asthmatic camel wrote: ↑Wed Nov 03, 2021 7:24 am
I enjoyed Dune in the same way as TLOR: it's pure escapism. Now, if you want real SciFi, I've got a very long list...
TLOR (or LOTR in American) was not self righteously irritating.
Herbert made this thing and added elements that were sorta like in-jokes that weren't funny nor were they terribly creative nor did they add anything.
A glom jabber fer chrissakes. The first thing that the kid should have done afterwards is to have gotten the fat Chinese guy to cut her head off. I would have, you would have. And the names. Really "Duncan Idaho". My god.
And the fucking initial premise. A sophisticated Duke gets taken in and killed in the first 5 pages. Really? And did he pass his political sophistication on to his child?
BEHOLD!!!! I can write a 1,257 page book!!!
God, I hate aluminum.
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Hotarubi wrote: ↑Wed Nov 03, 2021 12:30 pm
Anyway, any remake not containing an English pop star that is a shittier actor that Keanu Reeves (just) is not worth my time.
The other other thing about this remake is that all of the actors, ALL OF THEM, appear to be heavily tranquilized. I have not seen so little affect since my visits to Creedmoor State Hospital where they used Thorazine rather than locked doors.
The whole goddamn thing was a silver alert.
ATTENTION ATTENTION be alert to the presence of hundreds of actors shambling in a desert.
ETA I'd rather, far rather, have a shitty pop star than some unknown that has the get up and go of a pithed frog.
asthmatic camel wrote: ↑Wed Nov 03, 2021 7:24 am
I enjoyed Dune in the same way as TLOR: it's pure escapism. Now, if you want real SciFi, I've got a very long list...
TLOR (or LOTR in American) was not self righteously irritating.
Herbert made this thing and added elements that were sorta like in-jokes that weren't funny nor were they terribly creative nor did they add anything.
A glom jabber fer chrissakes. The first thing that the kid should have done afterwards is to have gotten the fat Chinese guy to cut her head off. I would have, you would have. And the names. Really "Duncan Idaho". My god.
And the fucking initial premise. A sophisticated Duke gets taken in and killed in the first 5 pages. Really? And did he pass his political sophistication on to his child?
BEHOLD!!!! I can write a 1,257 page book!!!
God, I hate aluminum.
That's a bullshit critique, you can do better.
History is littered with sophisticated leaders getting killed or worse. Look what happened to that Caesar guy.
It is an excellent critique. Beyond excellent, actually. Transcendent more like.
These people live with treachery. It is in their DNA. And a super senior guy is fooled???? That would be like a person of Biden's experience screwing up an international agreement and pissing off one of our oldest allies ... oh ... wait. Forget that ... it would be like Biden screwing up withdrawal from a country where there is no time pressure and leaving billions of dollars worth of equipment for our sworn enemies .. ummm ... wait ... scratch that ... it would be like a shoo in candidate telling parents that they have no say in their kids education ...
Nyarlathotep wrote: ↑Sat Feb 01, 2020 3:28 am
Since summer I have been reading the Dune series. The original six Frank Herbert novels, plus the two sequels written by his son. FINALLY finished the last one today (Sandworms of Dune).
I note that soon after finishing this series of "books", Nyarl started acting erratically, behavior that culminated in his disappearance which pre-dated the release of the movie by mere weeks.
Draw your own conclusions.
Amazes me that people with whom I have not interacted in months will still go out of their way to slung shit at me.
The original dune book was ok. I tried reading on a couple more and they were dire.
The problem was that each new meddling faction that got introduced was incredibly powerful and would be blatantly unstable politically. There literally could not have been the stable organizations/societies shown in the world building if such beings existed.
It was ridiculous (and I say that as someone who has a fondness for warhammer 40K which is ridiculousness dialed up to 11 and yet appears plausible compared to the Dune universe)
Ps - I liked the lynch film. Hadn’t heard of the sci-fi special. Will probably watch the new one at some point.