DUNE Redub

[ntbullock]

We have once again entertained ourselves and are here to share it. Check out the parody re-release promotional video for DUNE. We had quite the chuckle messing around with this. Hope you will, too.

http://www.sequentialpictures.com/movie_dune_redub.html

[YaN]

oh my god. i never laughed so hard, dude. truly for hardcore fans of dune. the best is the baron's flighty-sound. seriously, laughing so hard, it hurt. the pain!!!

[Maek]

Oh, sweet Moses!! Where do I begin?!? The Jetsons sound for the Baron was the definitive Cherry on the Pie! And the way that (presumably Eric) "Larry" said "God" got me into coughing fits. The whole chicken...crumbling...part just did it for me, too.

On a more serious note, I'm glad that you did it. The "Extended Edition" of Dune could not be even cheaper than it was:

[list]I mean really..."remastered?" Well, the sound may have been "mixed" into a 5.1 sound field (and badly done at that), but the picture is still in the same horrific condition as the ORIGINAL DVD release. You don't have to look any further then the Guild ship landing at the beginning of the movie. Look at the lower left-hand side of the screen and watch the inexplicable shadow artifacts that keep fading in and out...as if the original film were compromised. No, it's not one of those "oh, you really have to look close" things, either; it's actually annoyingly, painfully obvious! You don't even have to go THAT far to look for transfer problems!! Look at the Universal logo on the opening reel and "oooooo" and "ahhhhhh" at the dust specks and scratches on the film. ALL THIS TIME, and it's for a film that sports a couple of docs, an extended edition that STILL doesn't have completed effects (you can tell where some of the deleted scenes are without knowing the film that well - the Fremen's eyes aren't colored in), and a release that goes the extra mile to be as cheap as possible by sporting a DOUBLE-SIDED DISC to cut down on manufacturing costs. Worst of all, it doesn't truly include the nearly 6 hours of footage that David Lynch originally shot...it's no wonder that he "Alan Smithee"d it. No one ever did Dune right, but I felt that David Lynch came closest to capturing Herbert's essence (insert joke here).[\list]

Sorry. Rant over. You did the horrible DVD special edition the "justice" it deserved.

[Bison73]

That was pretty darn amazing, thank you for that. And to listen to all the different voices you can do is amazing. You truly are a very talented individual.

[ntbullock]

Glad you guys are diggin' it. It actually took a little over a week to put together surprisingly. The Jetson's sound was totally Eric. It worked right off. Good stuff. I like doing different voices, so this was very fun to me. We laughed the ENTIRE time doing it.

[sjones]

its real good.. I'll never watch the original film with the same seriousness again.

[grizzly69]

You have take one of my all time favorite films (my absolutely favorite book) and blasphemed it with you overdubbing filth!

OMFG it is absolutely hillarious! Along with what everyone else said about the voices and the sound effects you added, I really liked the little "pop" sound you added when Dr. Kynes pulled his nose plug out.

AWESOME! DUDES!

[ntbullock]

I've seen this thing quite a bit at this point and right now I'm laughing at "the strength of the balls of the penis." It gets me. I also never tire of the delivery of the line, "I won't tell you who the traitor is or when we'll attack..."

I just added a high quality version of the video. It's a better H.264 encode running at full frame rate.

[lord_luapssor]

That was sweet :) one of the funnest thigns I have seen a long time. I should so that to a hard core geek in my film course (he takes the movie way to far and has said the he liked more then book)

was in stiches at the end with the stand up and do some pimp ass shit line

was waiting for a Keanu Reeves "whoa" but i still laughing my arse off

[sjones]

How about the scene where Feyd comes out just to please "the fat one" and just stands there looking semi NAMBLA .. farting would have worked quite well.

[ntbullock]

I looked at that scene, but I wanted more dialogue heavy ones. One that we probably should've done was the convo between the emperor and the weird guild navigator at the beginning.

[sjones]

Yeah that is a good one. The Feyd scene is really just creepy .. another one is when the flower boy comes in and the Baron keeps looking at him with hungry eyes ;-) But you guys did plenty of good .. It makes me want to see the film....

BTW... I think EVERYONE thought of 'chicken' (or bacon) when she says "crisping" .. ;-)

Excellent Baron BTW .. that "He who controls the spice" is my favorite scene .. its over the top like a Richard the III.

[YaN]

o yea, mos def. at least commenting on why the guild member looks like a... well... you know... w/ this brain thingy goin on, spewing smoke... in an aquarium.

"i feel terrible. my mouth tastes like ass and dirt. i think it was all that thigh pad poo-poo water from my suit. i should have not drank that water. man, i should have listened... to paul."

that's some funny stuff in combo w/ the scene... gotta love the death breath.

[sjones]

A giant smoke belching vagina with eyes? Yeah .. and its a virgin because its hymen is still intact .. yeah I noticed too.. don't loose your cookies ;-)

[blashco]

haha that was great

hope you dont think of this as advertising, but if you like that, you might like a satire thing my friends and i did on Hamlet.


Hamlet Abridged Act 1
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dxpfCfc-fno

[Jubeisan]

Hey guys, very nice. I appreciate how you kept the original script, with the emphasis on voice stylings, and only the occasional departure into new statements, which were well placed and timely. Refreshing and very funny!

[DarkElfa]

That was great stuff.

[Renegade]

My computer is too slow to watch it, but judging from the very positive posts above it sounds good and I plan to watch it. I'm a bit jealous lol! But I'll p00n you when I finnaly make my movie lol. Only joking :) Good stuff.

[Hat]

That movie was the worst movie I have ever seen, really. Not your parody of Dune, but Dune itself :) And that's saying something, because I've seen a lot of bad movies.

But anywho, I'll watch it tomorrow. I'm beat.

[Maek]

Out of curiosity, and please don't view this as an attack, but have you ever read the book? Far, far better...the Dune series overall was sublime...at least the books written by Frank Herbert. And then there's what his son and Kevin Anderson have managed to ruin. I couldn't get any further than about 40 pages of House Atreides without bursting into laughter.

[ntbullock]

I haven't read the books. I've heard them be dense! ;]

All the response has been great guys. I've been getting emails too. Good stuff.

[Maek]

:) It was actually directed at the previous poster.

Yep, they are extremely dense...and they don't cater to the casual Hollywood-viewer. It actually forces a reader to think: very cruel and unusual punishment on today's youth, it seems.

[Hat]

No I have not read them, but I've heard they are indeed much better, as any book-to-movie is. But still, movie wise, it's pretty bad.

[sjones]

Movies are difficult to do because you get someone else's imagination and interpretation imposed on what you are seeing and hearing. In a book you can spend 3 pages talking about how someone's ass smells, but in the film you just have the fat guy walk around and everyone hold their nose .. its quite a different experience... Dune is a prime example of this .. its hard to go into such detail visually that you'd get with text

But really .. the "Düne" film as Bollocks calls it isn't that bad .. Its a lost treasure for sure. 8)

[grizzly69]

Out of curiosity, and please don't view this as an attack, but have you ever read the book? Far, far better...the Dune series overall was sublime...at least the books written by Frank Herbert. And then there's what his son and Kevin Anderson have managed to ruin. I couldn't get any further than about 40 pages of House Atreides without bursting into laughter.

I am in total agreement with you on this. The 6 Dune books written by Frank Herbert are my favorite books. Period. I also tried the new Dune books by Brian and Kevin and found them very shallow compared to Frank's work. One of the things I objected to most was their contradictions to the original Dune books. And their dispelling of some mysteries, better left unsolved, with juvenile explanations.

[sjones]

There are some serious money shots of Feyd and Paul (damn, MaúDib) in the imdb ..

http://imdb.com/gallery/mptv/1390/Mptv/1390/8864_0026.jpg?path=gallery&path_key=0087182

[ntbullock]

Wow. Strange. I don't really want to see Paul like that.

[Maek]

Out of curiosity, and please don't view this as an attack, but have you ever read the book? Far, far better...the Dune series overall was sublime...at least the books written by Frank Herbert. And then there's what his son and Kevin Anderson have managed to ruin. I couldn't get any further than about 40 pages of House Atreides without bursting into laughter.

I am in total agreement with you on this. The 6 Dune books written by Frank Herbert are my favorite books. Period. I also tried the new Dune books by Brian and Kevin and found them very shallow compared to Frank's work. One of the things I objected to most was their contradictions to the original Dune books. And their dispelling of some mysteries, better left unsolved, with juvenile explanations.

A thousand times agreed. I love how Brian/Kevin work "No" ships (making Guild navigators both useless and blind) several centuries ahead of the timeline and then don't go on to explain how the technology somehow "disappears." It's just one of many examples.

Frank Herbert's main character quotes, as they begin each chapter, tend to provoke some deep and serious thought. Kevin and Brian treat it as a cute memento to "good ole' Frank"; it's really a pale shadow through and through.

The sad part, though, is that there are too many Dune fans who didn't want Dune to die with Frank and are willing to cling on to anyone who will write on. Frank Herbert was about letting the reader find his/her own way without spoon-feeding information. Kevin/Brian take the Hollywood approach to writing.

I wish that Frank were still around to write after Chapterhouse: Dune; where Frank left off in that book was both chilling and full of possibilities.

Damn you, NT!!!! I'm eyeing my bookshelf as we speak...I'm afraid that I will have to revisit that wonderful world that Frank Herbert work.

NT - if you seriously have not read Dune, would you be willing to give it a try? If you do try it, read through the whole thing and then let me know what you think in a Pointless Podcast some time in the future.

Cheers,
Maek

[grizzly69]

Maybe another thread should be started on this discussion before I give into temptation and steal the thread with my personal views and ramblings about Dune and other works by Frank Herbert. So, NT, if you don't mind me starting another thread, I will. You have five minutes. Starting... now.

I'm waiting!

Oh crap, I forgot to actually post this till now. Nevermind.

[ntbullock]

Feel free to start another thread. Fine by me.

I probably won't read the book. I have to be in a mood to read and even then it can't be longer than 10 whole pages with pictures to boot!