UTJeff

Where'd the data come from?

Because they messed up Mass Effect 3.

It's an online poll/survey. Same type of things that all said Hillary Clinton was winning the election.

Technically, Wonder Woman and Superman do sort of talk to each other once. So you were wrong about that.

That's sexist.

Does the audience score really matter at this point? Even Suicide Squad's audience rating dropped to 64 percent.

It's fine. Just don't cast a bunch of 32-35 year olds to play 18 year olds.

Feyd's of a similar age to Paul Atreides. Paul is actually at 15 at the start of the book and 18 midway through. I think Feyd is about 16-ish.

Gosling is kind of old for Feyd.

It's like everyone's forgotten what a disappointment Prometheus was.

Power Rangers will be a bomb.

The best way is to not pay to see the movies at all.

Just read the first book and none of the sequels or prequels.

I'm just being honest. No need to be insulting. A lot of people here agree with me.

Nope. My point still stands.

I think war movies are a little different though. And now we live in this PC, safe-space, trigger-leery culture.

Basically, I will believe video game movies can be done right by Hollywood when I see it. I've still yet to really see it.

You say but look how whiny everyone is getting over Passengers and the questionable decision made in the film by Chris Pratt's character.

My issue though is that at the end of the day Lord of the Rings has clear heroes and clear villains. Even the heroes who are tempted by the dark side or make mistakes are given opportunities to redeem themselves. There's one clear big bad, and there's a battle for freedom to keep Middle-Earth free from Sauron's rule. In Dune, it's a bit different. Even if you have the Harkonnens as the clear villains, after the first novel, things get a lot murkier. If you truly want to adapt those novels, it will be difficult to film them and make them not just understandable to a general audience but digestible. The novels don't really have a traditional narrative structure. A lot of weird things happen. In Dune, the so called good guys are not really all that good and they perform a lot of questionable acts, especially Paul. On a visual level, yes Dune is very possible to pull off at this point in terms of visuals, technology, production design, etc. At the same time, pulling off Dune will not be cheap. So it's tough for me to imagine how the studio will be willing to invest the books' visual ambitions and not want to make changes to dumb it down and make it more audience friendly.

OK, but how do you turn that into a standalone movie? What's the climax going to be? The Hobbit trilogy showed the flaws of trying to stretch a book shorter than all The Lord of the Rings single stories into three separate movies.

How though? Not to mention, the films would have to draw an even wider audiences of people who have never read the books at all. The Lynch film wasn't able to do it. It is a fascinating universe, but it is also a lot of thinking man's science fiction. And again, a lot of it is very dark and not really popcorn movie friendly. Just for example, one of the villains, Baron Harkonnen, is a noted pedophile. Also:

The second one isn't even really a movie plot on its own though. Also Dune has more in common with Game of Thrones really than Star Wars.

Calling this the best one to date is hardly a big compliment or high praise since it's mainly been a subgenre of box office poison and cinematic trash.

Yes. It's 116 minutes. That's straight from Fox. There is no 140 minute cut. Those were fake unconfirmed rumors.

The Dune books aren't action-adventure serials like Star Wars. The actual material doesn't make for fun popcorn lovin' fare. IMHO, the best thing you can do is something like Game of Thrones and go from there. Mainstream audiences aren't going to go for Dune unless they butcher the books and completely change everything and make it more palatable for audiences. I'm not saying Denis Villeneuve is incapable of making a great Dune adaptation. I just think a faithful one, even if it's faithful to the books, wouldn't be well received by audiences. Dune isn't a battle against good and evil. Even the first book's hero, Paul Atreides performs a lot of questionable acts. The so-called heroes operate in a lot of grey areas.