That one works, even on this side of the atlantic ocean. And it also totally works.
But I am devilishly tempted to do a silly voiceover a la “Sinnlos im Weltall” (or MST3k, if you will).
Plus in some ways it’s the most realistic science fiction movie ever made, It’s set in a world where people have jobs, buy lunch, care about fashion, go on holiday, get annoyed by garbage strikes, get nagged by their mum on the phone, get speeding tickets… exotic material that sf movies can be prone to forget about
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So readyto see the Valerian movie - I try to read the comics to improve my crappy French, so I was well primed to be excited when I heard there was going to be a movie
Also you see the Princess clomping around in her beautiful dress like she just got back from a smoke break.
Pretty much all of the dialogue is crap. It’s leaden and awkward and every line is spoken in the direction of but not to the other actors. As if neither the director nor any of the actors understood the language they were speaking in.
I love the movie and I loved the book for no other reason but that I was exposed at an impressionable age.
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This seems a good point in the discussion to ask a question unrelated to the film:
Is there something like a definitive audiobook of Dune?
To be clear, by perfect, I tend to mean unabridged and read by a narrator who makes you forget that he/she is there; someone who by the power of his/her voice makes characters appear in your mind’s eye, makes it possible to listen to dialogue and identify everyone without a name being spoken out.
I am commuting an awful lot lately, and Dune seems to be a world I could get lost in on the train perfectly well.
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I saw it recently at the Alamo Drafthouse. They tend to play a lot of older movies mixed in with new ones, the particular showing i went to was a fifth Element movie party and everyone got cap guns, 4 element temporary tattoos, there was a little special menu of fifth element inspired food and drinks. I got the blue diva cocktail 
they also had one of the workers dressed up as Leelu and there was a diva sing off, which culminated in a classically trained singer that they hired coming up stage and singing it acapella with no music backing (i took video of this)
I’ll post pictures on a separate post, but if there’s an alamo drafhouse in your city i highly recommend it. Best movie theater chain ever, i’ve gone to a bunch of events.
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Right, and in a more thoughtful movie that would be the subtext - in a future world where it is a point of pride that aristocracy are trained knife-duelists, the Emperor is openly wearing a bad knife. Perhaps he’s never actually gripped that blade, he’s just had a team of dressers strap it on him and take it off him, and is unaware of the issue, but more likely it is a display of power, like the silk necktie of an industrialist… I’m noodling, but you see what I mean?
In this movie it just means somebody thought it was pretty, there’s no way there’s any depth of meaning the viewer didn’t dream up a posteriori.
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He was probably trained as a youth but as Emperor he doesn’t have to duel anyone, so it doesn’t matter that his knife is impractical for fighting.
I knew a Sikh in high school who of course carried a kirpan. But his was in the shape of a fish and the blade was maybe 1.5" long, useless for anything more than opening envelopes and maybe cutting packing tape on parcels (I don’t know if it was sharp.) Officially, it’s one of the Sikh’s articles of faith that they carry a knife to be able to defend themselves from oppression, but at least for a (pre-9/11) teenager a purely symbolic knife was enough.
He also had really beautiful long flowing hair, as we discovered in the locker room. Kind of a shame to keep it bound up in a turban all the time!
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I’ve read all the books, or most of them, anyway; I love that universe, although it would suck to live there.
I love Lynch’s Dune. It’s everything right and wrong about sci-fi of the time, and it’s David Lynch.
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Scott Brick is the narrator in all the recent audiobooks released in the US. There may be other versions done earlier, or for other markets, but he’s the one doing both the original and the new “House” books written by the son.
Narrators can make or break an audiobook. Scott Brick will put me to sleep after an hour, and I don’t like his character voices. But I’m picky about the voices that read stories to me.
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I read Dune in the backseat of a long hot family car trip across Kansas. I sympathized with the Fremen.
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