A great way for Harry Dean Stanton to bow out of his long career. Also stars: David Lynch, James Darren, Tom Skerritt, Barry Shabaka Henley, Ron Livingston, Beth Grant, and Ed Begley, Jr.
You’ll like this quiet drama a lot, if you like movies populated with characters who act and talk like real people, and that deal with existential questions about life in a realistic way. This was the first movie in which a talented, long-time actor, John Carroll Lynch (Fargo, Jackie, Gothika, Beautiful Girls, Guthrie Theater company), tried his hand at directing - and I hope he is able to direct more movies that are this charming and ring this true for many of us.
It may be too late to ask this, but why does this thread, and the “Which TV show did you watch lastֻ” have a kubutz on the t in last?
The OP (kreisler) hasn’t been here for 7 years, and the OP of the tv show thread (2A) hasn’t been around for over 4 months, and they might be the only ones that know.
My Hebrew is, well, non-existent, so if it’s some subtle joke, I’m hoping somebody will explain it to me.
Saw the new Dune. I have to disagree with TurkeyDance, however:
I did read the book, so there were some things I expected, and pretty much did see.
The worms DID do something, granted however some of it was implied, there were only a few scenes, and one of those was at the end that you had to “not blink” or you’d miss it, and if you didn’t know what it was, you may not realize what was happening. (trying not to spoil anything here )
Also, bear in mind that this is a multi-part story, and this is part 1. It’s supposed to be two parts/two movies.
I’m gonna give that movie a fair chance because I liked Blade Runner 2049 and I want to make sure large scale sci-fi movies (that aren’t already established franchises) continue to get greenlit. I’ve heard it is a solid first-half of a movie. Fingers crossed that the second half gets made.
Based on your opinion alone, I think it sucks that a film released 37 years later had less impressive sandworms. I’ve always thought the sandworms from the ’84 film were impressive the way they were shown in both the training scene and the actual climatic attack scenes. Thanks for a heads up on the 2 part film tidbit.
I just wanted to point out that Dune 2021 is not a remake of the 1984 film. It is a re-adaption of the book. If your expectations are based on what the 1984 movie was it makes sense that you would be disappointed.
I haven’t read the book or watched the movies yet. I have impressions of the first film based off of seeing clips of various scenes and I have been asking people about the book.
So my impression is that the director of the 1984 adaption “Hollywoodized” the story to ensure that it would be successful at the box office. The new director seems to want to be more faithful to the source material, but he has taken a horrible risk. By faithfully adapting a slow(er) book and ONLY THE FIRST HALF he may have doomed any chances he had of getting the second half made. He probably should have stuck to his guns like Peter Jackson and shopped around for a studio that would fund both parts simultaneously as a single production. This is like if Peter Jackson got greenlit for just The Fellowship of the Ring and he then proceeded to make a 2.5 hr movie that skipped nothing in the book (old forest, Tom Bombadil, barrow downs, etc) but the 2.5 hr movie only got the characters to Rivendell. (Although to be fair to LotR there would still be some action in that first half!)
At this point if you have seen Dune 2021 I think you’ve basically seen half of a 5 hr movie with no concessions made to book-end the parts. It’s no surprise to me that the 1984 is currently a better overall experience. Hopefully the second part of Dune 2021 exonerates the first half but maybe it wont. Maybe the director of the 1984 film was just being realistic and Dune-the-book is just not structured correctly to be made into a blockbuster movie. Anyway, I’ll watch Dune 2021 soon and we’ll see if my outlook changes at all.
From what I’ve read, the sandworms should be seen much more in part 2, assuming it gets made. Hopefully everyone will be much less disappointed with them then…
I was hoping for more of them in part 1, but I’m cautiously optimistic.
The Florida Project is generally rated so well… but I was so bored to tears, I had to bail on it.
“”Red Rock West”:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Rock_West” was OK… so very, very dated (1993). Dennis Hopper was pretty much the same as Frank Booth from Blue Velvet seven years earlier, just without the gas. Generally, not a bad movie… but one of those “can’t think of anything to watch on a rainy day” kind of flick.
Yeh, I got the complete set of CS, probably take a while for me to rewatch them.
Only problem is when I’d want to find a particular skit, like “Ribs” or “Ashy Larry”, like which season/episode it’d be in. The summary for each ep only has a partial listing. And forget trying to find a part of his stand-up between skits.
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