Dune (1984) and Dune (2021) - re:View

Ya'll hear there's a new Dune???? Have you seen DUNE?????
Jay is joined by Colin from Canada to discuss the two theatrical adaptations of Dune, one directed by David Lynch and the other directed by some other guy.

[@futureboy314]

Okay boys, time for a “Part Two”, if you will.

[@georgevids2131]

was looking for this comment

[@JOhnDoe-pi9jj]

My loin aches for this 😅

[@W.A.C.C]

Any picks on who will hate it?

[@blueshit199]

@@W.A.C.C me!

[@JohnsRoses]

I doubt they'll do anything big for part 2

[@lacafia172]

I liked Stellan Skarsdgaard as Baron Harkonnen, but I think Rich Evans would have been perfect for the role.

[@Foamypeon]

I really liked his quiet and sinister take on the time

[@Theoppositesex]

They'll get Rich Evans for the Disney Plus series.

[@ArkhanNightman]

I think the guy who plays Plinket would also be okay.

[@PittsburghSonido]

HE BROKE NEW GROUNDDDD!!!

[@Zombeastsqurl]

People would have been barfing in their seats.

[@maxhestur5467]

I love how in Dune universe, human technology has advanced so much that combat needed to regress to older ways of fighting.

[@KHR0M3K0R4N]

It's very reflective of actual technological progress throughout history. Like, how armor goes in and out of "fashion" because of the advancement of weaponry that can pierce it.

[@L1VE3V1L]

It was very clever.

[@silverhawkroman]

​@@KHR0M3K0R4N I find it hard to believe to have a missile blocking shield that can't block a spear 😂😂

[@KHR0M3K0R4N]

@@silverhawkroman Shields have to allow the transfer of air otherwise people would suffocate inside of them

[@IronMan9771]

@@silverhawkroman If you're talking about the movie: did you watch it? It works by slowing things down. If someone threw a spear, it would hit the shield and stop. The spear would only go through the shield if someone was holding it and applied a slow, consistent pressure. A normal missile would probably hit the shield and just immediately explode, but we're also shown that the Harkonnens have advanced weapons that are able to apply their own consistent pressure and propel themselves through the shields, like the darts or bombs. If you're talking about real life: Flares. They work against missiles, don't work against spears

[@willfischer6007]

My personal favorite part about Dune is the bizarre names. No other piece of media would have a character named Feyd-Rautha Harkonen and Duncan Idaho in the same story and take itself seriously

[@GoodAvatar-ut5pq]

Yeah, Dune was the first time I started paying attention to that kind of thing in sci-fi. "I am Blangogar, Lord of the Eight Peaks and Leader of it's peoples. This is Dave."

[@charlie-obrien]

The Dune Empire has over 10,000 planets... But here on Earth we have exactly that situation. We have people named Joe Montana and also Boutros Boutros-Ghali. So, just because they don't live down the street from you.

[@Superphilipp]

TV Tropes -> Aerith and Bob

[@nicholascage3400]

@@charlie-obrien Over 10,000 somewhat underballs it; in the 5th book, the original imperium is referred to as The Million Worlds; itself admitted to be an underball. Granted, it was 5,000 years of time between the reign of Shaddam IV and the 5th book, but for 3,500 years of that time people were deliberately kept from colonizing new worlds. I liked the way in which old places and names were preserved in Dune, despite few people having any clue what the name used to mean. But a fair point in that a broad spread in names isn't something we should be surprised at, it's just unfortunate that many scifi and fantasy worlds either stick to culturally conventional names or fantasy names. Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen being a blend between Turkic(?) and Finnish is a fun example of scifi naming, as it and many other elements hint at the idea that human cultures have all mixed and mutated in the milennia since we left Earth.

[@michaellepine7981]

Shot of Sting standing in a doorway, all greased up and wearing nothing but a sparkly purple speedo: “I WILL KILL HIM!”

[@H3Vtux]

Whoever edited this deserves a raise. They cropped the entire thing so that not one frame revealed Mike being passed out on the floor next to their feet.

[@CraniumOnEmpty]

Passed out? I thought they hog tied him behind the camera.

[@LordSathar]

he was mumbling something about the pug being in Star Trek

[@thehand7902]

You mean Baron Fartbag?

[@howler9171]

I'm pretty sure Mike edits all their videos

[@michaeloftaoism]

@@CraniumOnEmpty 🤣🤣🤣

[@Wizuu0274]

Mike is being restrained because the sole presence of Patrick Stewart in the old Dune movie would''ve set off a 10 min tangent about the episodes of TNG it reminds him of, like Final Mission.

[@danielmead146]

the water must flow

[@Half_Finis]

Probably why he wasn't allowed!

[@tetryst]

"Mike you wanna talk about the new Dune movie?" "nah." "but it's just like Star Trek!" "Not really tho." "..." "..." "..." "So when are we gonna shoot that The Good, The Bad, Dune re:view?"

[@G7M9W]

Arrakis, when the spice flowed

[@kalibos]

@@G7M9W Atreides, his eyes uncovered!

[@Daniel__Nobre]

The worms "liquifying" the sand is an absolutely genius idea. Not only it is a real physical effect but it also makes sense for the worms to do it given that they have to "swim" through the sand.

[@80studios16]

cymatics 😎

[@viscountalpha]

The worms would have to expell lots of gas for it to become a fludized sand bed. Maybe the planets core is gas.

[@azure8909]

Frank Herbert was a geologist and I always remember opening up the book in my teens and reading the incredibly descriptive passages describing the landscape. Little touches like this are so genius

[@runningsandwich]

Vibrations could do it​@@viscountalpha

[@adora_was_taken]

@@viscountalpha more likely it's a frequency thing

[@CharX782]

The 3 hour Spicediver fan edit of the David Lynch Dune that readds a ton of cut scenes is a legitimate masterpiece. I really wish that Lynch had final cut.

[@babyBELUGAr]

Is this something easily available or do I need to go to the high seas to find it?

[@jimb0e186]

@@babyBELUGAr it’s on KZbin in good quality. At least it was like a month ago when I last checked

[@babyBELUGAr]

@@jimb0e186 thanks dogg

[@MrDrProfessorPurple]

It's actually sickening how many films that flopped would have been better versions of themselves if studios didn't waste money on reshoots to CUT critical scenes, instead of spending half that money on letting the fucking directors just make a good movie.

[@lc9245]

@@MrDrProfessorPurpleagree. Kingdom of Heaven was crucified by the cut. It’s more painful as apparently it was cut by Scott upon request by the studio.

[@brodieyake7735]

Mike would have loved this video. Rest in peace.

[@Freddedonna]

Can't believe his liver lasted this long RIP

[@AspenBrightsoul]

We all saw this coming, Rich had to kill him before he became too powerful.

[@justincoleman3805]

Nobody ever really dies.

[@ieatsand9259]

No one’s ever really gone

[@KronnangDunn]

Best in Pieces

[@may14ification]

This video would have been a masterpiece if it was just 50 minutes of Jay showing Dune to Colin through a phone.

[@TheGoukaruma]

David Lynch would love that.

[@cameronmitchell8180]

Lmaoooooo

[@saar1707]

Get out of my head!

[@Omenshaper]

That's 100% what I was expecting. Thought it was gonna be another Transformers 5 situation.

[@G-Mastah-Fash]

Get real.

[@b.chaline4394]

Little bit of (non Star Trek) trivia: in both versions, the character of Stilgar, leader of the Fremen, is played by a James Bond villain: Everett McGill in the 1984 film (and crooked DEA agent Kilifer in 1989's License to Kill) and Javier Bardem in the 2021 one (who of course was the main villain, Raoul Silva, in 2012's Skyfall). EDIT: actually, make it THREE versions! I just found out Steven Berkoff, who was Soviet general Orlov in 1983's Octopussy opposite Roger Moore's Bond, also played Stilgar in the Children of Dune TV series!

[@mrkeogh]

I live for this sort of trivia.

[@alexsilva28]

Nice trivia. Both happen to be amongst the best Bond films

[@Reticuli]

dude

[@cyrollan]

@@Reticuli sweet!

[@ggs27]

@@alexsilva28 I have only watched the Daniel Craig ones but I ought to agree. Skyfall is a banger

[@redd7293]

please come back for Dune part 2 with a video like this

[@SplendidCoffee0]

I wish Rich didn’t force Susan to remove dislikes at gunpoint.

[@dookie_12]

Dislikes gave him AIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDDSSSS

[@cradiculous]

@@dookie_12 OH MY GAWWWWWWWD

[@Amitlu]

I wonder what took them so long for my country

[@jtom416]

I can't get the satisfaction of looking at the dislikes on their Black Widow review now. Why Susan why?!?!

[@elevationsickness8462]

I thought Jack replaced Susan as head of KZbin years ago

[@SadfaicMusic]

While we all really wanted mike to be here, let’s be honest. He’d talk for two hours about Captain Picard instead.

[@nilsbossiusklintenberg3623]

What’s happened to Mike?? :0

[@cool_sword]

@@nilsbossiusklintenberg3623 first man in the 21st century to contract and die of polio

[@theheebs100]

he ded

[@cherif6648]

Rip mike

[@SomeFreakingCactus]

Yeah. Star Trek takes up too much space in his brain for this movie.

[@MyFireVideos]

That opening sketch is amazing. Dude holding his phone straight out for the other guy to watch the entire Dune 2021. That made me so happy.

[@bhaalgorn]

that dude and guy are hack and fraud, thank you very much

[@itsd0nk]

And the soundtrack chosen as the “movie’s sound” made all the more hilarious. Right as the sweeping choir chants start pumping in, the hard cut. Their comedic editing is the best.

[@ivosamuelgiosadominguez6649]

Not to mention, doing this sketch when reviewing a Lynch movie, who is infamous for his "film on phone" speech.

[@Sea_Nut]

@@ivosamuelgiosadominguez6649 it’s like poetry they rhyme

[@eliastorres4461]

Can't help but feel like it's a poke at that David Lynch interview where he talks about how you "can't truly experience the magic of cinema on your fuckin' phone." lol

[@DurianKing]

I love how Josh Brolin trained Chalamet for war. He's so aggressive, almost frustrated to see how nonchalant Chalamet was during training. The way he said about the Harkonnens: "They're not humans, they're BRUTAL!". I really felt the desperation in his voice. Perfectly cast in my opinion.

[@BrandonGiordano]

Word. The movie does such a good job of creating a sense of impending dread. From the get go you just feel this doom coming for house atreides. I felt it so strongly

[@jb111082]

You really feel it, don't you? I'm not sure if you know, but Duke Leto rescued Brolin's character Gurney from a Harkonen slave pit, so he knows first-hand what they're like.

[@mallory-mae]

what being imprisoned on geidi prime does to a mf

[@nicholascage3400]

Agreed that Brolin is a good cast for Gurney, but I dislike how they sap so much of Gurney's lightheartedness for the film. It makes his emotional flips far more jarring, as normally he's a very charismatic bard whose mannerisms hide his combat skills. But I feel a lot of characters in the film recieve too little characterization, really wish there was more time to develop the characters and world. Though I think a lot of modern shows and miniseries would be better off with just being cut down to movie length, Dune really needs more time to fully adapt.

[@FabulousResults]

I feel like Josh Brolin is good in everything. Every time I see him it's a treat.

[@BeerdyBruceLeeCentral]

Imagine all the TNG references Mike would have.

[@jaydups999]

We were on the verge of greatness we were this close

[@kenny228s]

Thank god he wasn’t around for this.

[@Henskelion]

Funny thing is there was a Dune game from the early 2000's that actually had Worf from TNG playing the Atreides Duke. Also not Star Trek, but one by the same studio (Westwood) in the late 90's had Gimli from LotR as its Atreides officer.

[@andrewtaylor940]

I will be so freaking pissed if Season 2 of Picard does not include him charging into battle carrying a dog.

[@schigeraXD]

@@Henskelion Yep, that was Emperor Battle for Dune. Probably one of Westwood's most underrated games. I still have a physical copy of it!

[@osdbest]

Colin and Jay's reviews are as close as this channel gets to professionalism.

[@remembertotakeshowerspleas355]

I disagree, the Shatner video makes this one look like a high school project.

[@Eamonshort1]

Jays botw editing approaches professional as well in my opinion

[@BradsGonnaPlay]

Comedy =/= unprofessional

[@ZakMcDonald64]

Jim and Josh are really good together as well.

[@radhinkabagaskara5595]

What's so unprofessional on talking about every episodes of a hit TV show Star Trek: Picard?

[@nerodia]

Lynch's Dune is definitely a guilty pleasure for me. I love the weirdness, the camp, the effects. And no matter how much Lynch hated the film, it made the world a better place by introducing him to Kyle MacLachlan.

[@timtheskeptic1147]

I love the things in it that you can't unsee. Like the guy that trips and falls behind the navigator tank, the harkonnen soldiers wearing black Converses, and Patrick Stewart's obvious stunt double.

[@Desttro73]

@@timtheskeptic1147 I know, kinda like how in new version all the soldiers were wearing modern day tactical military gloves.

[@hannibalburgers477]

Everybody overexplaining everything in inner monologue was too tiresome to me. Not only that, they would go on and inner monologue the thing just told by the narration few seconds ago. I heard show, don't tell. I heard explicit delivery. It was the first time I saw a "Explicitly tell and then Explain more"

[@hannibalburgers477]

I loved the Harkonnen scenes tho. Edit: Semi-ironically, as the youth would call it

[@DocSmouse]

​@@Desttro73 I'm glad that this stuck out to someone else who wasn't just me

[@Talesfromtheshelf]

The idea of Jay just holding the phone for Colin instead of Colin holding it himself is so fucking funny

[@marcossoriano8383]

"It was a nightmare and.....It was a nightmare." That pause says more than a thousand words. You can see Lynch stare into the abyss in utter horror for a few seconds over what he endured.

[@JonathanMickelson]

And that’s saying something… considering what might constitute a ‘nightmare’ in David Finche’s mind *shudder*.

[@EggBastion]

@@JonathanMickelson layers

[@PeterEvansPeteTakesPictures]

@@JonathanMickelson Actually Lynch's nightmares mainly revolve around inferior coffee and a crippling widespread cherry pie shortage. Phew.

[@Tunkkis]

​@@PeterEvansPeteTakesPictures And not being able to embalm cat carcasses in tar pits.

[@sjbrooksy45]

The personal shield is one of my favorite tech of the book. The shield was invented to protect soldiers from projectiles so tactics had to change to get past them. But shields attract worms on Dune so the Fremen never use them and have different fighting tactics. Which is one reason they are so hard for off worlders to beat.

[@craigboyle9714]

I really liked the bad boxy CGI so much that I hate when it's like a field in the new one.

[@gooner9038]

@@craigboyle9714 Absolutely! That Lynchian version is orders of magnitude more interesting. I read somewhere it took 6 months to draw those boxes on each frame. It's a brilliant piece of cinematic craftsmanship.

[@Popm3lon]

Why do the shields not just protect from all attacks. Haven't read the books since my teens. It seems like some weird neo-feudal chivalry or code of ethics that just seem to be adherred to.

[@AgentPothead]

@@Popm3lon They're the energy field equivalent of a non newtonian fluid, specifically a shear thickening fluid. The faster an object tries to move through the shield the tighter the shield pushes back against it. It's like when people run across vats of cornstarch mixed with water, called oobleck. It only works if they run across. If they walk they just sink right in.

[@Popm3lon]

@@AgentPothead Gotcha, cheers! I suppose a full permanent shield would also make simple tasks like picking up or holding objects difficult.

[@doomstadt2371]

"Duncan Idaho feels kinda out of place" Exactly Jay, as he is supposed to lol

[@blondie8372]

why is he supposed to?

[@ianramsey101]

If they make the sequels, you will be seeing more of Idaho in clone form....

[@thundercockjackson]

​@@ianramsey101ghola*

[@forestreader]

"the name Duncan Idaho sounds so out of place in this alien universe" the main character's name is Paul,

[@RangerMcFriendly]

His mom is named Jessica. Lol.

[@axonassault]

But wait. What the Bene Gesserit do is much worse than what Colin says. They didn't plant prophecies on planets so they would believe in the Kwisatz Haderach when he came. They planted prophecies so should a Bene Gesserit become stranded on a planet somewhere, she can use the locals' religion (that the Bene Gesserit seeded) to help herself find safety and get back home. Which is exactly what Jessica is planning to do because she has heard keywords from the Fremen since they landed on Dune that these religious escape routes were instilled. It's so cynical and blew my 16 year old mind when I first read it. As I say, Dune is about (in part) the politics of religion and the religion of politics.

[@Wobbothe3rd]

Importamt comment. Great point.

[@LosBerkos]

Sounds like a lot of effort for the event that you'd become stranded on some planet.

[@Oreosforlunch]

The second book is also about no matter how much you use religion to control society, you will lose control of that religion and it will eventually control you too.

[@axonassault]

@@Oreosforlunch Yes. Frank Herbert is none too kind toward religion in this series.

[@Oreosforlunch]

@@axonassault Which is ironic, because he has a better understanding of it compared to most sci-fi authors. Heinlain and Assimov were very anti-religious too but they didn't really know what they were talking about when they brought it up.

[@HunchbackJack]

Colin gets all kind of credit for knowing that it's the ships that fold space, and that the Navigators use prescience to guide the ship safely through folded space, by avoiding the possible futures in which the ship is destroyed in transit.

[@ShishakliAus]

No he gets credit for knowing the guild navigators are mostly human except for some flippers

[@Llanowar_Kitten]

But he loses points for not knowing that the navigators are not actually described in the original novel. Two guild ‘navigators’ are mentioned, but they are not mutated and it’s implied that they are not the type of navigator that actually guides ships. The description of the flippers, elongated heads, and v-shaped mouths are all in the sequels. It would be more faithful to the book if the new Dune never showed any mutated navigators in the second part.

[@RedHeadKevin]

The navigators are described in the second book, Dune Messiah. Edric the Guild Navigator is a fairly major character. So they'll have to figure it out before the Messiah movie. But you're right, Navigators don't appear in the novel. There are Guildsmen, but they're not at the point of living in a spice gas tank.

[@newq]

In addition to everything else people have said, the specific language of "folding space" wasn't used in the original novel. It's something David Lynch dreamed up for his adaptation.

[@letosgoldenpath1993]

@@newq This is true. I read the novel six times and the only time this "space fold" stuff is mentioned is in the 1984 movie and the Brian/Andersen books (which are suspect as to whether they are canon...I prefer the canon of the old Dune Encyclopedia, which also does not mention space folding). It is true that the Guild navigates FTL space travel by avoiding potential dangers in the path of the vessel through heightened sensory abilities that might be perceived as seeing future dangers across time.

[@robicenco1]

The comment near the end that Lynch's film "felt like a nightmare" is spot-on, and my biggest takeaway from this discussion (which is excellent). For all its many faults, the Lynch film has that dark, claustrophobic, weird, terrifying quality that probably can't ever be repeated now. A "problematic" film, to say the least, but a unique one.

[@13Psycho13]

Wes Anderson would probably come closest nowadays, despite being completely different tonally.

[@qty1315]

The production was a mess. Lynch is at his best when he's allowed to do his thing, and he wasn't allowed to be David Lynch on Dune. Unfortunately, he isn't good at not being David Lynch and he knew that. He pretty much disowned the movie.

[@Reticuli]

@@13Psycho13 Hahahahahahahah

[@steviegbcool]

yes it kinda makes this film seem dull in comparison.

[@TheSuperMegaPlus]

@@13Psycho13 That's actually so accurate. huh...

[@philv2529]

I saw an interview with a lady that worked on the practical special effects for the David Lynch Dune film and I remember her saying they had to go out of their way to make extreme effort to make sure the sand worms didn't look like giant turds

[@Digitaldendo]

Gutted 😂

[@evbbjones7]

The navigators quite literally navigate. Holtzmann Drives make folding space possible and the process itself feels near instantaneous to anyone on board. But they're still physically travelling through the space between the two folded points. In the Dune universe, thinking machines are banned, so they don't have the computational power necessary to plot the courses themselves. That's where navigators come in. Because they're prescient, they can see many possible futures and pick the safest one.

[@OrgaNik_Music]

Nerd.

[@Msizyke41]

which is also important to know because that is how paul beats the guild in the books because they focus so much on being safe that he knows they would not do anything risky in order to beat him

[@erion1138]

i liked how in villeneuve's version the heighliners act more as a gate to where ever people wanna go

[@forgilageord]

That never made sense to me, since if you're folding space rather than other forms of travelling faster than light, there wouldn't be anything between your origin and destination points, as they would be directly next to each other, and it would actually be instant.

[@michaelbukowski7396]

Since you’ve popped the seal on didactic nerd stuff, what’s with all the lasers? I thought the whole reason Dune was all knives and sh!t was because the Holtzman shield had a catastrophic interaction with lasers. And here they’re just blasting away with ultra violet lasers.

[@Anto_Skum]

There actually was a reference to Lynch's Dune in the new film. The crew that comes to clean out the Baron's quarters after he was poisoned are dressed in the same black hazmat suits that a lot of Lynch's Harkonnens wore. Someone probably already replied with this, if not then cool.

[@alanpennie8013]

I think you're the first to mention it. Really happy that the new film is prepared to acknowledge its flawed but memorable precursor. It's gracious.

[@larrylaffer3246]

The Lynch Pin of references.

[@jeremystatz8411]

I feel like the appearance and behavior of the drone that attacks Paul in his quarters is highly influenced by the Lynch film, also.

[@towersofgiza]

Cool

[@Henskelion]

The hazmat guys in the Villeneuve one aren't wearing the same hazmat suits that the Sardaukar were, though they do look similar. It may have been an intentional reference, but might have also just been a practical decision since that scene has those guys entering a room full of toxic gas. Though, I do think there were some blatant references to Lynch's version, specifically the Baron being able to float. In the book, his antigravity device doesn't let him float, so much as simply walk around as a normal, non-obese person. Also I think the bullets that slow down before penetrating the shields in the Villeneuve version may have also been taken from the Lynch version since I don't recall that in the book, though I could be wrong about that.

[@evanrose96]

The inner monologue of the Lynch version might be an homage to the fact that the book is written in such a way we’re a passage written from one character’s point of view will include the inner thoughts of others in the scene. Also adds to the “witches’” (I know they have a proper name but I’m not going to even try to spell it right) have such powerful comprehension skills that they can nearly read the minds of others.

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

Yep, and Dennis adapted it perfectly. In movies, clunky narration to account for inner monologue makes the movie experience worse. Sure the new harkonnen isn’t as fun as lynch version. But it makes more sense for a movie. Most of harkonnens character came from his inner monologue. He usually barely spoke in the books.

[@FatCatProductions]

My favorite meme about dune was a Twitter post saying: Every character in Dune: He nodded, in the secret way that his secret order trained him to do, indicating a hidden danger. "How brilliant," I thought to myself, "to the untrained observer he would appear to simply be nodding but careful observation shows his true intent."

[@THeKallOfCtulu]

Extremely funny that Jay doesn't even think Duncan Idaho isnt important enough to include in a Dune adaptation considering.... The deal with him in later books

[@BinarySecond]

It is a shame because in Dune he really is done dirty, Lynch Dune was worse, at least Momoa got the moment with Sardaukar in the corridor.

[@Gum_Cuzzler]

His highest point in the saga is when he makes some lady orgasm just from watching him climb a wall. Frank Herbert definitely understands women.

[@cathare4909]

He "lived" longer than any other character 🤣

[@adamlouis3725]

what youre referring to is not cannon so it doesnt really count as spoilers. its fanfiction.

[@ladnie9454]

@@adamlouis3725It was written by Frank Herbert so yes, it’s canon

[@kongfeet81]

My biggest complaint is that Josh Brolin didn’t charge into battle with a pug under one arm

[@BullCityCocktails]

thats in part 2

[@reallylionbastard]

Long live duke letooooo!

[@coprographia]

There’s still time.

[@muhammadrifqi7308]

​@@BullCityCocktails welp....

[@TheSirUno]

Jay: "Is that character (Duncan Idaho) even in the book?" *Duncan is the only character in ALL of the books. 😂

[@innocentsmith6091]

Duncans are the only characters, you mean.

[@selekos]

Because Duncans are practically clones we can say "Somehow Duncan returned".

[@DIEGhostfish]

Well, in some way at least. Although wait was he in the second? I thought they didn't start getting copies till the third and fourth?

[@robertblume2951]

@@selekos practically? You mean actually.

[@nihalanand2690]

@@DIEGhostfish the Duncan in Messiah was also a ghola, sent to kill Paul

[@n0isyturtle]

I just saw Dune 2 on an airplane where an obese lady kept adjusting and shaking the seat, and the young father next to me tried to corral his wandering toddler. I was hit in the face with a chair, and my balls were stepped on. I'd say this is the optimal way to view Dune 2, if possible.

[@Ramekink]

Just for context, the first Dune novel is from 1965. Star Wars (1977). A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones books) from 1996. P.S. Jodorowsky's DUNE ended up becoming The Incal which is ,arguably, one of the best comicbooks ever created.

[@andrewglazebrook1585]

The Reason Princess Irulan fades in and out at the beginning of the film is when they developed the film they found out the negative had scratches on it in several parts of the sequence, but Madsen had already flown home so rather than call her back they fade out when the scratches were about to appear and back in when they've gone !

[@SuperCleary]

That can’t be true. Amazing.

[@andrewglazebrook1585]

@@SuperCleary Oh it's true, it's either mentioned in the making of book by Ed Naha or the Cinefex !

[@JonathanMickelson]

It’s quite convenient that the scratches occurred right before the phrase “oh, I almost forgot.” Like…. REAL convenient.

[@andrewglazebrook1585]

@@JonathanMickelson That’s coincidence for ya!!

[@charlesajones77]

@@andrewglazebrook1585 I have a local library that has the making of book. I'll have to go check it out and see if this is in there. I don't remember it, but I probably didn't read the whole thing.

[@DocD173]

The Airplane bit cut in after the Lynch Inner monologues absolutely killed me 😆🤣

[@ym5891]

I was a young kid when I first saw Dune and despite all it's flaws, I considered it a great movie. It's all so weird yet still feels realistic in some way.

[@vincentcalabrese2068]

Just one note that the guild navigators are featured in the new film, though only briefly, during the ceremony with the imperial herald. They've got normally shaped bodies and can walk with their limbs but are wearing suits with helmets filled with orange spice gas.

[@GeorgeEndress]

Those aren't fully developed guild navigators, they're like stage 1 or 2 I think (from the little descriptions we get in the books) the 3rd stage navigators are the ones in the tanks

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

Those aren’t navigators, maybe on the path, but not actually guild navigators. Why would 3 navigators be standing around for a message delivery? That makes no sense. Navigators are incredibly important. They’d never just have 3 accompany an imperial herald on the ground. The reply commenter makes sense. They could be in training to become a navigator. But those certainly weren’t navigators. I assumed those were the guildsmen. Just regular “employees” of the guild. They’re such a powerful force that they can afford to constantly be engulfed in the spice. I actually thought it was super cool. Guildsman being able to live in a gas mask of melange. Like if rich people today wore marijuana gas masks constantly pumped with thc smoke.

[@douggibson2030]

@@misanthropicservitorofmars2116They're specifically called out as representatives from the guild, so quite possibly they exist specifically to fill that emissary role

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

@@douggibson2030 that’s what I assumed, just guild representatives.

[@Choom89]

The travel "cost 3 navigators" there are 5 of the fish bowl helmet people.

[@Spacejack-xx2yp]

Okay, the pug is really pretty simple. Took me a long time too. It's just the Atreides's dog. Like the actual pet of the royal family. Gurney clings to it because it's the thing he managed to save.

[@jaymorrison8419]

i like that detail shows a sympathetic lynch

[@jasonpapai73]

Yeah we know why its in the film, but it's still a hilarious visual. Especially taken out of context.

[@jamessmith7205]

Such a great addition in showing how Gurney loves the family.

[@vanyadolly]

@@jamessmith7205 Yes, emotion. Love. Meanwhile the family seemed to be replaced with androids in the new version.

[@curiositycloset2359]

Just made me realise why the new haconans are pale (milky smooth) and hairless. And the fact the mentats don't get much of a part.

[@24FramesOfNick]

I really wanted him to be holding the phone up to watch for the entire video

[@darkpatches]

Screen's too big. Much better to have viewed it on an Apple watch. Plus, they could have cuddled.

[@zubrhero5270]

I moved the mouse cursor over the screen to check to see how long the video was because I legitimately thought for a moment they might.

[@EXMachina.]

I hope for a Director's Cut version for this Dune review.

[@WienerBrigadier]

hahaha Like Andy Kaufman reading The Great Gatspy for 3 hours

[@anthonydavis5679]

I still haven't recovered from their Transformer reviews where they basically did just that for 25+ minutes, just went "nah" and then black screen.

[@skonenblades]

My only complaint about the new Dune is that we barely meet Yueh before he plays his big plot point and also that the mentats were left in the dust. It's really important that Paul has mentat training. So I guess a scene of Paul getting a checkup with the family physician and a lesson with Thufir would have been cool on that front. And while the 'slow blade' was talking about in that training session, it pretty much went out the window afterwards when Momoa's going ham on the sadukar. But very small nitpicks. Just like Jay was saying, I actually wouldn't have minded if it was longer. And I loved how they portrayed "THE VOICE." That was great.

[@Tunkkis]

The shields were my biggest gripe after leaving the theater as well. Granted, I had not read the book before seeing the movie, but afterwards I've been listening to them in audio book format during family car rides. The further along we got, the less I liked the movie as an adaptation. The thing is, I tend to very easily fall asleep in cars, so I've slept through maybe a quarter of it, and going throught it again is probably in order.

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

@@TunkkisI just got to heretic of Dune a couple weeks ago. I love the new movie. I loved the new shields. Made it feel real. When watching combat. Sure some of the actors could have slowed their strikes to make it seem better, but it’s also a form of combat that almost no one alive could portray properly. No martial art on earth teaches to slowly stab. So while watching I can easily assume that whenever a red glow comes on the shield, that the person attacking went slow enough to get through.

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

True, boy calculators were left in the dust :’(

[@SonofSethoitae]

It's weird how much of Thufir Hawat's role was left out relative to Duncan Idaho. Duncan's a pretty minor character in the first book, and Thufir is the guy masterminding the Atreides' strategy against the Harkonnens. Plus he trained Paul as a mentat (which we also don't see) which is part of the reason he ends up with prescience.

[@skonenblades]

@@SonofSethoitaeyeah exactly

[@Rekaert]

Glad to say that I like both versions. The Lynch version, despite the HUGE liberties it took with the source material had an amazing visual style and frankly I'm a sucker for pretty much anything Lynch does anyway. But, the style of it, the soundtrack, the visuals, the eccentric acting - it really felt like another time and place. I don't care it's niche, or a cult film, or that it bombed. I love it. But, I really, really liked Denis's film too. Very different, closer in some ways to the book than Lynch, further away in other places. A very different animal, but pretty damn good all the same.

[@chiyo-chanholocaust8143]

I have never seen the David Lynch version, but from the few random clips they show here it doesn't even seem that both are supposed be based on same story, it's some WEIRD shit haha

[@charlesajones77]

It's worth mentioning that space travel IS possible without Spice (It would have to be for them to have found Arrakis in the first place). It's just prohibitively dangerous. Something like 1 in 10 attempts result in the destruction of the ship.

[@chainedlupine]

Not only that, but the navigation computers had to be very smart machines -- Something which was disallowed after the Butlerian Jihad, where the new Space Pope said AIs were bad after a long war with the machines. Hence Mentats and analog controls in the ornithopers.

[@talon12020]

"Never tell me the odds!"

[@eric.ko.]

Dune lore is so good

[@kuribayashi84]

Before the properties of Spice was discovered, Humanity has spread among the stars using "conventional" methods of travel, meaning some sort of FTL-drive, which was a lot slower. Traveling between stars usually took weeks or even months, making Human-colonized space very hard, if not impossible, to govern.

[@PIRAKAS666]

@@chainedlupine Hmm sounds something like 40k

[@keller_3180]

I genuinely thought that they would just never cover dune. But I’m so glad they did!!!!!

[@WickedChild95]

I kinda wanted them to just troll this in their videos for awhile lol

[@Jaaaaaffff]

I thought Mike had a LOT to say about Dune?

[@MadMaxBible]

I seriously thought they'd just have the two watch the whole film on a phone and never say a word about it.

[@smallhatshatethetruth7933]

@@WickedChild95 yeah was hoping for more trolling

[@bearzerger]

I thought they would keep it as a running joke.

[@GoetiaTV]

As a kid I saw Lynch Dune before knowing anything about Lynch or Dune and loved it. Watching it later after becoming a fan of Lynch gave me a new appreciation for its weirdness.

[@DungeonGobbo]

Jay: Who even was Duncan Idaho, was he even in the books? Me: Oh, you have no idea.

[@ben__6180]

Hopefully they do Dune Messiah so we get mecha-Momoa

[@eh.2671]

Hopefully they do God Emperor so we get to see women climaxing just from observing Momoa climbing a wall

[@stefanfnord1757]

@@eh.2671 Hopefully they do Chapterhouse because... porn...

[@thebazhammer2610]

It’s hilarious to me that if Denis adapted all of the Frank books, Jason Mamoa would be the only one in all but the last one. Isn’t it a younger Duncan Idaho in that one?

[@DungeonGobbo]

@@thebazhammer2610 Yeah and it's ghola clones out the wazoo throughout the series so in all seriousness they could be different castings in each movie and just be explained by the age differences of the clones Or CGI Momoa for years to come, who knows.

[@Arezkkuzu]

Colin is the funniest guest, I wish he were on more often. Mike would have been great too but there's a danger he'd have hijacked the discussion to peddle his Star Trek religion again.

[@moddler]

Nice try, Colin.

[@N.J237]

blame canada

[@MovieMagic515]

I love Star Trek!

[@Anenome5]

Can't believe Mike wasn't in this, what a shame, biggest movie in years and Mike boycotts, sad.

[@NathanDav42]

I’d not say he’s the funniest, but his description of the David Carradine garden hose infomercial years before they watched it for BotW still kills me. He said Carradine’s dog was so embarrassed about the whole thing he just got up and walked away.

[@Gibson343088]

I would pay so much goddamn money to see the Lynch directed Return of the Jedi. I can't even fathom what that would be like.

[@joshuarose2039]

Same

[@Emapten]

just like the one you we have today. George is the owner, His hired 'director' would just be a puppet. I enjoy Return the Jedi, but I know a creator doesn't hand over creative control that early in his career. He owns the spice/copyrights pulls the strings. @@joshuarose2039

[@SonofEmhak]

I got the vinyl soundtrack for David Lynch's Dune from a friend who found it in their shed, and I love how it's arranged. It's just all the things I love about the movie condensed into audio format.

[@tamiwatchesstuff]

I kinda wanted the Denis version to put in Toto's prophecy theme song as a big homage to the 1984 version.

[@NathanDav42]

I don’t know why, but the idea of David Lynch as a man who has never read a book or seen a movie, sculpture, or painting had me laughing for over a solid minute. If I told someone watching Eraserhead or Mullholland Drive that as if it were an established fact, I wonder if they’d question it.

[@cortarmstrong8768]

Absolutely not. Mullholland Drive was the first Lynch movie I had seen and I guarantee this thought came up in my then 14 year old mind

[@Kikefriki]

It is worth mentioning that Lynch loved Dune (the book) and that's why he took the job.

[@kasperdjerns2865]

@@Kikefriki That's a misunderstanding. David Lynch loves dune (the pile of sand). Which is why all his movies are as interesting as watching rocks move, and twice as slow

[@somniansvulpes]

Actually, I saw him say in an interview that he loves Kafka

[@earlpipe9713]

He just watches Rammstein videos and vintage snuff films, in fact of course

[@TechnologicallyTechnical]

The shields in the 1984 Dune weren't CGI, but they were designed to resemble CGI. They were painstakingly hand-drawn with there being multiple film passes for each side of the shield. Lynch or someone wanted them to look very geometric, and it's unfortunately ironic that so much painstaking work went into creating such a cheap looking effect.

[@sokolum]

Somehow I always liked this effect, despite it looks!

[@vultan2000]

Corridor Crew discuss and breakdown this effect

[@cornbredx]

Ironically if they went the easier route and just made it a colored light effect around the actors silhouette (which would have still been hard but not nearly AS difficult) it would have looked better.

[@HulkHogan69]

It didn't look cheap at the time

[@Tetragrammaton22]

Did you comment before watching them discuss that?

[@akaBoG]

The shields and sword fighting are one of the coolest concepts in Dune. The shields are highly effective against projectile weapons, discourage the use of laser weapons (as they cause a nuclear style explosion when they interact) and result in the need for highly skilled close-quarter hand-to-hand combat.

[@Schwiegermutter]

The problem with that explosions is that nobody can tell the difference between them and real nukes. Who ever uses the banned nukes will be wiped out by the landsrat and all the other houses. Using nukes means total annihilation and the end of your liniage.

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

Makes laser weapons basically illegal since thermo-nuclear weaponry is outright banned by the laandsradt

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

So sending suicide squads of laser pistol equipped soldiers to intentionally blast Holtzmann shields is a war crime by every house and the imperial crown.

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

Like how the emperor couldn’t reveal he took part in the betrayal of house Atreides. It would mean every other house in the empire would turn against him. In the books, all the Sardukar are dressed as Harkonnen troops.

[@Faenwolf]

The Lynch movie got me into reading the books. Which I am very thankful for. Love both films. Great to see you talk about them!

[@_Uptilt]

"I don't know if David Lynch has ever read a book, period... Or seen a movie.... Or seen sculptures or paintings..." Obviously tongue in cheek to a certain extent, but it also makes a lot of sense considering how incredibly unique his style is. Everything Lynch does is so unapologetically Lynch, and I love it.

[@jeffpalaganas7404]

Its funny to note that lynches original painting and short films prior to Eraserhead are noted for being Francis Bacon imitations.

[@_Uptilt]

@@jeffpalaganas7404 Oh, that IS funny! But out of all the famous artists I guess that would probably have to be the one to have inspired Lynch.

[@jetaimemina]

@@jeffpalaganas7404 to be honest, Bacon's Pope Innocent paintings are bangin'

[@paylmoffat3409]

Lost Highway was Lynch’s best movie and he should have used Bill Pullman a lot more.

[@paylmoffat3409]

Everett McGill had a role of all off a couple minutes in Straigh Storey where he farewelled Richard Farnsworth on his epic lawn mower journey. In that short time he displayed emotion and genuine concern rarely seen in actors. Goes back to akin to Tony Quinn’s Oscar for about the same amount of time on screen. Same could be said for Harry Dean Stanton’s couple minutes at the end of the same movie. Tears welled up in my eyes about 3 seconds after he opened his mouth. Amazing short scenes that were those actors only scenes so they put everything into that scene.

[@CatAtomic99]

Duncan Idaho's name works because for them, Earth is sort of a mythical land from pre-history. It'd be like one of our modern surnames like Beaumont that refers to a place that doesn't mean anything in particular to us anymore.

[@Corbomite_Meatballs]

Great, so in their time there's people running about with last names like "Carlsbad", "Tampa", "Mud Butte", and "Tightwad"

[@Pyrotechnics45]

@@Corbomite_Meatballs That's Duke Tightwad to you, sir!

[@joshuatxuk]

My father in law's lukewarm review of the 1984 rests entirely on the fact that a guy 10,000 years into the future, a future of multiple varied human societies on various planets with deeply shifted social and religious cultures, is named Duncan Idaho.

[@tyrgoossens]

Piter de Vries is basically a modern dutch name as well, though it would be spelled "Pieter". I always thought it was neat because you see historic words and phrases come back as well (eg. Landsraad, another dutch one) so why not names.

[@trickster721]

I thought Jay saying that didn't fit was strange, when the movie has a scene where a guy plays bagpipes in front of a spaceship.

[@dorians.9872]

If you were angry about Duncan Idaho dying, don't worry Noones ever really gone

[@emorigio]

Just like Rich Evans diabetes

[@jacobjarzabek8208]

isnt he cloned like 50 times? ends up being a superbeing?

[@hagostaeldmann]

I think the most impressive part of Denis' Dune is that the book which seems to require a LOT of lore to understand, you get the general ideas with very little exposition.

[@TheThagarus87]

Lynch’s Garfield is something I never knew I wanted till now.

[@Teknikfrik]

More cat milking 😅

[@larrylaffer3246]

He'd probably make Gorefield a reality.

[@ItDoesntMatterReally]

Lynch needs to do the voice of Garfield, but they should never let him know that they're recording him. Just bug him and let him ramble for a few months about how much he hates cell phones and loves Laura Dern.

[@skystarless]

Don't look in Jon's basement......

[@uknownada]

Just watch Lasagna Cat

[@BambooAcrobatVerte]

“It’s such a tragedy that you think you’ve seen a film on your FUCKING phone! GET REAL!” -David Lynch

[@MrDavidSalamon]

First time viewing of your channel-- I appreciate your approach and style. Your humor is fresh AND refreshing. The interplay between you both is quite genuine. And your background knowledge is quite extensive. I enjoyed your review and have subscribed. Thank you!

[@Heliosphan15]

Welcome! I hope you enjoy their other videos.

[@stepheneaton4978]

Don't complement these hacks. They already have overinflated egos as it is. Unless you're talking about Rich Evans. The man is a treasure that must be protected at all costs.

[@kryptokeeper1422]

Dune really needs to be a 7-10 season show to fully grasp the entire world and what's going on.

[@vincehenriquez680]

Probably why many book fans say the SyFy miniseries from the early 00's is the best adaptation.

[@christophmahler]

"Dune really needs to be a 7-10 season show (...)" It's interesting that this isn't adressed, despite comparing it to 'Game of Thrones' - which of course did fall apart like the Finch movie after the inexperienced directors lost the actual literary foundation... I agree with others that the SYFY mini-series is most faithful, but also encouraging to aproach the world in contrast to a BBC stage play.

[@arek314]

@@vincehenriquez680 yes! Also nas stellar soundtrack!

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Yeah, give it to some modern writers who will "put their own spin on it" as in "based on characters and concepts by Frank Herbert"

[@bajscast]

@@RideAcrossTheRiver I mean considering the first attempt at a Dune adaptation was Jodorowsky's Dune where he wanted to base most of it on a dream he had instead of basing it off the book, it's not a modern writer problem

[@minuteslater86]

The oppressive feeling people you’re talking about, with the weird throat chant, are not the Harkonnen, but another faction called Sardaukar. They are elite warriors of the emperor who later basically become guns for hire.

[@noahs150]

Iirc they're from some crap hole prison planet and supposed to be really ruthless, violent and scary. They're really competent, but not particularly good at asymmetrical desert warfare.

[@gestaposantaclaus]

@@noahs150 people also underestimate the Fremen so the Sardaukar expect an easy fight and by the time they learn otherwise it’s too late.

[@AppleSauceGamingChannel]

@@noahs150 Salusa Secundus. Though they are elite warriors they don't have millennia of desert warfare experience like the Fremen, so it mirrors the Lawrence of Arabia arch of the locals rising up against their imperial overlords.

[@Kyle-sr6jm]

Sardaukar, "We are raised in the toughest, most ruthless, conditions; ensuring only the most fearsome fighters survive." Fremen, "Hold my beer."

[@anthonyhenriques7654]

I really respect that debatably obscure David Lynch reference to watching movies on a cell phone at the beginning

[@vodkaboy]

Haha

[@roundabout468]

GET REAL

[@drifter316]

Can't wait to see their review for Dune Part 2! Gonna be as amazing as their review of The Batman.

[@verringenest6236]

I always imagined that the point of the navigators with the vacuums is that they were there to clean up the excess spice that fell off their retinue to minimize as much loss as possible. The stuff is precious after all...

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

Nah, navigators are basically specialized mentats. The space ships engine folds space, the navigator takes folded space and finds a safe route through, that avoids stuff like stars and planets so the ships don’t crash.

[@jr2904]

​@@misanthropicservitorofmars2116 you're not understanding the comment, they are talking about the David Lynch movie with the vacuums following the navigator tank.

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

@@jr2904 yeah reading this again, I didn’t pay attention.

[@mrmonkeyman79]

That scene of Paul riding the worm in the David Lynch version, with that soundtrack feels more like Flash Gordon. And I think I love it!

[@jerryaguilar8797]

The most impressive thing it's that Jay remembered the name of Kate McKinnon's character from Ghostbusters 2016 😐

[@SkimpySkimpify]

COLIN! My favorite contributor of the non-main three. Colin, come back more often!!!

[@Albtraum_TDDC]

I know people derided the voice over thoughts in the 1984 Dune, but when I watched it as a teenager (introvert) on some TV channel I was inspired by them a bit. It made me more aware of subtext in what people say or do (in general) and of deeper "plans within plans". It made me want to read the books and I got a lot more "education" from that, on various subjects that expanded my mind. Maybe it doesn't work in film for purists, but I wasn't really turned off by it. It gave answers to many questions of mine that are usually left unanswered or vague.

[@ralphhicks2712]

I Loved the voice overs.Of course I Loved the voice over in the Original Bladerunner

[@Albtraum_TDDC]

@@ralphhicks2712 that's in one version of it, the "Theatrical Cut" I think. It's more of a film-noir detective narrator style. It's a little bit different to Dune having voice-overs to explain the thinking that is happening right now in the head of the "actor" on screen. I still like it though. Some people make a joke about it like in Airplane (1980) comedy. the voice-over "Jim never has a 2nd cup of coffee at home".

[@Tomwithnonumbers]

It seems like it could have been inspired by the book which is 90% inner monologues about how they've anticipated that their plan would be anticipated so...

[@hobbitkiller45]

Did not expect this to be a re:view but honestly it fits

[@daftbanna7202]

@@justinstoll4955 wow crazy a whole month that must mean no one can talk about it

[@Reggie1408]

@@daftbanna7202 you can talk about it on re:view

[@tiagogarcia50]

I don't know... I kinda wish they waited for the Villeneuve Dune to be completed to contrast and compare with the Lynch one

[@daftbanna7202]

@@tiagogarcia50 what in 5 years

[@shineon9715]

@@daftbanna7202 it's supposed to come out in 2023

[@jameshamann465]

To be fair to David Lynch, the romance between Paul and Chani happens just as quickly in the book, and there is a time skip just as jarring to when Alia is born.

[@TNTspaz]

Something that the adaptations don't get across well in general is that Dune is more similar to an anthology of short stories that come together for a grandnarrative rather than a congruent set of books Most don't even know that Dune is a entire series of books that span over a large period of time and not a novel. When people talk about Dunes influence it more so relates to the other books but most just say "Dune". Like books 2-4 heavily inspired Warhammer40k. The term God emperor or someone that rules galaxy spanning empires comes from dune.

[@RedHeadKevin]

The reason why Paul and Chani fall in love so fast is that during the Spice Orgy, Paul sees his future with her. The Fremen all have a little touch of prescience when they're hopped up on spice, so Chani sees her future with Paul, as well. They both know they'll end up in love, so they get started.

[@jameshamann465]

@@TNTspaz exactly. A good example is that the entire arc of Paul throughout the series is really integral to understanding and appreciating his character within each book. I see a lot of complaints about Paul being a sort of Mary Sue from people who only read or saw the first story, and its really unfortunate, because if you know his entire arc you can see how that isn't remotely true

[@jameshamann465]

@@RedHeadKevin that's true the book does give a reason for their love happening so fast. I actually kind of like that it happens quickly in the book, but it is hard to translate that to the screen.

[@xxxCrackerJack501xxx]

I want someone to force David Lynch to direct a Marvel film

[@alanwright7498]

My friend had a copy of Dune(1984) which was around 3 and a half hours long. Could be the one Colin mentions. As far as the story and pacing goes it's a vast improvement on the original cut. But you can see that a lot of the additional footage is not quite finished. No eye colour for Fremen characters, poor sound quality, things like that. A bit of a shame really because it's much better. And I heard romour that there is a 5 hour version somewhere out there.

[@ryanricke2247]

I need to see this. My only problem with the film is the pacing and I think more time would definitely fix that.

[@alanwright7498]

@@ryanricke2247 The 5 hour version? Yes please.

[@tenderloinstew1359]

Watch the Spicediver fan edit. You can find it right here on KZbin. This guy took those scenes, edited them back in and finished/cleaned up the effects. Until or unless Lynch does a director's cut, it's the best version out there.

[@9Stumpbuster]

Lynch's DUNE has one of the most kickass scores ever made. As a teenage, I'd endlessly rewind my VHS to hear the guitar licks. Perfection

[@2157AF]

Yep, absolutely. Really loved all of D1984s music. I felt a little underwhelmed by Zimmers soundtrack.

[@alexthorpe2522]

I'm not keen on the riffs but the atmosphere. The ost for The Box is good. Mysterious and threatening.

[@Weaponsandstuff93]

Sadly the soundtrack version of "Big Battle (Riding the worm/Long live the fighters) doesn't have the same mix as the film version.

[@Gregorius421]

I have the Toto and Brian Eno score on my regular playlist... It's one of the best OSTs and the only thing the new movie can't outperform.

[@miked9466]

Ya, man. I’ve always said this, when other friends didn’t seem to agree with me. So good,, love the movie for it’s time. But the score is kick ass.

[@TheWasteOfTime]

Putting on my Obnoxious Dork Hat: The throat singer was on Salusa Secundus and those guys were the Imperial Sardaukar, the Emperor's elite personal troops. They weren't Harkonnens. They were lent to the Harkonnens (and in the book fought wearing Harkonnen uniforms so no one would suspect they were there, but I can appreciate why they didn't do that in the movie). The Harkonnens needed them since their troops were chumps compared to the Atreides, whereas no one could fuck with the Sardaukar. Except the Fremen. Specifically the Fedaykin. Man once those guys show up it's gonna be some shit.

[@DIEGhostfish]

Honestly I really HOPE the white armor is their Harkonnen disguise. I liked the 1984 Dune's Weldingmask/hazmat suit look. Or at least the black with a square faceplate thing. Maybe because of the art from the RTS that based itself on the original movie.

[@goldfishprime]

@@DIEGhostfish I mean, we know what the Harkonnen forces look like, all black. Being in complete different uniform would be confusing. Plus whenever they were spotted, someone always shouted "Sardaukar!"

[@TheWasteOfTime]

@@goldfishprime Well to be fair I was speaking specifically about when Jay called them Harkonnens. Neither of them read the books so they might not really get who the Sardaukar are.

[@TheWasteOfTime]

@@stephenpaccone8120 Pffft, my Mom always said I can be whatever I want! Seriously though, ye'll have to be more specific about what I can't be serious about. Unless ye weren't talking to me?

[@cornbredx]

Its fair to say Jay and Colin missed a lot of stuff like that, but you know it's not a big deal. When a movie is based on a series of novels this complex for it to explain practically nothing, except the short Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy scenes, anyone who doesn't read the books will take longer to pick up on the smaller details like that (the movie does tell you that, in fact it mentions the Emporer aiding the Harkonnen multiple times).

[@tritiumH3]

I would love to see a Garfield movie directed by David Lynch. It honestly sounds magical.

[@wepoststuff]

It is absolutely worth watching the 3 hour TV edit version imo. Even though there are scenes with the Fremin where they didn't add the blue eyes special effect, the extra time turns it from an incomprehensible mess to a somewhat understandable mess (plot wise).

[@ryanlind5239]

“We won’t get into the plot because everyone knows the plot.” I’ve seen the film and I don’t know the plot.

[@High_Caliber]

I agree, they talked a whole lot about, stuffs and things, but I have no idea what happened. To be fair, I did fall asleep about 2 hours in and missed the last 87 minutes.

[@BambooAcrobatVerte]

Uncensored quote: “When two people love each other, he puts his Chalamet in her Zendaya.” -Colin

[@Rufert]

The problem with adapting Dune is that one of the big themes in the book is "Plans within plans within plans" You'll often see an exchange between characters where they're saying one thing, thinking another and their body language is saying a third thing. All in a constant game of brain-chess to achieve something. As such the book often has pretty mundane conversations that carry an assload more meaning due to what's going on inside the participants heads. Lynch had the right idea having the inner monologue going, he just didn't...Do anything worthwhile with it. I think the biggest problem the new movie has is that it removed a lot of context, the best example of this is the scene where Jessica is picking out housekeepers. There's so much going on and at stake in that conversation but you only get it at a surface level because you're not hearing Jessica's thought process. If she had given the wrong name for the knife she'd have blown a massive change at some future turdery. And in the end she lucks into guessing the name the Fremen woman wanted to hear by misunderstanding the question and giving another answer, which happened to be correct. As is the scene makes very little sense and I have no idea why it wasn't cut.

[@phschuble470]

Bingo.

[@DarkAngelEU]

The question is, does it matter in the long run? I never read the books and I can tell from this one movie there is alot of masks going around, even within the family. No one's being truly honest, so why would I need to have all this interior monologue distracting me from what is a visual interpretation, not a literal adaption to the screen?

[@Rufert]

@@DarkAngelEU It matters if the movie includes scenes where a seemingly ordinary exchange means something completely different that you need the underlying plot dump to understand.

[@vanyadolly]

I'm pro-monologue all the way. It's jarring to the viewer to an extent, but I do think it conveys important information about the world and the characters that we'd otherwise miss out on. My biggest issue with the remake was that it lacked so much in terms of character depth and motivation. After two hours I still had no idea who the characters were or why I should care about them.

[@Yvellkan]

@@DarkAngelEU yes it means a lot, the villeneuve movie basically missed out 90% of every characters motivations and the politics and just made a whole bunch of desert shots with some action in between

[@riasrivastava77]

"assuming the second one turns out good" i need to see a video of you guys talking about how good the second part is

[@Duskrados]

49:33 I've got a bit of your explanation right here. In 2018, when I was a cab driver in Montreal, I met Villeneuve and we talked a little bit. I asked him how Blade Runner 2049 did overall and he said that box office wise, it didn't perform like the studio wanted BUT that its after-life in home releases (both physical and digital) largely surpassed their expectations and did actually pretty well.

[@RichardTheRoe]

Well, that's sort of a non-statment, isn't it? "Did better than expected on streaming" doesn't mean much when it flopped pretty hard in the box office, there weren't exactly high expectations. Of course we don't know the exact streaming deals it had but rough estimates tells us the film never even got close to break even.... As a conservative estimate it lost the studio at least 70 million USD. Most likely quite a bit more.

[@mcsweatshop]

I’m assuming you were both smoking and wearing berets

[@analogbunny]

Just like UHF!

[@etiennevanier]

@@bilbo1778 Correct, Montreal IS in France.

[@toggtlas7099]

@@bilbo1778 As someone who worked directly with that film I can tell you what you said is pretty much nonsense. The film is indeed seen as a major flop by the studio and "Oh well, we made the director happy" and "We'll make it back through streaming rights the coming decade" isn't really how the industry works. At all. You make it sound like you're stating facts but really you don't work in the industry, do you? Because you seem to make a lot of assumptions...

[@iainbagnall4825]

The spacing guild vacuum cleaner squad actually made sense to me, if spice is as valuable as everyone says it is then it actually makes sense to have a team follow you around hoovering up every last drop for later recovery/reuse. A bit like a pre-decriminalisation pothead looking for dicarded nuggs between the sofa cushions when there's a drought on.

[@Ryan-0413]

Or people saving cigarette butts in case they need to resmoke them if they run out of money to buy a new carton

[@CaptainVideoBlaster]

Also them leaving goop on emperor's floor is visual for "yeah, you are not in charge of us".

[@joshuatxuk]

This is some golden age Star Wars EU grade explaining. Totally mean that as a sincere compliment.

[@aaccount24]

The newest Dysons are great for making sure you get every last bit of spice keef.

[@Korealignments]

I love the commitment to holding the phone there in the beginning. That was awesome.

[@akaBoG]

I grew up watching Lynch's Dune ages before reading the book but my dad was a big fan and explained a lot of the details to us as kids. Love both movies.

[@RizoftheDead]

Not only are we getting both Dune movies in one Re:View, but ALSO getting Colin back in the hot seat!? You’re too kind to us RLM.

[@mossbogger8366]

Honestly I was hoping for the other guy, you know the main one with the hair

[@luiginastro8831]

@@mossbogger8366 Rich Evans?

[@bulbouspeach6270]

Ruth Bader Ginsberg?

[@RabbitShirak]

The reviews must flow.

[@triplebog]

In response to Jay's shield comments: I think the idea behind the slow-blade shield ""weakness"" is that it's a compromise between allowing the shield user to pick up stuff and interact with the environment without the shield constantly pushing everything away and causing you to slip and slide along the ground cause your shield is repulsing it, etc etc. I always thought it was a brilliant idea

[@nemo-zl1vm]

That and you'll probably suffocate without at least a little air movement.

[@DIEGhostfish]

@@nemo-zl1vm Technically air moves really, REALLY fast. So there's something other than just speed involved in keeping air out (And you CAN dial it up to keep air out/in. Leto does it once.)

[@uphilliceskater]

The idea was an excuse for why bladed weapons are used in order to have the Italian city-states ambience.

[@bigbakaboon]

@@nemo-zl1vm in the book you can suffocate because air is moving to fast to get in. So you can't leave your shield on indefinitely

[@charlesajones77]

@@bigbakaboon Really? I don't remember that. The shields would have to let in air, or the user would suffocate almost immediately.

[@peterryker9988]

I can't believe they predicted that Chris Pratt Playing Garfield! lol

[@jordandwiggins1026]

I don’t think they needed to predict it, pretty sure it was announced already

[@821Crusader821]

Revisiting this video after watching Lynch's Dune for the very first time. Very entertaining stuff hope to see a Half in the Bag when part 2 releases

[@headsgrowback1]

Honestly thought the entire 50 minutes would be Jay showing Colin the movie on his phone, both staring emotionlessly at the screen, and I was prepared for it.

[@ChristianTheChicken]

same lol

[@doubtsalmon]

30:43 there is a nod to the Lynch one; the HAZMAT suits worn after Leto's tooth attack are homage to Lynch's Sardaukar battle suits

[@MrDepechefan1]

I loved that scene when the guys came in to clean up all the dead bodies from the tooth poison and they were like "oh shit" when they saw the baron on the ceiling

[@Wavyhill]

Also the Baron floating is entirely from Lynch (in the book the Baron has suspensors but they just make him weigh slightly less, he still walks everywhere and never flies) and the weird creepy latex fetish spider arm "thing" that the Bene Gesserit demands leave before she will speak with the Harkonnens in the new movie seems like a potential Lynch homage; the spider thing isn't in the book either or based on anything in any of the books and Villeneuve is both a huge fan of the novel Dune and a big fan of Lynch.

[@CCKeNeNSC]

The "spider" seems like something the Ixians would make, hinting to their role in future movies.

[@1183newman]

@@CCKeNeNSC im sure you mean Tleilaxu and not Ixians.

[@Drake811]

@@Wavyhill I believe when the baron dies the book mentions that his body floats off the ground but that’s the only spot in the books where I can recall him floating.

[@Stampmaster55]

I saw the Lynch version on opening night in 1984 and even teen me knew I was in trouble when I entered the theater and found that the theater had placed a printed glossary of Dune terms on everyone's seats.

[@hayberdasher8625]

Jay's editing was great in this, I loled several times :D

[@jamescorck]

I'm genuine happy that Jay enjoyed "Dune" (2021). What with everyone not shutting up about it, I was almost expecting he'd be feeling apathetic at best.

[@frankmerker630]

Don’t you mean Dillanueve’s Dune?

[@funglegunk]

I expected he would. Afaik Jay has had a positive review for every Villeneuve movie.

[@bigbakaboon]

The only thing i really hated about 2021 was the sound mixing and the awful hans zimmer score. I hate when you have scenes where characters are barely talking above a whisper, so i turn my tv up, and the next scene is shitty hans zimmer score blowing up my speakers and i have to hurry up and turn my tv down. I don't want to watch a movie with a remote in my hand the entire time because i constantly have to adjust the volume

[@papayacatproductions]

Yeah this channel's brand is being over it, so it's a nice breath of fresh air when they can muster an actual opinion.

[@funglegunk]

@@bigbakaboon It's possible they might fix that for a future DVD or streaming release. I remember they tweaked Zimmer's score noticeably in Interstellar between cinema and home release.

[@Ngapukapuka92]

I gotta say, Eli Wallach's performance as the sand worm in "The Good, The Bad, Dune" is underrated, I'm glad you all mentioned it.

[@DIEGhostfish]

I know a lot of people are sensitive about the cultural appropriation, but some of my best friends are Sandworms and they liked it!

[@robertwelsh4094]

Riddley Scott was going to do the 84 Dune but did Blade Runner instead. I think he would have done something like Denis did. Sort of like a David Lean film. That would have been awesome, but I LOVE his Blade Runner.

[@nicholascage3400]

I'm glad Scott never did Dune. Lynch always was the better choice, even if thing didn't work out the way they should have. Denis is probably the last person save even worse schlock scifi directors like Abrams that I would've handed Dune to, however. I intensely dislike his scifi movies, from aesthetic, story, and how he absolutely squanders excellent actors. I'm just hoping the second part flops so I don't have to go through watching him adapt Dune Messiah. I honestly think Dune is best tackled in a high budget animated series, given that allows for creative lisence in a lot of really important places, with the most key one being precision. The focus on exact emotions, subtlties in speech and conversation, and the devious nature of politics and combat would come across so much better in a precisely controlled style like animation. That and we can get characters like Alia--a toddler who is a fully functioning intelligent agent--without making her a weird cg abomination. What really bothers me about this new movie is the lack of creativity. In the way they present visions, in the general aesthetic, and in the way the story is presented. Though I doubt it would ever happen, I really wish a serious and in depth animated adaptation of Dune could be made. Or, that in 20 years when we get yet another remake, they'll finally decide to do something creative with the story, with someone leading the production who cares rather than grabbing "Moody Scifi Director #7," handing them a hundred million, and telling them to make Large Scifi IP Movie #23.

[@iHumanist]

@@nicholascage3400 We have precisely the opposite opinions on Villinueve. Comparing him to Abrams is a joke.

[@godslonelyfilmmaker]

Amazing review and video. I am obsessed with the new Dune and can’t wait to see the climax and finish to the story in the sequel.

[@artmaknev3738]

Just saw Lynch's Dune in Berlin Babylon theater today, such an amazing experience to watch it on big screen, it is still a masterpiece!