Movie Thread

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

It's not Dune unless the fat man flies.

[Guest]

The flying fat man was the only good part of the new Dune movie.

[Rushy]

Oh yeah, I really enjoyed the way he was underused and lacking in memorable dialogue

[wulfenlord]

So, fellow Spoony-cocksucker and self-published "author" calls Dune pRoBlEmAtIc. What's he gonna do, call for a jihad? :3

[Guest]

This isn't the Muslim dinosaurs guy, is it?

[Guest]

There's these guys who know a lot about my chosen subject. Every time I express my view on the subject, they treat me like I'm stupid.

Clearly they're wrong and I'm right.

[veris leta facies]

>Kubrick calling something pretentious and boring

What the...

If you find Kubrick's movies pretentious, you ain't seen nothing yet, pal.

"Pretentious" is something very far away that I would describe Kubrick's filmography. Some of his films are too drawn-out and slow, but definitely not pretentious. Only Paths of Glory is somewhat preachy and heavy-handed and its story is morally quite black-and-white, but the guy was something like 27 when he made that and none of that was anymore in his following film Dr. Strangelove or in anything that came after that.

[Rushy]

So, fellow Spoony-cocksucker and self-published "author" calls Dune pRoBlEmAtIc. What's he gonna do, call for a jihad? :3

The Fremen do fight a holy war in blind faith of a messiah, but I think Herbert made it more than adequately clear that this was not so much the fault of the Fremen as it was manipulation from the Bene Gesserit and the Atreides. Pretty much all the heroes praise the Fremen lifestyle as pure and righteous, and seeing it become corrupted in later books(especially in God-Emperor, where they've devolved into "Museum Fremen") is intended to be tragic.

[veris leta facies]

Die Hard (1988)

Christmas came early this year, I rewatched this already. DH is one of those rare films that are "perfect" among Carpenter's The Thing and Verhoeven's Robocop, it's really hard to point out how these films could have been made even better, there is nothing wrong with these movies at all. John McClane's family problems are dealt with at the beginning of the film in perfectly correct proportions, this character development is dosed as a scientifically calculated scale, not a bit too much, and not too little so that the story gives the character enough personality. When the film gets underway, it is one hectic action to the end. It's fun to think what the movie would have been like if Arnold had starred in the lead role as the filmmakers originally thought. He refused the role because he wanted to make a SHIT movie with Danny De Vito. Arnold with his 80s Austrian accent would have made the film quite different "C'mon Hanz, you got what you wanted! Give dis pebol.. a ride with a Choppa!" 10/10

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

That scenario would've also given us the glory that is an Austrian pretending to be American facing off against a Brit pretending to be German.