Thank you and much appreciated!

“I want to hear her call Darth Vader a Limey cocksucker!”

The thing that infuriated me was hearing people saying things like: “He asked before he did it in front of them” or “He did it on the phone so it wasn’t that bad.”

Yep. They’re crazier than shithouse rats, but unfortunately, they’re MUCH better at hiding it.

Wholeheartedly agree!

L. Ron Hubbard has been quoted as telling a science fiction convention in 1948: “Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion.”

For sure, Villenueve has his own style, but I think that the look of his Dune would have benefitted more from the style he chose for BR2049.  While I did not like the story or the characters in that sequel, he absolutely nailed the dystopic rot, the saturated color, and the feeling of empty spaces that seem endless…

I’m still happy with my 8 plus and have no plans to upgrade.

An limited IMAX release in September?! Wonderful! My wife and I have been wanting to see it again, and this sounds like the perfect occasion.

It’s got to be aesthetic choice. Why would anyone want to use a camera with such limited options for color? That would mean you’d have to spend extra time in post adjusting the color grading for every scene! Madness.

I definitely got the Brutalist feeling immediately, and I’ve noticed that Villeneuve’s films are more muted in the color palette.  While that can work really well for certain films like “Sicario”, I don’t think it’s as good of a match for “Dune.”  Still, I’ll be interested to see the entire thing once it is available.

Agreed! I’ve heard good and bad about Villeneuve’s vision of Dune, and I’m going to wait until both parts have been released before I watch the whole thing.

If they could all die in a flash flood from a hurricane supercharged by climate change, that would be acceptable.

“We are the content.”  That’s the t-shirt.  That’s the slogan.  THAT is the rallying cry.  Loved that he ended with that line from “Andor.”  Mad respect for Tony and everybody down there fighting the righteous fight.

This movie gets slagged on a LOT, and for valid reasons, but speaking as a fan who read all the Herbert books through Chapterhouse, and has also seen the SyFy adaptation (not horrible, but ehh) and not yet seen Part 1 of the Villeneuve adaptation, there is are many things about Lynch’s version that I find to be…

I have not read a comic in decades, but it clear from what little was in the film that Gorr was truly a Darkseid level villain, and yet he was treated almost like a background character.

Which is his films outside of the MCU would you recommend?  I’ve heard of several, but I would like to see the ones where he pays more attention to drama and respects it.  Perhaps he feels he needs to be a light touch because he’s working for Disney?

Wholeheartedly agree. This “industry” needs a hard reset from the top down. While art and commerce make uneasy bedfellows, it should not be an utterly parasitic relationship.

Wow.

No worries! Once these strikers “start losing their apartments”, things will revert back the usual grift.