Ed Sheeran tested positive for Covid, so the promotion for his new album has grinded to a halt. I wonder if he’s vaccinated? (He probably is vaxxed.) [Seriously OMG]
Kourtney Kardashian & Travis Barker are Sid & Nancy. [Egotastic]
Barack Obama was in Virginia a few days ago to make sure Democrats come out to vote in the governor’s race. [Towleroad]
A review of Dune: pretty but not great? [Pajiba]
The new Etro collection is very pretty and paisley. [Go Fug Yourself]
Beyonce wants an Oscar for Best Song. [LaineyGossip]
Rest in peace, James Michael Tyler. [Just Jared]
Boosie Badazz is obsessed with Lil Nas X in a creepy, disgusting way. [Dlisted]
Literary-magazine drama, apparently. [Gawker]
These professors mostly sound like harried babysitters. [Buzzfeed]
Tessa Thompson wore a very twee Rodarte, yikes. [RCFA]
I thought for sure Megan Fox and MGK would go as Sid and Nancy but they can’t now cause it got stolen
Dune.
Started ok, nice cinematography.
However.
You cannot have Dune without “The spice must flow”, “the sleeper must awaken”, “he who controls the spice controls the universe “.
Come ON.
It was a pretty movie that had NOTHING to do with Spice. They made a remake without any indication how vital spice is!
And miscast with Paul (who is not an angsty teenager, but a guy completely understanding & accepting of his role), and Jessica was terrible.
Jessica is a concubine, who is so in love with her Duke she bears him a son against all protocol & instruction.
None of her desperation, her adoration, her anguish at losing her Duke was anywhere in the movie.
It’s like they were strangers.
Go watch the original. Francesca Annis as Jessica nailed it.
Actually, just skip this remake we didn’t need & watch the original.
Thank you for reading my rant.
Twitter is full of how awesome this movie is and all I think is we’ve sunk so low.
The bar is so so low.
The movie was pretty but Timmy as Paul is a massive disappointment. Talk about a major mistake in casting. Makes you wonder if they even read the books
I feel like that’s how all movies are nowadays. Super shallow/hollow. Pretty without substance.
The original film is TERRIBLE!!! David Lynch didn’t give a crap about the books. Kyle McLachlan was way too old–Paul is 15 at the start of the saga! Francescsa Annis was great, but the voice overs were terrible. The Baron. The BARON! NO, no, no, no, no!! Sting? No, no, no!! All of those lines were from the film, not the book.
I saw the movie when I was 12 and loved it, weirdly. Then, I read the books, and became a total geek for the books. The 1984 film, while interesting in some ways, is pretty awful. It’s majestically awful, but awful. Frank Herbert hated it. The SciFi channel adaptation is pretty good, but cheap looking. The sets and costumes look like I made them, and I have no training as a set designer or costumer. Children of Dune is better looking, and another great adaptation (James McAvoy as Leto is awesome, and aging the twins from 9 to 17 made sense). Im looking forward to seeing this adaptation. if your reference is the 80’s movie, then it will not be the same. But if your reference is Frank Herbert’s books, then it’s pretty good, I’m told.
It’s a good adaptation of the books, I must say. I just HATE Timmy in the role of Paul. He’s just to weak
The 1984 (?) Dune was ridiculously bad though… legendarily bad.
Except it’s not and was never intended to be a remake of the 1984 film. It’s an adaptation of the original book. Paul wasn’t okay with his role in the books. That’s part of the point. Herbert was critiquing hero/messiah worship. This “Paul knowing and being fine with his roles” was a choice by David Lynch that veered considerably from the books.
Like the reviewer says, it’s a beautiful and faithful adaptation of the source material, but it’s because of that that it doesn’t translate to screen so well. Lynch made a fantastic movie in 84 – that was nothing like the book.
My Mom and I saw it Sunday and found it visually stunning and enthralling. We were sorry when it ended because we wanted to see more. It reminds me of the experience I had seeing The Green Knight earlier this year in that it wasn’t loud and bombastic and there were a lot of quiet moments. I loved the cast.
Thank you for the replies & conversation.
It’s nice to read actual opinion without all the fan hatred, like if you don’t like TC you should be alienated from all society 🙄
Ok, the 1984 version was OTT, but it’s forever my favourite version.
Cheers everyone!
I disagree. When I watched it I felt like they had been inside my mind when I read the book and everything I envisioned was in the film.
They talk a lot about the spice and has the quotes in the movie. They literally say: “he who controls the spice controls the universe“.
However, I think this is the pitfall with recreating epic novels like this; people who have read it will have envisioned and loved different things about the books and how/what the story is told.
I was very pleased and loved it.
“miscast with Paul”
THIS! Chalamet is just an okay actor and he’s getting all these roles now and constantly showing he’s just not that good. His fandom is just as toxic as Cummerbund’s was in the heydays of tumblr.
Also, people really to stop using the “it’s impossible to adapt” excuse lmao Dune it’s not impossible to adapt, there are way more complex books that have been adapted just fine.
I wish I could see Jodorowsky’s Dune….
It just dawned on how Sheeran and Apple Martin-Paltrow look very much alike.
It’s the eyes right?
This is where rumors start and I’m here for it!!
🤣🤣🤣
Hhaha 13 year old Ed bedding Gwenyth? Yes.
Oh dear, he was at that Diana party for the fundraisers and none of them were wearing mask, let’s hope Cain and Unable are not spreading it on their vacation.
So he performed at Earthshot (Keenshot) Awards, yes? And they were all living it up sans mask, one week ago. I wonder if people were tested before participating?
1984 Dune is my favorite dumpster fire movie. It’s terrible but I love it (Sting’s Space Speedo forever). I very much enjoyed 2021 Dune. It’s a difficult book to adapt to the screen given the density, complexity and narration methods (so much internal dialog). My biggest complaint was I wish they had filmed 1 and 2 simultaneously so that the wait between movies was significantly shorter and we would be guaranteed the second half. I think the casting was well done although I disliked how overtly emotional Lady Jessica was. I think Francesca Annis played the character more faithfully in the 1984 version. I wonder though how accessible it is to people who are not familiar with the story at all.
That was what my Mom and I were most uptight about: the second part!!! They aren’t even filming it yet!
Sadly, I am not familiar with the source material nor the ‘84 film. That being said, I really loved the new Dune. I especially enjoyed Timothy’s Paul.
He’s supposed to be on SNL this week! I was looking forward to it. Wonder what they will do.
When people flail around and foam at the mouth in homophobic rages about Lil Nas X, they confirm that he’s right about what’s still very much alive in society, and that he’s not some kid imagining something to fight back against. It’s definitely not a thing of the past, even though a lot of progress has been made.
I love those commercials he’s been doing with Elton John.
If he was vaccinated, seems like he’d say so. So probably not. Many people I used to respect are “still thinking” about getting vaccinated. They don’t think hard enough about infecting others. I give up.
Sorry, duplicate comment.
That’s a deeply unfair assumption to make. Lots of people who are vaccinated are getting no or low symptom COVID. Why on earth would he need to specify that he’s vaccinated?
Travis and that Kardash will NEVER BE SID AND NANCY. There is only one SID AND NANCY! Please do not desecrate SID AND NANCY who, despite being wankers themselves, were SID AND NANCY! oy vey
“bootleg Flavor Flav” I AM HOLLERING