589: Sometimes Beige Is Beautiful

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.7 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2021

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Put on your stillsuit and prepare your sand compactor. We’re venturing out into the uncharted deserts of Arrakis with “Dune,” Denis Villeneuve’s cinematic take on the oft-filmed Frank Herbert novel. We do some comparing and contrasting with David Lynch’s version, question whether this adaptation is for fans for for people who know nothing about “Dune”, and basically stare at a bunch of big spaceships hanging in the air. Denis Villeneuve knows what we like....

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 589, November 2021.
0:09.0	Welcome back, everybody to The Incomparable.
0:13.0	I'm your host Jason Snell.
0:14.0	We're going to talk about Dune.
0:17.0	Yes, Dune, not the book, not the sci-fi channel original miniseries, not the David Lynch film.
0:23.3	It's the Dennis Villanuf film from 2021.
0:27.5	All about Timothy Chalemay, Politrates, and his trip to the sand planet of Aracus, which they never call Dune, I believe, in the movie Dune.
0:39.7	Let me tell you who is here to talk about Dune with me.
0:42.8	Joe Rosenstiel joins us.
0:45.0	Joe, hello and welcome.
0:47.8	And do I have to spit somewhere?
0:52.3	Thank you for the gift of your water, Jason.
0:56.4	Well, of course, very much.
0:58.4	So Gene McDonald is also here.
0:59.6	Hello.
1:00.1	Hello.
1:01.0	Everything important happens when we are podcasting.
1:04.6	And yes, it's true.
1:06.4	And John Syracusa is also here.
1:09.3	Dreams or messages sent from the deep, John.
1:11.7	A beginning is a very delicate time, Jason. So here we are at the beginning.
1:16.7	At the beginning. So this is a, this is a movie based, the weight of this, right? Like multiple previous previous adaptations this book that is still people
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