Dune (2020)
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Sound like selling extended versions and triple dipping is how they plan to make their money in the long haul.
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thats honestly one of the things that bugged me the most. There was a throwaway line in the middle of the movie about a warning that its currently 90 degrees and will be 140 degrees in half an hour and everyone needs to prepare.
I never really felt the movie properly conveyed what an absolute hell hole 140 degrees for 8-10 hours a day would be. Some of the sand dune scenes were pretty, but it felt like the Sahara, not other-worldly. I dunno, with 2021 CGI I expected to be visually stunned by sand seas of Dune and I never really got that feeling, ever.
Even the worm stuff was honestly a bit disappointing. That one scene might be worth watching in IMAX for, but i'm really not sure.
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ShakyJake
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Wish we had some more shots from space. I'm not familiar with the source material at all, although I did watch the original movie many years ago. How does the spice allow for interstellar travel? It looks like they are using wormholes? Does spice allow for the tech to keep it open or something?
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The spice allows people to develop prescient abilities, so basically the spice allows a navigator to see through space and time to pick a safe path. It's not expanded upon deeply, because herbert was smart and realized trying to scientifically explain it would probably make him sound stupid. So yea, wormholes, or something sciency and similar + space magic.
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CaughtCross
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Computers and AI are banned due robots enslaving humanity in the past. So to warp space of whatever the guild ships do they need navigators which are mutated humans that need tons of spice.
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nu_11
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Not sure I buy that.
Frank has shown a remarkable ability to make something that’s currently not real sound legitimate through technical gobbledygook.
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CaughtCross
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Frank Herbert was kinda vague on the details but in the shitty books by his son it was definitely machines that they were fighting.
Butlerian Jihad
"We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning depends upon programming, not on hardware, and we are the ultimate program! Our Jihad is a "dump program." We dump the things which destroy us as humans!" ―...
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Furry
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Yea, herbert's butlerian jihad was more about how humans became static because they let machines think for them. It's never about the machines actually ruling them. It was a contrasting phase of humanity to set up the concept of human evolution that is a pretty major focus of the dune series.
The butlerian jihad prequels with the machines being in charge are dumb.
nu_11
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Frank Herbert was kinda vague on the details but in this shitty books by his son it was definitely machines that they were fighting.
Butlerian Jihad
"We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning depends upon programming, not on hardware, and we are the ultimate program! Our Jihad is a "dump program." We dump the things which destroy us as humans!" ―...dune.fandom.com
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Not sure I buy that.
Frank has shown a remarkable ability to make something that’s currently not real sound legitimate through technical gobbledygook.
Perhaps "fate" is interwoven into the fabric of the universe and there's a way to read the universe's "DNA"
I didn't read Dune until fairly recently, having watched Mobile Suit Gundam as a teenager, the Spice makes me think of the Psychedelic equivalent of the Zero System
ZERO System
The ZERO (Zoning & Emotional Range Omitted) System is a technology for interfacing the brain of the pilot with the mobile suit's computer. It appears in the series Mobile Suit Gundam Wing. Developed around A.C. 175 by the five Gundam scientists, the ZERO System was an interface system designed...
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Thier first run dual releases are usually 4K, when they come back they are 1080p
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