That’s David Lynch, though. He likes stories about innocent, naif-like good guys versus evil, corrupt, physically grotesque bad guys, and that’s all over his version of Dune. It’s entirely possible he misunderstood the story.

Paul tells Jessica that he knows she’s pregnant in Part One, so it’s safe to assume Alia will show up in Part Two, seeing as how she’s a major character in Messiah and Children.

Dennis has also changed a few things from the book already, notably the appearance of the Harknonnens (something they both change, iirc), the Gom Jabbar test scene, and a LOT of the plot against Jessica and a good wack of Huey’s betrayal.

First of all, the general sentiment is that the Lynch movie is seriously flawed, because a) he wasn’t able to release his preferred cut of the movie, and b) it’s kinda mixed overall, skimping over the deeper themes in Herbert’s novel. I like it fine, but lots of Herbert fans don’t.

I think the Villeneuve movie is definitely a better adaptation of the book. He’d been a Dune fan since he was thirteen and there are probably shots in these movies that had been in his head for decades. I enjoyed Part One and I’m looking forward to Part Two.

They’re based on the same novel, dude. Apart from Villeneuve sticking closer to Herbert’s than Lynch (no weirding modules, more scenes with Duncan), it was inevitable that the two movies would share a lot of the same scenes and the same dialogue. And design-wise, both movies borrow heavily from John Schoenherr’s …

They’re still operating with a skeleton staff, though. And the last I checked he was still trying to offload the studio’s library. 

Campbell’s influence has been fading for a long time but I think what did the monomyth in was the flurry of YA novels and movies about Chosen Ones about 10-12 years back. That shit got old in a hurry. It seems like if something deals with a Chosen One these days, it’s trying to deconstruct the myth. Dune is a good…

I had no idea that Campbell’s views and books have begun to be seen as less than scholarly or not as well-researched as they ought.

And the funny thing is that most of the complaints about the MCU nowadays are indistinguishable from the most common complaints about the comics since 1972 or so — too convoluted, too self-referential, reliant on crossovers, storylines go on forever, etc.

Something I’ve noticed the last season on Mando is that Favreau and Filoni are taking a lot of steps to establish that the New Republic’s military and bureaucracy are still based out of Coruscant, and I suspect the end goal of that is to walk back, if not retcon altogether the idea that the Republic was utterly…

Although Iron Man 2 feels more like a so-so ‘90s action sequel — think Speed 2 — than the sort of things Marvel would be doing after Avengers. It’s got some MCU connections, and introduces Natasha and Rhodey’s War Machine persona (plus a “new” Rhodey), but it’s bad not so much because of expanded universe shenanigans…

The MCU is aggressively mainstream, the way Star Wars was in 1977-83. Hundreds of millions of people around the world, most of whom have never read a comic book, love and pay money to see these movies every year. They don’t really need some sort of alpha geek elite in order to reach a wide audience. That phase is in…

There’s a big difference between “franchise movies,” which have been around for nearly a century, and the current shared universe model, which didn’t emerge as a mature form until Avengers.

Also, the great Tom Scharpling finally got a cameo in an Ant-Man movie after being cut from the first two.

“Bird Box Barcelona” sounds like a fusion hot wing place.

No major spoilers please, but I just need to confirm that he’s full of meat.

I want this film just so that ‘Crystal Skull’ isn’t the last one in the ledger. Like raita after a blistering vindaloo.

Oh, and I’m sure ILM could’ve done it after 1980 or so. (I recently rewatched Dragonslayer, and that had some fantastic work in it. Part of the reason they took the job was to prove that they could handle effects in a terrestrial setting, as opposed to just outer space.)

Whenever I hear that I think about the state of mainstream/popular movies before the MCU came along, and honestly it wasn’t that much better.