⊃∪∩⪽ | Legendary | October 22 2021 | Denis Villeneuve | Returns to IMAX on December 3

[von Kenni]

Maybe another Sardaukar chant to lighten the mood from the neighbouring threads.

 

 

[von Kenni]

I run through all market numbers for Dune and updated estimates. Dune is showing better legs than expected in some market areas and raising the previous 360-380 WW estimate to 370-390 WW (median 105 Dom + 235 OS + 40 China ~380 WW). Australia & New Zealand are the biggest X factors.

[Valonqar]

Awesome! 

 

Oz and NZ depend on piracy. if they saw good quality copies from HBO Max...yeah. I wished they didn't have to wait for so long.

[Dementeleus]

lmao 

 

 

[Macleod]

He has a point.  There's a history to this imagery.  🤣

[Valonqar]

Dune 2 will make the Oct 22 2023 date with this filming schedule:

 

 

[von Kenni]

22 minutes ago, Valonqar said:

Dune 2 will make the Oct 22 2023 date with this filming schedule:

 

 

Great news! Makes sense also that they can shoot a lot indoor sets before heading to Jordan for outdoors in the fall as long as the cast schedules work. Shouldn't the casting of the new characters be the biggest challenge? Even if they have already some preliminary deals in place, their schedule needs to work too. I hope there isn't forced compromises and replacements, that Villeneuve gets everyone he wants.

[lorddemaxus]

Listening to Dune music while working out seriously helps with getting them gains.

 

Also, I was walking to my college library and I heard some girl on the phone talking about how she and her friends are going to watch Dune this weekend. Word of mouth is spreading. Everyone around here is Dune-pilled. 

[Eric Quinn]

9 minutes ago, lorddemaxus said:

Listening to Dune music while working out seriously helps with getting them gains.

 

Also, I was walking to my college library and I heard some girl on the phone talking about how she and her friends are going to watch Dune this weekend. Word of mouth is spreading. Everyone around here is Dune-pilled. 

 

Spoiler

 

 

 

[von Kenni]

13 minutes ago, lorddemaxus said:

Listening to Dune music while working out seriously helps with getting them gains.

 

Also, I was walking to my college library and I heard some girl on the phone talking about how she and her friends are going to watch Dune this weekend. Word of mouth is spreading. Everyone around here is Dune-pilled. 

Dune beat NTTD's legs last week and is trending to beat them from now on. Although this weekend showed amazing holds taking into account Eternals & losing most of PLF/IMAXs, we will know if the trend is holding after seeing couple of the weekdays now without those PLF/IMAXs. If they are on bar with the trend, we're heading into 33-38% drop next week. In any case, it would be showing that WOM spreading, and I don't see why it would be stopping anytime soon.

[von Kenni]

Dean Stockwell has died

 

Longer bio:

https://50plusworld.com/dean-stockwell-a-quantum-leap-from-kim/

 

Shorter news story:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/nov/09/dean-stockwell-quantum-leap-blue-velvet-married-to-mob-dies-aged-85

Edited November 9, 2021 by von Kenni

[von Kenni]

This is a good example why Dune is so well crafted. I love this scene too and it shows how brilliantly the writing, directing, and acting work together.

 

 

 

[dudalb]

On 11/4/2021 at 1:17 PM, von Kenni said:

With Valerian I have a black hole in my brain. I barely remember anything about it but I guess it's because I had so high hopes for it. I loved the Fifth Element and Valerian was probably the scifi film that I was looking forward to seeing the most after Dune. Like Jupiter Ascending it descended into oblivion.

I did not care for Valerian either. It is not half as clever or witty as the director thought it was.

[lilmac]

This was the best Star Wars movie since Return of the Jedi. 😄

 

I've seen it 6x already.  Chalamet was amazing. 

[The GOAT]

[Joel M]

Watching it for a third time in a little over a week, I think a big reason I loved this so much was that I had no prior knowledge of Dune. Especially on rewatch I kept focusing on the world details like the voice, the stillsuits, the shields, Baron's floaty spine device etc. If you have no idea about Dune, every 10 minutes in this movie you go "that shit is really cool". Frank Herbert really did all the best drugs in the 60s.

[JWR]

On 11/11/2021 at 9:22 AM, Joel M said:

Watching it for a third time in a little over a week, I think a big reason I loved this so much was that I had no prior knowledge of Dune. Especially on rewatch I kept focusing on the world details like the voice, the stillsuits, the shields, Baron's floaty spine device etc. If you have no idea about Dune, every 10 minutes in this movie you go "that shit is really cool". Frank Herbert really did all the best drugs in the 60s.

 

Indeed. Villeneuve does such a great job of maintaining the lore but also being digestible for newcomers. He only tells us what's crucial the moment instead of overwhelming the viewer with backstory.

 

On a side node, this movie made $1.23M on Thursday ($87M DOM). I think it has enough has in the tank to cross $100M.

[John Marston]

Lol the score got panned on this soundtrack review site 

 

https://www.filmtracks.com/titles/dune21.html

[Merkel]

28 minutes ago, John Marston said:

Lol the score got panned on this soundtrack review site 

 

https://www.filmtracks.com/titles/dune21.html

 

Chris Clemmenson often pans Zimmer's work. Nothing new here

Edited November 14, 2021 by Merkel

[dudalb]

On 11/11/2021 at 6:22 AM, Joel M said:

Watching it for a third time in a little over a week, I think a big reason I loved this so much was that I had no prior knowledge of Dune. Especially on rewatch I kept focusing on the world details like the voice, the stillsuits, the shields, Baron's floaty spine device etc. If you have no idea about Dune, every 10 minutes in this movie you go "that shit is really cool". Frank Herbert really did all the best drugs in the 60s.

You can say the same thing about Tolkein.

You really should read the novel. There is a lot of detail abotu Arrakis that is NOT in the movie.