Films

The rest of the series is terrible, I'm afraid. Like really bad. You keep hoping the next book will get better, but each keeps plumbing new depths

Anyone know where Dune Part 1 is playing at the cinema (central/north, ideally with daytime showing). I didn't get chance to see it at the time but would like to watch properly now.

I don't think it is.

If you Google for "London Film Times" it gives a pretty exhaustive list and there is no Dune One on it.

That's a shame, had read that it was up and down with each book but some of the sequels were the best of the bunch.

I have never heard anyone say the sequels were good, have always heard stop after the first

Going to see Dune 2 tonight.

I wonder, maybe they can film the sequels but fix some of the issues? I didn't agree with the death of the ecologist change in Dune 1 but rest all made sense.

Going to read the sequels in any case, see what I think.

Watched Dune 2 in imax on Saturday, I really liked it but think all the glowing reviews meant I went in with an unachievable expectation, the visuals and score are fantastic

Cheers, that seems to back up what I'd found through looking at a few of the likely suspects and not seeing it on. Surprised nowhere has taken the option of showing it again or a double bill.

Leicester Square Odeon showed it last week. You may have just missed out.

I think some of the Picturehouses had been showing it on the run up. Know a colleague did a double header on Thursday night/Friday morning at one of them.

Dune 1 was back at the cinemas for the day before Dune 2 came out. I don't thinkit went any longer than that.

Dune 2 was superb. What an achievement.

I wonder, maybe they can film the sequels but fix some of the issues?

IMHO the ending of the movie already has departed a little from the book. Villeneuve on record as saying he wants to do a 3rd film. Given a) the quality of the first two films and b) the crappiness of the source material I hope he does change the story

Watched 2001 A Space Odyssey for the first time (I know, I know). Still can't believe that was made in 1968. Such a beautiful looking film. Stands up so well.

He also changed the relationship bit, very different in the book where concubines are accepted.

Guess I should read them and decide myself :)
Problem is that book 1 is so good and the worms so amazing any follow up won't be as good...

Dune 2 this afternoon, as good if not better than 1, lots going on, will need another visit to the big screen.

Cheers, looks like I should have started looking earlier.

I really was disappointed with Dune 2.

• The gladiator scenes looked a bit cheap.
  
• Zendeya has a Brooklyn accent.
  
• Christopher Walken? Why? Who thought this was a good casting choice?
  
• The music was distracting.
  
• Due to the running time I feel so much more could have been explored.
  
• The pacing seemed off. With the ending feeling rushed.
  
• Florence Pugh was wasted, though I'm sure she'll play a much larger role in the next instalment.
  
  

For me this is Villeneuve's worst film.

Dune 2 is just second part of the first book right? It’s been a while since I read the whole series. I can’t say that I’d want to read them again.. a rehashed saga across a few generations.

Yep. Dune: Part 2
Expectation I think is the third film will follow Dune Messiah, and then that should be it before the series gets too silly

Saw Bob Marley’s One Love tonight.. enjoyed that, not as good as the stage play Get Up Stand Up though for sheer emotion.

Fine performances regardless

I wasn’t taken with Dune Messiah, it read like a Shakespearean tragedy also the sequel / spin offs weren’t epic enough.

I have to say though in a Galaxy not that dissimilar , there had been a plagiarismic /stealing of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi ideas..

too many to mention of course but the Technocrats from IX and the clone army created by the Kimino was one

Recovering from having a molar out, so I rattled through three films today.

Paranoid Park - for all that was good about it, I was over it before it ended.

Come Drink With Me (1966) - Seemed to be the source material for so many of the martial arts films I've known and loved. Some fantastic creative sequences, interesting characters, good story arc, thoroughly enjoyed.

The Boss Of It All - I think my first Lars von Trier. Although entertaining enough, the culmination felt like earning a payrise that barely meets inflation. Maybe more for the proper LvT fans?

Cant be worse than enemy surely

Oh god I forget about that film/ending