DUME

[joni]

https://youtu.be/n9xhJrPXop4

Jesus Christ the music is HORRIBLE.

[Abe]

Oh god. I thought it was bad until I heard the REALLY REALLY bad dark side of the moon triumphant part. Wow.I mean, I know all movie trailers "have" to have a terrible cover, but that was fucking awful. Trailers and composition in general is such a bummer these days. It used to be what got me into music making but now it just so tired. Everything on tv is scored by the same modular arpeggio - it is so tired...
Any version of Dune that doesn't involve Elliott Kalin impersonating Tom Brokaw can eat my whole butt.

[yourfriendclaire]

Costuming and set design looks amazing though. I like that they're mostly keeping the House Harkonnen stuff under wraps still. I bet it's going to be mega-gross. I'm in the minority of people who really liked the Denis Villeneuve Blade Runner—saw it three times in theaters.

[yourfriendclaire]

Also very excited to see that my close personal friend Oscar Isaac is maybe (?) going to be in a good movie for once??

[alex]

I think I'm excited for this? I guess I don't really care if it is good or bad, I think I just like seeing interpretations of things I like.

Has anyone made it through all the Dune books? It has been a while, but I think I failed to get past like the 4th or 5th book. It just becomes a stream of consciousness from some worm god about "time" or something?

[yourfriendclaire]

I only made it through the first two books, I think?

I have read some of Frank Herbert's other stuff, though—there's a pretty great one from '68 (between Dunes) called "The Santaroga Barrier," about kind of a Northern California Stepford Wives town where the whole community eats a fungus that makes them collectively psychic. Kind of "Spice"-esque.

[infopetal]

Also very excited to see that my close personal friend Oscar Isaac is maybe (?) going to be in a good movie for once??

wait is the consensus that Ex Machina is not a good movie?!

https://youtu.be/nvYPCNCGEK8?t=66

[joni]

I really like Ex Machina and consider it to be a good movie.

[yourfriendclaire]

Forgive me, Ex Machina is a wonderful movie. I am mostly alluding to my close personal friend Oscar Isaac’s prolonged absence from real acting due to his multi-year commitment to the Star Wars franchise.

[infopetal]

I will say I found Inside Llewyn Davis to be a pretty underwhelming movie. also similarly ambivalent about Show Me a Hero, but give it some props for being a TV show about housing policy—more of those please! and I have a soft spot for Annihilation but the flashbacks he appears in are the least compelling scenes. …and that sums up my opinions about Oscar Isaac vehicles!

[infopetal]

p.s. I have no extant opinions about Dune or this trailer but I rue the world that prevents me from seeing it in a theater. watching movies at home does not cut it for me.

[yourfriendclaire]

[mention]infopetal[/mention] have you had an opportunity to do a drive-in yet? I guess that's probably not as much of a thing in NYC, huh? We've done it a couple times at the Vineland and it's...kinda great. Bring your own snacks!

[yourfriendclaire]

I liked Show Me A Hero! My friend (Oscar Isaac) looked good in those crewneck 80s sweaters

[infopetal]

Museum of Moving Image is doing a drive in Flushing Meadows but I am without a car or friend with car. the program is v cute tho!