Crazy that we are about to enter an age where Dune is more popular than Star Wars.
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Crazy that we are about to enter an age where Dune is more popular than Star Wars.
Avatar is more popular than both of those combined
Lmao Avatar had zero cultural impact even though it sold like crazy
Avatar and star wars had kinder surprise toys, but dune I don't think had
Dune has the dunussy
I invited a girl to watch Dune (part 1 before we went to see part 2 in theatres) and she said she enjoyed it because it reminded her of Avatar which she likes
>Reluctant messiah figure comes to hostile new world and becomes leader of the native people, leading them in rebellion
Slightly different tone, however.
New dune movie also has zero cultural impact. It cant compare to lord of the rings or star wars
>muh cuberal imppac
hey remember that famous line that famous main character in Avatar said haha uh it was, um i-i don't remember, what was that famous line or the characters name?
Been more Dunc threads on this board alone in a day than Avatar ever had
avatar making the money it did, especially the sequel, is still absolutely baffling to me, I just can't get my head around it, I don't know anyone that's a genuine fan of it (abatap doesn't count) as a franchise the same way people talk about star wars or the mcu, cameron will just somehow not be denied his billions and it makes no sense.
>as a franchise the same way people talk about star wars or the mcu
Why do you have to be a "franchise" fan to go see a film at the cinema and go home? It's a success because it is exactly that, a visually engrossing blockbuster you can have a good time watching and then go home. You can also see it again for a nice thrillride, or take others to it. It doesn't mean you need to fill your home with Avatar Funko Pops and wear Avatar t-shirts all the time. You can watch a film, and leave it at that.
It’s because avatar isn’t a franchise or setting you’re a fan of, it’s an audiovisual experience that comes around once every 9 years at this rate. It’s like if a certain ride at Disneyland or six flags was only open for 4 months every 6 years, except you can somehow ride it in every state in the country. So everybody goes and rides the damn thing all at once to not miss out and then promptly goes back to not caring about it once they can’t ride it anymore.
It's because it's not a franchise that it was so successful. You don't have to be a "fan", anyone can go see it and enjoy the visuals and audio and old fashioned adventure story.
it's a blockbuster family adventure, most of them suck. cameron wins by defult
because they're fun escapist movies with a world you want to live in. Blockbusters used to be like this back in the 80s. If dune is a modern blockbuster then we're fricked.
Cinemaphile is the only place where I've ever seen anyone even mention Avatar.
how are y'all dune?
dune well
My Hero Academia is probably more popular than both. Saw a lot of zoomer kids wearing t-shirts
Already forgotten
Man frick you. First you tried comparing DUNCE to LotR, now you're going for star wars? Good luck.
Whatever, just keep lotr out of your fricking mouth.
Or what, punk? What are you gonna do to stop me, huh?
I'm not claiming that either are the most popular things of all times. I just found it funny how the roles are reversing over time. Star Wars upon its release immediately overshadowed Dune, which it borrows in many ways quite heavily from, and entrenched itself in pop culture with the broadest possible mainstream appeal. While Dune was always sort of popular, but mainly on the radar of the "weird" spectrum of society.
>movie overshadows a book
Apples and oranges you dunce.
You don't think they could have made a blockbuster movie trilogy out of Dune, two spin-off series and its own fashion line instead of exactly one early Westwood video game classic if the books had had a tiny bit more mainstream appeal?
dune doesnt work as a block buster a long running series would be much better since most of the plot of dune is people talking in rooms plotting revenge.
>>dune doesnt work as a block buster
And yet, here we are, with two blockbusters.
>And yet, here we are, with two blockbusters.
With more than half of the story and characters gutted.
Uh huh.
welcome to movies
Thats kinda my point lad keep up.
As did Jurassic Park and LOTR in their adaptation. Yet...
one good Jurassic park movie, and the hobbit movies prove lord of the rings were lightning in a bottle situation.
Movies I didn't mention have what to do with my post?
reading comprehension moron.
I mentioned Jurassic Park, and LOTR. I mentioned no other films. Those were what were relevant to my point.
>with two blockbusters.
Neither DUNC1 nor DUNC2 was a blockbuster.
What do you think that word means?
Pedantic moron homosexual
>giant scale, giant budget sci-fi epic
What do YOU think it means?
>giant scale, giant budget
Not the definition of blockbuster.
>films directed by james cameron
Some of them were, some of them were not.
>doesn't answer the question
It's in the name, anon.
>Neither DUNC1 nor DUNC2 was a blockbuster.
correct
>What do you think that word means?
films directed by james cameron
It’s when a real estate agent scares home owners into selling their homes for less than the market value by scaring them at blacks are going to move in.
Literally the plot of DUNC
In a different universe we would be fighting now whether the Brianverse or the Herbertverse is canon in the longrunning Dune franchise. No Star Wars, no Star Trek. Just Dune.
Pretty sure even the star wars tie in books were overshadowing Dune at one point.
Apples and oranges you dunc.
Even Halo is more popular than Shit Wars now.
But would you have been able to guess back then which of the two would be more openly gay?
shart wars is too popular as is for the quality of media it puts out
Bruh, its barely doing better than Solo. Its doing worse when adjusted for inflation.
>Next Dune product is Dune: Prophecy, which is an all female show, where they actually fired the DUNC screenwriter explicitly because he was a man.
Dune is going to crash ever harder than Star Wars.
Sounds crazy but I believe in that one. Dune is the exactly right setting for the psychotic bitter women mindset
>Sounds crazy but I believe in that one.
Fricking Brian Herbert shill. Go back to /r/eddit where you belong.
Dune crashed the moment Frank Herbert died and his son decided to take a swing at things. Honestly, if you think the Star Wars EA ruined the original series, you haven't seen what the Dune EA has pulled off.
dune fell off before herby died. heretics and chapterhouse are not canon imo.
What was bad about Sisterhood of Dune anyway
Enjoy it while it lasts because john carter of mars and lensman are making a big comeback in the 2030s
John Carter on mars is not pc enough for current audiences
just neuter john and make it about dejah thoris
LONG LIVE THE FIGHTERS
Why do normalgays suddenly like Dune? They didn't seem to care about the first one
To be honest the second one is better
Because it came out during COVID, during the day and date theater and Max release period, and while being well received and overall a success particularly at the Oscars, it more built up a following from its quality and more timeless kind of story in the next three years. Dune Part 2 is also more generally action heavy without the need for setup, albeit much darker than the first film, and marketing made for an exciting and visually impressive film that stood out from a deluge of shallow and ugly fake looking blockbusters in the past several years, so the hype was much higher. It also has a cast of current stars who are only bigger names since the first half.
Films don't have to be instant megahits to become popular and well liked.
getting your holes filled with goo in an alley is more popular than star wars
Then how come Dune Part 2 is still making far less money than dogshit like The Rise of Skywalker?
Disney always manipulates their numbers anon. Remember Captain Marvel where Disney was buying tickets to their own movie?
>Disney always manipulates their numbers anon.
lol sure. Then why did they stop doing that now that everything they put out is flopping?
No, because that never happened, anon. It was just cope you invented because your doom and gloom predictions for Captain Marvel didn't pan out.
the world is healing
>bastardizing the book in feminist franchise slop is "healing"
Dune isn't anywhere near as popular as Star Wars.
DUNCtards right now are trying to pretend that a 500M box office (which is massively bolstered by extra expensive overlength IMAX screenings by the way) somehow makes it a cultural phenomenon. But the only Star Wars that's done worse than it is fricking Solo.
It got beaten by Kung Fu Panda 4 two weeks in a row at the box office now. Next weekend, another Godzilla/Kong flick releases, and that franchise handily beat DUNC1 back in 2021.
DUNCtards celebrate an upcoming streaming series that is 100% based on Brian Herbert's shitty fanfiction. And they see nothing wrong with that. This is the kind of "fanbase" Villeneuve has cultivated.
Feyd was the only fun character
Dune is kind of what people would have hoped the sequels might be.
Both movies combined made less money than the fricking rise of skywalker
how do we pronounce Dunc?
Dünck
Yall invited as well to Feyd-Rauthas birthday? You going?
Feyd and his cannibal GFs are the only memorable thing in the movie and will become the hot new cosplay
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And its not even a good adaptation. The 80s one is still better.
I really want to read Dune because I'm genuinely interested to see where the story goes but my attention span is so fricked and no matter how much I want to read something I'd rather spend my time playing a game or watching a movie with my minimal spare time how do I overcome this? I want to read up to God Emperor because I hear shit gets fricking crazy
listen to the audiobook before bed
Are there actual dune audiobooks? Last time I checked there was just some shitty one for the first dune book read by the movie cast and it was hard to follow and was messy as frick.
>Cringe personal answer
I find reading books while taking a bath much more relaxing and I can concentrate more
>Non-cringe answer
You could try audiobooks and only listen during things like commute to work or lunch break. This will take a lot longer though.
I wish I had a bathtub, place I've lived in the past 5 years only has a standing shower
It's not Dune anymore, it's DUNC!
really? didn't know the normans like it
>where Dune is more popular than Star Wars
rightfully so.