756: Bald Men Wearing Trash Bags

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Arrakis. Dune. Desert Planet. But maybe not the one you’re thinking of. In our own very peculiar way we honor David Lynch by discussing the feature film he probably liked the least, 1984’s “Dune.” Sting with a knife! Patrick Stewart riding a sandworm! How does it all compare with the modern version? Does it have its own special lower-budget charms? (Don’t mention the voiceovers…) What about the voiceovers? And how much does nostalgia fit into our appreciation of this movie?...

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0:51.9	The incomparable. Number 756, February 2025.
0:59.7	Welcome back, everybody to The Incomparable.
1:01.7	I'm your host, Jason Snell.
1:03.0	This episode is a tribute to a man who made many films, none he rejected more than this one.
1:14.8	But yet it is our tribute because it is in our wheelhouse in terms of the subject matter.
1:19.1	Yes, we could have done Mall Holland Drive, one of my daughter's favorite films, a very weird film.
1:24.4	There are so many, the elephant man erase her head, but no, we are
1:28.8	honoring the memory of the great director, David Lynch, by talking about his 1984 sci-fi flop that
1:36.7	he referred to specifically as him selling out. It's Dune.
1:45.4	I love David Lynch.
1:46.8	He's in this movie, by the way.
1:47.6	Did you notice?
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