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Good movie but completely inaccurate to the wonderful wonderful books by Frank Herbet. They never once use this weird sound/voice tech. in the books. Oh well still a cool idea.

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The scifi channel back when it was really spelled that way did two mini series that were really good and quite accurate.
Dune(2000)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0142032/
Children of Dune(2003)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0287839/

Sorry! My bad! I've never actually played the game, so I apologize for the obvious mistake... How the heck do you delete a tag?
>> ^steroidg:

Re: tags what's a Novakin? Unless there's a reference that I don't get, it's normally written as Dovahkiin.

>> ^shagen454:

That is an interesting piece of info I did not know about. I never really understood why they went with Lynch for Dune, either. Not that that was a bad idea, I know a lot of people complain about Lynch's adaptation but I liked it a lot. I bet Jodorowsky's version would have been absolutely insane and even less on point with the Dune novel. I can only imagine all of the shit Jodorowsky could shove into that.
wiki: "he planned to cast the surrealist artist Salvador Dali as the Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV, who requested a fee of $100,000 per hour. He also planned to cast Orson Welles as the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, who only agreed when Jodorowsky offered to get his favourite gourmet chef to prepare his meals for him throughout the filming.[23] The book's protagonist, Paul Atreides, was to be played by Jodorowsky's own son, Brontis Jodorowsky. The music would be composed by Pink Floyd, Magma, Henry Cow and Karlheinz Stockhausen"
Damn, man has some fine taste in music. And yep, looks like it would have been insane.
>> ^poolcleaner:
>> EDIT: oh yeah, it's all there on IMDB but I won't spoil it for anyone.

That's because Dan O'Bannon recruited Giger for the alien creature design after working with him on Jodorowsky's failed attempt to make Dune.



Weird times. The days of hiring directors like Lynch to take over a science fiction epic are over. It didn't work and it's not what people want to see.

If Jodorowsky had made Dune, it would have given a handful of people hard ons and Rocky Horror would have fallen to the way side as the midnight movie standard. All in all, I think there'd be less trannys and Hedwig and the Angry Inch would never have been made.

Frank Herbert, Dan O'Bannon, Jodorowsky, Dali, Welles, and Pink Floyd all under one roof? The entire movie would have been one big water of life spice orgy. Pregnant women viewing the movie would've given birth to abominations possessed by Orson Welles.

That is an interesting piece of info I did not know about. I never really understood why they went with Lynch for Dune, either. Not that that was a bad idea, I know a lot of people complain about Lynch's adaptation but I liked it a lot. I bet Jodorowsky's version would have been absolutely insane and even less on point with the Dune novel. I can only imagine all of the shit Jodorowsky could shove into that.

wiki: "he planned to cast the surrealist artist Salvador Dali as the Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV, who requested a fee of $100,000 per hour. He also planned to cast Orson Welles as the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, who only agreed when Jodorowsky offered to get his favourite gourmet chef to prepare his meals for him throughout the filming.[23] The book's protagonist, Paul Atreides, was to be played by Jodorowsky's own son, Brontis Jodorowsky. The music would be composed by Pink Floyd, Magma, Henry Cow and Karlheinz Stockhausen"

Damn, man has some fine taste in music. And yep, looks like it would have been insane.

>> ^poolcleaner:

>> EDIT: oh yeah, it's all there on IMDB but I won't spoil it for anyone.

That's because Dan O'Bannon recruited Giger for the alien creature design after working with him on Jodorowsky's failed attempt to make Dune.

>> ^Ryjkyj:

So, is it like an "Alien" prequel? Or maybe a way later sequel? You gotta love that a lot of the imagery here is borrowed from Cameron's "Aliens", and of course, Giger.
If it IS is a prequel, I gotta wonder if they'll still be using green-screen monitors on their spaceships.
EDIT: oh yeah, it's all there on IMDB but I won't spoil it for anyone.


That's because Dan O'Bannon recruited Giger for the alien creature design after working with him on Jodorowsky's failed attempt to make Dune.

Sanitation issues

Currently, human waste is collected daily from thousands of septic tanks across the city and driven by tankers to the city's only sewage treatment plant at Al-Awir. Dubai's rapid growth means that it is stretching its limited sewage treatment infrastructure to its limits. Because of the long queues and delays, some tanker drivers resort to illegally dumping the effluent into storm drains or behind dunes in the desert. Sewage dumped into storm drains flows directly into the Persian Gulf, near the city's prime swimming beaches. Doctors have warned that tourists using the beaches run the risk of contracting serious illnesses like typhoid and hepatitis.

source:wiki/Dubai


somebody needs to make some carbon nano poop tubes or something

My thoughts:

I've struggled with depression for much of my life, I think I'll probably be struggling with it for most of the rest of it but a few things have made the struggle somewhat easier, mostly this notion of living in the now. Be aware of where your minds eye is wandering, attempt to always bring it back to your present moment. When you live in the past or future you're not really living at all, life just sort of blurs past in front of you as you contemplate your failings or worry about your future. Generally this idea of mindfulness, which has origins in Buddhism, helps me a lot.

Related to that is also learning to detach yourself from your emotions, simply identify them and just understand that they are transitory. I actually picked that up from the SciFi masterpiece, Dune. I read it at a very stressful point in my life and the litany against fear really stuck with me. I really believe fear, above any other emotion, is the most destructive to our ability to think critically and hence live a meaningful existence. Despite being from a fictional religion I think those words contain more truth, at least for me, than anything else I've ever stumbled upon. This idea was reinforced, strangely, by Day[9] of SC2 fame when he replied to a question about how he is so happy.

So our personal philosophies are patchworks of ideas cut from the strangest sources. I'm not a buddhist or a Bene Gesserit, but none the less there are grains of truth in each, as I believe there is some truth in what this video describes. So while I'm not dismissing mainstream medicine when it comes to treating mental illness, but I also think our conscious thoughts are as much a sympton as a cause. When I am in control of my thoughts and emotions I am a happier more productive person, and for that I have to thank not my Dr, but Frank Herbert, Buddhism and Sean Plott (among others).

Anyway, there is a small glimpse into my brain mr anonymous internet stranger.

>> ^Payback:

>> ^Barseps:
>> ^ypsilon:
I can remember a opening of Universal where the planet dries out. But I can't remember the movie :-(

You've rang a very faint bell in my memory bank. I did a search (even going as far as looking up EVERY film the studio has made on Wikipedia to see if it would kick-start my brain).... but NOPE, nothing. I thought it might have been "Dune", but alas, no :-(

http://www.closinglogos.com/page/Logo+Variations+-+Unive
rsal+Pictures#fbid=Uza_DOmlda2
I think you're both thinking of Doom, where the Earth fades into Mars.


Nice one payback :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYr3EkGJX5s

>> ^Barseps:

>> ^ypsilon:
I can remember a opening of Universal where the planet dries out. But I can't remember the movie :-(

You've rang a very faint bell in my memory bank. I did a search (even going as far as looking up EVERY film the studio has made on Wikipedia to see if it would kick-start my brain).... but NOPE, nothing. I thought it might have been "Dune", but alas, no :-(


http://www.closinglogos.com/page/Logo+Variations+-+Universal+Pictures#fbid=Uza_DOmlda2

I think you're both thinking of Doom, where the Earth fades into Mars.

>> ^ypsilon:

I can remember a opening of Universal where the planet dries out. But I can't remember the movie :-(


You've rang a very faint bell in my memory bank. I did a search (even going as far as looking up EVERY film the studio has made on Wikipedia to see if it would kick-start my brain).... but NOPE, nothing. I thought it might have been "Dune", but alas, no :-(

I have Dune on blu-ray and the movie makes sense to me after seeing it 4 or 5 times over the years. It's really stirring and unique in a lot of ways. Not having read any Herbert books, I wouldn't change the movie. To me, the movie Dune is all about one thing: scale.

>> ^Shepppard:

I may be thinking too hard on this..
but.. Spice?
As in.. The major "Drug" of Star Wars?


>> ^ponceleon:

The spice must flow...


I did think about a possible confusion in the tags with the spice ponceleon is talking about.
([Edit] @ponceleon is that from Dune? It's been many years since I read it.)

I completely forgot about the sandworm shit that Sheppard is talking about

Envious of all the SF - still slogging my way through War and Peace. Before that, Life of Pi re-read, Dune and Man Plus. Next up, The Last Ringbearer, Ringworld, Squares of the City, Consider Phlebas and Birds Without Wings. Just the top of the ever growing to-be-read pile. Anathem and Diamond Age are on my BookMooch wishlist, but no luck yet.

God damn there's some huge ejaculations, semens almost cumming out of you lot. Who would have thought a queer blowing off some christians could have caused such an orgy of banging at the keyboard. It's a metaphorical desert of paragraph sized dunes for anyone following this thread so I'll let Epicurus keep it brief.

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God?”

Epicurus – Greek philosopher, BC 341-270

LOL It's like the argument for an all loving, omnipotent god was destroyed before Jesus was even born.

Note: This isn't why I'm not religious. I don't believe because I wasn't indoctrinated as a small child. That and the booze and drugs are still working for me da dum Ching1

Now before you, dear reader, set of oncemore into the desert of hopelessly convoluted diatribes, fill your camelskin bladders at the endlessly refreshing oasis of Bill Hicks, I believe named that after the comedian though I can't be sure of the chronology.

"The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options."

Bill Hicks - 16 December 1961 – 26 February 1994