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Ramon Pitter

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Jul 23, 2021, 7:02:45 AM7/23/21
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They really pulled out the actor Rolodex for this one..



Matthew Scott

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Jul 23, 2021, 11:45:44 AM7/23/21
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i dont know anything about the story but been hearing about it in geek circles since i was a teen. so yea im down to watch this epic thing and see why people love it

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Brandon Nam

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Jul 23, 2021, 11:57:49 AM7/23/21
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I was audiobooking this one since last year but then it got pushed back and i fell off. Looks like im BACK IN IT this weekend. 

It feels pretty paint by the numbers chosen hero's journey in the book. I assume that's because every sci fi- The One- story likely had Dune roots, so I expect they'll need to make this thing look PRETTY to offset that a bit. 

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michael grant

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Jul 23, 2021, 5:45:27 PM7/23/21
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I can't recommend the David Lynch version--but I'm glad I've seen it. Especially since it's the last and only time he ever tried to do something big and mainstream. What a mess!

There's also a feature length documentary about Jodorowsky trying and failing to make Dune.

I won't be watching the trailers for this one until/unless I have one foisted on me in the theater. Trying to stay as blind as possible. But I'm fucking excited!!!!!!



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michael grant

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Sep 8, 2021, 1:10:50 PM9/8/21
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I was waiting to watch the trailers til I finished the book.

And now...Holy shit this looks pretty awesome!!!!

Matthew Scott

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Oct 21, 2021, 4:48:29 PM10/21/21
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Problems 





michael grant

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Oct 21, 2021, 4:52:00 PM10/21/21
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Theater. Gotta be huge screen huge sound no?

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Matthew Scott

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Oct 21, 2021, 4:53:00 PM10/21/21
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Yes that’s how I feel. And was originally trying to do. 

And never made it to bond and that’s out of theaters now



michael grant

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Oct 21, 2021, 4:55:21 PM10/21/21
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I went to the Actual Movies last night to see the Velvet Underground doc. So fucking good. Todd Haynes avoided every single thing that usually bugs me about retrospective (ie not performance) music docs. 

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Brandon Nam

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Oct 21, 2021, 6:02:13 PM10/21/21
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Ive had it ready to watch for a week now. Resisting temptation steadily. Its easy when the work week extra hot like this one. Going tuesday to imax!

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Kwame Phillips

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Oct 21, 2021, 11:32:25 PM10/21/21
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I don’t love love the film (or Villeneuve), but having seen it, I’d recommend seeing it in a theatre. 

On 22 Oct 2021, at 00:02, Brandon Nam <brand...@gmail.com> wrote:


Ive had it ready to watch for a week now. Resisting temptation steadily. Its easy when the work week extra hot like this one. Going tuesday to imax!
On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 4:55 PM michael grant <ohims...@gmail.com> wrote:
I went to the Actual Movies last night to see the Velvet Underground doc. So fucking good. Todd Haynes avoided every single thing that usually bugs me about retrospective (ie not performance) music docs. 

On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 1:53 PM Matthew Scott <elr...@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes that’s how I feel. And was originally trying to do. 

And never made it to bond and that’s out of theaters now

Theater. Gotta be huge screen huge sound no?

On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 1:48 PM Matthew Scott <elr...@gmail.com> wrote:
Problems 

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Matthew Scott

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Oct 21, 2021, 11:33:23 PM10/21/21
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That seals it. 

Thx G



Michael Grant

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Oct 23, 2021, 7:37:43 PM10/23/21
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On Oct 21, 2021, at 9:33 PM, Matthew Scott <elr...@gmail.com> wrote:



Matthew Scott

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Nov 1, 2021, 1:47:37 PM11/1/21
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Ok

so we gave it a shot. early afternoon viewing with my free cinemark membership points, WITH my 4 year old. Got him properly tired before the movie. But when we got to the seats he turned into caged animal. think tasmanian devil / think gremlins. keeks tried to get him to pass out in her arms in the hall way but when she came back in he woke up and raged. 

so we went home, finished up the day and watched it on our TV. 

And it was awesome. Couple times I was sitting forward in my chair a little tense / gripped / or in nervous anticipation

*SPOILER ISH*




More so, i (surprisingly) got slightly emotional with the homie being his mom's champion then having to fight the person he thought was gonna be his guide. Then when he learned there was gonna be no yeilding, I felt bad/for him like "fuck i thought this is how i win him over and get a master to guide me per my visions, but now i gotta kill him 5 mins after meeting him!?" 

of course this is where we learn the visions really arent exact but allows him to make more informed decisions than others. super cool, and i think i was sad for the relationship that never happened or something. 

Anyway super fun and i loved the pacing and yes beautiful and of course Denis' attention to detail of whats in the frame just felt great to watch

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Michael Grant

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Nov 12, 2021, 11:15:52 AM11/12/21
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Finally saw it last night. So glad I waited til I could make it to the theater. This was my 4th theater movie during covid, so I hadn’t thought much beyond wanting to see it as big as possible. But as soon as it started I felt emotional, and realized the first three were “small” ones. Great movies but no spectacle. Summer of soul, Zola, velvet underground. 

It felt amaaaaaazing to see something so epic, to feel like we had Movies Back. 

I love how it’s a fucking 3 hour prologue, basically. The balls that takes! 

What sets this guy villanueve apart right now is he’s still actually composing and lighting shots on this scale—most big budgets now shoot with shitty flat light to make post-production easier. The shadows, light, angles, and then finally the expansive desert. The fighting, the sound design, the fucking spaceships! I feel like momoa was born to be Duncan Idaho and Oscar Isaac is always so good but added so much humanity to duke leto. 

“This is only the beginning!”

Also some great trailers.
King Richard
Licorice Pizza
The Batman 
Ambulance 

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Brandon Nam

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Nov 12, 2021, 11:39:19 AM11/12/21
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Thanks for reminding me i needed to chime in. I've seen Dune twice now in IMAX so i feel fully digested on it. I watched it with a not so hyped noob to the Dune-verse and a hyped big DV fan but also a dune-verse noob. From them i got weird to mixed reactions and i personally think it's because Denis films this thing and lets it play out as if everyone read the book or took in the cliffnotes. As i'm watching i'm feeling that vibe that i know something my friends dont and its subtle and should pay off well but i cannot recommend this to a newbie who hasnt ever heard of dune. My girl mel wanted to watch it with her friend on HBOMax since i saw it twice and she was out of town and i begged her not to because she THINKS she's getting some awesome love story with Zendaya and Timmy Chals, with some epic battles and cool sci fi ideas thrown in. I felt like if she saw it fresh without me she'd come back at me talking shit about sand like Anakin.

So as a new age fan of the Dune-verse (only cared when i heard DV was filming this thing) I enjoyed it technically. Like its SO beautiful and seeing it in IMAX reminds me why you have to do that for some movies. I also thoroughly enjoyed watching Paul's Hero journey although i think with all the stuff they are holding back about his purpose, and the breeding and the number of super powers this kid is about to inherit it just kinda feels a little forced that this kid is the Prince who was promised for all. I also think they wouldve benefitted from a bit more than a throwaway line about spice and what it does. Maybe i'm wrong but im faulting the movie for these things while i cant watch part 2 to see how it ties together. Honestly i really can't say how much i enjoyed this movie until i see the pay off in later flicks. I disliked LOTR:FOTR for a long time. It was only after maybe a decadeo watching all 3 so many times that i could look at the whole product and say you know what that part 1 was really well done.

I genuinely think Dune was marketed as something it was not, probably to get as many butts in the seats as possible. The title card fake out tells me all I needed to know. NOT ONCE is this thing mentioned as part 1 until the movie starts lol. As you mentioned "the balls on this guy!"



Since watching Dune twice I have also watched Eternals. Both 2h 30m+ movies that leave me wanting more by the end but only one in a good way (Dune of course).


 

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Kwame Phillips

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Nov 12, 2021, 12:17:07 PM11/12/21
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The funny thing is that this is the film that convinced me that I don't think Villaneuve is great at narrative. Cinematography, amazing. Actually storytelling, fiiine? Storyteller for an epic adventure, that I don't know.

It looks gorgeous, but it’s feels kinda like typical Villaneuve for me: never really exciting, looks great and the worlds are built for pretty Hollywood guys to mope around in. Chalomet = Gosling = Gyllenhaal. Same kinda actors. Same kinda mope Villaneuve-verse. That said, obviously I will be watching part 2 in theatre, even if only to marvel at the look.

Brandon Nam

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Nov 12, 2021, 12:24:29 PM11/12/21
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Its like i want tarantino and marty scorcese to craft me a story to be told and i want Denis or chris nolan to make it pretty and bold. The stuff of legend. 

By the way there’s a LOT coming out in like a month. Matrix 4 and spidey being my headliners for a lot of good stuff coming up.

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michael grant

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Nov 12, 2021, 3:04:59 PM11/12/21
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I felt the same way coming out re: it felt like DV just decided "well, it's basically the most famous sci-fi book ever...so yeah, this one's for the readers out there!" My borat voice wife hadn't read it though, and watched it on hbomax while I was out of town, and she shot down my theory. Said she got all the bene-gesserit stuff and the conflicting future visions just fine. Plus she likes PJ Harvey and Sonic Youth so I married well but that's beside the point.

I went in hearing Chalomee was flat and not great and maybe it's just because I like him as an actor and have the background of his actual charisma onscreen (so good in Little Women!) but I thought he was right for the part and did good...for Part 1. We'll see how he holds up as the spoiler alert leader of [gestures at everything]. His performance reminded me of my friend who is the heir to a very large company and has been raised from birth to eventually take it over--that weird combo of entitlement, wealth, but weariness at the fact that he's going to be responsible for all these thousands of people under him. So as far as hitting "good looking marin rich guy with stressful job" he nailed it lol.

As for DV as storyteller I'm mostly with you all. I feel like his apex as a traditional storyteller was Arrival--I don't usually like twists or flashbacks (and especially not dead kids as character explanation!) as narrative devices but felt like he really fucking landed the story there along with the spectacle. Bladerunner I found beautiful but boring--though I think I'll give it a rewatch soon. Sicario is one of my favorite movies of all time, and I think whether because of or in spite of his narrative questionability, the fact that it feels so propulsive yet cloudy as to what anyone is *really* trying to do until the last 20 minutes--even whose story it really is!--is what makes it so different and compelling. Prisoners is basically beautifully shot genre stuff that would be blah if it weren't for Deakins as DP and Hugh Jackman giving an unhinged performance. (Seriously, there are times in that one where he gets so loud it blows out the levels on the microphone, but DV left those takes in; there's also a few times where the other actors look shocked and surprised by what he's doing in the moment in a way that feels real.)

But yeah, his strength is really conducting all these things at once--the best DPs, composers, visual effects, etc. and having them all work perfectly together even when the script and performances get clunky here and there.

And you're right, if someone went into this hoping for a TC + Zendaya planetary romance they'd be pissed!!!!

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