Adebisi
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If you're not getting nerdy with Dune lore, you're not truely enjoying Dune
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Dune (2020)
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Gavinmad
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Denamian
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The Bene Gesserit do no become the Fish Speakers, they continue to exist. Heretics and Chapterhouse are essentially about what the Bene Gesserit do post Leto.
I would say it's fine for a 13 year old.
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Denamian
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You can't use the degenerate pedophile homosexual villain template anymore. You might hurt somebody's feelings.
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Hateyou
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Hateyou
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Yeah he’ll be fine. I haven’t read the book since I was around his age but I’m pretty sure it had worse things than this movie.
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The more I think of this movie the more I’m reminded of Promethus, great visuals, poor substance. Which is insane since its based on the best science fiction series ever written
agree with what everyone said at the beginning of this thread, this needs to he a series like the Sci Fi version. The movie was both long and completely rushed
agree with what everyone said at the beginning of this thread, this needs to he a series like the Sci Fi version. The movie was both long and completely rushed
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You don’t need to read messiah or children, I skipped Children. Messiah is so short it doesn’t matter (its also more of an epilogue than an actual story), but just know that Paul has a son named Leto
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Lithose
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Leto was preparing humanity for a "great enemy" that was never revealed by Herbert (His son said it was AI). That enemy was going to use prescience to turbo fuck humanity. So Leto made himself the bad guy, and let humanity work out strategies to avoid prescience while he was the target (And he didn't use prescience to destroy them in that time--just make life miserable so they'd want to develop those strategies to kill him). This was more than just the breeding program giving rise to prescience resistant humans, it was also things like no-ships and no-rooms (Which interfere with prescience and allow even normal humans to make plans/move without being detected)
In addition, he wanted to scare humans enough to WANT to strike out into the unkown and expand beyond imperial space...Which his tyrannical rule did. He wanted this as an additional layer of protection from "the great enemy", so it would be far more difficult to subjugate or eradicate all of humanity--both because they'd be physically harder to find AND because unique human cultures might find different techniques to deal with enemies.
In addition, he wanted to scare humans enough to WANT to strike out into the unkown and expand beyond imperial space...Which his tyrannical rule did. He wanted this as an additional layer of protection from "the great enemy", so it would be far more difficult to subjugate or eradicate all of humanity--both because they'd be physically harder to find AND because unique human cultures might find different techniques to deal with enemies.
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Lithose
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Yes, perfectly fine. I'm sure even strict parents would be fine with this. Nothing really uncomfortable at all unless you're against all violence shown.
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The Baron is explicitly a Homosexual in the books. I remember one part in the books where they try to assassinate him by having some sort of needle on the side of the ass of one of his fuck toys. Also, that scene in the first movie where the young/handsome Harkannon is tending flowers in his room, while trembling like a leaf right before the Baron pulls his heart plug out and tenderly holds his head while he dies was one of the most terrifying sequences in the movie.
The Harkoonens all being red-haired in the first movie was cool, Though I can't remember if that was the case in the books.
BUT, both changes above in the new movie just screams of PC. "can't offend gays or gingers" So they make them all ugly and bald?
And who or what where those young waifs in attendance of him? So he is now a pedophile instead of gay?
Big Phoenix
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Its been standard practice for 20 years that you cant portray gays as bad or devious or evil.
Lithose
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Yeah, he does surprisingly well in physical roles. That said, they really do need to feed him a few hamburgers for the second part of the film if its made. Him bulking up some would go a LONG way into selling the idea that he's gone from boy to man in the desert.
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That's right, I wasn't 100% if I was mixing characters up from other works.
Fucking shit all over the source material, why bother making the movie
Bandwagon
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Is it possible DV picked him for that exact reason? He's young and looks like a boy, but has the acting chops already and can grow into the future incarnations? I was thinking about that when I was driving home yesterday and wondering who they would pick to play Emperor Paul....then figured Timothee might look the part by the time they get there.
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Aldarion
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Do you have a source for the idea that the great enemy was going to use prescience? Interesting idea that I don't remember.
Drinsic
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This is a pretty wild take considering Prometheus had the most retarded writing of any scifi film in the last decade. Prometheus' main fault was nothing that happened made any sense whatsoever. That was not an issue in this film.
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