All the Dunes

And the Winner Should Have Been...

This is as close as we get to jumping on the bandwagon of popular, recent films. We talk most about the Villeneuve Dune movies, but we also touch on the other iterations. No spoiler warnings in the episode, because the whole podcast is composed of SPOILERS!
00:10 Intro - What's going to be covered and not
04:50 There is no such thing as "spoiling" a 70 year old story; no spoiler warnings this podcast
06:05 Dune, the novel
13:35 The story from the novel changes in the transition to film
15:55 Jodorowsky's attempted adaptation
22:44 Dune (1984) (which we praise with faint damns)
32:55 Television vs. Movies for adapting books to screen
33:56 Dune miniseries (2000 and 2003)
36:30 Dune Parts I and II
37:42 Bob's rant
38:00 Mark thinks II is significantly better than I
39:35 Bob doesn't think II is better than I
45:00 The secret goals of the Bene Gesserit
46:32 Zendaya/Chalamet and Chani/Paul
52:10 Chalamet too young? Too small?
55:28 We agree Bardem was excellent; Mark is wrong about Walken not being great
58:52 Zimmer and the music
01:03:46 Sandwalking and the Rohirrim
01:04:37 Mark wants the final battle to be longer; Bob disagrees (and gets in a gratuitous swipe at John Wick 4)
01:07:05 (The Death Star battle lasts just under 11:30)
01:08:13 Why do the Fremen jaunt off into space?
01:12:10 Third film coming?
01:12:53 Dune II is overrated

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Music:
Intro and Outro music excerpted without alteration other than length and volume from AcidJazz by Kevin McLeod under a Creative Commons (CC BY 3.0) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode