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Posted February 02, 2017
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mintee: I spent many childhood hours trying to train my muscles and chanting 'fear is the mindeater...' lol nerd alert.
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Breja: Mind-KILLER. Fear is he mind-killer. Fake nerd alert*.

*just kidding! Easy there, put down the crysknife!

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mintee: the other books while entertaining seemed to progressively become more about preaching and constant lecturing till they drown out the plotlines. still not many authors come up with such a long term and in depth view of their fictional worlds
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Breja: I think the God Emperor of Dune might actually be my favourite, there is just something about it I love, the way it tackles it's almost ridiculously high concept, but I do get what you mean. You're not wrong, I just liked it anyway.

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mintee: I would love it if they gave peter jackson the time and money to do it justice, there is no way you can tell the story with one movie
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Breja: There was a time I would have agreed, but after the Hobbit fiasco, I shudder to think what he'd make out of Dune.

Personally I would go with Kenneth Branagh. I hink his shakespearian experience would serve him very well here. There is something shakespearian to Dune for me, it's hightened language, the sense of doom hanging over Paul.
Hobbit fiasco?
Posted February 02, 2017
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Lord_Kane: Hobbit fiasco?
Well, it was a collosal piece of crap. It got pretty much every single aspect of the book so wrong it became kind of hilarious.
Post edited February 02, 2017 by Breja
Posted February 02, 2017
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CharlesGrey: Well, learn something new every day -- I had no idea David Lynch directed the old Dune films. Never really associated him with the Sci-Fi genre.
George Lucas tried to recruit him to make Return of the Jedi but Lynch turned him down. He gave in when Dune came around but it was such a bad experience for him that he's never returned to the genre.
Posted February 02, 2017
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Lord_Kane: Hobbit fiasco?
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Breja: Well, it was a collosal piece of crap. It got pretty much every single aspect of the book so wrong it became kind of hilarious.
Not surprised, he even made massive changes to LOTR when he did that.
Posted February 02, 2017
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Breja: Well, it was a collosal piece of crap. It got pretty much every single aspect of the book so wrong it became kind of hilarious.
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Lord_Kane: Not surprised, he even made massive changes to LOTR when he did that.
If Dune got adapted the same way as Hobbit, Paul would barely be in it :D And we would probably get dragons, since in Hobbit we got sandworms :P
Posted February 02, 2017
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Lord_Kane: Hobbit fiasco?
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Breja: Well, it was a collosal piece of crap. It got pretty much every single aspect of the book so wrong it became kind of hilarious.
Bah The Hobbit was fine. I have read the book recently and alot of it was in the movie almost exactly.
Posted February 02, 2017
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Breja: Well, in this case I think it hardly applies- he spoke some time ago of making Dune being his dream project.

Anyway, it's kinda how it has to go, you agree to make something the studio wants and will make big money on to later get from them the money to make a project you want- Nolan's Batman movies gave him the position to make things like Inception and Interstellar and now Dunkirk, Ben Affleck took the Batman role to make Live By Night, Kenneth Branagh did Thor and Cinderella to now make Murder on the Orient Express (okay, a remake, but apparently one that is his idea).
It might be. Though they didn't need that kind of money for their previous projects. Which in the case of Nolan and Affleck are their best, as far as I'm concerned. I didn't really reallyl like any Nolan big budget movie (I'm mostly a fan of Memento and The Prestige). We'll see about the next one, but I don't like the subject matter to begin with. And Live By Night didn't get good reviews. Kenneth Branagh after moving on from his Shakespeare adaptations, has been all over the place.

I could also bring Duncan Jones, Darren Aronofsky and many of the myriad of new talent recruited for Marvel films to my case. Once you go vanilla, it's hard finding your own voice again.

But at the end of the day, if that's what Villeneuve wants to do, good for him. I'm just more insterested in his smaller more personal work.
Posted February 02, 2017
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Lord_Kane: Not surprised, he even made massive changes to LOTR when he did that.
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Breja: If Dune got adapted the same way as Hobbit, Paul would barely be in it :D And we would probably get dragons, since in Hobbit we got sandworms :P
Being NOT a fan of David Lynch's dune, I am of the belief that Dune is pretty much impossible adapt for a feature film, even the dune miniseries fucked things up.
Posted February 02, 2017
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rgnrk: It might be. Though they didn't need that kind of money for their previous projects. Which in the case of Nolan and Affleck are their best, as far as I'm concerned. I didn't really reallyl like any Nolan big budget movie (I'm mostly a fan of Memento and The Prestige).
I love both of those, especially The Prestige, his best movie by far and one of my very favourite movies, but I still liked Inception and Interstellar a great deal.

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rgnrk: We'll see about the next one, but I don't like the subject matter to begin with. And Live By Night didn't get good reviews.
It didn't, but I don't much care about reviews. I have not seen it yet, so I have no opinion to offer, other than that even if it is bad... well, sometimes mistakes are made and a movie is bad. But that's what happens when risks are taken, and a director follows a project of their own - sometimes it works out great, sometimes not. And that's exactly why they need the more mainstream work- to afford the risks and help move on from failures to new projects.
Posted February 02, 2017
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DaCostaBR: Says the guy who has never read it.
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Breja: I beg your pardon? I read all the Dune books up to Heretics of Dune (quit half way through that, felt not as good as the previous ones and somewhat disconnected) and I read all of the Song of Ice and Fire novels.
I feel sorry for anyone who is forced to watch or read Game of Thrones. My condolences.
Posted February 02, 2017
Dreading remakes, as I always do. Can't (I hope!) be any worse than the last ones that came out, where it was some short tv series.

Ye gads, that was horrendous!

Spooky timing though, bought 9 Dune books today :D
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Posted February 02, 2017
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Breja: If Dune got adapted the same way as Hobbit, Paul would barely be in it :D And we would probably get dragons, since in Hobbit we got sandworms :P
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Lord_Kane: Being NOT a fan of David Lynch's dune, I am of the belief that Dune is pretty much impossible adapt for a feature film, even the dune miniseries fucked things up.
Impossible to do the book justice, I would say.

I have no desire to see a screen adaptation. Why mess with perfection?
Posted February 02, 2017
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fishbaits: Dreading remakes, as I always do. Can't (I hope!) be any worse than the last ones that came out, where it was some short tv series.

Ye gads, that was horrendous!

Spooky timing though, bought 9 Dune books today :D
I will give it more hope than Ghost in the Shell, which is to say a smidgen more than negative of a fuck.
Posted February 02, 2017
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fishbaits: Dreading remakes, as I always do. Can't (I hope!) be any worse than the last ones that came out, where it was some short tv series.

Ye gads, that was horrendous!

Spooky timing though, bought 9 Dune books today :D
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eksasol: I will give it more hope than Ghost in the Shell, which is to say a smidgen more than negative of a fuck.
Is that out already?
I agree, I didn't hold hope for that either, but had no idea it was out already.

Could be worse though, could be the Ghostbusters remake.

*shudders*
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Posted February 02, 2017
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fishbaits: Is that out already?
I agree, I didn't hold hope for that either, but had no idea it was out already.

Could be worse though, could be the Ghostbusters remake.

*shudders*
No, its not out yet, March 31st. But it has Scarlett Johansson in it...
Post edited February 02, 2017 by eksasol
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