And how many of those were lead roles?

And how many of those were lead roles?

“Movies and shows reflect the culture of where the audience is.”

You’re doing the lord’s work in this thread, Paul Kinsey. Thank you.

You’re doing the lord’s work in this thread, Paul Kinsey. Thank you.

Way to prove the poster’s point, dumbass.

OK I am not in any way excusing Tarantino’s comments. And anyone who saw my thoughts on the Thurman post knows that I am not at all in favor of excusing his shitty behavior, filmmaking genius be damned. But it strikes me that people always seem to be getting in trouble for shit they say on Howard Stern (I don’t…

Cool. Sounds like a great idea and they seem lovely. Also, I want her dress.

Blunt reaches a point of no return in her complicity with the actions and takes herself out of the game. But that doesn’t make her any less the center of the story, per my reading. She’s there to represent the difference between suspecting that maybe our government is doing some horrible things with some horrible…

I just made out with that radiator woman from that radiator planet!

Plot is beside the point in Villeneuve films. She’s central to the message.

See the whole Bene Gesserit manipulating events to create a chosen one is probably my least-favorite thing about Dune. Let’s see, you have a bunch of women with practically unlimited power and they spend every moment of existence working to create a man with their same power. That is the stupidest bullshit I’ve ever…

Nope. Never seen it. Never want to finish it now.

Leto’s character is absolutely necessary for the story. But I didn’t need quite so much actual screentime with him. Really, cut the big speech and I’d be golden.

I watched whatever version is on Amazon streaming. I don’t recall a hand-drawn PowerPoint scene, but I mostly just recall squirming around in agony before the sweet relief of giving up.

I guess part of why I see it as filmable, particularly by someone with Villeneuve’s talents, is that I certainly don’t think that it’s a book that needs to be 100 percent faithfully adapted. I don’t see ANY book as one that needs 100 percent faithful adaptation, honestly, but in Dune’s particular case I thought there…

I guess I wouldn’t mind it descending into somewhat standard Chosen One schtick. I’m kind of assuming that’s what he means by Star Wars for adults.

Have you seen Enemy?

I think the thing about BR 2049, especially in comparison to other Villeneuve films, is that it leaned a lot heavier on the text, as opposed to the subtext. Some of his films, like Enemy, are almost entirely subtextual. That’s why I think you have a lot of people who hate it as well as Prisoners, and even Sicario,…

Why not? I think her being the nexus of interest makes perfect sense in for the story.