There’s a better presentation of that story, a play, Lasso of Truth by Carson Kreither. Gets into his consternation of not only the lie detector being thoroughly debunked, but also Wonder Woman shifting away from the original “inherently peaceful woman” premise in accordance with different historical mores. That his…

If a polygraph were less than 50% accurate, it would by definition also be more than 50% accurate. A 100% inaccurate polygraph would be completely reliable, you’d just have to move the ‘yes’ and ‘no’ labels! [50% accuracy is the least accurate you can be with a binary outcome]

No self-respecting moviegoer wants to see children have an orgy.

Part of it is an accident of timing. If he was as big today as he was in the ‘80s, he’d have the kind of contract JK Rowling and other big authors tend to get, with script and director approval. Back in the ‘80s Hollywood wasn’t at all concerned with faithful adaptations, and a lot of the time, they just wanted to be…

“It happens to be, at least structurally, one of the King adaptations that sticks closest to its source material.”

And yet again, I’m literally talking about the difficulty making a successful $200m movie with a plot where you tell the audience that the hero’s victory in the last movie resulted in the deaths of billions. Literally.

I GOT A FEVER. AND THE ONLY PRESCRIPTION IS MORE SPICE!

Anyway, if you really want batshit insane, there’s Children of Dune in which Paul’s son Leto II turns into a sand worm. That’s kind of where the series went off the rails.

Walk without rhythm. It won’t attract the worm.

This is no more weird than the fact that male terrestrial mammals use the same organ for eliminating liquid waste as they do for delivering genetic material to the female reproductive system for reproduction.

And I’d argue that downer is key to Dune (the book; while Dune 1 has made some gestures towards “being space messiah is bad mkay?”, we’re yet to see if Dune 2 will round out that arc); I think the events of Messiah are the themes/subtext of Dune made text.

You’ve spent way too much time thinking about a movie that does not deserve that much thought. 

I just read Messiah this winter and thought it was better than I’d expected; it’d make a great part three to Dune 1 + 2.

Hey now. There are weirdos on every planet:

Sigh.

TFA was solid. But the lack of any form of plan whatsoever for the three movies sort of killed my enjoyment of the first.

Does it break peoples’ brains to say they like bad movies? How often have you seen some sort of variation of this interaction?

If you remove midichilorians and jar jar episode I is a decent star wars film.

I don’t know anybody that grew up on the originals that thinks the prequels were good. Great characters in parts but that’s it. He’s a celeb. I’m sure people fawn and tell him nice things to his face. oh look! Midiclorians! Now Clone Wars? That’s quality.

The revisionism towards the Prequels has been a fascinating process. Around 10 years ago, the consensus on the internet was the prequels movies were irredeemably bad movies, but that opinion has shifted in the past few years. One reason has been the Disney take over and the release of the sequel movies, those movies…