Yes, and masturbating while eating an orange feels a lot better, but in the end you're intaking the same amount of Vitamin C.

Thank you for articulating what I was trying to tell my wife this morning!

Think I’ll watch this again tonight with a few bourbons

You know, I may put it on when I get home tonight, too.

Part of the reason I think Fight Club is such a brilliant movie (aside from all the normal film criteria) is that it's masterful in the way it elevates the source material by doing things that a book can't do. It uses a visual/auditory medium to explore and enhance themes/elements/ideas in a way that the written word can't.

Villeneuve's Dune is the same kind of adaptation. He does so much visually and in the sound design to give us insights into the story, that reveal the world of the novel and vital plot elements/themes that are so much better in a visual medium than book form (the visions and concept of prescience/possible futures is a HUGE example of this).

The acting is stellar all around. There isn't a weak link. Obviously the photography is stunning. The sound design and the score are each breathtaking. My wife has never read the book, never seen Lynch's film, knows zero about the story at all and she was literally on the edge of her seat for large chunks of the movie.

It's full of action and excitement without sacrificing the quieter more nuanced parts of the story. It's a big budget action movie but it's also still a weird psychedelic space opera. It trusts it's audience and allows room for intrigue and doubt. It allows us to hold our confusion with trust that we'll get there eventually. Every aspect of the movie works toward that end.

There's a lot left out but the gist is all there. I'd love to go a little deeper on some things but they do such a great job of giving everything you need. Villeneuve adds some great touches, too, that aren't from the book but totally enhance the world and the vision of Dune. The result is an equally satisfying and stunning experience for those that know the book(s) well and those that have never heard of Dune before.

This movie is great.

get an ornithopter, you two

Villeneuve adds some great touches, too, that aren't from the book but totally enhance the world and the vision of Dune.

I'm curious what some of those moments are

The opening scene/voice over is one example. The Harkonnen spider-thing is another. Also, there's some bull fighter stuff, too.

I love when the Reverend Mother told that spider to get the fuck out

So fucking cool.

I've heard a couple of interesting theories about that spider, too. But it's not at all in the book.

I don't know why you think I haven't watched that trailer but okay.

This was all style and no substance. Meh!