DISMANTLE WHARF

https://youtu.be/n9xhJrPXop4

Jesus Christ the music is HORRIBLE.

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

yourfriendclaire wrote: ↑Wed Sep 09, 2020 1:01 pm 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

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

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.

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!

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.

[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!

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

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!