I will watch it on HBO Max but it looks boring as fuck and bleak to look at, and humorless. Star Wars set entirely on Tatoonie, but without whimsy and fun creatures.
Dune Trailer: I’m sorry this has flop written all over it
by Anonymous | reply 81 | October 6, 2021 3:24 PM |
I mean even John Carter at least had fun aliens and Taylor Kitsch’s bare tit muscles.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 22, 2021 1:58 PM |
I don't like the vibe of this trailer but the movie LOOKS incredible.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | July 22, 2021 1:59 PM |
Didn't they film this years ago? Just after Call Me by Your Name
by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 22, 2021 2:00 PM |
An October 22 release date has "flop written all over it."
This was supposed to be the holiday event movie of last year. Warner Bros is obviously clearing DUNE out to make way for MATRIX 4 in December.
This will be a casualty of the pandemic, because it was destined to be a hit in December with full positioning by the studio. It has a top-notch cast and director. It looks great. Only COVID-19 stopped it from being a worldwide hit with a captive audience last year.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 22, 2021 2:08 PM |
It's DUNE! Would be an abomination if it had cute, comic relief aliens and robots. It will have to live up to the books. One of the problems with the 1984 movie was it tried to compress too much story into a single movie. Same problem Lord of the Rings movies had. A miniseries would be better but I'll give it a try.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 22, 2021 2:15 PM |
This movie looks fantastic, can't wait. Great book, great look, a nice event film that doesn't involve fucking Iron Man or Batman or C3P0. Great cast, music, visuals. A movie made for theaters.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 22, 2021 2:18 PM |
I like everything about the trailer except for Chalamet's mushmouth, nasal diction. He sounds like a kid with a head cold.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | July 22, 2021 2:34 PM |
It's a shame that this might bomb because Villenuve is a fantastic director.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | July 22, 2021 2:56 PM |
The book isn’t exactly a laugh riot.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | July 22, 2021 2:57 PM |
The whole Dune series is epically humourless. Would a Bene Gesserit tap routine have been so bad?
by Anonymous | reply 10 | July 22, 2021 3:08 PM |
I barely made it through the trailer. I saw the original Dune movie years ago and wasn't that impressed.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | July 22, 2021 3:12 PM |
True. It is humorless. Either you take the book on its own terms or dismiss it all. At least it isn't another Marvel movie. Looking forward to it.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | July 22, 2021 3:13 PM |
I can’t wait to not watch this.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | July 22, 2021 3:14 PM |
Lord of the Rings was THREE films and they were brilliant.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | July 22, 2021 3:17 PM |
[quote]Star Wars set entirely on Tatoonie [sic], but without whimsy and fun creatures.
George Lucas borrowed from many sources. Tatooine was inspired by the desert planet of Arrakis in Dune (published in 1965). Arrakis was first.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | July 22, 2021 3:19 PM |
I don't think it was ever really destined to be a hit. It seems a lot more experimental and dark compared to what audiences seem to want these days (also Iron Man isn't going to show up and make a quip). But yeah an October release when a large chunk of the audience who might otherwise have gone to see it being able to get a high quality rip due to being simultaneously released on HBOMax really is its death sentence.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | July 22, 2021 3:30 PM |
Couldn't it have been made as a musical, maybe with the Spice Girls?
by Anonymous | reply 17 | July 22, 2021 3:30 PM |
Yes! I also like wise cracking polar bears or saucy antelopes or anteaters. Maybe a talking car too? I'm not sure how they expect an average person to relate to all this doomy drama
by Anonymous | reply 18 | July 22, 2021 3:39 PM |
[quote] I don't think it was ever really destined to be a hit.
Max Bialystock is producing movies now?
by Anonymous | reply 19 | July 22, 2021 3:47 PM |
Loved the first three books, this looks fantastic.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | July 22, 2021 3:53 PM |
Here's another show i hate because it's not more like "Star Wars."
I mean, they even have princesses, so why couldn't they also have X-wing fighters and droids?
by Anonymous | reply 21 | July 22, 2021 3:57 PM |
Oh poppa-tooney,
We got a loony from Tatoonie!
by Anonymous | reply 22 | July 22, 2021 3:59 PM |
R16 I didn't realize they were still doing the simultaneous release on HBOMax. That seems like a really bad idea, in terms of making a profit.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | July 22, 2021 4:14 PM |
Will this be the POC version?
by Anonymous | reply 24 | July 22, 2021 4:15 PM |
Will it feature a strange child and an orgasming old woman?
by Anonymous | reply 25 | July 22, 2021 4:25 PM |
[quote] I didn't realize they were still doing the simultaneous release on HBOMax. That seems like a really bad idea, in terms of making a profit.
All of WB's 2021 films will have the simultaneous release. I reckon the decision was made because they wanted to hedge their bets in case the pandemic took another turn.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | July 22, 2021 4:29 PM |
I want to like it, but after going to IMDB and looking at the trailer, I am not hopeful.
AND -- there is no Shadout Mapes in this iteration, so there's that strike against it right out of the box ... !
by Anonymous | reply 27 | July 22, 2021 4:35 PM |
I thought Freman eyes were supposed to glow or something? Is this a woke thing? Blue is bad?
by Anonymous | reply 28 | July 22, 2021 4:41 PM |
nvm, was my phone display
by Anonymous | reply 29 | July 22, 2021 4:42 PM |
Yes, R14, LOTR was three films, but a lot of the books had to be cut out to fit into individual movies, and even then people complained that the third movie went on forever. Always a problem when adapting books into movies.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | July 22, 2021 4:46 PM |
[quote]It's a shame that this might bomb because Villenuve is a fantastic director.
His films are grandiose and gorgeous looking, while being soulless and empty. There's something crucial missing in the way he tells stories. I'll definitely see this one but I already know what to expect.
BTW, the Dune novels are extremely hard to turn into film or tv show. None that I've seen have managed to truly capture the magic of the series. Not that I'm a fan really but I do remember enjoying the first few books in my 20s when I started reading them. They were surprisingly captivating and deep, at least for me.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | July 22, 2021 4:46 PM |
It seems like it’s been filmed in the dark. Timotay is no action star.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | July 22, 2021 4:51 PM |
[quote] His films are grandiose and gorgeous looking, while being soulless and empty. There's something crucial missing in the way he tells stories. I'll definitely see this one but I already know what to expect.
100% agree. Villneuve's films a beautiful to look at, but thus far the scripts he's chosen have been sub-par (exception being Sicario, featuring a great script by Taylor Sheridan).
by Anonymous | reply 33 | July 22, 2021 4:56 PM |
A film like this needs to be released either at Christmas or in the summer. The hybrid release format also hurts its chances of becoming a big box office hit. Another thing I think too is TFD and Dune are coming out on the same day. It's too much and his PR is really getting desperate here.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | July 22, 2021 6:17 PM |
[quote]. A film like this needs to be released either at Christmas or in the summer. The hybrid release format also hurts its chances of becoming a big box office hit. Another thing I think too is TFD and Dune are coming out on the same day. It's too much and his PR is really getting desperate here.
It's questionable whether - in the best circumstances - have become a box office hit.
His PR has nothing to due with the films release dates. Both films were victims of the pandemic. Dune was to be released in November of 2020, The French Dispatch July 2020, then October 2020. It's smart to have them out on the same day because fans of comedy will see TFD and fans of action/sci-fi will have DUNE.
The only other films, to my knowledge, being released that day is the latest JACKASS film and the animated film RON'S GONE WRONG. So there's not much competition for eyes.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | July 22, 2021 6:26 PM |
OP, you just need the [italic]spice Melange.[/italic]
by Anonymous | reply 36 | July 22, 2021 6:35 PM |
I don't get why they called it Melange i.e. "Mix" / "Amalgamation"
by Anonymous | reply 37 | July 22, 2021 6:39 PM |
The books are amazing. I recall reading them in my 20s, my first books in English (I'm French). Good times...
by Anonymous | reply 38 | July 22, 2021 6:58 PM |
So tired of all the damn remakes.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | July 22, 2021 6:59 PM |
[quote] I don't get why they called it Melange i.e. "Mix" / "Amalgamation"
Because it's a melange of different spices.
Mystery solved!
by Anonymous | reply 40 | July 22, 2021 7:01 PM |
That spice is worm shit and everyone knows it!
by Anonymous | reply 41 | July 22, 2021 7:25 PM |
There's nothing questionable about it.
R35 knows nothing of show business and how studios like Warner Brothers, who are Too Big to Fail, can and do make hits out of anything they choose with the right P&A campaign and release date on an extended, American holiday.
TRANSFORMERS were shitty films, but they all made their money back because they got the studio's best efforts and U.S. holiday release dates. No tentpole "flops" anymore — they merely underperform expectations.
Unless a pandemic hits and they cancel the opening, then move it to a non-holiday weekend.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | July 22, 2021 7:35 PM |
So there is a drug called blancmange? I had it as a kid and my eyes never turned blue
by Anonymous | reply 43 | July 22, 2021 7:50 PM |
[quote]Because it's a melange of different spices.
It isn't though.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | July 22, 2021 10:35 PM |
No-o-o-o, it's worm shit, like mI said!
by Anonymous | reply 45 | July 22, 2021 10:36 PM |
The Directors Guild made a change to how films will qualify for the DGA award this year: [quote]The Directors Guild of America National Board at its recent meeting unanimously approved reinstating its requirement of an exclusive theatrical run for the Guild’s top award. To be eligible for the DGA’s Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film Award, films released after June 15, 2021 must have an exclusive theatrical run of at least 7 days prior to any other exhibition. Under the rule, which was first introduced in 2019, feature films released through other distribution platforms on the same ‘day and date’ as they premiere in theaters are not eligible for the DGA Theatrical Feature Film Award.
I wonder if Warner Bros will reconsider its day-and-date plan for the rest of the year. If they release Dune day-and-date, Villeneuve won't be eligible for DGA consideration. Maybe they'll do an exclusive one-screen-in-LA release on Oct 15 before the HBO Max and wide theatrical release on Oct 22.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | July 22, 2021 10:55 PM |
The Directors Guild made a change to how films will qualify for the DGA award this year:
[quote]The Directors Guild of America National Board at its recent meeting unanimously approved reinstating its requirement of an exclusive theatrical run for the Guild’s top award. To be eligible for the DGA’s Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film Award, films released after June 15, 2021 must have an exclusive theatrical run of at least 7 days prior to any other exhibition. Under the rule, which was first introduced in 2019, feature films released through other distribution platforms on the same ‘day and date’ as they premiere in theaters are not eligible for the DGA Theatrical Feature Film Award.
I wonder if Warner Bros will reconsider its day-and-date plan for the rest of the year. If they release Dune day-and-date, Villeneuve won't be eligible for DGA consideration. Maybe they'll do an exclusive one-screen-in-LA release on Oct 15 before the HBO Max and wide theatrical release on Oct 22.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | July 22, 2021 10:56 PM |
It might not be worm shit...it could be worm puke.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | July 22, 2021 11:18 PM |
Nah, that's alien annelid scat.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | July 22, 2021 11:27 PM |
R49: Worm puke is called the Water Of Life in the first novel. The spice probably is worm droppings or worm snot.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | July 22, 2021 11:31 PM |
"Melange is formed with water and the excretions of sand trout underground," "a mass formed," "once the pressure builds this mass comes rushing to the surface, drying, and becoming spice melange."
I thought everybody knew this.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | July 22, 2021 11:45 PM |
I will see this, but with lowered expectations. The stunt casting of Timotay, Zendaya, and Jason Momoa doesn't work for me.
Timotay is well-suited to play angsty teens. He doesn't have the gravitas to play a guerrilla leader and messiah.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | July 23, 2021 6:56 AM |
Kyle MacLachlan was just about the same age as Chalamet when he played the lead in Dune, but he looked like a grown man, not an angsty teen.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | July 23, 2021 1:00 PM |
[quote] MacLachlan was just about the same age as Chalamet when he played the lead in Dune, but he looked like a grown man
So he was miscast - Paul is 15.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | July 23, 2021 1:06 PM |
The events of the plot make more sense if it's all happening to a young man in his early 20s rather than a fifteen-year-old. The Chosen One being a teenager is so YA.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | July 23, 2021 1:11 PM |
Tim O'Tay is the only reason I'm going to see this mess. Though if The French Dispatch is playing at the same theatre at the same time, I may see that instead, and let my friend see Dune.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | July 23, 2021 1:12 PM |
Classic story. Let's hope they do a better job this time - I didn't care for the Lynch version.
I don't mind Timmy as Paul. And I'm not a Zendaya (sp?) fan either, but I think this is good casting.
I'm looking forward to it.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | July 23, 2021 1:19 PM |
Whenever I think of Dune, I think of the miniseries
by Anonymous | reply 59 | July 23, 2021 1:22 PM |
Timothee acts like he is drugged and realizes his whole career has been a lie. How can he carry this film?
by Anonymous | reply 60 | July 23, 2021 1:33 PM |
If you are too lazy to read the novels and don't mind spoilers, this guy does a very fine job of explaining the characters and concepts the books address.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | July 23, 2021 3:49 PM |
r60 lol!
by Anonymous | reply 62 | July 23, 2021 3:50 PM |
This trailer has me very excited - looks to me a good adaptation of the books. I like Timmy as Paul; his thin build and small stature are a good fit for the age of the character. I’m a little disappointed about the blue spice eyes….wasn’t really noticing it here on the Freman?
by Anonymous | reply 63 | July 23, 2021 4:20 PM |
Paul and his girlfriend (name escapes me) have spice-blue eyes in the final shot of the trailer.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | July 23, 2021 7:14 PM |
I'm still upset the world never received Alejandro Jodorowsky's Dune.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | July 23, 2021 10:41 PM |
[quote]An October 22 release date has "flop written all over it."
Yeah, but the new Bond movie comes out Oct. 8. If WB is dumping Dune, by the same rationale, the other studio would be dumping Bond too, wouldn’t they? Hard to imagine that’s the case.
I say this as someone who has no plans to see Dune and cannot stand Timmée, btw.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | July 23, 2021 10:50 PM |
I was thinking of rereading the novel for the first time since the 70s. Will I regret it?
by Anonymous | reply 67 | July 24, 2021 12:59 AM |
R65 : It was over the top and veered to far from the book.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | July 24, 2021 1:46 AM |
Oscar Isaac looks hot as fuck! The longish, salt and pepper hair and beard really work for him. Yum.
I don’t give a shit about Timmy, give me his dad!
by Anonymous | reply 69 | July 24, 2021 2:13 AM |
We have had three film versions of the story in 40 years. Why?
by Anonymous | reply 70 | July 24, 2021 2:44 AM |
And it always flops.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | July 24, 2021 3:03 AM |
We've had over a dozen Batman films (lead or a character) in 30 years. 9th Spiderman movie incoming, a dozen Star Wars movies, anyway you don't give a shit you just want to bitch. Dune looks phenomenal
by Anonymous | reply 72 | July 24, 2021 2:07 PM |
[quote]An October 22 release date has "flop written all over it."
Yeah, I was kind of surprised it wasn't released in the summer; releasing it in October sort of stinks of "dumped" which is too bad because it looks good
by Anonymous | reply 73 | July 24, 2021 10:43 PM |
They were probably expecting the COVID situation be much better at that point with most people being vaccinated.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | July 25, 2021 12:05 AM |
Such negativity from a mere viewing of a trailer. This film critic sounds like a DLer.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | July 25, 2021 3:31 AM |
Variety thinks Dune has much better odds of getting a Best Picture nomination than The French Dispatch does, although neither look very likely at this point. They rank Dune at #19 and FD at #30
by Anonymous | reply 76 | July 25, 2021 3:51 AM |
Yeah an October release date seems like a death sentence. Just ask Blade Runner 2049.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | July 25, 2021 4:50 AM |
R76 Oscar predictions? It’s fucking July.
by Anonymous | reply 78 | July 26, 2021 1:37 PM |
I know someone who saw the movie and they said it is incredible and their favorite movie in years.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | July 31, 2021 5:19 PM |
They've previewed the first 10 minutes fairly widely and it's getting great word of mouth.
by Anonymous | reply 80 | July 31, 2021 5:37 PM |
It's already made over 100 million at the box office overseas so a flop? Hardly. People overseas have been seeing it more than once, some even 3 or 4 times. Will watch it on HBO/MAX the day it comes out but then I'll go see it in the theater the next week as well. Love that it's doing so well. Huge Timothee fan. :)
by Anonymous | reply 81 | October 6, 2021 3:24 PM |