Denis Villeneuve’s Dune

It may not be to everyones taste but 8/10 on IMDB, 88% on RT, 81% on Meta and 84% approval on Google would suggest it is most certainly not that, whether you're look at critc or audience opinions.

Comparing Dune and Star Wars is like comparing Alain Ducasse and MacDonald’s.

Both are highly successful providers of food, and there the comparison ends.

Shang Chi hit $80,000,000 at the domestic box office… way exceeding expectations. Looks like people are willing to go to the cinema, at least for a marvel film anyway. Will they be willing to go to cinema for a movie about sand and worms ? If Dune hits the $80,000,000 mark in its first week we are guaranteed a sequel.

When was the last time anything other then a generic superhero/action movie did huge business at the box office ? The matrix ?

LOTR is IMO a particularly apt comparison for Dune. I'd long been a fan of LOTR, went to see it with a group of friends and there was som palpable WTF from some of the group as Frodo and Sam slipped off alone at the end of the Fellowship.There may have been a shout of "What a stupid way to end a film"!

The structure of Dune the book, lends a filmmaker pursuing a multi movie adaptation a few clear breaks in the storyline that allow for somewhat natural separation of the books between Paul-MuadDib and Prophet.

Now that particular breakpoint is where I feel the story fleeces well as there's a time jump there too. But I don't really care where Villeneuve has put it. He has at least done it, and I'm happy with just that.

The IGN review and a couple of others take issue with the movie spending far too long worldbuilding for a payoff that doesn't come in this movie. That's the point, that's the whole point IMO. Build the world, characters and mythos and build anticipation and interest in the payoff yet to come in movie 2. It put me immediately in mind of that winters visit to the Cinema in 2001, the hope for a story that could match the scale of Tolkien, and the friends who went expecting a neatly packaged story, with no loose ends, who after their initial disappointment with the 2 boyo's slinking off with a boat and some lembas bread...

Who are now Tolkien nerds, who love the books,the movies, anticipate the Amazon series hugely and even attempted the Silmarillion 😂

Imagine, just imagine if Villeneuve can strike a similar chord with his Dune? It won't be a 100% retelling of the book, it will amend, edit and condense...But! Reintroduce the mythos of Dune and hopefully it's Frank's Dune rather than the son's awful expansion 😉 I for one would be utterly delighted with that outcome, and fully embrace the risk that Villeneuve and the Studio are taking in their effort to catch this kind of audience.

Clearly it'll be a facedancer 😂😂

Hopefully they dont try to make the Harkonnens funny like Lynch tried

Game of Thrones in space probably isn't a bad pitch for it.

I really hope it's a success, not because I'm a particular Dune fan (I read it years ago) but because it would be good to see more non-franchise blockbusters aimed at "adult" audiences.

Is the release date here moved to September? Entertainment.ie have it pegged as September 15th, which would tie in with the announced EU release dates. Yet everywhere else has it as being the 21st October.

I'll be booking a viewing at the Omniplex' local to me and their IMAXX screen, would love to see it next week but I do think that entertainment.ie might be jumping the gun :(

hearing great things, ideally to be seen in an IMAX

Oh dear ,what a terrible showrunner they have chosen.

I think all English speaking countries have to wait for the US release

I thought if you were worried about a flop you would just massively ramp up the "Zendaya movie" and throw it out everywhere at once before anyone has time to be put off

Those are already out there on some sites and I cannot fathom wanting to watch it in such poor capture.

I'll be in my local Omniplex watching this release in their IMAX knock off and exposing my son to Arrakis as closely as I can to Villeneuve's intended vision.

Any idea what the age rating will be?