Paul_M

I like David Lynch (and Dastmalchian !) but I frankly think 1984 Dune was a misstep in his filmography, a bad movie and not something particularly "foundational".
FX and costumes were good for the time but IMO not good enough back then to properly render something as otherworldy as Dune. While I liked him in Twin Peaks, MacLachlan seems flat out miscast in it, and his internal monologues don’t work at all. Cramming the whole book in two hours doesn’t work either.
I don’t think it bombed because it was ahead of its time, or misunderstood, or because Dune is unfilmable – I think it bombed because it just wasn’t good, and it became "cult" like other weirdly bad movies, not because it’s a hidden gem or something.

I find it really funny that it’s hard to get a character in Smash, from a business point of view. Like, both the game and Nintendo are so popular that I don’t know how having your character in Smash can be something else than good publicity. What could be the potential downside, assuming the technical part (ie, making the character viable to play, which is probably really hard) is well done ?

I’m curious, what would you improve ? Since the Wii U version, I admit I struggle to see technical flaws in Smash – online issues aside.

This looks terrible. I thought Led Zeppelin was reluctant to license their music and here I am listening to Ramble On over the most generic boring-ass trailer I’ve seen in a while.

That trailer didn’t look that great to me, the Hell thingies look really awful. But why not.

Ghost of Tsushima would be nice

These PC ports are a pretty good move from Sony, I must admit. Kudos to them for that.

I think you’d say that people are crunching ? I don’t know but I’m pretty sure the folks at CD Projekt Red are still living it

A theory spread: Perhaps Herbert’s iconic sci-fi work was impossible to adapt into movie form. Nearly 40 years later, Denis Villeneuve’s attempt at Dune is earning the exact same reactions.

Seriously ? I love Lynch but his Dune is an absolute mess of a film that’s been sitting below 50% on RT – Lynch himself doesn’t really like it. Villeneuve’s Dune is at 88%. Having seen both, there’s no comparison possible IMO and I would say that it’s flat out factually wrong to say that both movies are "earning the exact same reactions". I get the criticism in the rest of the review (even though I don’t agree with it), but this opening paragraph is kind of weird.

I loved Arrival and BR, and I liked the universe of Dune from the books. I watched Dune in September (oddly, it came out a month ago in France) and I would say it’s on the level of BR – maybe slightly below Arrival which IMO is the best of the three. But it’s really excellent in every way in my opinion. Enjoy your watch, I hope you’ll have a great time !

Get ready for Splinter Cell Infinity: Battle Royale. It has outposts.

Uh, maybe I missed something but why do you assume the guy is dead ?

Thanks, that’s interesting

This is great and it seems like Valve is taking the Deck seriously but I wonder if there will be a way to just check which games of my current library from my PC are going to run on the Deck I’ll receive sometimes in 2022.

Donnie Darko seems weirdly out of place. Like, a Halloween movie just came out, but they went with Donnie Darko, a 20-year old movie. It’s cool, but weird.

I really don’t get the logic behind bundling the DLC with the online expansion pass

Then again, I rarely get Nintendo’s logic and I’ve been a customer for years