For the people who decided they did not like “Beau is Afraid” without seeing it, I can tell you this from experience: seeing it will not make you like it more.

What? He doesn't strike me as a guy who takes himself too seriously.

Of all the weird things about Trump, and there are too many to count, his obsession with TV ratings is definitely one of them.

When you are under 30, everything is new and you yourself just did the world a huge favor by discovering it and letting them know about it.

“respectability-by-inertia”

He didn't see it until now?

IIRC, Clavell wrote 6 or 7 books about feudal Asian cultures.  But I’m not sure how closely related they were.

I just want to say that Butler was definitely gonzo, but he was also doing a Stellan Skarsgard impression and that was a great choice.

I use this method a lot, especially in the winter, but I get more extreme with the temperatures. 200F in a real convection oven (so the temp is more reliable) till it hits the desired internal temp (30 minutes or more depending on thickness), then into a cast iron pan heated as hot as I can get it, which is over 600F…

Zack should quit his day job and become a PR flack. He's much better at that than making movies.

This post obliquely suggests that Harry and Asta could get together at some point or are doing some sort of standard “will they/won’t they” sort of thing but none of that is close to true. They love each other, but it is very platonic and much more of a brother/sister or parent/child sort of thing, with the dynamic of…

Looks like no. Except maybe a little on the northern Oklahoma/Arkansas border.

I just don't think it is possible to do "Messiah" without Paul being with Chani. That's the backbone of the book. You can probably tell a cautionary tale of the damage a Messiah can do, but it won't be "Dune: Messiah."

There is nothing about that headline that is good.

The public always needs a villain and never NEEDS (but will accept) more than one.

If “Messiah” is as big as the first two have been, the studio will hire SOMEBODY to make “Children” (if they can’t find enough money to convince Villaneuve). At that point, “God Emperor” depends entirely on Brett Ratner’s non-union Mexican Equivalent.

Even Paul thinks she is right. He just sees it as the least bad option for him, her, the Fremen, Arrakis, the Imperium, and the future of the entire human race.

Paul is choosing the least bad option. They didn’t really show a lot of other options except for his short speech about seeing the future and their enemies prevailing in so many of them.  He’s choosing the narrow way through that he saw.  I think they did a good job showing how reluctant he is and how he fights it,…

I don’t think he’s going to tone it down. Villaneuve’s main theme seems to be the danger of Messiahs, even more than Herbert, so a whole bunch of people have to die because of Paul. But I agree that making it less depressing than The Zone of Interest or All Quiet on the Western Front may prove to be a challenge.

Spoilers for 60 year old books again: