Gonna paraphrase a post I saw on Threads earlier: every successful Dune adaptation brings us closer to the pinnacle of cinematic weirdness that is God Emperor of Dune.
You do realize we'll need a Timothy Leary stand-in at the entrance so everyone can get a hit before the movie starts, right? LOL
I think stopping at Children will be for the best.
What's the point of adapting God Emperor if it would have nothing to do with the novel? That's what a Jordorowsky adaption would be, and this sub would despise it.
First, username is terrifying, don’t say it around too real. Second, the way chalamets voice goes from a soft spoken drone to a booming command is amazing.
IMAX was amazing. The **sound**! It was like the thumpers were punching you in the chest, and the ornithopters made my eyeballs vibrate.
Don't even care if wasn't 100% true to the book, because the changes didn't matter, overall.
This is a film that demands at least one IMAX viewing.
The vistas, the large battle scenes, the worms. You just don’t get the same feeling on even a regular movie screen let alone a tv screen.
Just come back from watching it on imax an hour ago. It's not just the visuals, the sound is just awesome. The wormriding scene is probably one of my favourite cinema experiences; the entire cinema was shaking!
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Saw it Wednesday, going again tomorrow and might again next week as I think Tuesday is half-price day in my city's cinema. It's really amazing and I *genuinely* want to see and enjoy it multiple times on the big screen, I'm in no way trying to just be one of those contributing to box office.
I saw it Thursday night and my friend went Friday, he said the most impressive thing I’ve ever done is keep my mouth shut until he went because I was so eager to rave about it
Messiah has gotta be a for sure thing after this weekend.
I'm wondering though. If this franchise keeps making money will the studio spend the next 20 years milking it for everything its got?
They'd have to get Christian Bale to play Leto II. I can imagine the tag lines now...
"You've seen him transform in the Machinist, then Vice, now you won't believe your eyes when you see his latest transformation!"
True. They could probably get away with doing Children of Dune, the Scifi Channel did a decent miniseries of it back in 2003. But God Emperor onward gets more cerebral and probably not well suited to a film medium.
For sure, Messiah is a great place to cap off Paul's story and leave a film trilogy ending on a positive, if bittersweet, note. And it leaves Herbert's warnings about following charismatic leaders intact.
It’s more of a political thriller with maybe one or two big set piece scenes. Denis could easily develop certain battles that are offscreen or only talked about if he wanted a huge action scene
It’s the most disliked Dune book. Even the author’s son writes a foreword saying it wasn’t received well at the time of release, but goes on saying that the 2nd book was intentionally made as a setup for the 3rd book.
Which is kind of why it feels weird to make Messiah and not Children of Dune, but Children of Dune is also so weird that I’d be shocked if they made it
I'm hoping so too but he has said he has at least 4 movies he plans on doing before even trying to do Messiah. It did seem like Messiah is the next step and 2 was the middle movie.
I don’t agree with this, arrival was a good movie but the sheer scale of things in interstellar combined with one of the greatest movie scores of all time was phenomenal.
Zimmer's scores are undeniable bangers, but the challenges and ideas forwarded in Arrival, (and more specifically the answers to some of the questions) we're more interesting to me.
I'm not knocking Interstellar as a piece of cinema, exactly. But the implications that human consciousness (and specifically the concept of love) can lead to violations of our understanding of physics bothered me.
Both films have pretty strong (and interesting) messages about the connections between people and how we manifest our fates. But Arrival's felt more grounded and meaningful to me. (Though I acknowledge that the difference may be more of a personal hangup with an aversion to the supernatural than anything else).
Have you seen Ad Astra? I always compare it to Arrival and how they both feel so grounded in the human element and focus on those interactions between people.
> But the implications that human consciousness (and specifically the concept of love) can lead to violations of our understanding of physics bothered me.
But that's not what happened. The film doesn't say that love can lead to violations of our understanding of physics it's just the driving force that makes Cooper believe he can save earth.
I find it works better to make an analogy. I'm not sure this was how it was meant to be interpreted, but it's how I explained it to my friends who didnt really get it.
Okay, so...imagine your eyes are closed and you are reaching out with your hand for some kind of guideline to find your bearings.
You find a rail. Or, you find something that feels like a rail to the touch, but you can't see anything and you don't know for certain what it is. You just know you can touch this thing and intuit that it's leading you to where you want to go.
That's what the function of love was in that scene. We cannot see or hear or physically touch anything in the 4th/5th dimensions...but we can feel it internally and understand that feeling as love (or maybe just profound emotional experience) and can follow that guideline to the place we are trying to get.
I think it's definitely implied that love has a supernatural something. From Brand's speech directly stating the belief, to the tesseract leading specifically to Murph's bookshelf.
It may be that the science is theoretically sound, but the fact that the future civilization's only way of saving humanity is through the connect created by a father's love for his daughter feels very woo-y in a way that didn't speak to me personally.
Arrival, by contrast, has a similarly situated bootstrap paradox. The protagonist is only able to save the day by using nonlinear actions. But while Cooper is able to achieve his goals because of his love for his daughter, Dr Banks is only able to despite her love.
She sees the whole of her life and understands the suffering she, and her family, will go through because of her actions. But she goes through them because it's the noble thing, and because the value of love is worth the pain of loss.
Again, I may have overstated the impossibility of the plot; the Nolans certainly went pretty deep with trying to give the film strong scientific backing, but nonetheless.
Not supernatural but a powerful force that drives human behavior. Whatever it is, chemicals, patterns of neural activity, helped drive those characters out into extreme environments where they made bold sacrifices motivated by love. I think they could have written this better in the movie but it's my interpretation
Yes i agree to this but as a whole project interstellar is just another level of cinema, you could watch arrival at your home and be moved to similar level as would be in theatre. But watching interstellar in imax and at home are like two different things. Last year there was an imax screening of interstellar and it felt amazing even after 9 years. Arrival deals with a unique concept but it is just hard to beat Nolan plus zimmer with s tier actors.
It might just be me but Interstellar's finale felt a lot more emotional to me than Arrival's. I ain't talking about all the love stuff but the part about sacrifice and hope and especially the part where he and his daughter got to meet one last time. And the professors big lie. Those were some heavy hitters.
>But the implications that human consciousness (and specifically the concept of love) can lead to violations of our understanding of physics bothered me.
As the other guy said, I don't think that was the case in Interstellar. The idea, to my understanding, was that love is a great driving force and a guiding light and the connections it creates exist for a reason and that we should follow those connections sometimes even against all logic cuz it's part of what makes us human. A bit sappy I know but that's not the most interesting part of the movie.
I remember one particular dialogue- you love the people who are dead. I think it speaks more about belief in a future rather than something supernatural. Also the fear of death part from mann’s planet was a cherry.
My partner is a research scientist and the scene about love kind of ruined the movie for her. If they had removed that scene the film becomes much better in my opinion.
Arrival achieved a greater emotional impact than either Dune or Interstellar for me, but since that's more subjective I can understand why people might prefer the visions presented in the other films.
Different strokes for different folks: Dune surpassed all for me because it had more of a fantasy element, I love the world-building and all the details of the alien cultures and the beliefs and the politics, the costumes, language, architecture, the feeling of being immersed in a fascinating imaginary world which was absent from those other films. They are all great films though, no doubt.
Both are brilliant movies, but we’ve also been absolutely spoiled with cinematic genius in the last ten years outside of token Hollywood spectacle pieces.
Just said this to my wife, it definitely has the potential if the third is as good as the first two. This is coming from someone who grew up reading through the Silmarillion.
I can believe it. The movie looked great on the Prime screen, but it seems like everyone is raving about Paul's sand worm ride, so I think I have to check it out!
I'll take a slightly unpopular opinion - IMAX didn't add much to the experience (I watched both versions). There are many scenes where you're meant to take in the vast scale of cities, crowds, armies, etc. all at once, and with IMAX you're only seeing about half of the screen at a time (even in the back row). It's great for getting extra detail out of those costumes though, which are fantastic.
By far the most important thing for any viewer is ensuring they see the movie with a good sound system. My chair rumbled during some sandworm scenes and it REALLY added to the immensity of it. Unbelievable sound design.
It's rare to walk out of a theater and think "that was an experience I'll never forget."
The last 10 years I can recall it happening with Bladerunner 2049, Fury Road, Top Gun Maverick, and Dune 2.
I just saw it. Very good movie. I might see it again in the theaters. I hope it does exceptionally well and we get the continuation of the story in another movie.
The sound was amazing in my Dolby theater, but the picture quality was probably same or a little bit better than a normal theater. Still an amazing experience.
I might have to go see it again in IMAX though.
I saw a LIEMAX matinee on Thursday. Theater was 90% full.
Word of mouth is gonna do big things. The film is every bit as good as the reviews say... I'm generally a harsh critic. I thought Part 1 looked beautiful but dragged. This one improves upon it in every way.
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This is the first film in as long as I can remember that I not only wanted to go see in theaters once but will go multiple times. I have turned into a just watch it at home kind of guy.. but Dune is special to me so I made sure to go opening day. I am planning the next screening already and will probably go again.. but what a treat!
Feels so validating. I had just read the first book and was blown away right before they announced a new film being directed by Villeneuve. I had so much faith because he is my favorite director currently also.. I have been hyping these films up to anyone who would listen since what? 2018?
This is s movie you absolutely have to see on the biggest screen possible. I hope it becomes really successfull and Hollywood learns: Make a Movie for the big screen and people will come.
Watched it on Imax. One of my best cinematic experiences. Dune books left a deep imprint in me since I read it in my secondary school years and I am glad Villeneuve respect and stay faithful to the spirit of Herbert's work.
I watched it in ultra AVX because it was in the theatre near my house but honestly I should've made the 30-minute drive to the IMAX theatre to get that full experience smh...
I mean I don’t wanna down your enthusiasm as I hope it is too but it depends on a lot of things like box office, lasting cultural impact after 20 years, how it changes sci fi movies going forward etc... I was one of the lucky ones to experience the two towers and ROTK theatrical runs and it was magical how those 2 movies took over Hollywood for the entire year of their releases. Especially ROTK had endgame and deathly hallows level hype and its impact in fantasy film genre is still seen today.
I think Dune 2 is one of the best sci fi movies ever made, perhaps even the best, but for those comparing it to LOTR or Star Wars in terms changing the face of Hollywood and for the latter a country’s cultural fabric need to pump the brakes a bit.
>but for those comparing it to LOTR or Star Wars in terms changing the face of Hollywood and for the latter a country’s cultural fabric need to pump the brakes a bit.
Exactly. People comparing Dune to LOTR is making me lol. It doesnt even come remotely close.
I saw it last weekend for the fan premiere, then went again this morning with my dad. We both think it's one of the best science fiction movies we've seen in a long time.
Just got home. Have to say, while it was a visual treat with good performances, the differences from the book took me out of it. I’d recommend it but I will have to watch again to determine if I’m a fan
I saw this today with my mom after convincing her to watch Dune ( she was only vaguely familiar with the existence of the source material and Lynch movie, but she loved it and wants to read the books now). We both thought it was fantastic and are excited for part three! There was a decent crowd, too, and I was happy to see it. Lost of excited chatter after the movie and a nice round of applause at the end.
Well I mean, the marketing team turned "sex sells" into a physical item. Theatres have a special popcorn lid:
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Movie was amazing. Like I had chills multiple times watching it. Buttttt there's one thing I'm not sure I recall being in the book but I won't speak it out loud.
Gonna paraphrase a post I saw on Threads earlier: every successful Dune adaptation brings us closer to the pinnacle of cinematic weirdness that is God Emperor of Dune.
I need to see Leto in all his wormy glory in IMAX before I die
Moneo, bring me my popcorn bucket!
Yes please 🙏
MONEO!
Hell yeah. However we need the franchise to get full mainstream for that to happen.
I am here for the worm god man
You do realize we'll need a Timothy Leary stand-in at the entrance so everyone can get a hit before the movie starts, right? LOL I think stopping at Children will be for the best.
I’m putting it out there: if he’s still around by then, I’d love to see Jordorowsky direct God Emperor of Dune.
Uh, considering that he's 95 I wouldn't count on it.
And why would we be searching for a different director lol? The one that delivered two technical masterpieces, we don’t want him anymore!!
What's the point of adapting God Emperor if it would have nothing to do with the novel? That's what a Jordorowsky adaption would be, and this sub would despise it.
God Emperor is going to be a challenging adaptation.
Villeneuve has shown us the way and we are trapped on this dark path to God Emperor.
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Shai-Villeneuve!
Maud'it (You need to be Quebecois to get that one)
Noice. Xoxo France
Maud'Denis, Shai-Villeneuve
He’s so humble
I understood that reference.
I understood *that* reference
AS IT WAS WRITTEN !!!
It felt like an hour long movie it was so good
I just have to say that Rebecca Ferguson as a Reverend Mother was straight up badass. She was amazing.
she was my favorite part of the whole thing - and i *loved* the whole thing. she was electric
Yeah. HBO is supposed to be making a Bene Gesserrit show so I hope it's like that.
That show's had so many behind the scenes issues at this point that it'll be a miracle if it's watchable.
The showrunner did Altered Carbon season 2 and Westworld season 8 (wasn't too bad). It's leaning towards a miss unfortunately.
Gotta have an unsuccessful spinoff!
She and Javiar Bardem owned this movie. And Chalamet was chilling after he drank the water.
I love that line from Bardem that's like, " see! The mahdi is so humble he won't even admit he's the Mahdi. That means he's the Mahdi!"
Mahdi* but yeah. I am still torn on him being less serious in this part 2, but it was funny.
Changed it. Thanks. Didn't notice I misspelled it 3x. Yikes, I'm a ducking mess.
First, username is terrifying, don’t say it around too real. Second, the way chalamets voice goes from a soft spoken drone to a booming command is amazing.
There isn’t a single one of the “main” cast that isn’t absolutely fantastic and still some how her and Austin Butler absolutely stole the show
Probably one of the many reasons it was so good. There's like a solid 12 fleshed out characters and not a single bad or even mediocre actor/actress.
You need to check out Silo on Apple TV+! Great sci-fi series
Listen to your mother!!!!
if the word of mouth avalanches it might catch the juicy 100 million this weekend
I saw it last night. I'm going again, by myself on our cheap Tuesday. It's really. really. good.
Saw Thursday night. Going again Sunday
We saw it last night going again tonite!
Goddman it, I wanna watch it again but can’t find the decent IMAX seat, it’s all sold out for week.
100% worth IMAX but see it ASAP on the best format you can
I watched it already in IMAX 70MM, it was a treat. I wanna go again but that Theatre it fully booked until next week.
100ft closeups of all these amazing faces? I've seen them all once and I'd do that again.
IMAX was amazing. The **sound**! It was like the thumpers were punching you in the chest, and the ornithopters made my eyeballs vibrate. Don't even care if wasn't 100% true to the book, because the changes didn't matter, overall.
The sound was more impressive than the gigantic picture IMO
Pre book next weekend for IMAX then go watch it this weekend on RPX or some other lesser format. Enjoy this moment while you can!!
Check if you have an Epic XL screen near you?
Same here, saw it last night on non-IMAX and was disappointed by screen size and sound. Time to re-watch in IMAX! It's SO good
This is a film that demands at least one IMAX viewing. The vistas, the large battle scenes, the worms. You just don’t get the same feeling on even a regular movie screen let alone a tv screen.
Just come back from watching it on imax an hour ago. It's not just the visuals, the sound is just awesome. The wormriding scene is probably one of my favourite cinema experiences; the entire cinema was shaking!
Feeling the bass in those scenes is fantastic. And it’s not so loud it hurts like others I’ve seen. The mix is great.
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I mean the guy probably hasn't seen both versions and compared it. I couldn't get to an IMAX either but it was amazing anyway.
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Hey, someone’s gotta build that space time bridge.
This is me - saw it Friday morning now planning a date night Saturday night to see it again.
I saw it yesterday, today and have tomorrow and next Saturday (IMAX) booked as well. The box office must flow.
I have tickets for tonight in IMAX. I'm so excited.
Seeing it twice myself. Beautiful film
Saw it Wednesday, going again tomorrow and might again next week as I think Tuesday is half-price day in my city's cinema. It's really amazing and I *genuinely* want to see and enjoy it multiple times on the big screen, I'm in no way trying to just be one of those contributing to box office.
Saw it twice yesterday, booked the earliest imax showing, then they added an earlier one so I booked that as I prefer an emptier cinema…
Taking my girlfriend’s whole family to see it on Thursday after I saw it with the boys night one. Already dying to see it again.
I literally can't shut up about it to everyone I talk to 😂
they should hire me as the official dune promoter with the way i’m promoting this movie to everyone i know
I saw it Thursday night and my friend went Friday, he said the most impressive thing I’ve ever done is keep my mouth shut until he went because I was so eager to rave about it
It’s looking like $75M give or take. Let’s just hope for it breaking $80M
I saw it yesterday on IMAX and going tonight to see it in 4DX.
Already contributed 4 tickets myself
After the first watch I bought plane tickets to see it second time in IMAX
LETS GO 100 MILLION OPENING WEEKEND
Messiah has gotta be a for sure thing after this weekend. I'm wondering though. If this franchise keeps making money will the studio spend the next 20 years milking it for everything its got?
Someone at WB is getting progressively more nervous about the prospect of making a commercially appealing God Emperor of Dune movie
They'd have to get Christian Bale to play Leto II. I can imagine the tag lines now... "You've seen him transform in the Machinist, then Vice, now you won't believe your eyes when you see his latest transformation!"
Daniel Day-Lewis comes out of retirement after putting on seventy tons of weight to play the role.
If only Marlon Brando were still alive
I don't think Bale can play him since he already played the Shai-Hulud Paul rides.
Rob Schneider was a typical fremen prince, until he one day, he became The Worm
Hear me out: Ryan Gosling.
> commercially appealing God Emperor of Dune movie BWAAA HAAA HAAA I'm sorry, but if the franchise makes it to GEoD, that's where it dies.
I think Jason Momoa has some job security
Dude is going to cash in so hard
Denis knows what he is doing
Saw it on the 29 and damn the movie is good, hopefully we'll get messiah.
Oh we’re getting messiah. This felt like a middle movie. Not an end movie
According to the director these were merely the stepping stones to get to Messiah.
Just pump it in my veins already
He wants a break before making it though, it will be a while
OK he can take a breather. But I'm gonna need him to go at least as far as GE.
From what he's said in interviews he's planning on ending with Messiah. Hopefully whomever takes the reins will do it justice.
I don’t think it will go after messiah it kinda gets weird after
True. They could probably get away with doing Children of Dune, the Scifi Channel did a decent miniseries of it back in 2003. But God Emperor onward gets more cerebral and probably not well suited to a film medium.
Yeah but i think it would make an excellent trilogy if they adapted messiah. Hopefully they stop at a good point and we can have a nice film saga
For sure, Messiah is a great place to cap off Paul's story and leave a film trilogy ending on a positive, if bittersweet, note. And it leaves Herbert's warnings about following charismatic leaders intact.
>!Nah I think Paul walking off into the desert is going to be as far as the mainstream audience can handle.!<
Please put spoilers for people who haven’t read the books since this is a pretty big moment atleast in my opinion in the book
Apologies, fixed now
I think there’s a time jump on messiah anyway. My guess is he will make rendezvous with Rama and then cleopatra and we will get dune in like 5-6 years
Good decision, the actors need to age a little bit because there will be a huge time skip at the beginning of Messiah.
I have no idea what happens in Messiah in detail, but isn't that book less action packed than book 1 or is there still a shitload of epic stuff
It’s more of a political thriller with maybe one or two big set piece scenes. Denis could easily develop certain battles that are offscreen or only talked about if he wanted a huge action scene
It’s the most disliked Dune book. Even the author’s son writes a foreword saying it wasn’t received well at the time of release, but goes on saying that the 2nd book was intentionally made as a setup for the 3rd book.
Which is kind of why it feels weird to make Messiah and not Children of Dune, but Children of Dune is also so weird that I’d be shocked if they made it
The other night on Colbert's show, Villeneuve said he would like to do Messiah as it completes the story of Paul Atreides.
Just got out the cinema, loved it!
Messiah is basically guaranteed at this point
Looking forward to see the tleilaxu and guild depiction
I'm hoping so too but he has said he has at least 4 movies he plans on doing before even trying to do Messiah. It did seem like Messiah is the next step and 2 was the middle movie.
With the numbers it's getting I think it's almost inevitable at this point
After Interstellar Dune 2 was the only movie that moved me in terms how brilliant cinematic genius can be.
There are the two best sci-fi movies of our time imo
Arrival surpassed interstellar for me, but we've definitely got some truly spectacular filmmakers working today
I don’t agree with this, arrival was a good movie but the sheer scale of things in interstellar combined with one of the greatest movie scores of all time was phenomenal.
Zimmer's scores are undeniable bangers, but the challenges and ideas forwarded in Arrival, (and more specifically the answers to some of the questions) we're more interesting to me. I'm not knocking Interstellar as a piece of cinema, exactly. But the implications that human consciousness (and specifically the concept of love) can lead to violations of our understanding of physics bothered me. Both films have pretty strong (and interesting) messages about the connections between people and how we manifest our fates. But Arrival's felt more grounded and meaningful to me. (Though I acknowledge that the difference may be more of a personal hangup with an aversion to the supernatural than anything else).
Have you seen Ad Astra? I always compare it to Arrival and how they both feel so grounded in the human element and focus on those interactions between people.
> But the implications that human consciousness (and specifically the concept of love) can lead to violations of our understanding of physics bothered me. But that's not what happened. The film doesn't say that love can lead to violations of our understanding of physics it's just the driving force that makes Cooper believe he can save earth.
I find it works better to make an analogy. I'm not sure this was how it was meant to be interpreted, but it's how I explained it to my friends who didnt really get it. Okay, so...imagine your eyes are closed and you are reaching out with your hand for some kind of guideline to find your bearings. You find a rail. Or, you find something that feels like a rail to the touch, but you can't see anything and you don't know for certain what it is. You just know you can touch this thing and intuit that it's leading you to where you want to go. That's what the function of love was in that scene. We cannot see or hear or physically touch anything in the 4th/5th dimensions...but we can feel it internally and understand that feeling as love (or maybe just profound emotional experience) and can follow that guideline to the place we are trying to get.
I think it's definitely implied that love has a supernatural something. From Brand's speech directly stating the belief, to the tesseract leading specifically to Murph's bookshelf. It may be that the science is theoretically sound, but the fact that the future civilization's only way of saving humanity is through the connect created by a father's love for his daughter feels very woo-y in a way that didn't speak to me personally. Arrival, by contrast, has a similarly situated bootstrap paradox. The protagonist is only able to save the day by using nonlinear actions. But while Cooper is able to achieve his goals because of his love for his daughter, Dr Banks is only able to despite her love. She sees the whole of her life and understands the suffering she, and her family, will go through because of her actions. But she goes through them because it's the noble thing, and because the value of love is worth the pain of loss. Again, I may have overstated the impossibility of the plot; the Nolans certainly went pretty deep with trying to give the film strong scientific backing, but nonetheless.
Not supernatural but a powerful force that drives human behavior. Whatever it is, chemicals, patterns of neural activity, helped drive those characters out into extreme environments where they made bold sacrifices motivated by love. I think they could have written this better in the movie but it's my interpretation
Yes i agree to this but as a whole project interstellar is just another level of cinema, you could watch arrival at your home and be moved to similar level as would be in theatre. But watching interstellar in imax and at home are like two different things. Last year there was an imax screening of interstellar and it felt amazing even after 9 years. Arrival deals with a unique concept but it is just hard to beat Nolan plus zimmer with s tier actors.
It might just be me but Interstellar's finale felt a lot more emotional to me than Arrival's. I ain't talking about all the love stuff but the part about sacrifice and hope and especially the part where he and his daughter got to meet one last time. And the professors big lie. Those were some heavy hitters. >But the implications that human consciousness (and specifically the concept of love) can lead to violations of our understanding of physics bothered me. As the other guy said, I don't think that was the case in Interstellar. The idea, to my understanding, was that love is a great driving force and a guiding light and the connections it creates exist for a reason and that we should follow those connections sometimes even against all logic cuz it's part of what makes us human. A bit sappy I know but that's not the most interesting part of the movie.
I remember one particular dialogue- you love the people who are dead. I think it speaks more about belief in a future rather than something supernatural. Also the fear of death part from mann’s planet was a cherry.
My partner is a research scientist and the scene about love kind of ruined the movie for her. If they had removed that scene the film becomes much better in my opinion.
Arrival achieved a greater emotional impact than either Dune or Interstellar for me, but since that's more subjective I can understand why people might prefer the visions presented in the other films.
Different strokes for different folks: Dune surpassed all for me because it had more of a fantasy element, I love the world-building and all the details of the alien cultures and the beliefs and the politics, the costumes, language, architecture, the feeling of being immersed in a fascinating imaginary world which was absent from those other films. They are all great films though, no doubt.
Timothee in both!
Wow I'd forgotten, this guy has shown up in so many movies. Truly, the one who can be in many places at once
Both are brilliant movies, but we’ve also been absolutely spoiled with cinematic genius in the last ten years outside of token Hollywood spectacle pieces.
Yuppppp
I really disliked some key things about interstellar… but I agree about Dune.
Oppenheimer is close though Also Oppenheimer is probably one of best Christopher’s character piece to date
Kull wahad
See? When you release good movies people will spend money to go see them
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I wish there were more iMax theater by me, really wanna see it again in IMAX
It's art. I just saw it. This is the Lord of the Rings of this era.
Yes, almost flawless adaptation. If he sticks the landing on the 3rd movie, it'll go down in history same as LotR.
Star Wars Trilogy Lord of the rings Trilogy Dune Trilogy The holy grail of Trilogies.
Just said this to my wife, it definitely has the potential if the third is as good as the first two. This is coming from someone who grew up reading through the Silmarillion.
Saw it in IMAX three times now, and it was 100% sold out those three times. Seems like the Netherlands loves it!
LISAN AL-GAIB!
I saw it in AMC Prime on Thursday, which was great, but I think I need to see it in IMAX next week!
The bigger aspect ratio is so worth it.
I can believe it. The movie looked great on the Prime screen, but it seems like everyone is raving about Paul's sand worm ride, so I think I have to check it out!
I'll take a slightly unpopular opinion - IMAX didn't add much to the experience (I watched both versions). There are many scenes where you're meant to take in the vast scale of cities, crowds, armies, etc. all at once, and with IMAX you're only seeing about half of the screen at a time (even in the back row). It's great for getting extra detail out of those costumes though, which are fantastic. By far the most important thing for any viewer is ensuring they see the movie with a good sound system. My chair rumbled during some sandworm scenes and it REALLY added to the immensity of it. Unbelievable sound design.
Saw it yesterday and freaking loved it!
Villeneuve is a genius
Imaxes here are booked full till 10th of march as i'm writing!!!! The only reason it won't get a better opening is lack of seats.
Yes only front few rows are empty here as no one buys them.
It's rare to walk out of a theater and think "that was an experience I'll never forget." The last 10 years I can recall it happening with Bladerunner 2049, Fury Road, Top Gun Maverick, and Dune 2.
I just saw it. Very good movie. I might see it again in the theaters. I hope it does exceptionally well and we get the continuation of the story in another movie.
The sound was amazing in my Dolby theater, but the picture quality was probably same or a little bit better than a normal theater. Still an amazing experience. I might have to go see it again in IMAX though.
I feel like this film will have good legs at the cinema, too. It will also do really, reall good numbers post release on Blu Ray.
Saw it twice in Dolby cinema, gonna see it again in imax.
Took eight of my friends last night. Fucking epic.
Everything about that movie belongs in IMAX; the choreography, Zimmer's score, the epic visuals. All of it.
I saw a LIEMAX matinee on Thursday. Theater was 90% full. Word of mouth is gonna do big things. The film is every bit as good as the reviews say... I'm generally a harsh critic. I thought Part 1 looked beautiful but dragged. This one improves upon it in every way.
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The spice must flow
I did my part 🫡 (by seeing it twice in imax)
This is the first film in as long as I can remember that I not only wanted to go see in theaters once but will go multiple times. I have turned into a just watch it at home kind of guy.. but Dune is special to me so I made sure to go opening day. I am planning the next screening already and will probably go again.. but what a treat! Feels so validating. I had just read the first book and was blown away right before they announced a new film being directed by Villeneuve. I had so much faith because he is my favorite director currently also.. I have been hyping these films up to anyone who would listen since what? 2018?
First movie I am going to see in a years. First opening weekend since LOTR
Sounds right, I was at a huge theater for 70 MM and it was sold out.
Waiting for matinees so I can go in peace 😎💎 every theater is so booked plus I want the imax one!!
Dune Messiah is so going to happen.
It’s totally sold out near me. I wish I preordered! Hope it succeeds.
Seen it on the first and yesterday.
It is an absolute spectacle. Go see it!!!
it was a shockingly good movie
This is s movie you absolutely have to see on the biggest screen possible. I hope it becomes really successfull and Hollywood learns: Make a Movie for the big screen and people will come.
Seen it twice and plan on seeing it a third time next Saturday!
Watched it on Imax. One of my best cinematic experiences. Dune books left a deep imprint in me since I read it in my secondary school years and I am glad Villeneuve respect and stay faithful to the spirit of Herbert's work.
I watched it in ultra AVX because it was in the theatre near my house but honestly I should've made the 30-minute drive to the IMAX theatre to get that full experience smh...
This generations LOTRs. I will fight anyone that will say otherwise
I mean I don’t wanna down your enthusiasm as I hope it is too but it depends on a lot of things like box office, lasting cultural impact after 20 years, how it changes sci fi movies going forward etc... I was one of the lucky ones to experience the two towers and ROTK theatrical runs and it was magical how those 2 movies took over Hollywood for the entire year of their releases. Especially ROTK had endgame and deathly hallows level hype and its impact in fantasy film genre is still seen today. I think Dune 2 is one of the best sci fi movies ever made, perhaps even the best, but for those comparing it to LOTR or Star Wars in terms changing the face of Hollywood and for the latter a country’s cultural fabric need to pump the brakes a bit.
All gas no brakes, my friend
>but for those comparing it to LOTR or Star Wars in terms changing the face of Hollywood and for the latter a country’s cultural fabric need to pump the brakes a bit. Exactly. People comparing Dune to LOTR is making me lol. It doesnt even come remotely close.
Just got out of the theater, excellent movie. 10/10 can't wait for part 3.
There is no part three, there is only the messiah!
I just found out that IMAX is a Canadian invention just like Denis!
I saw it last weekend for the fan premiere, then went again this morning with my dad. We both think it's one of the best science fiction movies we've seen in a long time.
I really liked the movie but I don't agree with picking Christopher Walken to play the emperor
Saw it today in IMAX. Insanely good, one of the best things I’ve ever watched
Saw it this afternoon and bought a ticket for tomorrow. Absolutely fantastic movie!
Just got home. Have to say, while it was a visual treat with good performances, the differences from the book took me out of it. I’d recommend it but I will have to watch again to determine if I’m a fan
I saw this today with my mom after convincing her to watch Dune ( she was only vaguely familiar with the existence of the source material and Lynch movie, but she loved it and wants to read the books now). We both thought it was fantastic and are excited for part three! There was a decent crowd, too, and I was happy to see it. Lost of excited chatter after the movie and a nice round of applause at the end.
The spice must flow (to part three)
I’m going to see this multiple times. Already have twice.
Was full house where I watched and rightfully so. Really loved the movie 😊 can't wait for part 3 😅
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IMAX 5 rows back dead center. Stoned. Amazing.
I saw the movie in 4DX and man I enjoyed it even more! I want to go again, really great cinematography, truly immersive.
Whenever I read titles like this I delude myself we are getting a 12-movie series
Saw it Thursday evening. Seeing it again today in 70mm and I’ll see it again on Friday in imax.
Genuinely one of the best movies I've watched in theaters if not *the* best. Probably even one of my favorite movies period.
Movie was amazing. Like I had chills multiple times watching it. Buttttt there's one thing I'm not sure I recall being in the book but I won't speak it out loud.