Romão
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As expected, Dune Messiah is in development
https://variety.com/2024/film/news/dune-3-denis-villeneuve-legendary-nuclear-war-1235960990/
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Well, I'm biting the bullet, even if the shipping is a bit steep. I really want this to happen
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33 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said:
Has anyone got any ideas which character Tim Blake Nelson played?
Count Fenring? A First Stage Guild Navigatior?
SpoilerMy guess is a Navigator, probably confering with the Bene Gesserit or the Emperor in some capacity. I really don't think what purpose Fenring would serve in this film. I'm also guessing that Tim Blake Nelson will be back for Messiah
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7 hours ago, Badzeee said:
On reflection, and after finding the time to watch Lynch’s movie for the first time in many years, I feel I may have been a little harsh in that initial (re)assessment. In context, the music works perfectly well. There’s a synthetic quality to it that matches the imagery and all those stagey, declamatory performances. It’s all a bit “rock opera.”
As a listening experience in its own right, it’s not really for me, but it certainly does the job it’s supposed to do.
The OST really is a poor representation of the score. Even the Main Title is a synth mock up. Listen to the expanded score if you can. It makes its operatic qualities much more apparent.
I hope a new expanded and remastered edition is in the works
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8 minutes ago, Jim Ware said:
Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson were both Executive Producers and 'script consultants' for Villeneuve's films, but yes, their books are indeed awful. I expect the upcoming Sisterhood TV series to be similarly risible!
I suppose that role was more of a contractual obligation than any sort of real input in the film's script. To its benefit, I'm sure
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I adore all Frank Herbert's 6 Dune books. God Emperor of Dune, the fourth one, might actually be my favorite.
Now, the stuff "written" by his son and Kevin J. Anderson, is absolutely god awful
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3 hours ago, Brundlefly said:
I haven't read the books, but isn't it the case, that Villeneuve leans the second movie towards the Messiah book, unlike Herbert did?
Yes, much more so, although still totally in line with bits and strands of foreshadowing you can detect in the first book
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1 hour ago, Chen G. said:
Now that's a big statement.
Even the two "Parts" of Dune are separate productions: Villenueve did not write the two scripts, even as a story treatment, together or even back-to-back and did not film them together. They have, as far as I can tell, pretty much the same crew, but in the first part he didn't particularly try to introduce as many of the cast-members of both parts: there are many new faces in Part Two.
The two films do feel reasonably of-a-piece, but Dune: Messiah is bound to be a different beast. I doubt it will play as cohesive enough to be regarded as a 7.5-hour film.
Same thing as the two books, really (Dune and Dune Messiah). Regardless of how Frank Herbert has said that Messiah was always intended as an epilogue for the first book, they still very much feel like separate, distinct (albeit continuous), works.
I'm sure the movies will feel the same. It's actually to the stories benefit, I think, if we feel a somewhat pronounced stylistic and tonal change in the 3rd movie
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Their only point of comparasion is being landmark works in their respective genres and being quite thorough in their world building (Tolkien even more so, obviously). It ends there, I think
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This is one of my all time favorite Goldsmith action tracks:
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Someone here had posted a thematic breakdown of the first score. Any chance it might be reposted in this thread, so I can get my bearings on the thematic material?
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I haven't watched any Marvel show (and the last MCU movie I watched was the first Ant-Man), but I found the score for Moon Knight so cool and interesting, I might actually watch the show one of these days
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How's the soundtrack CD?
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That looks like a huge pile of shit. After Godzilla Minus One, I don't think I can tolerate this level of silliness in a Godzilla movie, and that's saying something
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His recording of A Midsummer's Night Dream is also pretty defitive, in my book.
I was also very fond of his Scheherazade, but since that was the version I grew up with, my appreciation for it is probably not completely impartial
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4 hours ago, Holko said:
Didn't watch all of it yet but I'm very disappointed that it's an fps.
I would vastly prefer if it was a point and click adventure game
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I love the score, specially when dissociated from the movie. I found the treatment of the music in the movie and the demand for constant rewrites to be insulting and demeaning for JW, which had to accommodate the insecurities and indecisiveness of far less talented people in supporting a movie that is frankly, beneath him.
And that is all I'm going to say about the movie, since this is the wrong thread for it
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This one, although not written for a religious film, is quite spiritual to me:
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Godzilla Minus One
I never expected to be so moved by a Godzilla movie. Having become a father recently might have made me much more susceptible to this kind of story, but I was completely taken by the hand by this movie. Yes, it is melodramatic. Yes, it's very sentimental. But the story is told with such sincerity and earnestness, I was completely involved by it and was actively fearing for the fate of the characters in the face of such an overwhelming menace. Never were the monster scenes as effective and captivating as they are here, specially because I was dreading its consequences.
You can telegraph the dramatic and narrative beats from miles away, but still, this thing just came together so well, it truly is greater than the sum of its parts.
The choice of setting and timeframe was inspired, giving the perfect backdrop and context for the sort of story being told. The low tech nature of most of it really served the story well, specially in the final plan and its execution in the climax, which were absolutely gripping sequences.
Good characters, fantastic monster scenes, the scariest atomic breath I have ever seen in a Godzilla movie, good score (with a very well spotted and effective use of the Ifukube stuff) and an actual story to tell, with proper character arcs, as somewhat telegraphed and archetypical they may be.
One of 2023's great cinematic surprises. I don't think I can ever watch an American Godzilla movie ever again. The story is so thoroughly Japanese, that all American versions seem to totally miss the point and tone (and indeed, the sillier Japanese Godzilla movies have done very much the same) and come across as vague, diluted copy, a simulacrum, of the real thing.
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On 16/12/2023 at 12:39 AM, Marian Schedenig said:
Never been a big fan of the Horner score though. It's nice, it certainly does its job, but I always thought the launch cue could be stronger/less cheesy (a slight Titanic precursor, perhaps). In its best moments, I find it a lesser cousin of Sneakers. Fine in the film, but nothing I need on album.
While I agree about the launch cue, what really elevates the score are tracks like The Dark Side of the Moon. Into the LEM and Master Alarm I also greatly enjoy, although I get sense they're derivative of other Horner scores
Christopher Young's "Nosferatu - A Symphony of Horror" CD
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I'm far from being a true classical music connoisseur, but the main theme seems to take some inspiration from Rachmaninoff's Isle of the Dead. Is it just me, probably being too taken by those undulating strings?