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Really enjoyed it for 90 percent of the runtime and was more impressed than even I expected. Thought it falls off after Duncan Idaho gets killed and it moves from an urgent focus on politics/religion/family dynamics into a straight hero's journey.

It seems like if you aren't Star Trek/Star Wars that the low 30s has been the cap for big budget sci-fi like Blade Runner, Alita, John Carter, Tomorrowland etc. This is doing nice in breaking out past that despite many people I know watching it on HBO Max.

Agreed. I'll call myself out - I don't think this was going to be a "bomb" pre-pandemic but I can't imagine predicting really any higher than this. It's a long, slow hard sci-fi movie based on a relatively niche 1960s property with lots of names but no true star.

40m OW would have been great for Dune in a pre-pandemic world without day and date, IMO.

The tracking thread pretty much just seeing the lines of green code like Neo in the Matrix at this point. They got the cheat codes.

Looks like Ron has indeed Gone Wrong

Franchise has real potential but just like Assassin's Creed (due another movie try tbh), it looks like they are failing. Holland is bad casting but honestly in this era he isn't bad for box office, especially coming off a megahit.

Going 5/12/14/8 for an opening weekend of 39 for Dune.

Have you seen the movie?

Can't wait for Uwe Boll's Oscar winning reflection on life in Berlin Wall era divided Germany.

I think you guys are underselling how bad what Mel said was and how he said a 30-year history of saying very similar things on record, as well as marital abuse and violence? He's not just the "only one who got caught." I'm sorry, Hollywood certainly has shitty people, but I'm pretty sure Bradley Cooper or heck, Keanu Reeves aren't out there saying "Jews are the reason for all the problems in the world" and telling their wives they are currently abusing "I hope you get raped by a pack of n-words." Pretty sure most stars in Hollywood aren't doing that. They aren't just avoiding being recorded -

Damn, I can't believe I made that mistake yet again

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Positive and negative reactions coming in? Hm, back in my day, we used to have a word for that.....