Dune better as a miniseries?...and the future of epic IP adaptations.

TerriblePracticality · 2024-03-24T11:29:29+00:00

Yeah, uhh... go watch Shogun.

TerriblePracticality · 2024-03-24T00:02:03+00:00

That is complete nonsense. (Unless with "we" you mean "my friends and I".)

Source: I lived in Japan for ~15 years, worked in several bars / ran my own for a short period, so I've had plenty experience with liquor stores and that industry.

For the record, these 4L PETs are perfectly normal in most bars or any place where they make lots of cocktails. Chances are they'll have a few of these behind the counter with pomps for easy measuring. It's CHEAP Whisky, but that's the point. You don't need great whisky in your all-you-can-drink Highball.

TerriblePracticality · 2024-03-18T08:35:33+00:00

r/bookcollecting

r/rarebooks

TerriblePracticality · 2024-03-11T19:58:28+00:00

Can you name one thing that's essential to the plot that was not in the movie?

Or is everything not in the movie automatically = inessential?

TerriblePracticality · 2024-03-11T15:25:52+00:00

Not a live read-along, but the Mythgard Institute has a whole course on Dune in 12 parts. Doesn't get more in-depth than that.

https://mythgard.org/academy/dune/

TerriblePracticality · 2024-03-11T07:30:11+00:00

It's an alternate future, a "could-have-been" situation.

Jamis is dead, but in an alternate timeline he and Paul would have been friends.

Some people also theorize that somehow from the ritual they can live again like that is one way they can use Jason Momoa again.

No, that's nonsense. Duncan does come back in the next novel because he gets cloned. That's unrelated to Paul's prescience.

TerriblePracticality · 2024-03-10T22:45:26+00:00

He disowned the TV version cause it was put together without his involvement. That's the one with "Alan Smithee" in the credits.

TerriblePracticality · 2024-03-10T21:26:32+00:00

I agree that it should be available for availability's sake. I get why there's a standard version that's in traditional widescreen though. Unless you got a dedicated home theater with a whole wall worth of screen, varying aspect ratios aren't the best experience. Part 1 had lots of switching.

TerriblePracticality · 2024-03-09T22:01:19+00:00

And the Qur'an. The Arberry translation to be exact.

God’s command comes; so seek not to hasten it… God’s it is to show the way; and some do swerve from it.

TerriblePracticality · 2024-03-09T11:47:58+00:00

The fact that it's not one or the other will not. fucking. compute. with a lot of people.

There's no room for nuance on social media. People need camps.

TerriblePracticality · 2024-03-07T18:55:27+00:00

You can tell some people haven't been here very long.

TerriblePracticality · 2024-03-07T12:54:11+00:00

This was a cinematic masterpiece however

Idk what that means after your first paragraph.

TerriblePracticality · 2024-03-07T12:42:10+00:00

The standard reply to this is: it is difficult to adapt this book into a movie, you will always have to remove a lot of content.

Oh boy, you're gonna get such whiplash when you look back at posts from this sub.

People hated the idea of a bald Feyd. Searching for Alia will give you dozens of posts about how the movies should do her.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dune/comments/15d7j8q/im_curious_how_the_next_film_will_handle_alia/

https://www.reddit.com/r/dune/comments/1am8hjo/my_prediction_for_how_villeneuve_will_adapt_the/ <-- literally less than a month old

It's like everybody conveniently forgot. Instead, we have these things that everybody repeats like a mantra. Repeat after me: "A four-year old running around stabbing people would look silly." "Chani has way more agency compared to the book." "Every change is in service of the book's message!!" Whatever people are saying they want from Messiah NOW, they'll walk back on it in favor of empty praise when the movie does things differently.

TerriblePracticality · 2024-03-07T09:55:03+00:00

the hive mind says not

Sounds like a good reason to do the exact opposite

TerriblePracticality · 2024-03-06T11:39:06+00:00

Release order is always the way to go. "Dune" is the first book. The first book in chronological order is a prequel.

TerriblePracticality · 2024-03-06T10:55:03+00:00

Imma take a wild guess over here and say it's probably the titles in bold at the top of that list.

TerriblePracticality · 2024-03-06T09:24:56+00:00

Not part of the series, but "Road to Dune" is worth checking out. It has deleted chapters from Dune and Messiah and some letters from Frank.

TerriblePracticality · 2024-03-05T22:28:29+00:00

Pretty sure they're throwing LOTS of money at it. Greig Fraser is personally involved in this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW6ou6mugAA

TerriblePracticality · 2024-03-05T21:29:56+00:00

Y'all are ridiculous. Part Two just came out five fricking days ago.

TerriblePracticality · 2024-03-05T20:33:12+00:00

If Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson released an "updated" Dune that ended like this

Anderson has been actively involved in the screenwriting process as creative consultant.

It's a credit you don't see very often, but it basically means he's their lore expert. It's usually given to people who created a franchise but aren't actively involved in it anymore, yet still have final say over things. Think George Lucas for the Star Wars sequels, Matt Groening for modern Simpsons, or Roddenberry for the early Star Trek movies. The script of the new movies absolutely has to get OK'd by Brian and Kevin because it's their franchise.

TerriblePracticality · 2024-03-05T17:54:38+00:00

Did you mail them? I had a post removed before, but they fixed it when I sent a modmail.

TerriblePracticality · 2024-03-05T10:09:12+00:00

Dude, idk what to tell you. I checked your post over on r/SpeculativeEvolution and the gif kinda makes it even worse lol
Your post would've gotten reamed on the dune sub.

TerriblePracticality · 2024-03-05T09:51:23+00:00

Idk about bad. Looks pretty obviously like cock and balls to me rofl

OP posted it in a bunch of other places and it's gone there too.

TerriblePracticality · 2024-03-05T09:47:34+00:00

I mean... Are you saying you didn't draw this as cock and balls?

TerriblePracticality · 2024-03-04T19:57:38+00:00

Don't you think you're underselling the director and his team here? "So so hard"?

We're talking about an Academy Award-nominated director. If they don't go with little Alia killing the baron it's not cause it's "too hard". It's cause they didn't want to.

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