*Cate Blanchett voice*
The world has changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. Much that once was, isn't. And much that is, wasn't. It began with the forging of the great rings. Three were given to the elves, gracile twinks. Seven to the dwarves, great bears and leathermen. And nine to mortal men, who above all desire dominance and submission. But they were all of them deceived.
storytime, cats and food
years and years ago, I was in a relationship. The relationship came with two cats. Pepper adored chicken, enough that you couldn't cook it without her showing up to yell at you to give you some. You couldn't even SAY "chicken" or she'd come running and yell at you; we started saying "poultry" or "bird."
She was kinda picky about food she thought was weird.
Me and the ex bought a cornish game hen to give her. Our opinions were evenly split whether faced with apparently an entire chicken all her own, Pepper would be utterly blissed out, or whether she'd turn her nose up and yell at us about giving her whatever it was that smelled like chicken.
But then life happened, and we never got around to cooking her cornish game hen as an experiment before she lost her eyesight thanks to age.
coyote sing along hour, depressive lyrics
time is my friend
till it AIN'T and runs out
and that is all that I have till I'm gone
try to build a home, bones of birds
singing in the cold and fall to earth
hey
sometimes
she won't cry
when the smallest one is drowned
too weak to survive, too weak to survive.
Probably. Maybe.
I think the added paintings and dialogue at the beginning could have been rolled into Princess Irulan's opening monologue. Romance is definitely the weak point of this movie, where Duke Leto's love for Lady Jessica shows through mostly in pillow talk where she insists they're destined to get it on and get knocked up this particular evening, and Paul's love for Chani is mostly another predestined thing.
So that was the extended David Lynch Dune and the added sequences were fairly hit and miss with me. Parts at the start with the Emperor, Liet-Kynes brokering an agreement with the Fremen, making the Water of Life and more about how to ride sandworms REALLY gave more information about the setting and story. Thufir Hawat’s death doesn’t sit great but it IS a resolution to that plot point. The rest I don’t feel brought that much more to the movie.
They keep having Gurney give dramatic speeches. Like they were “hey we hired this Shakespearean actor we need to do something with him other than wander around with a guitar.”
Do do doot nothing suspicious at all about this GS 12 from FWS giving little hand signals openly to the heavily armed locals.
Lots of random gunk, but some drawings and cooking talk too. Obsesses about DnD and related topics. Left-leaning/profoundly frustrated politics. Black lives matter; trans rights are human rights.
Occasionally NSFW art and discussion, please do follow if you're 18+.