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Dune - dir. Denis Villeneuve

Most excited about a film I’ve been since Blade Runner 2049. I was never a Dune fanboy and had only seen the original once about 20 years back but went to see the remake on the big screen and was blown away. Have rewatched multiple times since and still think it’s a tremendous piece of cinema. Definite IMAX job for the new one.

Feel like I’m becoming a Villeneuve fanboy - he’s supposed to be making Arthur C. Clarke’s Rendezvous with Rama next I think, which is an amazing book. Can’t wait to see how he shoots the cylindrical sea 🙏
 
Rama has spectacle all right, but absolutely zero plot or character as far as I can recall
 
shifting gears said:
Most excited about a film I’ve been since Blade Runner 2049. I was never a Dune fanboy and had only seen the original once about 20 years back but went to see the remake on the big screen and was blown away. Have rewatched multiple times since and still think it’s a tremendous piece of cinema. Definite IMAX job for the new one.

Feel like I’m becoming a Villeneuve fanboy - he’s supposed to be making Arthur C. Clarke’s Rendezvous with Rama next I think, which is an amazing book. Can’t wait to see how he shoots the cylindrical sea 🙏
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If Part 2 is a success, there's a good chance Dune Messiah is on the cards. Am still slowly getting through the first novel and not sure if will read the others, but happy to see to them on the big screen.
 
I don't normally post and run, but I think The Onion says it all.
www.theonion.com

‘Dune: Part Two’ To Pick Up Right Where Viewers Fell Asleep During First One

LAS VEGAS—Debuting the high-budget sequel at this year’s CinemaCon, director Dennis Villeneuve confirmed Wednesday that Dune: Part Two will pick up right where viewers fell asleep during the first one. “I think audiences are going to love this installment, which continues the epic tale from the...
www.theonion.com www.theonion.com
 
Absolutely buzzing for Dune 2. Saw the first one at an Imax with my daughter and we're off to see it again before this comes out.
 
Crispy said:
Rama has spectacle all right, but absolutely zero plot or character as far as I can recall
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When I think of Arrival the movie it's all about the mist-topped ships and, at a push character-wise, the tree-limbed aliens

I say just film 120 minutes of the ship, rivet by rivet
 
Crispy said:
Rama has spectacle all right, but absolutely zero plot or character as far as I can recall
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I quite liked the fact that it didn't really explain anything, and didn't feel like a story so much as a description of something that happened. Any movie version would have to be bone dry, serious people doing serious things and taking them seriously. None of this George Clooney and Sandra Bullock making shit jokes and bonding over their dead kids or whatever.
 
Crispy said:
Rama has spectacle all right, but absolutely zero plot or character as far as I can recall
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Yes. The visual imagery is brilliant but the book is just a document of events. I think a film would need to get you more involved with the protaganist a la Greg Bears Eon or that jodie foster film.

I like it though. My first thought on reading Rama was that I wanted to see the film.
Eon would be cool too, but no idea how they could visulise it.
 
krtek a houby said:
Sat there, 1979, absolutely entranced by the scene and Jerry Goldsmith score. And a few months later, iirc, RTE premiered 2001. Blew my mind.

Big, epic (and yes, slow) sci-fi cinema is bliss.
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People joke about it being the slow motion picture but the model work in the movie is sick. That but where spock shhots himself into V'ger is also epic.
 
Shippou-Sensei said:
People joke about it being the slow motion picture but the model work in the movie is sick. That but where spock shhots himself into V'ger is also epic.
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And the blaster beam instrument, which is used in the latest Picard series.

That film was one of the favourites from back then.

Dune has a lot good for it, in terms of sound and big spaces. We're already talking about seeing it in IMAX.
 
ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
The film looked and still looks like a real movie. Like a movie event. For all it's failings it is still my favourite star trek film.
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For all the comments about the odd numbered movies being the 'bad' ones I never really thought any of them were real stinkers


...Well maybe 5

But 1 has some amazing stuff in it. 3 has some deep lore and who doesn't live klingon doc brown.

I think all of the next gen ones are kinda weak. First contact was the best of them but I found the stuff on earth kinda fell flat. Plus zephram looks nothing like he did in the original series.
 
Shippou-Sensei said:
For all the comments about the odd numbered movies being the 'bad' ones I never really thought any of them were real stinkers


...Well maybe 5

But 1 has some amazing stuff in it. 3 has some deep lore and who doesn't live klingon doc brown.

I think all of the next gen ones are kinda weak. First contact was the best of them but I found the stuff on earth kinda fell flat. Plus zephram looks nothing like he did in the original series.
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Yeah, after First Contact, it didn't pick up until the JJ Abrams ones.

Could say that series 3 of Picard is the best Next Gen since First Contact.
 
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krtek a houby said:
Yeah, after First Contact, it didn't pick up until the JJ Abrams ones.

Could say that series 3 of Picard is the best Next Gen since First Contact.
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I would say the kelvin line movies kinda sucked until 3. The first one was OK but it suffered from lensflare-itus and was kinda dumb. 2 was kinda all kinds of dreadful. 3vwas also kinda dumb but it leaned into it and the cast had hit their stride it's definitely the movie that made me accept pine kirk

Karl urban was nailing bones from day one though.

Not got to season 3 yet. I found season 1 to be hit and miss and really didn't enjoy the first episode of season 2 so dropped off. Have heard nothing but good things about season 3 so I'm planning a binge session at some point.

Also will give discovery another shot. I petered out mid season 1. It wasn't terrible or anything I just felt it was a bit hit and miss and a different kind of trek. I do like the sound of where it's heading though.

Also really want to check out strange new worlds. Hearing good things.

Also do love me some lower decks. Most episodes have me doing the dicaprio pointing meme at some in joke.
 
Yes, lower decks is actually good. Picard 3 was ok (I have not finished it) just like the old days. I still only consider the motion picture a real star trek film. The others all look like tv movies. I don't really care for any of them. I like the first Kelvin remake, but the lens flare looks so ridiculous that it's hard to remember it for anything else. The wotsit maru scene is also pretty embarrassing. A bit like doing the Kessel run in solo.

Back to dune. After being completely disinterested, I watched it on a plane (14 flight). I really enjoyed it and immediately regretted not seeing it in the cinema. It didn't seem long, or boring and the split wasn't jarring at all (I thought it was going to be a back to the future 2 moment)
 
Shippou-Sensei said:
Not got to season 3 yet. I found season 1 to be hit and miss and really didn't enjoy the first episode of season 2 so dropped off. Have heard nothing but good things about season 3 so I'm planning a binge session at some point.
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I gave up partway through S1, and recently picked up S3. It's good. I mean, it's ST and it's still quite silly in spots but I give them credit for episode 7 being the most fan service I've ever seen in one place and one time. And I mean that in a good way. I've seen people argue that S3 is better if you haven't seen the first two, for... reasons.
 
Am one of those who enjoyed the first two seasons, but if you find them lacking, skipping them and hitting season 3 won't be confusing.

It's great fun.
 
Chz said:
I gave up partway through S1, and recently picked up S3. It's good. I mean, it's ST and it's still quite silly in spots but I give them credit for episode 7 being the most fan service I've ever seen in one place and one time. And I mean that in a good way. I've seen people argue that S3 is better if you haven't seen the first two, for... reasons.
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I bailed on the second or third episode of season 1 of picard. I had a go at series 3 because I heard good things. . . and it was good. Not 'blow your mind' good, just better than average next gen good.
 
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The original was on channel 4 last night. I watched it again- have lost count. But I can not look at the Baron. 🤮
I love it because it is so cheesy and badly cast.
Looking forward to watching the new one at the everyman.
 
I got my housemates to watch the original, and they laughed it off the screen. The talking fanny in a fish tank... way more than is acceptable today apparently. Even I caved in at glossy angry Sting in his posing pouch. The new one is at least visually acceptable
 
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