Wanna see that album

The Fifth Element

Pan And Scan Buddy oooooooooo meta on many levels my friend.

Could she fold space? Or just origami?

The Bene Gesserit were the original Spice Girls.

Now that's all I am going to be able to think about while I'm watching the new Dune film. Why!!??

Now imagine baking something with it.

@@Kekistos National Lampoon's Doon "wherein rival restaurant-owning families battle for control of Arruckus, which is overrun by giant pretzels and the source of valuable beer. "

Hahahaha, that's great! In English Melange means a combination of various things. So in Dune variety is the spice of life.

In Austria a Melange is a coffee speciality (a special kind of white coffee). I´ve already drunk some- but I didn´t get any visions.

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Oh god what an amazing anecdote for all your life. That’s a party winner that one.

Jammy bugger!

did you... did you just have it with you?

@@0XiDiZE lol NO. He was playing golf at a celebrity pro am so was in town for a few days

Screw #3! I'm going over her to play with my precious metal bois.

Spiced coochie had me like

magic vag is based

"People who would make good leaders never want it".... Frank Herbert invented Jon Snow?

@@VespoLiveGaming not invented, but predated.

Ba-dum tsss lol

Did a quick google search. Spent five minutes trying to breath through uncontrollable laughter.

I haven't thought about that since it happened.

I dunno, I once fistfought a child to protect my brothers dirtbike out on those dunes, so I'd say it's a close contender to getting to punch a 14 year old in the gut. Which sounds pretty bad when you write it out like that, but in my defense he whacking me with a tire iron and was making it very clear he was gonna try and damage the bike. Also he was snotty little brat

I've never seen a documentary capture the essence of madness more beautifully

Jodorowsky's Dune would have been unfiltered ambition, with everyone saying we can do this, not if we should do this. Like a skyscraper so innovative and different it actually forms a death ray that kills cars, and misses all its other promises.

Read his comic "The Incal" with Moebius if you get the chance. Well worth it!

IIRC his movie actually fed in a lot of the costuming etc into Flash Gordon.

An animated series (either anime-style, or with quality CGI [no mocap]) - multi-season, as long as it takes to tell the entire epic as-written - could be the exact right visual medium to adapt _Dune_ into.

Exactly. Mad max who

Whoa! Madmax is an epic action movie, dune is an epic Sci Fi movie. That's like comparing a perfectly cooked steak and baked potato with tasting ice cream for the first time.

That budget was pushing 45 million....easily one of the most costly movies of the time. I was reading God Emperor when the Lynch movie came out and went to the theater with my buddy who had no clue about Dune. He liked it but was deeply confused, and I was enamoured with the design, costumes, overall wackiness! Not very faithful but hey, I like Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the Rings too!

We're not haters, we're purists, and Lynch's Dune doesn't do the book justice.

@@lucky_342 I didn't like the the film before I read the book, and now REALLY don't like it now that I've read it.

@@lucky_342 As an avid fan of the books (The ones that matter. The six.), neither does the Miniseries. I would watch the movie over the miniseries purely because for everything it gets wrong, it has many moments that just FEEL like Dune to the very core. It's hurt by a slavish attempt to appeal to mainstream Hollywood and a run time that cannot hope to encapsulate even a fraction of the complexity, but then the miniseries is hurt by some truly awful acting along with cheap (and occasionally truly baffling) production and design values. Both fail miserably in the totality of what they could potentially achieve, but I suspect which of the two people can most appreciate as an interpretation of the source material comes down more to whether you are more put off by the constant ebb and flow of exultant highs and depressing lows of the movie or the consistent "well this is half way to decent... and also what the fucking fuck is that hat" of the series. Both stand atop and beside the source material. Neither really works without it. But where as I can appreciate the movie for giving me a collection of impressive vignettes to go along with the source bound up with a lot of weird shit that doesn't work, the series just leaves me feeling like I should have just read the books instead, because it simply never does anything with the strengths of the medium.

@@rabid_si i never said the miniseries is any better, although i do enjoy it more than the movie so you read the my mind. the things you mentioned about both are very true, and despite those reasons i still stand by my opinions on them, and they're the reason why. i hate the "appeal to mainstream Hollywood" in every big production, even more so source material i enjoy, and dont mind bad acting and bad production value. i know it's not good, but to me it tells the story better than lynch's (which had producers meddling into it so it's not all his fault) but we're getting the best version in december anyway so why argue anyway

modbz gotta be honest... I don’t remember the movie being far off from the book, but I was much younger when I read it, and I could be ignoring a lot because I loved the movie first.

I ripped through the 6 originals while this plague was happening, fantastic series with very relevant social points to this day

The story was good but I found it lacking on the literary side. Personally I found the book bland.

the spice must flow

The way it's structured, I'd be way more on-board for a mini-series. An episode per tale with episodes on either end to set up and conclude the full story. I don't know how they'd manage Fall of Hyperion, but I'd kill for a good adaptation of the first book.

@@alephnull3404 Yep A highly styilistic mini series for the first book for each tale (fitting each genre) would fit perfectly!

i agree. why is it wrong to like both? I never understood the idea if you like one thing you must dislike the other.

Now does seem an appropriate time for some dragons. Though, they might need to polish some of the older characters up a bit.

I wanted to get into MaCaffrey so badly. but I just can't with the teliporting dragons. The stories were so good and I loved it but the teliporting dragons really yanked me out of the immersion.

leguin is up there at the top

My favorite MaCaffrey book is Restoree. Not that they would be likely to adapt that one first.

Melissa - you might enjoy some of her other series. There’s the Tower and the Hive (though, if teleportation wasn’t your jam, this is similar), the Crystal Singer series, Acorna series, etc. Though, if it was the fact that she has these heavy fantasy elements in what are ultimately sci-fi novels, that’s a thread that she keeps in all her writing.

Crises precipitate change?

@@tsawy6 let's hope so.

So he blessed the rains down in Arrakis?

Of course Brian Eno worked on the movie. He worked on everything apparently.

I agree. The production design of the film was unforgettable. The costumes, the props, the architecture and the third stage navigator...fabulous.

@@MostlyPennyCat Not gonna lie, that was freaking hysterical. "You play in a police band?"

Same here. I saw Dune at a friend's house who had a paid movie channel. The first scene I saw was the training scene with the fighter robot. I was mesmerized. Forward a couple years and I get into SF. Clarke and Asimov and then I find this book in the school library. I didn't even know it was the same as the movie. As I'm reading the images formed in my mind where influenced greatly by the movie. So to this day I have a fondness for the movie.

I hope this comes across in the tone intended (and please read past the first sentence): David Lynch's _Dune_ is an objectively bad movie in all of the ways a movie can be objectively bad, as universally noted by the critics and as related in this here video. It is a godawful mess of a movie. And I will never not love watching it whenever it comes across my field of view, as well as the mere fact of its existence - again, for all of the many reasons related in this here video. It is a wonderful, marvelous, irreplaceable mess of a movie. TL;DR: I

I first learned about Dune as a kid when Dynamite Magazine (I think) did a big article on it. I thought it looked amazing and epic - with those visuals, how could I not? When I eventually saw it I was freaked out and fascinated. I've unreservedly loved it, warts and all, my entire life.

couldn't agree more - I wish they would have tried to break it into a couple movies but I'm still happy with what we got.

Zeos wtf are you doing here

I bet you spilled your coffee

Seems like Mikey jammed your radar!

@@aandromaliuss I can enjoy some chainsawsuit like everyone else.

I have a theory he pushed for them to delay Dune so he could get far enough into the pre production on the sequel they can't cancel it.

Very fascinating story. A thirty year passion project.

Damn straight. It was insane to sell it as the next Star Wars in 1984 but "weird" is not the same as "bad". Lynch is alot of things but he's not a hack. It may not be an ideal adaptation but it's a sci-fi masterpiece.

took me a sec, but I see what you did there. lol

"GoPro love! Catch ya never, centipede. Now the time has cooooome for you to tryin' to yeet me! Bottle jumpy love, as I'm coming WIIIINGS, bow-wow!"

BTW, what *is* that song?

I liked it as just a weird creepy nostalgic film but when I got around to reading the Book finally I immediately went back and watched the movie and it was so much more enjoyable to me afterward when I knew the backstory. I just never had the attention span or whatever to really "get it" just from the movie.

There's a giant dust cloud now too? What's NOT happening in 2020?

My projector, my Eiki, was from HMS Bristol. Nearly 30 years ago the Royal Navy transitioned from 16mm to dvd. They binned their projectors and _burnt_ the Royal Navy film library. My dad rescued it from the bin with 3 short reels of cartoons. A few years ago I had it refurbished (belt perished, caps blown) by one of the last people who could. He's very old. I own The Elephant Man and The Black Hole. Weird thing is, in now some kind of protector-of-the-film. It's obviously my job now? I mean, you have to don't you? When I get my house, in going to project it onto a big screen in the garden.

@@MostlyPennyCat take good care of it man

Cool. Lucky.

For what it’s worth, there are at least three cuts available on dvd, last time I checked. Not sure about Blu-ray, as I haven’t upgraded my copy yet

The "Alternative Edition Redux" fan edit is the best cut of Dune I've seen so far.

Can't say I'd heard of it. I'll have to check it out

I just worry that it breaks Villeneuve. After Blade Runner, which I loved, another flop on a fantastic sci fi will suck. And I know I will probably love it.

@@brainsniffer I think 2049 was just enough of a commercial and critical success (even won two Oscars) that he's not in too big trouble if Dune flops, but yeah, it would be a shame. 2049 was amazing. He's a great director.

@@brainsniffer I think 2049 was actually an accomplished feat

He's got some guns with Sicario and the like. Bladerunner 2049 was a fan made film tribute to those who enjoyed the original, whichever of the 20 versions. If he is allowed to do the same with Dune... I'm salivating just thinking about it.

cool memory. I did actually see Dune in the theater also but I was about 5 years old so I basically don't remember that particular viewing of the movie itself, but I do distinctly remember my Father asking me if I wanted to go see it in the first place "Want to see a movie about giant worms with mouths as big as this whole house?" YES. YES I DO.

@@robcohen7678 That's what I call a cool dad! There was a two-night extended version of Lynch's Dune, which aired on early Fox. I thought it was much better. I don't think there is an easy legal way to see it, though. Not sure. If so, it's probably 80's TV quality pan and scan.

The Into the Spiderverse team could also be exciting too.

fun fact, "kwisazt haderach" directly translates into "the perfekt booiiiiiiiiiii!"

Do you mark up your books?