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This is the thread where we talk about how Dune ripped off MST3K.
Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
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This is my "phoenix down" moment
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Yes, but please provide citations and include metric conversions.
I'll watch the remake
In conclusion, fart
There is a bedding/linens store near me called "Phoenix Down" and I've wondered for years if they got the name from Final Fantasy or if it's just a weird coincidence.
Oddly enough, their FAQ page on their website doesn't include this information.
Edit: Fuck it, I just messaged them on facebook to ask.
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Mel Gibson.
Dark Angel was a dumb fun movie, for whatever reason despite Hulu billing it as Dark Angel in their system the video used the I come in peace title. Speaking of how many other movies have dropped the name of the movie in dialogue before they even get the title card? Also why the hell did he keep saying that? Either way this seems like a highly inefficient system for making space drugs.
Dolph Lundgren was good as the doesn’t play by the rules cop paired with the stick up his ass FBI agent.
Dunc was pretty good, I think I eventually grew to like it more than the Lynch one? I’m sure if I rewatched it I would swing back the other way. It was a very pretty movie which was not really a surprise. Definitely glad I had subtitles on already because there were definitely some parts that were not great. I thought all the fight scenes were kind of bad? Like the shield effect definitely made it harder to parse anything but I thought the final fight of the movie without them was still poorly shot? I dunno.
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That's pretty much what uniforms today are like, though. Add Dark Blue and Dark Green, I guess.
I really liked the simple color Plattes in the new "Dune."
Because who really wants "Oregon Ducks NCAA football uniforms", or, "Cyberpunk 2077" too busy colors distracting from the story.
the standard colors on the clothes were simple and Dune 2021 was better for it.
This is an intentional direct reference to the 1965 Tony Curtis/Jack Lemmon movie, The Great Race where Professor Fate, played by Lemmon, tells his assistant Max, played by Peter Falk to, “push the button Max!” This happens several times to every ridiculous effect.
In the New MST3K is it even more a direct reference as Patton Oswald plays Max, TV’s son of TV’s Frank.
The Great Race is my dad’s favorite movie so I think that is neat.
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Lame.
I liked it better when it was called Aladdin.
Okay but Dune takes place in the year 10,191.
The uniforms can be any color because its a fictional story.
DUNC had to choose to either try to reproduce that vibe and get roasted for being unoriginal, or go wildly different and risk being way off the mark, or try to catch lightning in a bottle twice and do something that was somehow both new and equally valid.
And....ultimately, I think it ended up doing all three approaches at various points, with varying degrees of success. The new Sardaukar and the new ornithopters are a triumph and are now the definitive take on those concepts in my mind's eye. The Atreides knight-looking battle armor is a neat original touch that I wasn't seeking but am glad it's there. The new Bene Gesserit and the new stillsuits aren't very different at all from Lynch's take but that's fine, because they are totally valid and instantly recognizable as what they are. But then at the lower end, some of the architecture, some of the objects and production design (like the assassination droid, or the brutalist architecture) just felt like generic sci-fi concept art that could have come from anything and didn't have the handmade, religious, feudal look that I would want in a Dune thing.
Not that I think that's bad, I like how the film looked, I guess I don't care if the clothes are that extravagant.
I feel like a very fancy child right now.
Although looking at a few more of those, some of them seem at least a bit problematic.
I’ve got bad news.
A key plot point in the book:
There also seems to be an emphasis on the quality and importance of individuals. You'd think with the scope of an Empire generated over another eight thousand years a single soldier wouldn't matter, but Idaho and Gurney get name checked.
Yep!
He isn't that memorable within it though.
correction, it takes place in 10191 AG
That’s after guild
which took place in about 11000 CE
Well, of course they should dress just like us then.
I should have seen more jorts and JNCOs in DUNC
Instead of a massive flowing robe underneath Vladimir Harkonnen, it's just impossibly huge JNCOs
Poppycock! Back in my day we measured witch density in scruples per half-peck, and that's the way we liked it!
Gonna need that in kg/m^3, bud