Watched Dune (2021) at home in the office and thought it was a fabulous portrayal, can’t wait for the next one.
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First viewing for the youngest kiddo.
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On the subject of post-apocalyptic pandemic action…
Dune at the Barbican this afternoon.
There are many reasons why I would be primed to enjoy it - read the book countless times, giant spaceships, fascist architecture - but, yeah, best thing I’ve seen in years.
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If I could dream a little and forget the realities of budgets etc then I’d really love to see a 24 x 1 hour episode enactment of Dune that could do justice to the political machinations that made the books so good. The film as good as it is kind of rushes to the coup and as a result glosses over a lot of what makes Dune such an enduringly brilliant story.
Santana: The US Festival 1982
Went to see Dune.
Very much my cup of pour over coffee.
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I’ve just started the first season of ‘24’.
I hadn’t quite grasped the concept, but now that I have, I fully expect to see Mr Bauer take out the bins, go for a dump, have a wank, phone the council about the drains and get round to oiling that squeaky door hinge.
But so far, an average day in Jack’s calendar seems a distinctly odd proposition.
Still, it’s all quite exciting.
I bet the DVD box set is heavy.
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I haven’t read the books but yes, it did inevitably seem that much detail was having to be glossed over. Who are these ‘houses’? More about the witchy sect. More about what spice is etc. They might as well have been going to Arrakis to take over the coal or tin mining for all the significance it was given. I’ll need to read the books.
When it first came out and you had to wait for Saturday night each week, it was brilliant. I’m still surprised it was 6 months of weekly anticipation - it didn’t feel that long.
Binge watching will probably spoil it as you spot the gaping plot holes (rumour was they were writing it as they went) and continuity cockups which a weeks gap hid well enough
Seasons two and three were poor efforts and I gave up midway though 3
I don’t remember a lot of that being in the first book to be honest. I think it had an appendix/dictionary which covered some of the basics though.
Spice enables faster than light transport, that’s all that is really important in the first book.
And Arrakis is Australia made planet size.
It is explained in the film that spice is used to navigate which allows them to travel faster than light (or fold space)
The film actually has some quite niche references from the book as well, the floating lights that follow them around are called glowglobes and are very close to the description in the book.
Loved Dune as a kid and this film is really good, most of the detail around the science in Dune was actually written by Frank Herbert’s son so wasn’t in the original book.
Yes I did notice them briefly saying what Spice did, they just didn’t seem to confer its importance and what a big deal it would’ve been to take the responsibility for mining it from one house & give it to another.
The most important question being why.
That’s the point - Leto knew it was a trap, but couldn’t turn it down
I think I had better re-read the book.
It must be 40 years since I read Dune
The bit that did seem incongrous was that they had amazing spaceships & the dragonfly helicopters along with the mini killer drone yet when it came to a battle they were all using 2 foot swords of the type Roman soldiers would have recognised!
The personal shields rule out projectiles or sommit.
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