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48 minutes ago, Pirtek said:
They cut out the Mentat sub-plot, which was a shame, but probably helped the story/pace
Thufir's role was heavily diminished in Part One. I didn't mind that, it certainly didn't bother me during Part Two. Do we even see Thufir in the aftermath of the battle in Part One? (need a rewatch)
Sure, the film could be improved with some heart plug action/ode to Lynch's version "don't be angry, everyone gets one here" along some milking of a cat for an antidote (lol) but Thufir's arc would be a fairly chunky/clunky section from the book to add to Part Two.
Is there a full list of deleted scenes from Part One? (will have a look)
SpoilerI quite like the update to Chani. Will be interesting to see how I handle a second viewing - next Friday, IMAX again - I'm going to reach watch Part One the night before.
A friend of mine complained about the change in Chani's role. a) her reaction at the end and storming off/the fact that she's not as accepting of her being Paul's concubine. b) 3 act was rushed. I agreed with the latter, will see how I feel next week.
Sure I read that Villeneuve wants to wait 5 years or so before filming Messiah/Part 3. Will the studio let him wait this long? Let's see how the script goes for Messiah...
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On 3/9/2024 at 6:27 PM, Pirtek said:
I enjoyed it a lot more this time!!
Did you notice anything strikingly different 2nd time around/did you appraise a scene/sequence differently?
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2 hours ago, Pirtek said:
Same! Went for the Mutant exclusive
Expensive, but it will be the last bit of vinyl I buy this month. (unless a record conforms to essential purchase classification)
If I could perhaps add more temptation, have you seen the Folio Society editions for Dune?
https://www.foliosociety.com/uk/dune.html
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15 hours ago, o00o said:
Vinyl is also for preorder:
https://www.madebymutant.com/release/443210-hans-zimmer-dune-part-two-original-motion-picture-soundtrack
I wonder if there are going to be sketchbook versions as well
Caved and pre-ordered.
Time for a re-read.
(Sure I've mentioned this before) if you like audiobooks the Dune one is pretty pretty good: https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Dune-Audiobook/B004FTBFSI
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7 minutes ago, Pirtek said:
The BFI one? If so, what time did you go?
Aye. I went Friday 16:40.
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21 minutes ago, Pirtek said:
Eh? The CGI is amazing!!!
It is! Poorly worded comment on my part. I was referencing the post I quoted "... these set pieces were pure CG but they all looked amazing and almost never took me out of the moment."
I didn't get taken out of the moment while watching, the desert mouse or even with the sandworms, things overtly CG... I was just so engrossed. We went to the same IMAX, guessing you saw the same trailers. The Planet of the Apes, Kong v Godzilla or whatever it's called. I can't watch films like that, it's like watching a computer game.
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22 hours ago, auxien said:
Part 2 was really good, but dense & felt a bit too rushed overall... it felt like a fair bit of things could've been set up in Part 1.
really, really good acting moments from almost everyone, but the women here were all standouts (even the worm caretaker!)....Timothee did a strong job overall. having just rewatched the first one before this, it's really clear seeing Paul grow, and his turn towards the end is stark. script and pacing were strong, with surprisingly funny moments in some of the first half. odd to say maybe but the effects/CGI were really good, i realized at some point just how fucking much of these set pieces were pure CG but they all looked amazing and almost never took me out of the moment. the sense of scale able to be captured & communicated this well is no easy feat. definitely worth seeing in theaters imo, i caught it in IMAX and so much of the huge parts of the story really felt so substantial in ways that'll get truncated on your TV screen. awesome costume and set stuff like the first one. just crazy cool shit. the more cerebral/trippy/existential mind/prescience/etc stuff was handled pretty well, tho seems like a fair bit was left out from the book.
I loved it, so glad I caught it in IMAX.
I had a similar experience as yourself.
It did feel a bit rushed in the 3rd act, but it wasn't a deal breaker for me. I thought they made some good choices removing some elements/leaving them for Messiah.
The CGI didn't bother me. Best cinema experience I've had in a long time, certainly for an IMAX experience.
I was worried that Zendaya was going to ruin it for me, but she was solid, happy to be wrong about that. However, she did stick out like a sore thumb with her accent from the rest of the Fremen, but I believed the relationship between Paul and Chani. They had great chemistry.
I did laugh out laugh loud when Walken went full Walken, but again, a minor grip.
Great soundtrack too, though I still hate the main theme that sounds like Lion King music. Some pieces did made me think of the Toto score, nothing overt, but the presence of the guitar...
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Shōgun (2024) - I was expecting to hate it, but found myself really getting into it by the end of Ep 2.
I don't like the colour grading and cgi/tracking shots look a meh to me. Some early parts of ep 1 felt like I was watching Pirates of the Caribbean, had the vibe of a generic big budget fantasy. Was half expecting Captain Barbossa or Bootstrap-Anjin-san to emerge for the thick mists during the first 10 minutes.
However, the casting is solid:
- Anna Sawai - She still jars for me still, but improving.
- Cosmo Jarvis - my initial misgivings have fallen away now.
- Hiroyuki Sanada - excellent as Toranaga
- Tadanobu Asano - excellent. He's good a playing slightly tapped people.
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I think they've made some improvements to the pacing/plotting too. Looking forward to Ep 3 tomorrow.
1 hour ago, beerwolf said:As well as Slow Horses I've started to watch Kin. The first two and a half episodes are real slow (to the point of boredom) but once it gets going it accelerates pretty fast. I would have finished Season 1 off last night but it got late and my concentration was fading. Very good and Season 2 is even better (so I'm told)
I've heard good things about Slow Horses, they've renewed for a 4th season. It's on my maybe list.
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Good album, tracks 1, 5 and 6 esp for this thread.
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2 hours ago, perunamuusi said:
Dick Soup
Willy Wanker & the "Chocolate" Factory
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Went to the show at the Jazz Cafe last night, excellent, revisiting the album again this week.
There's a tour CD, 'Chroma', that they'll be releasing on Bandcamp soon.
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On 2/6/2024 at 12:02 PM, iococoi said:
That show was totally fucking Mexico.
On 2/7/2024 at 4:34 PM, zero said:I haven't watched any of S4 yet (will wait to binge it), but I too thought it was bad form for him to sorta bash the show he was responsible for creating. I think Nic got dropped from input on TD more or less after S2 sucked, and probably is still butthurt about it.
I think he is a bit of a one hit wonder, tbh. he had a peak creativity moment with coming up with the idea for S1, then slowly fizzled. I, like everyone, was a huge fan of S1. after watching that I read his short story collection and Galveston novel (the movie was totally botched), which were ok, not TD S1 amazing or anything. then he more or less had a misfire on S2. I thought that season started strong, but got too muddled/confusing after a few episodes in. the writing was all over the map. the one missing ingredient S2 lacked was Cary Joji Fukunaga, who directed all S1 episodes. apparently he and Pizzolatto didn't get along, so he left after S1. so I'd say he was probably a massive part of what made S1 so great, maybe more than Nic.
the official ranking is S1 > S3 > S2
Pizzolatto clearly suffers from acute Lucasitis of the creativity gland.
It sounds like Fukunaga was a counterbalance to Pizzolatto. His departure was probably a factor in the overwrought 'plot' of S2. I don't hate S2, it was just... a little too saucy. kinda saucy. It has its moments. Woodrugh's death was a well executed sequence, no pun intended, but I don't think I'd have the constitution to sit through it again.
Might try and give S4 a go tonight.
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1 hour ago, Pirtek said:
But how the fuck did the Alien egg get stuck to the wall in the Silaco, when 1: The Alien queen never left the drop ship bay (except when it was blasted out into space by Ripley!) And 2: The Alien queen was detached from it's reproductive system by that point!!??
Bad script writing
The Alien Queen did not act alone. There was a second Alien Queen on the grassy knoll.
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2 hours ago, phudoshin said:
The end of aliens is a rip-off of the end of alien. the good ol airlock-suck-out (AvP whch i enjoy'd was the same except it was an Abyss suck-out or something)
Sigourney Weaver in all 3 films is worth the price of admission alone. Hell, she even makes Alien: Resurrection watchable, as stupid as it it.
Alien is almost perfect. I love Aliens, even if it is a little goofy. And Alien 3, warts and all, is enjoyable. I've got a soft spot of 3. Charles Dance puts in solid performance, shame he gets killed off too early.
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Anyone played or aware of this game?
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On 1/12/2024 at 9:03 PM, Soloman Tump said:
Love his recent volcano field recordings work, really cool
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This one
https://benfrost.bandcamp.com/album/vakning
Double edit - there was also a follow up EP which I never knew about
Vakning was highlight of 2023 for me in general, not just field recording-wise.
Digging the pre-view tracks, both in places are reminiscent of the A U R O R A sound palette (to my ears).
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New album dropping in March.
QuoteBen Frost presents his first studio album in six years, Scope Neglect, via Mute. Available January 11th on limited edition white vinyl, followed by black vinyl, CD, and digital formats on March 1st. In the sonic crucible of Ben Frost's Scope Neglect, music undergoes a metamorphic alchemy. From the album’s opening seconds, the familiar aural chemistry of metal is immediately untethered, isolated in the vacuum, stripped of its cultural trappings and heavy armory, and loaded into a particle accelerator. Where Scope Neglect leans sonically into metal - fuelled by progressive metal outfit Car Bomb’s guitarist Greg Kubacki and bassist Liam Andrews of fellow Australians My Disco - its true form seems to draw more upon the transcendental reveries of the West Coast minimalists. What at first appears confrontational, and ephemeral, is meditatively and methodically unfolded through time, revealing crystalline vulnerabilities.
Frost’s titles weave narratives of cycling, perpetual attempts at ignition, math, and mythology; ‘Tritium Bath’, ‘Lamb Shift’, ‘Chimera’... The slow burn of ‘Unreal in the Eyes of the Dead’ channels the disorienting writings of author W.G Sebald, whose own work often gives the impression of being only the faint, flickering shadow of its actual referent. Similarly, this genre-defying music seems to feed on an unseen dark matter. Detached from their native surroundings, guitar shapes roar through negative spaces whose dimension is only revealed through the shadows cast upon them. What remains is the outer scaffolding of structures long since dismantled, and which we can no longer see. What Frost wants us to hear, in other words, is frequently not what he wants us to feel.
Scope Neglect is a deliberate opposition in terms; a dualistic game of obfuscation and obliteration, mechanics reconfigured and reengineered, old energies diverted and redirected, scope expanded, contracted and dissolved.
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7 hours ago, X4creek said:
ANOTHER ONE YAY
I'm curious about how long this will continue tbh all the sets so far have been wonderful so im not complaining!!!
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the Coil thread
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Shipping notification on Moon's Milk (In Four Phases). I ordered from Boomkat.
Anyone receive their copy yet?