Film

[Trev]

Went to Dune yesterday, and it's pretty great. Fairly faithful to the book, obviously a lot left out but hits all the big bits. Only real criticism was

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the actress that played Lady Jessica tended to whisper 90% of her dialogue. Really started to grate after a while

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[CorkonianHunger]

The Devil Rides Out - Classic Hammer/Christopher Lee job, fairly entertaining. He's the good guy in this one.
Rocky Horror Picture Show - The missus made me watch it, not my thing at all at all.
Hound of the Baskervilles - Peter Cushing/Andre Morrell and Lee in this one and it's a good 80 minutes of fun.
Day of Anger - Lee van Cleef spaghetti western, totally underrated and one of my favourites.
The Green Knight - can see it getting a lot of stick but enjoyed it a lot in the cinema.

[Ollkiller]

Went to Dune yesterday, and it's pretty great. Fairly faithful to the book, obviously a lot left out but hits all the big bits. Only real criticism was

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the actress that played Lady Jessica tended to whisper 90% of her dialogue. Really started to grate after a while

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Visually stunning. He's done a good a job as anyone could having to condense the source material into a film. Personally it does not go enough into the psychology of the book and Pauls progression and the ways of the Fremen so it's a letdown for me but it's still a great film. Probably a full tv season is needed for that book to do it justice.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Remains to be seen of course, but I got the feeling the psychology might appear more in the second film. A specific scene from the book I'm thinking of. I still haven't had a chance for a second viewing yet; as I mentioned, my potential enjoyment was kinda ruined by every element I felt Lynch's had nailed better, which I think more than anything else was the cast, tbh. Villeneuve had a pretty crappy cast for Blade Runner 2049 too, and Sicario for that matter. BUT who knows, a second and third viewing may change everything for me!

Everyone go see it in the cinema though; I definitely want at least the second one to get made! Haha

[Ollkiller]

Remains to be seen of course, but I got the feeling the psychology might appear more in the second film. A specific scene from the book I'm thinking of.

Everyone go see it in the cinema though; I definitely want at least the second one to get made! Haha

Ya I have that scene in mind too. I had the feeling the psychology might come in the second film. Here's hoping anyway. As to everyone going to the cinema. Getting rave reviews and viewings so i think the second film is a given. Thankfully.

[Ollkiller]

Remains to be seen of course, but I got the feeling the psychology might appear more in the second film. A specific scene from the book I'm thinking of.

Everyone go see it in the cinema though; I definitely want at least the second one to get made! Haha

Ya I have that scene in mind too. I had the feeling the psychology might come mpre to the fore in the second film. Here's hoping anyway. As to everyone going to the cinema. Getting rave reviews and viewings so i think the second film is a given. Thankfully.

[Carnage]

Finally got around to watching The Green Knight, enjoyed it. It helped that I went in blind, no expectations or familiarity with the story. The pace was a bit too languid in places, but overall it moved along nicely. Visually, it looked superb.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

This is cool. Doesn't really contain spoilers, but if you haven't seen the movie yet and are planning to, wait til you've seen it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoAA0sYkLI0

[Emphyrio]

Just back from it. Definitely warrants being seen on a big screen. It's been over 20 years since I read the book but I can't think of any significant plot points that were skipped over. However, was there not one pretty major character left out or am I gone mad?

[Carnage]

Just back from it. Definitely warrants being seen on a big screen. It's been over 20 years since I read the book but I can't think of any significant plot points that were skipped over. However, was there not one pretty major character left out or am I gone mad?

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Feyd Rautha, Beast Rabban's brother.

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[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Could be that one alright Carnage, though he plays little to no role in the first half of the book or Lynch's movie, as far as I can remember. Or Emphyrio may be thinking of a character who was gender swapped for this version, played by Max Von Sydow in Lynch's??

[Emphyrio]

Just back from it. Definitely warrants being seen on a big screen. It's been over 20 years since I read the book but I can't think of any significant plot points that were skipped over. However, was there not one pretty major character left out or am I gone mad?

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Feyd Rautha, Beast Rabban's brother.

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The very fella.

[Carnage]

Could be that one alright Carnage, though he plays little to no role in the first half of the book or Lynch's movie, as far as I can remember. Or Emphyrio may be thinking of a character who was gender swapped for this version, played by Max Von Sydow in Lynch's??

Absolutely pointless gender swap there, though ultimately irrelevant as the character was barely in the film - though he was barely there in Lynch's version, for that matter. Central to the book, though.

[Nail_Bombed]

Went to the latest Bond recently. Utterly dull.... Bland, James Bland. They spent too long trying to humanise Bond as well, love interest with a kid that's supposedly his... he's not supposed to be humanised, he is a brutal, cold bastard with a penchant for one-liners. They've tried to do this a couple of times in the series - never really works.

[Emphyrio]

Could be that one alright Carnage, though he plays little to no role in the first half of the book or Lynch's movie, as far as I can remember. Or Emphyrio may be thinking of a character who was gender swapped for this version, played by Max Von Sydow in Lynch's??

Absolutely pointless gender swap there, though ultimately irrelevant as the character was barely in the film - though he was barely there in Lynch's version, for that matter. Central to the book, though.

Ya, for what turned out to be a very insignificant role in the movie, the gender swap was weird. I could be thinking of Pardot who had a big role but that must have been the prequels.