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amphibian, on 09 July 2026 - 05:50 PM, said:

You've made this statement multiple times and I still don't get it. Dune takes place tens of thousands of years in the future in a distant galaxy. Humans would no longer be even close to the easily distinct racial and country genetic makeup of earth now.

As such, the cast is just pretty typically diverse for a sci-fi fantasy movie - there are all colours and races repped by actors in the film, Caucasian, Black, East asian, Latino, Polynesian, Arab, ect. to show a human diversity. Why would MENA specifically be a thing in a far-flung future timeline where humanity has spread to the stars?

Primateus, on 09 July 2026 - 04:02 PM, said:

Oh, see I figured this was the point.

That the only competent person on the "bad" human side was Quaritch in the first one, everyone else including Parker on the company side made stupid decisions circling avarice. Which is why it feels so much like Edie Falco's General character is a moron here, caught up in exactly the things the stupid humans were in film 1...and Navii Quaritch tries to tell her and she refuses to listen. Even Parker in this one attempts to show them they are being morons, nada. Quaritch is even aware that the longer than Jake sits in the cell, the better his odds at escaping his fate...and what do you know, that's accurate. The marine biologist who frees him is like "This is dumb, this is a dumb way to colonize a world"...I think that's the intent. That most of humanity are either stupid or avarcisiouly trying to save what's left of earth. 20 billion people squabbling in the economic and environmental ruins of the planet, and their only hope is Pandora, a place that's getting harder and harder to conquer and they are getting more and more desperate to get it. I think that's why there are like 100 reporters there...humanity is on borrowed time, and humans en masse in a rush are panicky, stupid, and make boneheaded calls from desperation.

But I could be wrong. I do admit that there is a decent amount of repetition in the script for 3 from 1 and 2, but nothing that I felt was too egregious.

Now, I WILL say that the 4th movie needs to do something REALLY special to rise above this table setting. It can't be more of the same.

Finished THE THIRTEEN GUN SALUTE by Patrick O'Brian (books13 of the Aubrey & Maturin series). It was solid, but I must say the back half of the series has not been NEARLY as compelling and readable as the first ten books...they are still very decent and a step above most historical fiction out there, but you can feel the series is getting a bit thin on ideas at this point.

I want to finally read MORNING STAR by Pierce Brown, but I feel I wanted a GOLDEN SON refresher (as I took it out as a library book and rushed through it to be able to return it on time), so I'm listening to the full cast dramatization on Hoopla, and how did I NEVER put together that Darrow would have an Irish accent? LOL Anyways, it's awesome so far.

Tsundoku, on 09 July 2026 - 06:28 AM, said:

This is rage-bait ranting, tinged by right-wing clickbait...and if you need 30 minutes to make your point, you've lost me...and never mind that his thesis is deeply flawed by using pop culture media as a monolith to hammer at the point to begin with.

total nonsense.

EDIT: and I want to tear that fake beard off his face. It's stupid and distracting.

I'll stick to DamiLee on Youtube if I want longer form videos that dive into the realistic aspects of nerdy (through architecture).

I assume people have seen this, but here you go if you haven't. Looks as dope as the previous two films.