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phr0nesis:
I hated part 1 so I didn't bother watching part 2. I heard it's the highest grossing animation ever

That title goes to Lion King

oyetpel:
I think I can answer No. 1 and 3

1) The Harkkonen are not evil, even though they rule Arrakis with a very strict and often cruel way.
They preside over Arrakis with order from the Emperor. The Emperor is like the overall ruler in the universe, and anybody from a great house can become an Emperor, but House Currino have been ruling as Emperor for years.
Now, Duke Atreides is becoming successful and the Emperor fear that Duke's success and developed influence may hinder him in decision making. Heck with Duke's influence in the Laadsrad (like a senate of great houses), he could overthrow the Emperor.
So, the Emperor's solution to stopping the rise of Duke was planned.
House Atreides and House Harkkonen have a long standing hatred for each other. So the Emperor did as if he collected dune from House Harkkonen to give House Atreides, but it was an attempt to destroy House Atreides, in that if House Harkkonen was to wage war against House Atreides it will be seen as a result of their past hatred for each other.
And so it will not seem as if its the Emperor that wants to personally destroy Duke because if the Laadsrad find out the Emperor did such, they can impeach him.


3) You see, the Bene Gesserit are magical and powerful, and they are also part of government.
Dune is set like 10,000 years after the current year we are in, computers are wiped out. So human beings with special powers are the ones doing the work of computers, and each are trained by different organisations and assigned to great houses. E.g Mentat (Thufir Hawat, he is like the computer brain of House Atreides) ordinary human being cannot do his work.
Now, spice is a substance that heightens the abilities of these special people.
Now, understand that Paul Atreides is like 14-15 years old in the setting of this movie.

The parts that one cannot learn in the movie is that;
*The mother Bene Gesserit is the mother of Lady Jessica (Paul's mother)

*Vladimir Harkkonen is the father of Lady Jessica.

The Bene Gesserit believes they have solution to their universe problems, so they started a breeding exercise to bring forth to the world a MESSIAH.
In the course of this breeding arrangement, the Mother Bene Gesserit went to Vladimir Harkkonen to sleep with him but the child had deformity and it was killed. She later went to Wladimir Harkkonen to mate again, but he was under alcoholic influence I think, so he raped Mother Bene Gesserit and she placed a curse on him, which made him so obese that he had to implant endoskeleton tech to be able to move and float.
Now the child as a result of the rape is Lady Jessica.

Obviously Duke Atreides has a wife before, but because of their breeding program the Bene Gesserit must have made Lady Jessica seduced Duke to get entangled with him. In line with this, Lady Jessica was to give birth to a daughter whom when old enough will be married to another great house male child to continue breeding till they get that 'ONE' (Kwisatz Haderach).
So assuming Lady Jessica gets pregnant, once she notice it's a boy she will have to terminate it.
But Lady Jessica first child was a boy (Paul), so she decided to keep it. And she also had that personal believe that the Kwisatz Haderach was Paul reason she didn't terminate Paul.
But the Bene Gesserit also saw signs that Paul had the qualities of being 'the One' but because they had not reached their full planned breeding, they believe the arrival of Paul as the ONE was too early and might cause problems for them.
Reason why the Mother tested Paul with the Gom Jabber, assuming Paul could not withstand that unimaginable pain, he would have been killed right there.

Duke Atreides bought Lady Jessica.
Duke Atreides has never been married before mainly because he wants to keep the possibility open that he could marry into another Nobel house as a political strategy.
The Gom jabbar test is administered to everyone with a Bene Geserrit training.
The lady Jessica also underwent the test.

I just wish the eviction was based on a physical task.

This feels incredibly anti climatic

Why did they evict 2 people?

Tapout:
Why are they using ma & sir, they couldn't come up with an alternative alias ni? The show really looks like it was rushed.

As in eh
The sir and ma no make sense

A well deserved eviction

Toke's performance feels so unnatural

Why do they call Toke "Ma" ?
It feels so weird

Rossycee:
This season's GUS doesn't look like a live show..
It looks like it's been preshot

It can't be live nah.
What we're seeing is an edited version of what happened within the week

Why are some people on helmet while some are not wearing it?

oyaskii:
These are some of the indie gems i have enjoyed over the years...fest and enjoy.

Searching (2016)
Private Life (2018)
Fences (2016)
Enough said (2013)
Marriage Story (2019)
One Day (2011)
Blindspotting (2018)
The Farewell (2019)
Thunder Road (2018)
Short Term Twelve (2013)
The Glass Castle (2017)
Becks (2017)
Stronger (2017)
Manchester by the Sea (2016)
Waves (2019)
Ex Machina (2015)
Midsommar (2019)
Eddie the Eagle (2016)
Rust and Bone (2012)
Philomena (2015)
Hell or High water (2016)
Ali's Wedding (2017)
Wind River (2017)
The Father (2020)
A separation (2011)
Tallulah (2017)

Three billboards outside Ebbing Missouri

Kaycee7:
Atomic Blonde was a feminist movie?

The world view of some people just tire me.

In their head, a female lead in a movie = feminist propaganda.

Thanks to trolls.
I wonder why rotten tomato allows people to rate movies before the movie is out in theaters

abduleez1:
Sheesh.....and it's ROTTEN!!


An MCU first.....

Righteousness2:
This is God's Standard of Creation. GOD did not create anyone to be Intersex. GOD is not a Confusionist.

Genesis 1:26-27
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Any other thing is an act of the Enemy Probably due to Foundations, Curses, Entanglements with demonic Kingdoms, Marine Powers, etc
If the such persons submits to GOD Genuiely , HE will step in and rectify the abnormally .

A lot of your comments on Nairaland usually betray that fact that you have a very shallow understanding of some biblical passages.

When the Bible says that man is made in the image of God, it doesn't mean that our body looks like God, because God is not a physical being.
Our spirt is what resembles God.

In your opinion God did not create intersex people so who did?
Also who created people with a stammer?
How did people who have 3, 4, or 6 fingers in one hand come about?
Where do conjoined twins come from?
I could go on and on.

Where are they filming this GUS?

Toke Makinwa just dey cash out any how on top reality show

the task sounds easy but to execute am Na war

delt2010:
Why is this year's GUS only a weekend show ?
Does it men the participants are off during week days then return to the Jungle for the show by weekend.

Was it ever shown daily when it was on air before

phr0nesis:
Yes. Like a prequel

Does it have zombies

Is this movie in the same universe as Army of the dead?

phr0nesis:
6/10

Kaycee7:
*sings* Nevermind, I'll slap someone like you

You wan make your hand wither?

The queen of boring music

abduleez1:
Phenomenal God tier LEGENDARY Masterpiece!!!

what's in the box?

PAIN

mannatech:
Courtesy demands that you explain to the person while you want to seat by the window.
No be my papa car wey I wan draw seat on top.
Plus here in Abuja, na one chance Mo be that

Well, your point register well.

Lol
Which courtesy?
She owes you no explanation.
Abi you wan pay for her tp?

The same police they are using to oppress op should come and look into it abi?

Elsueno:


Op most have gotten Seriously threatened, This even more than confirm d company is very shady....The EFCC or the police intelligence unit need to really look into it.. something is very very fishy

DUNE 2021.
I loved it.
the acting was great.
The cinematography was breath taking.
the location was mostly on a desert planet, but somehow the director managed to make it was riveting to watch.
the lore is rich and makes you want to know more about this universe.

Its really a great movie overall.
having heaped all theses praises on the movie, I still have other things to say about it.
I would describe Dune as a 2.3hours of setup and world building. I feel that this project would have been better as a series than a movie.
imagine what Game of Thrones would have been like if it was a movie.
heck, this movie doesn't even ends. it just stops. at the end, you're like 'is that it'?
i wish they had more run time to tell the story that wanted to tell.

i also felt like the used Zendeya in a click baity way.
the trailer gave the impression that she would be more prominent in the movie. but she just appears mostly in dream sequences which is kind of a let down.

i cant wait for sequel. though I've downloaded the audio book for the first novel. lets see how that goes.
8/10

Calibrator:
I see people calling me out for calling Dune plot generic.

Their only defense is that the book is this and that..... The book is not in contention here, I rated the plot of the movie based on my own personal opinion which last I checked, I was still entitled to.

Perhaps the movie makers should have elaborated more on the underlying peculiarities of the whole storyline instead of making the whole movie a weak plotted B-movie with top tier visual effects and A-cast.





Don't know when watching movies became a strenuous project where I have to spend days, weeks or even months reading series of books because I want to understand a movie of less than 3 hours.
If I had applied such dedication to my academics, will I be so poor here today ravaging the high seas before watching blockbusters?



Let's all be guided please!

I haven't seen anyone say that the plot of Dune is generic, but if they say so I would understand.
Dune revolutionized sci-fi and story telling in a lot of way and I would say that the situation has come full circle.
Dune started a lot of things that we have come to consider as tropes today but back in the day when the book were written, those ideas were very fresh.
For instance, if you watched Seinfeld today, you may come to the conclusion that a lot of the jokes in the series are predictable or generic. in hindsight sight, this may seem to be true, but when Seinfeld was airing on TV, it innovated a lot of things that we have come to consider as tropes or just plain generic.

A potential haven for racists and white supremacist

Why does my Adventures with Superman look like anime.

Kaycee7:
The animated movie and series lineup has me salivating

Mr. Terrific the 3rd smartest man alive makes stupid arguments
Another injustice rant.
The scene where Mr Terrific and Superman were playing chess was supposed to be a deeply philosophical argument that will demonstrate Mr Terrific’s superior intellect and reasoning ability, but in reality, the arguments that Mr T came up with very silly and riddled with logical fallacies
When I was watching the movie, I thought Superman would have challenged him, but for some reason, this never happens, probably because the writers really wanted to side with batman et al.

Now let’s unpack this stupid pseudo-intellectual conversation masquerading as a perspicacious tete a tete.

So Superman says I want to get rid of gun because that this will result in saving a lot of lives on a daily basis and Mr T says that just because we can do something does not mean we should. He then cites the example of cigarettes killing people.
This is a very stupid point to bring up.
People who smoke are choosing to harm themselves unlike the way guns exist to mostly harm other people. Even if you bring up the concept of 2nd hand smoke, there are legislations against smoking in public. So this is in reality a non sequitur.

Mr T then goes forward to say, imprison anyone who speeds.
This is also another stupid point to bring up in response to getting rid of guns.
the law already imprisons people who over speed and there’s no way to fully prevent people from over speeding and when they do so, punishments for this already exists, there is no logical reason for Superman to intervene in this case.

Lock up anyone who leaves any dangerous dog unchained. Lol. As if unchained dogs does anywhere near the damage that guns do.

And finally he bring up recycling. Like WTF.
All these defenses don’t make sense.

Imagine if the president says I want to revolutionize the healthcare sector and offer free health care to all and then someone says what about education as a reason why reforms should not be made to healthcare.
TL; DR
Mr Terrific is dumb and makes stupid arguments.

oyaskii:
Finally got to see Dave Chappelle's "The Closer" and while it felt more like a social commentary than an actual stand up, i thought it was a brilliant work of art and so i am out here wondering why it was generating this much smoke in the LGBTQ community. It still has me baffled. All his jokes and opinions about these people have always been centred around the racial injustice as against the rights of LGBTQ. Comedy is clearly not for the person reading other meanings to what Dave rant about these people, I have seen alot of stand ups and i have heard worse than these jokes. Would it still have generated this much smoke if Dave was White? I doubt it. We can all joke about God, Allah, Muslim been terrorist, Preachers been molesters etc and everybody has a laugh and sing kumbaya, but when a single joke is said about the LGBTQ community, their ears suddenly become brittle?.

Dave said it best in "Equanimity" when he said "If my jokes makes you wanna beat up a transgender, then you probably a trash person in the first place and you shouldn't come to my show anymore". So these people should take a chill pill and reflect on what is really bothering them.

YES. Even more so