I too feel I have both compassion and repulsion for this character Michael Douglas is playing in this movie. It's not a character most Hollywood big names would like to play because it's gets you nothing in the movie industry business but kudos to him for having the backbone for doing it anyway. A couple of other hidden gem movies with Michael Douglas in them are, "The King of California" and "Romancing the Stone".
26:49 they had only so much time to film it with the sunset (yes its real sunset) and they got 2 shots of them starting to kiss and 1 was very bad and the other was decent but indeed, slightly out of focus. so they went with the out of focus one lol
Hal is the. Next series of letters after IBM a warning the programme overides the master which is what happens today on our equipment the mission must not be compramised.
The idea is alians built a room humans tend to live in he is keep alive until he dues, then he is reborn again and sent back to a next life reincarnation. You should see this film in 145 degree wide screen Cinerama and 7channel stereo. All this about a year before we sent men to the moon - pretty good ah ?
There's a lot of great MD movies, but Barbara Hershey (the wife in Falling Down) made a bigger impression on me than him as Mary Magdalene, opposite Willem DeFoe as Jesus, in Martin Scorsese's "Last Temptation of Christ". I'd really like to see you react to that one!
I recently got done re-reading 2001, and reading 2010, 2061, and 3001. In the "Dawn on Man" in the book, the main character, Moonwatcher, is developed a lot more. And the panther(?) or whatever it is -- is a MUCH bigger part of the story. It regularly picks up a kinsman every couple of days. When Moonwatcher first thinks to move a scavenged antelope(?) kill up to his high-cliffside cave, the panther follows the blood that evening. However Moonwatcher and one of his mates desperate to protect their offspring fight back until the panther flees in confusion, as nothing had ever fought back somewhat effectively before. Moonwatcher's cave was further up on the cliff than the panther had ever gone before, and in fleeing, misjudged its leaping elevation and fell to its death. Moonwatcher affixes the beast's head to his bone club to confront the "Others" at the water hole.
Mike Judge to costume designer: We need futuristic looking shoes that look like they would be worn by idiots…..and we don’t have that much money. Costume designer: Sees a start up company called Crocs and the rest is history
I was about seven or eight years old. I was watching it on the Disney channel. With my mom and dad. While eating dinner. I've liked science fiction movies for years. This might of started it. Steven Spielberg is a great director. 👽
Being danish and seeing the first part with the pilot yelling in Norwegian, I was like “ why aren’t they listening to him? The dog is dangerous”. Then oh… they don’t understand Norwegian… 😂 (Norwegian, Swedes and Danes can usually understand each other). Had the same reaction when I heard ghoul raiders in fallout 4 speaking Norwegian.
One of the only qualms I had with this movie was the duel between Paul and Feyd. In the book, it is extremely one-sided. Paul has complete control of the fight at all times and it's very evident to everyone in the room. The movie, for understandable reasons of wanting tension, makes the fight more fair. They did keep the killing blow consistent, it's the same move Gurney taught him at the beginning of the first movie. I liked that bit.
Great show. I'll definitely get to the remaining seasons. If the views were better, I'd have gotten to it sooner, but I haven't had the impetus to do so with the time it takes to edit vs the views
The first tool with a direct connection to modern tools was likely a walking stick that assisted primate man in the unprecedentedly huge evolution in equally short time short time of being hind legged primates. Only the pelvis is different in the fossils of biped, and 4 legged variants. The little 3 foot tall primates 4 million years ago. While using the stick for walking they likely used it for defense before offense. Either way it would be some advantage.
I like how you mention that if you wanted to work for a bad guy, you would work for Uncle Hoi. For the short amount of screen time he got, it's implied that he's old school triad and has some sort of code. So much so that Alan who was an undercover cop, treated Uncle Hoi as a real boss. Alan even tried to convince Hoi to retire and would check out retirement destinations with him.
When the Fremen use those hooks under the scales of the worm, the worm will not go under the sand and let sand under the plates. It irritates them. So that's why they don't dive under.
If there is anythng "wrong" with these films so far it might be that the power of the spice melange isn't emphasised as much as it could be. There would be NO interstellar travel without the spice. It makes people live much longer livespans. It gives people physical energy. It gives some people mental powers such as precognition. If you take enough, you will actually MUTATE (not seen in the films yet). It is also HIGHLY ADDICTIVE and stopping taking it is fatal. So people will pay anything for spice. The entire galaxy is hooked on it. The entire ecomony is hooked on it.
Yeah, I've done a bit of a wiki deep dive on that since the watch. They definitely don't put enough emphasis on the hold Spice has on everything. Maybe they'll get more into it later on. Idk. But definitely some interesting stuff they could make more aware to the audience.
The total lack of mentioning the Spacing Guild was also a big negative for me. Controlling the spice, and therefore controlling the Spacing Guild, was one of the main reasons why Paul had so much power and why his interstellar Jihad was successful.
@@RyanCarrington The problem is that the one novel "Dune" has way too much detail to make a film with everything in it. Just like Lord of the Rings. A film will always be an "adaption" and choices have to be made. I think these films are a great adaption and do the best job of keeping the main story going, without too many side quests. Some changes make sense in film terms. You get Christopher Walken as the Emperor. Fantastic actor, fantastic performance. In the novel, the Emperor takes spice so he is about 80yo but he only looks 30yo. I will take Walken over super accuracy :) Lynch's "Dune" is almost unrecognisable as the novel and adds some wild stuff you don't need lol
Denis Villeneuve also directed Blade Runner, the new one. I am a big fan of David Lynch. The only thing he did I didn't like was Dune. I felt he was a poor choice, not his kind of thing. It felt like he'd never read the book. I did and he missed the mark.
The Kwisatz Haderach(the messiah, for lack of a better word) was always meant to be a man, but Paul was supposed to be a woman. The plan was to have Jessica's daughter marry Feyd Rautha and merge the bloodlines, their child was planned to be the Kwisatz Haderach. Paul being a man foiled that and led to the messiah being a generation early when the bene gesserit weren't ready to control him.
You could pretty much fill all the nominations form this movie for supporting actor/actress. Austin Butler was incredible, Bardem is just so charismatic is isn't fair to anyone else, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya. All the performances are so good.
