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Dune Remake Could Mean 3D Sandworms
bowman9991 writes "The new Dune remake is becoming as epic as Frank Herbert's Dune series itself. Now that director Peter Berg has been ousted, new director Pierre Morel has decided to throw out Peter Berg's script entirely, starting afresh with his own ideas and vision. 'We're starting from scratch,' said Morel. 'Peter had an approach which was not mine at all, and we're starting over again.' Morel also reveals that 'It's the kind of movie that has the scope to be 3D.' He's also keen on sticking to the original material and recognizes that he must try to delete the images associated with David Lynch's 1984 version of Dune from the public's consciousness."
Once I sell all this Pets.com stock, I'm going to retire to LA and shop around my Illuminatus! Trilogy screenplay.
Populus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur...
"Force shits upon Reason's back." - Poor Richard's Almanac
Why would anyone with a healthy mind need someone writing down a “citation”?
In case we would not find that person credible, he would still be the only one stating that that citation is credible, in the first place.
Which is circular reasoning.
Also, since there are a 11 visible and more invisible hosts, wires, and editable databases between /. and me. Plus even more between you and /.. And our memory also is just a unsharp, twisted model of reality. Well, let’s say: What gave you the idea that anything on the net (or in the “media” in general) would be credible in the first place?
I a world, where you just can’t check anything for yourself, credibility depends on trust. Which depends on the ability to uniquely identify someone. Which is not existent on the non-encrypted and non-authenticated Internet.
Yes, somehow the Wikipedia guys think citations add credibility anyway. Because the main idea of Wikipedia is, that everyone is trustworthy to everyone. Which of course is bullshit, as proven by their own efforts to lock it down more and more, to protect against “vandals”. (Untrustworthy people. Untrustworthy to the established group.) But nonetheless, in such a world, one global reality is very near to being possible (apart from physical relativity). Which of course still is relative to that group.
So spare us the citations. They mean nothing, unless you cite someone that we personally trust, and that person verifies your story. :) :)
(Protip: The likeliness of both happening, is next to nil. So don’t bother.
And please, please don’t take that as as offense. I don’t mean that you, as a person, would not be credible. I just mean the text on my screen right now. Well... I think you understand. :)
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
just fucking skip the attempted nazi-ing all together. You'd look less like a jack ass, and save both of us some typing.
Although it does look like he could do with the practice... ;)
Ah HMMM, Grammar is spelling, and very little else. The little else is actually called "Syntax", not grammar. While not a grammar nazi, i am a grammarian with the degrees in linguistics to prove it. If you would like to go historical instead of hysterical we could talk about the very first book of English "grammer" (which would have been acceptable spelling at that time) which was in 1613 and was written by Ben Jonsen, the playwright. It was about 73 pages as I recall and was more than half devoted to ...... (drumroll please) spelling rules for English. So, consider yourself chastised and corrected, carefully place the duncehat on your cranium and sit in the corner.
Subversion of spatial scale luxury decoration ideas.
The basic problem with "Dune" today is that it predates the Gulf War. We know what "desert power" looks like now - M1A2 Abrams tanks and A10 Warthogs. There were worries back in 1991 that mechanized armies couldn't operate in the desert. Wrong. You go through more air filters. Some spare parts get used up. The tanks keep rolling. Remember those Iraqi solders in the first Gulf War who were all dug in, armed, and ready to fight? THe US sent in a line of tanks equipped with bulldozer blades, rolled over them, and buried them alive in sand. Being out in the open desert against a modern army is death. I don't care how good your knife fighters are.
And a giant sandworm with a big open mouth looks like a good RPG target.
There are insurgency tactics that work, but they depend on having a friendly population to hide in. They also require an opposition that doesn't consider extermination of the entire population in the area an option.