years ago) link
shaddam iv: "bring in the floating fat man -- the duke!" not quite sure why this^^^ description needed qualifying, but i guess it does suggest quite what dopes the padishah emperor has surrounded himself by
SO MUCH exposition and inner whispered monologue
this film reminds me more of STINGRAY than i quite expected (also TREMORS and THE KEEP but that is less surprising obviously)
― mark s, Saturday, 17 September 2016 09:29 (seven years ago) link
i need to rewatch this. i saw it once, 25 or 30 years ago, and never since. has it aged well in any kind of weird way? and the lynch version is still preferred over the extended cut?
― akm, Saturday, 17 September 2016 16:19 (seven years ago) link
Lynch version is definitely better. Is there any good quality DVD or blu-ray release of this? The copy I have is letterboxed into oblivion.
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Saturday, 17 September 2016 16:23 (seven years ago) link
As posted by Chaki
This was the wrap gift for the crew in Lynch's Dune. pic.twitter.com/qnGA9zijbr— Chaki (@ChakiFunkWizard) January 21, 2022
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 January 2022 21:45 (two years ago) link
This piece of shit
I'm reluctant to watch the new one just because I don't want to be so disappointed yet again.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 21 January 2022 21:55 (two years ago) link
what's wrong with you? they are both ace!
― calzino, Friday, 21 January 2022 22:00 (two years ago) link
I saw the Lynch version when it came out. I was enraged. He made a mockery of the book.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 21 January 2022 22:01 (two years ago) link
or improved upon it?
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 21 January 2022 22:09 (two years ago) link
Only problem is the abrupt wrap up montage
― I know we will continue to be a power couple (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 21 January 2022 23:41 (two years ago) link
It's even very abrupt in the extended cut - but what can you do
― calzino, Friday, 21 January 2022 23:43 (two years ago) link
The tooth, The Tooth, THE TOOTH!
― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Monday, 7 March 2022 00:58 (two years ago) link
Rewatched this on Netflix back in December and although I know they tailor the selection image based on your DNA (or whatever) I couldn't understand why they were using a pic of RABBON for the first few weeks.
― nashwan, Monday, 7 March 2022 09:36 (two years ago) link
(RABBAN!)
― nashwan, Monday, 7 March 2022 09:37 (two years ago) link
rewatching the the normal cut of this grand and very silly movie
― mark s, Saturday, 12 March 2022 19:43 (two years ago) link
TS: running into battle armed with some giant flags vs. running into battle armed with a pug.
― ledge, Saturday, 12 March 2022 19:46 (two years ago) link
amazingly (i had forgotten this) the guild navigator closes the grand opening scene info-dump -- where he arrives in a MASSIVE BLACK TANK ENGINE with 30 acolytes sweeping the floor round him -- by saying "i did not say this! i am not here!"
https://c.tenor.com/QAZBtFY78eEAAAAC/you-aint.gif
― mark s, Saturday, 12 March 2022 19:55 (two years ago) link
noting mentat eyebrows in that gif
― mark s, Saturday, 12 March 2022 19:56 (two years ago) link
now I’m imagining the navigator saying “this week, I are be mostly wearing … ISSEY MIYAKE!”
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 12 March 2022 20:29 (two years ago) link
paul (sleeping): "arrakis! dune! desert planet!" feyd-rautha (grinning): "i will kill you!" paul (sleeping, excited ): "THE SECOND MOON!"
is the fact of a second moon ever mentioned again or even slightly plot-relevant?
― mark s, Saturday, 12 March 2022 20:30 (two years ago) link
muad'dib is the second moon of arrakis, named after the shadow of a mouse on its surface, no?
― StanM, Saturday, 12 March 2022 20:39 (two years ago) link
... but other than him picking that name, no.
― StanM, Saturday, 12 March 2022 20:41 (two years ago) link
oh fair enough, i will look out for the callback
in the meantime:https://us.v-cdn.net/6030345/uploads/editor/on/z9dpy6c2lk3r.jpg
― mark s, Saturday, 12 March 2022 20:45 (two years ago) link
god i love this tremendously goofy movie
it has nearly no momentum at all (every exciting scene broken up by three difft ppl whispering at themselves)
― mark s, Saturday, 12 March 2022 21:09 (two years ago) link
In that respect it is true to life.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 12 March 2022 21:18 (two years ago) link
[chapman stick solo]
― mark s, Saturday, 12 March 2022 21:23 (two years ago) link
a thousand chapman stick solos are not enough for levin
― mookieproof, Saturday, 12 March 2022 21:25 (two years ago) link
lol jessica actually says this line (re yueh) exactly as they reach safety with the signet ring and the stillsuits
seems a bit ungrateful!
(in the book it's like a children's song after paul becomes emperor, quoted in one of irulan's histories)
― mark s, Saturday, 12 March 2022 21:39 (two years ago) link
a million publications are not enough for princess irulan
― mark s, Saturday, 12 March 2022 21:40 (two years ago) link
callback klaxon: the second moon is again discussed (in whispers)
― mark s, Saturday, 12 March 2022 21:41 (two years ago) link
stillsuit noseplug fremen are like https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/The_Wizard_of_Oz_Bert_Lahr_1939.jpg/220px-The_Wizard_of_Oz_Bert_Lahr_1939.jpg
― mark s, Saturday, 12 March 2022 21:58 (two years ago) link
i think this may have the highest exposition-action ratio of any film made
― mark s, Saturday, 12 March 2022 22:26 (two years ago) link
fremen will literally expound the narrative instead of going to therapy
― mark s, Saturday, 12 March 2022 22:29 (two years ago) link
― mark s, Saturday, 17 September 2016 10:29 (five years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― mark s, Saturday, 12 March 2022 22:36 (two years ago) link
BREAK!!!!!!!!
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 12 March 2022 22:42 (two years ago) link
Yes please. Like, immediately.
https://nerdist.com/article/oral-history-of-david-lynch-dune-masterpiece-in-disarray-max-evry/
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 4 May 2023 01:05 (ten months ago) link
would read
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 4 May 2023 01:57 (ten months ago) link
"In our modern era of cookie cutter blockbusters, Dune stands as a glorious oddity worthy of reconsideration."
No it doesn't, fuck you.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 4 May 2023 04:10 (ten months ago) link
True, it's simply a classic film that should be studied and used as the basis for an exciting new era of Lynchian sci-fi blockbusters.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 4 May 2023 04:14 (ten months ago) link
I suddenly have the feeling I have lived too long.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 4 May 2023 04:17 (ten months ago) link
to be clear, i hate the movie but i would absolutely read about the making of it
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 4 May 2023 04:18 (ten months ago) link
"Ridley's out. Who else we got?"
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 4 May 2023 04:20 (ten months ago) link
there are some amazing, memorable bits from it
I don’t think the producers gave Lynch the support he needed, having not tackled anything of that scale, and it shows. but the visuals, casting, and scenes that work are cool
― mh, Thursday, 4 May 2023 05:47 (ten months ago) link
And just an update that the oral history is now out and my copy arrived today, looks amazing. Direct order link:
https://www.1984publishing.com/bookstore/a-masterpiece-in-disarray-david-lynchs-dune-an-oral-history
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 16:29 (six months ago) link
!
https://www.wired.com/story/david-lynch-dune-sequel-script-unearthed/
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 21:02 (two months ago) link
"bring in the floating fat man -- the duke! "
― mark s, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 21:08 (two months ago) link
Yes yes but this story I've linked.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 21:14 (two months ago) link
Coming back to theaters!
https://www.fathomevents.com/events/dune-40th-anniversary/
Enjoy Sting's jockstrap in full!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 15 January 2024 18:54 (two months ago) link
New sales guy at my office is named Feyd-Rautha Rabinowitz, so I know what you mean
― mick signals, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 02:55 (five years ago) link
i am wondering how feyd-rautha rabinowitz is currently doing
― 龜, Monday, 18 March 2024 11:50 (one week ago) link
oh, i see, that post was a jape following a post about the shadout mapes
― 龜, Monday, 18 March 2024 11:51 (one week ago) link
"Japin' With The Mapes"
― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 18 March 2024 13:21 (one week ago) link
just a little shadout to all my mapes in tha house
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, 18 March 2024 13:33 (one week ago) link
Did not know this!
Frank Herbert was literally there in 1984 https://t.co/01okcAKwdP pic.twitter.com/7bweOzzoxH— Motion Picture Potion Mixer (@mopipomixer) March 17, 2024
― glumdalclitch, Monday, 18 March 2024 14:59 (one week ago) link
the servant waits while the shadout mapes
― mookieproof, Monday, 18 March 2024 15:00 (one week ago) link