It would really be better as a long form Netflix sort of venture than as a movie.
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With a Jerry Goldsmith soundtrack:) https://vimeo.com/34355215/
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It will be back on the big screen in May.
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She KNOWS it’s a multipass!
This must be one of the top 10 movies I am likely to quote on a day-to-day basis.
<robot-voice>You-want-some-more?</robot-voice>
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Okay, we’ll let you be that… but only if you eat all your asparagus.
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Much better, and more so without the voice actress dubbing in Alia’s voice. I’m serious.
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It’s difficult for me to serve my friends a chicken dinner without me or someone else saying “CHICKEN GOOD”. And things like “supergreen!” and the entire ridiculous bit with the guy wearing a hat with a picture of the street on it get quoted quite a lot. “You like eeet?”
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One need not be a chef to taste piss in their soup. Lynch took a job, sight unseen, adapting what he viewed as uninteresting source material in order to pay rent but chose to be irreverent and masturbatory to cover it up. The film isn’t a standard adaptation so much as it’s an artifact of Lynch flailing to cope with large-budget studio compromises. Personally I like Lynch, and I love Dune, but goddamn the movie is just impossible to watch as anything other than background.
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Jean Paul Gaultier did the costumes for City of Lost Children.
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The theory covers Lynch’s oeuvre, not Dune specifically.
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Taste might be a criteria for judging soup, but never for art. Like Spike Lee said about critics of Malcolm X: you didn’t get to make the movie, I [meaning Lee] did. Jodoworski didn’t make Dune, Lynch did.
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I could be wrong, but with just a couple of hours of film allowed to address a lengthy, complicated story, I think that Lynch et al employed the ‘weirding module’ to quickly and easily (for the benefit of a general audience) stand in for (and punch up) one very important (yet, for a film, too existential?) point from the novel, one that provided further motivation for Emperor Shaddam IV to eliminate Duke Leto: Duke Leto secretly training his Caladan army to rival the Emperor’s Sardukar soldiers. So, that ‘secret army’ got transmuted into a secret weapon – the weirding modules – something solid, riffing off ''The Voice" thing, and intended to add excitement. They may have thrown “weirding” in there since in the novel “weirding” represented any strange powers possessed by the Bene Gesserit (fighting abilities and Voice). So, in a way the weirding modules make sense. Not that my eyes don’t still roll at the idea.
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Oh I do every time, but as I said above it was fair enough for a shortcut in a movie just one that made me cringe a bit.
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I wonder if the Dune franchise got a piece of this?
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IIRC, Dune as a movie was a financial failure. I think the producers had delusions of it becoming the next star wars.
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Zero story? Not at all. It was just enough story to frame the awesome insanity of that movie and not a lick more. One of my all time favorite films.
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I think its a good movie, but only if you have read the book, or seen the scifi miniseries.
It fails to tell the story in a comprehensible way, so if you don’t know the story already its just that, and kinda meh. But if you have read the book its pretty awesome as a visualization of the book, different from what you imagined yourself.
IMO most david lynch fails to tell its story in a comprehensible way, heh. 
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