Originally Posted by Frazod:
Heh. An unexpected casting choice. Should be fun, though.
They got these, worms. . .
And the worms, . . . they POOP.
Craziest thing, . . . you snort the POOP, and you can FLY . . .
Swear to God, man. . . Craziest thing I ever saw . . . /walkenvoice. [Reply]
Boy - they do a hell of an about/face on the Bene Gesserit, don't they? By the end of Chapterhouse you can make an excellent argument that the central story isn't about the Atreides as much as it is the Bene Gesserit.
I need to find some sort of source for Hunters and Sandworms to finish the main series, but they've really leaned heavily into the witches as misunderstood benevolent figures.
Oh, and Josh Brolin should've played Miles Teg. The Bashar is pretty much a badass and any story is made better by some sort of warrior monk. [Reply]
Originally Posted by ThaVirus:
Finally got around to watching this one.
I have never read the books or even heard of them until this movie was under production so it was a lot to take in.
I'm definitely awaiting part 2 to see more of the Fremen culture, "Desert Power", and general lore etc.
Questions: how do animals as massive as sand worms survive on such a barren planet? I'm assuming they filter nutrients from the sand as they travel?
Wtf was that on the ceiling when Leto poisoned the room. Was that the Baron? If so, uhhhhh, what the fuck?
The Baron had grown so fat that he could no longer walk. He moved around by means of anti-gravity suspensors. He used the suspensors to escape the poison gas. [Reply]
Originally Posted by ThaVirus:
Finally got around to watching this one.
I have never read the books or even heard of them until this movie was under production so it was a lot to take in.
I'm definitely awaiting part 2 to see more of the Fremen culture, "Desert Power", and general lore etc.
Questions: how do animals as massive as sand worms survive on such a barren planet? I'm assuming they filter nutrients from the sand as they travel?
Wtf was that on the ceiling when Leto poisoned the room. Was that the Baron? If so, uhhhhh, what the fuck?
It's been a thousand years since I've read the first couple books, but iirc, sand worms actually are 'sand plankton' feeders. The idea is that the deserts of Dune are similar in many ways biologically to oceans, and so have 'plankton' just like water-based seas. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Megatron96:
It's been a thousand years since I've read the first couple books, but iirc, sand worms actually are 'sand plankton' feeders. The idea is that the deserts of Dune are similar in many ways biologically to oceans, and so have 'plankton' just like water-based seas.
They don't eat the sandtrout. The sandtrout become the worms.
And also how Leto II becomes a dickless half worm hybrid who lives for 3k years and argues philosophy with nerds until he loses his cool and tail whips Duncan v317 against the wall to explode into a thousand pieces. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Kiimosabi:
They don't eat the sandtrout. The sandtrout become the worms.
And also how Leto II becomes a dickless half worm hybrid who lives for 3k years and argues philosophy with nerds until he loses his cool and tail whips Duncan v317 against the wall to explode into a thousand pieces.
Sand trout. Forgot about those things. Yeah, they don't eat those. Wasn't Leto covered in those things at one point? Like a second skin or something? [Reply]
Originally Posted by Megatron96:
Sand trout. Forgot about those things. Yeah, they don't eat those. Wasn't Leto covered in those things at one point? Like a second skin or something?
Yes. That was part of his metamorphosis.
It started happening at the end of SciFi's children of Dune. Which is not a bad watch.
The casting is pretty good. Always loved their Paul.
