Isn’t our mantra “that’s for bigger kids” - and isn’t it amazing how well that works despite all our other behavioral issues?
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No idea, really. Loose gun laws and tons of bars mixing badly? Don’t think they caught the perp yet? I’m going to 6th street tonight to see Mister Sinus mock Dune at the Ritz, though I don’t think I’ll get shot, eh? 6th street is just the kind of place I avoid, unless I can’t - 110 decibel sound systems everywhere, and tons of young drunk people hitting the meat markets, sounds like the kind of place things would go badly sometimes, no?
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Having just watched Dune again, doesn’t it feel a little pointless to watch Dune being mocked when the movie itself is such a mockery?
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Isn’t “Live out your life in a pain amplifier!” the only appropriate response to such a sentiment?
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Wouldn’t living out your life in a pain amplifier basically be being forced to watch Dune all day, every day forever?
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Surely you are referring to the SyFy channel’s mini series, and not Lynch’s flawed, but unique vision?
Have you watched it recently? Besides the horrid acting, terrible screenwriting, abysmal editing, sad FX, and directorial approach of telling 90% of the story instead of showing it, is there some aspect that was secretly well done?
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Who can remember anything other than Sting, resplendent, nearly, in his steamy altogether? Or the Guild Navigator conversing with the Emporer? The boils? The square body-shields? That silly little sister with her Gom Jabar? The so out-of-place that it’s perfect soundtrack by Toto? The Guild Navigator conversing with the Emporer? Sting’s dreamy, steamy codpiece?
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Do you want to spice to flow, or what?
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Is Dune kind of like Labyrinth to some people, where as a film it’s really badly written, directed, edited, and acted, but the mix of nostalgia and added forgiveness due to some figures involved (Lynch/Henson & Sting/Bowie) and the various good bits mixed into the mire make it enjoyable (and with Dune some books that were great reads)?
While the first viewing today was painful, wasn’t the second viewing when the epic flaws in the film were mocked and taken to task deeply entertaining? Wasn’t it esp. cool since Sean Young from the film showed up and added some great commentary while mocking the thing (and talking about Sting)?
(The intermission, eh?):
(Harkonnen suit was great, eh?)
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What do you mean “kind of like Labyrinth”?
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You know how on a technical level it’s a badly made, dragging film that barely has a plot but is more a loose series of vignettes barely held together with edits, with mind-bogglingly bad acting, and was such a dismal failure it caused Henson to leave filmmaking for the rest of his life, but at the same time it’s got qualities (Henson’s amazing work with the muppets, Bowie being Bowie) that make it a favorite despite being a horrible film by normal standards? Aren’t both Dune and Labyrinth films I like more after I haven’t seen them in a long time so I can forget how badly they were made and can just remember the high points? Aren’t they both far better in theory than in practice? Weren’t they both more fun for me to watch with a crew of comedians mocking them?
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I had such a profound loathing of Lynch’s Dune for so many reasons…the novel it butchers is a tour de force, Lynch is a transcendent filmmaker when the movie he’s making is his baby, Lynch basically hate-directed Dune. But when I came back to the move a decade later, I appreciated it a lot more. Yes, objectively it’s junk food. But isn’t is such lovely ornate junk food?
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Whee, isn’t this the final week of summer session classes? Amn’t I looking forward to the start of fall semester?
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Didn’t I like summer classes and do well in them when I took them? Wouldn’t I have done much better in college if all my classes were on that kind of schedule? (Seriously best semester ever for my grades)
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Is there a festival of grievances now? Wouldn’t that just encourage people … griefing?
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