At The Movies with Smurfo: Double Feature of Venom Lets The True Carnage Happen and Doone: The Movie

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So I saw two movies yesterday, one in the theater and one at home...

In the theater I saw Venom: Maximum Carnage and it was pretty good I guess but I liked the first one better, maybe that's because my expectations for the first one were so low that I was pleasantly surprised at how good it was. It's goofy and stupid and the climax was anticlimactic. I felt like they could have done more with Woody Harrelson's character but I don't really read the comics so I don't know how much they were trying to fit in with that. But I mean it wasn't great or anything, but I enjoyed it for what it was. I give it 3.5 Smurfcos.

Then I watched the BRaves beat the Dodgers to go to the World Series - yes! But I was so wired up after that I couldn't go to bed so I got on HBO Max and loaded up Doone which is the new Denis Villaneuve take on the classic sci fi novel which I have never read. I read a quick "what you need to know" primer before I saw the movie and it helped a lot with some of the background info like what Arrakis is and who the Aristides and Hobokens are. That was really helpful because otherwise I might have been kind of lost. I really loved this movie, it just looks fantastic, maybe the best looking sci fi movie I have seen. I like this director's vibe and I really enjoyed Blade Runner 2049 and Arrival so no surprise there. The way it ended I understand is about halway through the book. I hope they get to make the second part, I want to go see this one again on a good big screen. I give it 4.5 Smurfcos.
 
smurfco said:
So I saw two movies yesterday, one in the theater and one at home...

In the theater I saw Venom: Maximum Carnage and it was pretty good I guess but I liked the first one better, maybe that's because my expectations for the first one were so low that I was pleasantly surprised at how good it was. It's goofy and stupid and the climax was anticlimactic. I felt like they could have done more with Woody Harrelson's character but I don't really read the comics so I don't know how much they were trying to fit in with that. But I mean it wasn't great or anything, but I enjoyed it for what it was. I give it 3.5 Smurfcos.

Then I watched the BRaves beat the Dodgers to go to the World Series - yes! But I was so wired up after that I couldn't go to bed so I got on HBO Max and loaded up Doone which is the new Denis Villaneuve take on the classic sci fi novel which I have never read. I read a quick "what you need to know" primer before I saw the movie and it helped a lot with some of the background info like what Arrakis is and who the Aristides and Hobokens are. That was really helpful because otherwise I might have been kind of lost. I really loved this movie, it just looks fantastic, maybe the best looking sci fi movie I have seen. I like this director's vibe and I really enjoyed Blade Runner 2049 and Arrival so no surprise there. The way it ended I understand is about halway through the book. I hope they get to make the second part, I want to go see this one again on a good big screen. I give it 4.5 Smurfcos.
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My hat's off to your Braves beating the Dodgers.
My hat's on for that lame tomahawk chop.

I plan on watching the new Dune after I see the original.
Steve Harris taught me everything I know about Dune.
 
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classic house hoboken axiom: he who controls the frat boy bars controls the universe
 
I'll probably watch Dune this week. I don't know shit about it so would love to see the primer you found helpful.

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Halle Berry :love: has a movie coming out in 2 or 3 weeks. She plays an MMA fighter... she's 54!!!

I read that she broke a rib while filming the very first fight sequence, but toughed it out for the rest of filming :eek:
 
I was a teenage Dune nerd in the 70s. Read em all thru Children of Dune then God Emperor of Dune later on in the 80s. Never dug in to the last one Heretics of Dune, or any of the posthumous work.
I enjoyed the Lynch movie for what it was. It wasn't a very good exposition of the novel, but it had a vibe.
Have never seen the mini series.
In anticipation of the new movie over the last year Ive refreshed my memory by watching Quinns Ideas, a real Dune nerd's YouTube channel.
I plan to go see it in Imax in a day or two. Reviews indicate its visually stunning and the soundtrack is killer.
 
I was not expecting Dune to be as great as it is. Like, Return of the King great. Roger Ebert great movies great. A feast for the eyes. Zimmer’s soundtrack is excellent. See it in Imax because it’s amazing on a big screen.
 
I reviewed the new Dune as "Game of Thrones meets Lord of the Rings... but for Star Wars Fans".

There's a lot of politics and this family has two bloodlines while the Emo Thangarians or whatever the heavy metal ones are called are of course trying to backstab the Aquarians.... but they're trying to team up with the Sand People... while not getting eaten by that big worm thing that Han Solo flew the Millenium Falcon out of. But then it just ends....


.... Nobody told me it was part one of a multipart thing amajig. It was still better than those 15 fucking hours of muddy hobbitses... but I kinda wish I had waited to watch 1 and 2 back to back.

Then tonight I kinda skimmed through the David Lynch version.... where the detective from Twin Peaks gets guidance from Picard and the science hologram guy from Quantum Leap... but then Peaks and Picard get in some kinda knife fight while dressed as translucent bargain basement tranformers. then Sting and the fat guy from Monty Python's meaning of life show up... but instead of puking on people, they pull the stopper out of their heart so blood squirts everywhere. Maybe those guys are vampires?

Either way, I think in both movies we've got a telekinetic white savior who goes back to a middle east planet, but with extra glowy blue eyes, so he can be the Sand Worm Moses, but I can't tell if they want to be their Sand Jesus, or if he's afraid the religion is going to go all crazy and he's trying to calm everybody down. Something like that. :helper:
 
If spice is required for space travel, how did anyone get to Arrakis to get spice in the first place? The Fremen obviously didn't export it.

If you haven't read the book, and you think you might want to after seeing the movie, be forewarned that the book is dense and a fair slog to read. Not saying it isn't worth it, but it is labor-intensive. The subsequent books get pretty bizarre, not in a good way.

I'll have to hand it to the people who made the film. They took pretty complex and dense material and made an accessible movie all the while staying fairly true to the novel.

I also never realized how much debt George Lucas owes to Frank Herbert. Seeing this movie shows how much Star Wars is cut from Dune's cloth.
 
I'm currently listening to the audio book of Dune. It's good and engaging but I have to really carve out time to be able to listen with no distractions whatsoever.
 
Dune turned out to be a much better production than I expected. The pace and story are the closest to the book of any movie version yet. The only disappointment was not being able to view the second part until next year.
 
4.5 Smurfcos for Dune, eh? I may have to watch it. I read the trilogy back in my youth and quite enjoyed it, but was incredibly let down by the 80s cinematic release. Could be a good watch at home movie.
 
I'd like to see it again on a big screen with big sound. I have a decent setup at home but nothin that can compete with a nice theater.
 
baimun said:
.... Nobody told me it was part one of a multipart thing amajig. It was still better than those 15 fucking hours of muddy hobbitses... but I kinda wish I had waited to watch 1 and 2 back to back.
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There's "PART ONE" in letters the size of a small moon filling the screen right at the start and on a lot of the posters :shrug:
 
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