Free With Ads - Dune (1984)

Episode Date: April 22, 2025

This week we are dune something we've always wanted to be dune! The free movie gods must have been dune us a solid when they made David Lynch's Dune (1984) free with ads and now we're dune you the favor of talking about it. Stop what you're dune and listen to it!Tune in next week when our movie will be... The Talented Mr. Ripley-----Jordan contributed to Godzilla vs LA, a comic book anthology which comes out April 30th and all the proceeds will go to those affected by the LA fires. Matt Lieb and Francesca Fiorentini will be in San Francisco at Cobb's Comedy Club on May 7th! Buy tickets here! Jordan Morris appearances and dates!4/26 - Peninsula Libraries Comic and Arts Fest, Library Parks and Recreation Center South San Francisco. 4/30 - Collectors paradise North Hollywood. 5-7pm , Nicole Goux and Gabriel Hardman5/2 - Litfest in the Dena Pasadena Presbetarian Church 6:30pm - 7:30pm with Yehudi Mercado, Sara Phoebe Miller, Eliot Kalan5/3 - Things from another world Universal Citywalk - 2-4pm5/10- Mission Comics in SF with Briana Lowenson.

It's Free With Ads, the podcast that asks the question, why pay max ten bucks a month to watch those new Dune movies when you can go online for free and watch the 1984 version of this sci-fi classic that tells the tale of Paul Atreides, who would become Moaddeep and later Kwisatz Haderach, the prophesized Lysan Al-Ghlyb, who would ride the shy Haluud. If that seemed overwhelming, don't worry, the movie won't really explain any of it. I'm Jordan Morris. And I'm Emily Fleming. Today's movie is the original film adaptation of Dune, directed by my favorite David Lynch. And it may be harder to follow than the reboot, but has more scenes of Sting emerging from chambers

wearing metal Speedos. With, as always, a super producer, Matt Hittness with those spicy drops. I will kill you. I will kill him. What's up, everyone? It's me, Lee-san Al-Mat-Lib. Ha ha ha.

Yes. Hell yeah. Matt, I wouldn't be surprised if you, like, had read every giant Dune book. Am I wrong? Am I clocking you wrong there? Well, no. So you are wrong, technically, because I've only read the first one.

And the only reason I didn't read the rest of them is because I had a very good friend have a very good friend who told me just read the first one you don't want to get into the rest you're not gonna like it and it's gonna lead nowhere and it's just gonna make you angry so can I ask you a question yes Matt? Yes. Is this movie the first book, or is he summarizing the entirety of Dune? It's the first book. It's, yeah, just like the Dune part one, Dune part two by Denis Villeneuve, or however you pronounce it.

Good pronunciation. No, I think that was correct. It was perfect. That's the correct pronunciation. I put stank on it for no real reason. I guess there's some things that are in this that I haven't seen in the other two that we saw the new ones. Yeah I mean there was I I feel like the they were incredibly similar which I was surprised by but uh I mean does it end with Paul Atreides becoming himself a sandworm who becomes the emperor? No, it doesn't. So therefore, it's just the first book.

Okay. Okay. Okay, well, yeah, guys, we'll get into it. But first, before we talk about this movie, which is as of this recording, streaming free with ads, we're gonna talk about something else we saw for free on the internet this week. Other free stuff.

Emily, you got something for us, what is it? Okay, so I know that we love adding Godzilla noises to music because it makes it better. Right. Yes, and it makes our lives better. Everyone knows that, that's just a truism at this point. We can, you know, that's just a truth that everyone has accepted. It feels good. Yes.

We found this out because of the Godzilla 1998 soundtrack with Brain Stew. Was it Brain? It was Brain Stew. Yeah, Brain Stew and the Godzilla sound. But I think that maybe, he's a fictional beast, you know, Godzilla. Sure.

Okay, okay, okay. Maybe beasts of like, beasts of reality nature could also enhance music. So I have an example here if you'd like to play it. Have you ever wondered what Party in the USA by Miley Cyrus would sound like if it was recorded by a bunch of bees? Have you ever wondered what Party in the USA by Miley Cyrus would sound like if it was recorded by a bunch of bees?

It's pretty good. Let's hear it again. Wow. Emily, who has done this? So I saw that video posted by Frida Oliver 217 on Instagram. And I'm having a hard time finding the name of the guy who did the song, but that's where I saw it on Instagram. So, you know, if you find the guy who did it, let us know. Yeah.

Um, but yeah, I was just like, maybe bees are the new Godzilla. I don't know. Yeah. There is, uh, there is a heavy metal band called K9s, where the lead singer is a dog. It's just these guys with long hair who go on stage and go, and the dog just barks and that's the show. I think there's one with a falcon where it's just that,

but a falcon screeches. I love that the animals don't know that they're in a band. Yeah. Yeah the animals I mean you wonder how many of them are start off doing it for a treat and How many of them end up doing it because they just love being adored by millions of fans across the country I think dogs love having jobs. I think that too. I think dogs are a very job-focused animal. Lead singer of a metal band. Yeah. And I guess falcons do too.

I guess falcons like to get something and then land on your little glove. Sure. That's the laziest animal. Probably a pigeon, right? You can't get a pigeon to do shit. No, that's not true. They will home.

You can home a pigeon. Yeah You can't I mean is a sloth one. I honestly think they're not lazy I think they're working really hard, but unfortunately they are slow. I guess challenges. They just have natural challenges They are the adhd kids of the animal kingdom. Like I guess what i'm asking is who's the most unemployable animal? Like who you know they show up for a job interview and you're just like I don't know if this guy snail Snail yeah snail can't really do shit all those Tasmanian devil. Yeah Yes, I'm assuming they act like the Warner Brothers. I've never actually seen one. Yeah, he can't get anything done. Yeah

He's always turning into a what do you call them? Tornado. Yeah, that's right hard to restock the shelves at Costco when you're swirling around Fitting everywhere, but I would have challenged you Matt To maybe in the future find maybe another animal sound that makes something rock so hard. Absolutely. Absolutely. I, I, I, after hearing this bees thing, I'm inspired.

Cause I'll tell you, I don't know why, but that colony of bees doing Miley Cyrus is the funniest thing I've heard. Well, here's another idea that maybe at the end of this we can do that little Clip of party in the USA with the bees But then also do it with Godzilla and compare and let's see what we think we can always try it out Yeah, what if the bees beat Godzilla dude, then we have to start doing more movies about bees That's what yeah, that's what that's what bees and Macaulay Culkin from My Girl have in common.

Oh shit, well I have to start doing My Girl. I saw Macaulay Culkin last night. Oh shit, how's he doing? He looks great, he was at Foreman's Bar in Toluca Lake. Cool. Hell yeah. It's a fun place to hang out. Good for him. Yeah.

Well hey, speaking of hanging out, we're about to hang out on the planet, Arrakis with the gang from Dune. Yeah, let's check it. So Matt, we know you've read the original Dune book. Emily, have you read any of these? Have you seen the reboots? I've seen the reboots.

I have not read any of those. Those are pretty intimidating books. Yeah, they're huge books. And I, you know, as a, when you were growing up a nerd, people shove things at you constantly during birthdays. With me, it was Lord of the Rings and Dune, and I never liked any of these. They're just too huge.

It's like, it took me a while to appreciate hard sci-fi and fantasy. I like them now, but I did not like them as kids. As a kid. Fair enough, fair enough. Yeah, so I had not ingested any Dune media until I kind of like got interested in David Lynch in my 20s and I'm like, oh, watch Dune. And yeah, so I've seen this movie a couple times

and I've seen the reboots, which I like, but like I admire them more than I love them. You know, they're like, they're very beautiful and cool, but they're kind of cold. So anyway, that's- Yeah. This is my first time seeing the David Lynch one. Oh cool. And I gotta say I was Shocked at how much I loved it. Yeah People I mean it has it has a reputation of being a bad movie

And I think that's why I avoid it for so long. It is not a bad It is not an insane movie with problems, but it's not bad Yeah, great way to describe it Yeah, and and in terms of like, you know the time period or you know, it was made came out what 1984? 84 just in terms of the practical effects. I was like, oh I very much enjoy watching Dune with practical effects. It was, I loved it, I loved it. Yeah, it's hard to believe that it was made by David Lynch.

It has more of a Terry Gilliam vibe for me. 100%. Who I also love, but it's fun to me imagining him being frustrated on set. Yeah. Like, god damn it. You're the Lee Sun Al-Ghaib, god damn it. You're the Lee son, Al Gaib. God damn it. You'll never ride the shy Halu.

Picture heart picture heart and ride the shy Halued. I love his little cameo in it, too. Me too. Yeah. When? Oh, yeah. He's the guy. He's one of the guys who is like he has to abandon one of the spice mines at the very beginning because there's a shyhulud showing up And he's like but we can't it's got all the spice and that was him. That's him

Yeah, I love it I love it when he acts especially in his own stuff because David Lynch looks like a guy that David Lynch would cast in a David Lynch Yes, like his one of one of the great mean, there are many things that are brilliant about David Lynch, but his casting is so good. He finds the most compelling weirdos. And yeah, like he is one of them. He looks like a guy he would cast. And I loved him in The Fablemen, his little thing in The Fablemen.

Oh my god. I didn't know he was going to be in it, and I saw that in the theaters, and I like shrieked like a little girl. I know, that's such a great part. Massive respect for Steven Spielberg for casting David Lynch in that role. I know, it's perfect. What's everybody's favorite David Lynch movie? Oh, mahal and drive.

That's pretty tough. I think that Wild at Heart is the one like right now. Me too. Me too. Wild at Heart is so great. But I think Lost Highway sometimes I'm like, God, that movie just stays with me in my brain. But I'm a Twin Peaks fan and I think Fire Walk with me has got to be number one. You like Fire Walk with me. Okay. I love it. And people think there's something very wrong with me that I like it Cuz it's so

But I gotta say this this kind of This might be my favorite David Lynch movie now Wow, I know I know I'm doing ratings too early, but I'm just like damn I really I was shocked at how much I enjoyed it. Cool, cool, I'm stoked. Well yeah, let's talk about what actually happens in Dune. All right, but first I gotta play a thing. Oh sure, oh you gotta sing. It's Dune Sting time. Okay.

Yeah, I like Dune. Dune, your mom. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Fun, something for the folks at home to really appreciate the impact of that. Matt recorded that, he didn't just the impact of that. Matt recorded that. He didn't just do it live, but that did that in advance. I did. I know.

I did it in advance. Here's the thing. I was like, I'm going to fuck up the timing. So why don't I just record it in the studio? You know, turn up the monitor. The studio. I went to the studio. I drove to Hollywood. Wow. I said, capital records. You went to the Capitol for it? I went to the studio. I drove to Hollywood. I said, move over. Capital Records.

You went to the Capital Records building. That's right. I was like, move over, Aerosmith guys. I got to record the sting. I have a drop. Phil Spector's going to produce it. That's right. That's right.

Where's your wall sound? OK, well, yeah. Let's talk about what happens in Dune. We get a big ol' exposition dump from a space princess. Boy, she's sure compelling. I'm sure we'll find out a lot about her later. We don't, she's just kinda standing around in the background.

Anyway, she explains. It is the year 10191. And in this world, the most precious resource is spice. The spice melange. It grows on the planet Arrakis, also known as Dune. I'm gonna, this is a challenge for me, it's like, can I explain the backstory of Dune? Like my job on this show is to like summarize the movie.

Like this is my greatest challenge yet. What happens in Dune? And also fucking Dune Dune guys don't get in my comments correcting me I'm sure there's a prequel book that explains this shit, and I didn't read anyway Take a rest Dune guys in my comments David Lynch did it for us, and he didn't want to do it either He kinda did it This is just a bunch of yeah, he filmed it. This is just a bunch of, yeah. He filmed a bunch, he certainly filmed a bunch of things.

Yeah. So, okay, spice. It's the most precious resource in the galaxy. It's because it is used by the navigators. They are these mutants who, when they ingest spice, it's like a drug. They can use it to fold space and power like the space armies.

So, as she's explaining this, she starts to fade away, like it's her silhouette, you know, not her silhouette, but it's like her kind of top half floating in space. She starts to fade away and then she says, oh, I forgot, and then she comes back into focus. It's the funniest thing. I wish this movie had more gags like that. It's so funny it's such this kind of space balls-y

kind of joke. Anyway, she explains the rest of the shit on Arrakis. There's so funny it's such this kind of space ball Z kind of joke. Yeah. Anyway, she explains the rest of the shit on Arrakis. There's a race of people called the Fremen and they think a messiah is coming. But it's also like it's she's breaking the fourth wall. Because she already knows everything. And who's she talking to?

Who are we? Are we in this world? Like it's kind of weird. Yeah, I don't know. Because it's like the opposite of a crawl. Well, yeah, that's the thing. They're doing the Star Wars crawl. You can tell that this movie was very inspired by Star Wars, which is funny because Star

Wars was very much inspired by Frank Herbert's Dune. And so it starts off with, oh, instead of just some text, we're going to get like a hot lady to talk about it. Now, if you're a big dune head, I'm sure you know who this lady is. I do not. She probably has a 1,000 page book about her. Yeah.

I'm sure she's awesome. Well, I think she's the Florence Pugh character. Right? Yeah, right. That's right. She's the Florence Pugh character. She's got to be. And it's interesting because, yeah,

like some of the characters you see like little bits of in this movie because, you know, the Villeneuve movies are, you know, they have six hours to tell the story. You get some like better backstory on some of these people. And yeah, she's she's one of them.

Totally. But anyway, yeah. So, yeah, so she kind of gives us the big info dump, the Star Wars crawl. We get the credits where I learned music by Toto. she kind of gives us the big info dump the Star Wars crawl We get the credits where I learned music by Toto. I kind of forgot that about this Toto did the music to this Yeah, no way. I'm sure someone has done. I missed the rains down in Arrakas Oh, if they have not well also I dream of rain Oh, that's right. Absolutely. He's also he's also here mm-hmm yeah I was like I love that he's in this. It all comes together. I know. You think Sting was mad that Toto did the music?

I bet that he was and that's why he did so many crunches. Just anger crunches. His abs were insane in this movie. So okay, so our opening scene, it's the emperor of the galaxy, and the guild navigator comes to visit him. The navigators are very cool looking. They're big puppets. They look like lungs with a little vagina in the middle. They sure do. And we get to look like lungs with a little vagina in the middle.

Sure do. And we get to see them fly around a little bit later, they have a big tail, big old practical puppet, looks really cool. They kind of look like a grown up eraser head baby. Yeah. Yeah, that's right. And I'm sure that's why they wanted David Lynch to do this

because those early Lynch movies have all those weird puppets. I learned boning up for this, they wanted him to direct direct Return of the Jedi, and he turned it down for this. Can you imagine Return of the Jedi directed by David Lynch? Fucking wild. Yeah, I'm trying to imagine if it would be good

or too bleak. Well, I'll tell you this much. People shit on Return of the Jedi. If you had to be there to hate it, I think Where it's like all of us come from a younger generation. I love it. That was like my favorite Star Wars movie But I think at the time it was like the Ewok's are for babies, right? And I was like, that's fine. I'm a baby Yeah, no, I'm great. I love those little guys Yup nub. Yup nub indeed.

Listen, if they have the Ewok movies become free with ads, I would... That'd be fun. I loved those movies. So keep that on the radar. But yeah, I think David Lynch would have crushed Return of the Jedi, but I'm glad he did Dune. I'm glad. Yeah, me too. What he did do? I'm glad to. Yeah. Me too. Yeah.

So yeah, so we get another, oh, also I should mention that the emperor of the galaxy, he has kind of a, his advisors are witches. They're these kind of like bald women in these kind of crazy cloaks. I think they're wearing the worst hat. The worst hat. Agreed.

It's kind of just this kind of like half dome that kind of their bald heads stick up from. It's not that good, it's a bad hat. Agreed. It's kind of just this kind of like half dome that kind of their bald heads stick up from. It's not that good, it's a bad hat. Yeah. We learned a lot, there's a lot of info dumps in this movie. We learned that there's a feud between House Atreides and House Harkonnen. So it's kind of, you know, there's three planets

that we're kind of following. And on House Atreides, they're the good guys. That's where Paul Atreides lives. You can tell they're the good guys. That's where Paul Atreides lives. You can tell they're the good guys because they're so handsome and they're not doing evil laughs. Yeah. You can tell that.

And they're not constantly sucking the nutrients out of animals. Right, yeah, you can tell that the Harkonnen are bad because they're always killing people and pulling out people's heart plugs, you know? Yeah, that's a good indicator that someone's bad. I think this is probably the coldest take joke about Dune, but I think worth saying that it is so funny

in this far off galaxy in the year 10,000 where everyone is named like Gurney Halcock and Fade Rautha, the main guy's name is Paul. Yeah, yeah, and one of his best you know, best friends is Duncan, Idaho. Duncan, Idaho. Yeah. I know some weird, some weird name in here. I got to say that like the you know, there's certain words that make me hungry and stuff that I do know that I could taste some words.

Duncan is not a hard one to know what I want to eat. Yeah. When you say Duncan, you want the doughnut. I want the doughnut, the powdered doughnut. America runs on Duncan, Idaho. Yeah. But it's like, yeah, Dune has weird names. And then George Lucas said, hold my beer. Anyway, so Paul Atreides, he's a space Jesus.

He's played by Kyle McLaughlin. And he, we've got the problem in this movie that he's the same age as his parents, so I think this qualifies him as the oldest teen. Oh, shit. Oldest teen. I don't know how old the character is supposed to be, anyway, he's the same age as his mom

and he has better sexual chemistry with her than she has with the guy. Yeah. Yeah. It's awesome. This is why I think Chalamet, although I did really like Kyle McLaughlin's performance, Chalamet worked as Paul Atreides

because he forever looks like a little boy. Yeah, he looks like a child. Whereas Kyle, he looked like a man. Even when he. Yeah, he looks like a child. Whereas like Kyle, he looked like a man. Even when he was young, he looked like a man. Yeah, he always looks like a used car salesman. Well, can we talk a little bit about how there's a lot of conversation that is happening in people's minds?

Yeah. And it's always whispered, and I'm like, are you afraid of people hearing? Your inside thoughts. Mm-hmm. So you're whispering it it was so frustrating People are psychic in this movie. I think Paul Atreides is psychic It's one of the unclear things in this movie is right internal monologue stuff is weird and confusing But the whispering it was like a big ASMR video, like the whole movie. And I gotta say, the whispering is my biggest complaint.

It was, it made my skin crawl. I don't like ASMR shit, so I was just like, quit whispering so much. I don't like it. Yeah, there was also this thing where like, if it had happened occasionally, it would be okay. But for the most part, it was just a way to like shoehorn in more expository monologue. Yeah.

You know, it was just like, here's more exposition. And I was like, you can, you don't have to, you know, show don't tell. That's what I would say. Yeah, there was a lot of, I think the main thing is this movie, this story is so full of information. Yeah. That he had I would say. Yeah, there was a lot of, I think the main thing is this story is so full of information that he had to figure out a way to just get the information out there,

like in the small amount of time that he had, but the whispering drove me nuts because I'm like, no one can hear you. Yeah, right. Yeah. So. The audience, and also like if someone's psychic, if you whisper your thoughts, they could probably still hear your thoughts It's still exactly so I'm I'm just like but if I had inner thoughts like mine are just like screaming Yeah, yeah, and I'm like yeah, I mean yeah like human thoughts and again I don't know what others are like but I like when in a movie where people are just thinking a complete sentence like I feel like the human brain is like hungry hungry dog dog

Picture picture weird weird should I shower you know chicken love mama am horny sure You're an idiot to hot change socks new career Kill self. New career. Eat food. More chicken. Kill self.

More chicken. Listen, I'm just saying. What's Arizona like? Yeah. It's just stuff. Anyway, but people just do perfect exposition. Abandon family. Eat chicken. A lot of chicken in there, Matt. Anyway, but people just do perfect exposition abandon family eat chicken a

Lot of chicken in there Matt lot of intrusive thoughts, yeah So these are the good guys Paul Atreides he does a lot of train a lot of training in this movie he trains He does a little Kind of fake fight with Patrick Stewart Patrick Stewart. Yeah, like Yes, it's his kind of trainer guy. They they put up these shields these like digital shields where they look like This specific video game reference here, but they look like the bad guys and virtue a cop They just look like a little polygon blocks from 1992. I loved that. I thought it looks so it does look cool I like it too. I like in this case

I think that the janky digital effect is better than the good CGI one in the new movies. I'm like, this is cooler and weirder. I like it because it's a choice. It's like a decision has to be made, a stylistic decision. Because they can't, you know, given the technology, they would have done the shield the same way that they did in the more recent reboots, but instead he's like, no, let's make them so you can barely see them and it would just be two blocks stabbing at each other. It looks cool. Also interesting is everything in this movie looks very like there's crown molding on a spaceship wall. Yeah, why is that? So it kind of looks like it's I don't know like Baroque or something Yeah, and then there's it's also like this slate gray metal looking walls

so when this was this like angular like geometric cubes against like they're Basically, they're naval officer pirate looking outfits. It just kind of looks cool the contrast. Yeah, it does look really cool. And yeah, and this movie really makes you appreciate like how much care goes into building a legit movie set, especially something that is like sci-fi. Because watching this, I need to re-watch The New Dune, because I remember being really impressed with The New Dune, but also what you're being impressed with is how good the technology has gotten to make things look like real spaceship or real wall. Instead, it was David Lynch, he's out there, his his weird ass and a bunch of other weirdos building

Spaceships and walls good for them. Love them guys. I'm so excited I said Baroque and I was like, I don't know if that's right. No, that was right. It's exactly what was in my brain Congratulations. Yeah way to go. I have a degree in art God bless. Thank you. Beautiful college tuition, well spent. For one reference in the Dune episode. Yeah, I like Dune. Dune the correct reference. Yeah.

Now that was live. You did that live, Matt. I did that one live, no big deal. One take. Okay, so that's what's going on with the good guys. We also have the scene where he, like, the witch, has him put his hand in the box and he says, I must not fear fear his little mind killer, fear his little death that brings total oblivion, total obliteration, excuse me.

I think the scene in the newer Dune was better of this one. Yeah, I mean, it was definitely also very good, but I was just, I think I was just impressed with how good it was in this one. You know, like, cause it is a strange scene to, you know, credit where credit is due to the new one, they didn't show his hand melting like they did in this one, but watching the hand melt, I was like, that's cool. They did a good job with it.

It's cool to see the hand melt. That is, you're very right, yeah. I will say that I think a strong, strong part of the new ones is how they go into the culture of these witches. It is really cool and fascinating. And obviously, it had some great backstory and you just can't show all that shit in this movie

that is still pretty long at two hours. But yeah, I feel like the story of the witches and all their powers is really cool in the new. Yeah, I liked in the new one, there's a lot more stuff about his mother and I find her character in the new ones to be the most fascinating. She's great and then they have those

nuns that milk the worms. Yeah, there's just so much rad shit with them. Nuns that milk the worms sounds like something. I'm gonna Google later. If you know what I mean. Gotta get a nun to milk the worms. Sounds like something I'm going to Google later. If you know what I mean. Got to get a nun to milk the worm. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I like doing two chicks at the same time.

Well, that has nothing to do with worm milking. I know. It's just, you know, as slimy. OK, so we, so you know, that's what's going on with the good guys. And then we go to the evil guys, the Harkinens. This is the David Lynch shit. So like the Paul Atreides shit in this movie can be a little tedious,

can be a little boring. Everything with the bad guys fucking rules. Every scene with them is so cool and weird and gross. I was trying to eat, though. Like, I was like, oh, yeah. Cannot eat watching this movie. No, I couldn't. Gross sp. Like I was like. Yeah, that's a problem. Oh yeah, can I eat watching this movie? No, I couldn't. Too many gross spores and boils on people.

Lots of pus, covered in pus. Lots of pus, it was gross. Dick monsters and pussy monsters. Those didn't gross me out for some reason. Milking worms. Milking worms. Yeah, it was just our main baddie and his like, boils and stuff.

So yeah, he's disgusting, he's always having surgery done on him. And what is it doing? our main baddie and his like boils and stuff. It was. He's disgusting. He's always having surgery done on him. And what is it doing? I don't think it's making anything better. Who knows? Yeah. It's just picking scabs.

He just has a doctor there to pick his fucking face scabs. Ah! So gross. And then his nephews come in. Fade and Raban, one of the nephews. Fade is played by Sting, he's wearing the biggest codpiece this side of Labyrinth. Lookin' good, he does not have a lot to say in this movie,

he just does a lot of grimacing and glowering. He's fuckin' great. He does look scary. He rules, he does! He literally repeats the same line over and over, which is, I will kill you, I will kill him, I will kill him, I'm is I will kill you I will kill him I will kill him. I'm going to kill him I will kill him and it's like eight different versions of that and not much else and Very very homoerotic. I would say oh, yeah. Oh, yeah between our big baddie and his nephew

That's his nephew Uncle on uncle on nephew ogling. Yeah. Well, I also think that like, okay, so bitch. Nephew by marriage. He's like, nephew by marriage. He's like, nephew by marriage. Not by marriage.

That'd be weird. That'd be weird as he's picking his scabs. I'm not weird. He's like, this isn't any of that white lotus shit. Yeah, yeah, it's not that weird stuff. This is like, whatever. But I will say. I would never jack off my brother.

Yeah. No, you gotta me fucked up. He just keeps saying that. But I will say that Sting's like abs in this, I feel like Brad Pitt referenced this for his fight club. Like everybody says that like every dude who goes into training, like all these trainers, there's like people who go,

what's the number one body that dudes ask to achieve? And they all want the lean Brad Pitt. Brad Pitt in Fight Club. Fight Club, but I'm like, Sting did it first. He did it first. He's buff. I mean, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

He was Marvel buff before Marvel. He's very defined He was Gunnan before Gunnan was a thing this guy Invented edging. Yeah. Well, oh, yeah, that's true. Is that good? Gunning is I think Gunning is just a very long masturbation session Whereas like edging is what part of Gunning because otherwise tantric sex is what apparently sting is into yeah Right. He obviously does it in a way that's like religious or whatever But I love it

I love it that just a joke you can make is It takes the bass player from the police a long time to come and people just know that I know the reference. Yeah, it takes a long time to come. We all know that. Yeah Yeah, it's the truism like Godzilla makes music better and it takes the bass player from the police a long time to come Yeah, it's like one of three celebrity stories like if you say you know Gerbil and Richard Gere or if you say you know Rod Stewart and Stomach Pump. Yeah, so yeah Baron Harkonnen he's a he's a like a gross guy, his skin's always falling off also he like has an anti-gravity suit and he just flies

around it's so funny I just love it. It is so funny, it's so funny. And they don't really do that in the new one, he's picked up by a machine, isn't he? Yeah, yeah, it's definitely, in this case, the cheesy special effect is so much better. I like it a lot, yeah. He's got that Willy Wonka fizzy lifting drink thing going on. Oh yeah, yeah, it's kind of that.

So yeah, the Harkonnens, they attack House Atreides. There's this great shot of Patrick Stewart leading the troops into battle and he's holding a little pug, he's holding a little pug that like the Queen has and he just yells, Long live Duke Leto and he just charges into battle holding this pug. It's like one of the greatest shots in the history of movies. That pug, there is a moment, it's at the one hour, five minute, 30 second mark, where the pug is running away by itself, like up the stairs from an explosion.

Right. And I was like, oh good, the pug's okay. Yeah, the dog lives. The dog's fine. There's also a moment, we're talking about animals in David Lynch's Dune, where, okay, so, you know, the Baron Harkonnen brings in a cat tied,

it's like a sphinx cat, taped to a rat. I believe it is taped. I believe, like, with all the future technology of this movie, I believe the cat was taped to the rat. It was taped to the rat. And it had something to do with, like, if this cat doesn't get milked in time, you die. I remember.

They do not explain that, Orso. And in an earlier scene, there's an upside down cow that people are poking tubes into. I mean, I think this movie was edited to shit, obviously. Like, and I think David Lynch famously does not like the edit of this movie. What was the explanation for any of this? Maybe there wasn't, maybe this, yeah.

Dune loves to do its thing and milk stuff. We're milking worms. True. We're milking cats. Everything can be milked. Everything gets milked. Everything is full of delicious milk. I've got nipples. Can you milk me? Oh, hey, yeah. Matt, that was the first thought I had when he was like,

you got to milk this cat. And I was like, oh, my God, meet the parents. Meet the parents. I have n he was like, you got to milk this cat. And I was like, oh my God, meet the parents. Meet the parents. I have nipples. Greg, can you milk me? Men in black. Yeah, baby. Austin Powers.

Austin Powers. I'm the baby. Gotta love me. Dinosaurs. Smoking. Men in black. I want to hear the most annoying sound in the world. Dumb and dumber

Love references. Oh me too. They're the best cuz I know them the thing about references. I know that I know them I know them. I like a really broad pull that everyone can get Victory is mine Damn you, Lois. Dull. Dull. Anyway, dull. Anyway, let's talk more about Dune. So Paul and his girlfriend mom are escaping.

They crash land on Arrakis, and they meet the Fremen. Okay, it is so appropriate that Toto does the music of this movie because all of the Fremen look like they're from a yacht rock band. You can put the lyrics of any yacht rock song underneath a still of any Fremen from this movie and you would think that it's who sung those lyrics. Everybody here looks like they're about to sing about

no strings attached sex in a falsetto. Yes, yes. It's an army full of these guys. They all look like studio musicians for Christopher Cross. Yeah, yes, absolutely. And they're great too. You know, it's like I like the way they did the Fremen because it's like, you know, it's kind of the classic iconic blue eyes thing

that you saw, you know, and you wondered how they were gonna do it for the reboots, but watching it, it wasn't as corny as I thought it was gonna be. Because I'd only ever really seen stills, and I was like, that could look kinda cool. Yeah, they all have, the idea is that the spice on the planet gives you these like piercing blue eyes,

they all have these kind of like, yeah, special effect blue eyes, and they look really cool and spooky. Is there something about how spice makes you like an addict or something? Well, it's got like neurotropic additive. It's kind of a psychedelic drug, as well as being space fuel,

which is just an interesting thing yeah it has all these like different functions um but yes you can you can get addicted to it um yeah and in more ways than one either like physically addicted to it or you know reliant on it for space travel i just figured like once your eyes are blue, you are like addicted to space. Yeah, you're super big. And you can't leave. Yeah. You can't leave Dune.

You have to stay on Dune the whole time. Gotta get on Dune. Or else everyone will think you're weird. Mm-hmm. If I leave Dune, people will think I'm weird. I'm weird. So yeah, so Paul, the Fremen, they admire their fighting style.

They call it weirding. I guess Paul's people, I don't really understand this. They like fight with words. They like use words as like, you know, words to shoot lasers. I don't know. They have word bullets. Who cares?

But they also seem to have actual bullets. They're like, teach us your weird ways. And he's like, ah, and then shoots a gun. And I was like, well, yeah. He goes, what's your strongest stone? And they brought it out. It was beautiful. It was like the shape of a pyramid.

Gorgeous stone. And he just blew it up, and it was like, what the fuck? Right, yeah. We really liked that stone. Strongest stone, but also one that you're not attached to. and it just blew it up and it was like, what the fuck? Right, yeah. We really liked that stone. Strongest stone, but also one that you're not attached to. Our forefathers brought that over from the old country. I wish you had told us you were going to destroy it.

Oh, wait, I have this one that's in the shape of a Confederate soldier. Can you blow this one up? Oh, well. Brandy, you a fine girl. One thing lead to another. Brandy you fine girl To another when you get caught between the moon These are the Frebians singing their sacred song. Oh. Whoa, here she comes. She's a man eater.

She had a place in his life. Ooh, very nice. Thank you. Take it to the tree. Anyway, how many other rock songs do we know? Not that many more. References, we know. References.

Did you just flash-eathing me? Men in Black. Ah, good movie. Anyway, so Paul's training the Fremen. He meets Chani. She's the hot Fremen lady that falls in love with Margo Kidder. No, no, that's Sean Young. Oh, sorry, that's right.

Sean Young. I get them confused a lot. That's right. Sean Young, who I knew mostly as the lady from Ace Ventura Pet Detectives. Ace Ventura, yeah. I knew her from Blade Runner. And that, later that.

But also as the person who lost her mind and dressed up in a Catwoman suit to try to convince, was it Tim Burton or somebody? Yeah, yeah. Like cast her as Catwoman. Yeah, she had a famous Cast her as Catwoman. Yeah, she had a famous campaign to play Catwoman that did not work out. You know what, I was thinking that too.

And I decided, because in my head I was always just like, oh yeah, Sean Young, she was always doing that weird thing. Now looking back, as an adult, I'm like, bet you she was in the right bet you whatever the hell was going on behind the scenes was way worse than anything she did. I say justice for Sean Young. Oh yeah. I mean, I also think that like, you know, you want something bad enough, people go, put yourself out there, take risks. And she did. And it was like, you know, I don't think it's,

I think it's the whole breaking into someone's office thing that was kinda. Yeah, but I mean, listen, you think that's the first time someone in Hollywood had broke into someone's office? Nah, nah. It's very true. They smeared her, that's what I say. I base that on absolutely nothing other than knowing Hollywood is evil.

Fair enough, Fair enough. Justice for Sean Young. So, Paul, he's trying to become the leader of the Fremen. The final step is to ride the sandworm, the shy Haluud. So they attract it with these thumper things that create vibrations in the sand. The worm comes along, puts a big hook in it, rides it. Now, we mentioned the music in this movie, by Toto pretty fucking forgettable other than this one Guitar riff that kicks in while he's writing the sandworm

The music the music in this movie is very generic other than this which I think fucking rules So imagine you know him writing the sandworm all this kicks in You know him riding the sand worm all this kicks in. Yeah, there it is. Pretty cool. Yeah. Oh, so fucking sick. It rolls. Yeah. Put the bees in there. Yeah. 15 of them. Yeah, Godzilla made it better. You're right.

Honestly, it kind of sounded like it had bees. Yeah, it had some bees. He's the leader of the Fremen now and he's in love with Chani. That just happens. We don't learn anything about her. And they're in love because, you know, it's in the book. I think that another just points for the new ones. I think that the relationship between him and Chani in the movie is great.

They do a great job with it. Yeah, yeah. So yeah, but we get another just crazy info dump from the Space Princess of just like everything that happens in the middle of the story. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I love that so much because they're like, okay, so this movie can't actually be five hours long.

Yeah. It can't? You told me it could be five hours. Oh, I love that. I gotta read the weather on the radio. Oh, wait, have we mentioned that Paul's mom is pregnant with his sister? Yes. I know we haven't mentioned it, but yes.

We should probably mention that because it turns into my favorite part of the movie. Yeah, so Paul's mom is pregnant. We see some internal shots of the baby in the womb, which we also get in the new ones. I love the little nods to this movie in the new ones. Yes, same. It's like they're both, you know,

it does seem like the new ones aren't ashamed of this movie and I think that that's cool. And I think the weird internal womb cam is a great little nod to this movie. It's like, yeah, that doesn't have to happen, but he's just like, we gotta show the baby in the womb. Yeah, yeah, it was great. And I agree with you that there is something

about the new movies that they are pulling a lot from David Lynch's Dune and I respect the respect that that shows. Totally. So yeah, this baby is growing in Mom, we get the kind of like, kind of rapid montage of all the like, fremen kicking ass, blowing up all the spice mines, and the grand conclusion is nigh. We'll talk about it soon after this! We're back. It's Free With Ads.

We're talking about the epic conclusion of Dune. Yes, as Emily mentioned, Paul's mom is pregnant. The sister is born. We don't really see her get born, but we see her and she's mom is pregnant. The sister is born. We don't really see her get born, but we see her and she's like eight. I don't know how, if you're a messiah baby, maybe you just grow up fast. Maybe that's how long the war has been going on.

I don't know. I don't know. But we do know that she receives all of the information and powers of like a whatever head witch while she's in the womb so she's like Benny Gesserit yes so she's like a super child or something yes she's like and they have this like little eight-year-old kid dressed in these like ceremonial robes. She just walks into like the emperor's chamber by herself. She has blue eyes and she's talking in this dubbed voice

that then turns into this crazy voice. Yeah, she talks like this eventually. Yeah, it's pretty sick. I love just any scene where a kid goes somewhere by themselves, like an unaccompanied kid is kind of funny to me. Everything was funny because also this kid was kind of half laughing during this whole thing.

The kid is very cute. And it like made it so funny. Like, I don't know, it's like she's killing people and like causing them pain and she's kind of like, hey, like it's just, yeah. So she like pulls in Baron Harkonnen with her like hypno voice. She like cuts his throat

and she like pulls out his nipple clamps. Yeah, some sort of tube or clamp that's attached to him. He goes like flying around like you let the air out of a balloon and he flies right into the sandworm's mouth. It's so funny. Yeah. And then she's just standing there

with a knife in the air laughing. It's another one of the greatest shots in movies, just this little kid holding this knife. Oh, yeah, she's holding that knife. By the way, it's Alicia Witt is the name of the actress. And if you've seen Long Leg legs, she is the creepy mom from She's also in Twin Peaks, so yeah So

So that happens the like, you know Fremen The Fremen kind of like take over the palace. There's like this final battle between Sting and Paul. Paul stabs him up through the head. It's a really cool, like a lot gorier than you think this would be. Very cool effect. And then it starts to rain. It rains on Arrakis.

That's right. And then the little girl is like, it rains. He's Quisad, Quisad Chatterrock. That's right. And then the little girl is like, it rains, he's Quisad, Quisachada Rock. That's right. Which I guess is some sort of super being. Namaste, Ron Vassana. He's the one. He's the, yeah, and then we get some shots of the ocean

with some fucking smooth ass, Toto ass music playing. Yep, yep, so sick. And that's Dune, and that's Dune. That's Dune. That's Dune. Yeah. Let's go around and talk about the Hunk Watch. Oh.

You will play Hunk Watch. Play the Stings. The Sleeper has awakened and he is playing the Stings. Shut up. I must not, I must not Sting. Sting is the little mind killer. Sting is the little death that brings total obliteration I don't have a

So I think you know we've been to Kyle McLaughlin obviously a hunk MVP of free with ads I don't have a ton of other opinions a lot of of hunks in this movie. Young Patrick Stewart. Hubba hubba. I was thinking that as well. He's he's one of them, but I got to give it to Sting for this one, baby. Not to. Yeah. I dream of pain. Yeah. Yeah. Sure. Yes.

Fucking hurt me because it's yeah, because it goes on for longer than this movie. Honestly, you got use water-based loop when hanging out with Sting. You do, you gotta. It's gonna be a while. It takes the bass player from the police a long time to come. So I guess gooning is all the dudes I've ever slept with

who were alcoholics. Yes. They take forever. They take forever. They're edging, but not of their own accord. No. They would like to finish. Yes, yeah. They would like to finish. Yes. Yeah.

They would like to. Listen, we've all been there. And sometimes, as a man, you've got to fake it. Just because you're like, well, no one's enjoying this now. Y'all can't fake it. You can if you really pretend. Listen, with a little water and a little Borax. That's right.

A handful of Borax. Matt, do you have any Hunk Watch opinions we have not said yet? Yes, my Hunk Watch is the actor who played P. Tyr De Vries. This was one of the Harkonnen guys, the one who ends up dying from the poison tooth. He's an actor named Brad Durif. You might know him as Grimoire Wormtongue in Lord of the Rings. He plays the you know, he's just like one of these character actors who's fucking dope in everything.

He's Chucky. Is he Chucky? He's the voice of Chucky. That's great. Wait, is he really? Yes, he is. Get the fuck out of here. He is. Yeah, I see. I didn't even know that. That's great. Wait, is he really? Yes, he is. Get the fuck out of here. He is. Yeah. See, I didn't even know that. That is crazy. He's just one of these guys who is like,

he is always in like a bit part in something, but he's so good in it that you're just like. You're right about Hunky, because he is Hunky because of how talented he is. He's just so talented. Also, not a bad looking talented he is. He's just so bad looking guy. No, he's not a bad looking guy, but he always kind of plays like a, I don't know, um, a servile hunching, um, like someone who like, like gloms onto the powerful guy. You're so right. And he's just so good at it that you're just like, is there a special Oscar we could give

to this guy? For Glom- for Glomming? Yeah, he's so good at Glomming. Gooning and Glomming. That's what it's all about. I have a thing whenever I see him, I remember this movie that I saw that I used to think was a fever dream. It was on Sci-Fi Channel and he plays this guy that pretty much just, you know the whole thing, spontaneous combustion, how we were all scared about that

as kids. And he's this guy who can't stop spontaneously combusting. I don't know this, but that sounds incredible. It might also be a fever dream, just like my Bernadette Peter hand like poster But if somebody knows I thought that ended up being real. I thought we got some emails No, no, we got emails about your we did get emails about ants a lot of people tried there was one Oh, yeah, there it is. Yeah in 1990 spontaneous combustion. Oh, it's what it was called Brad Durif in spontaneous combustion Mystery solved a tobe Hooper film Oh, it's what it was called? Brad Durif in Spontaneous Combustion. That's pretty one to one.

A mystery solved. A Tobe Hooper film. It is horrifying. Tobe, T-O-B-E, that's the name. I think it's Tobe Hooper who directed Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Oh, is that right? Okay. Yeah, yeah. He made a lot of weird stuff later in his career.

I just love the idea that he was... Not that Texas Chainsaw Massacre isn't weird, but... If he was Tobe. Tobe. Very funny name. Yeah, but Brad Jorif has been in a bunch of shit. I know him from Deadwood mostly. Oh, amazing.

And Lord of the Rings, but I just started seeing him in everything. I've watched Mississippi is Burning and he plays like the evil cop in that. I just found out he's all of fucking Chucky. I mean, God bless this man What a career what a career? Well, yeah, that was the hunk watch and we're going to rank the movie on a scale of one to ten super loud commercials When we come back We're back, it's Free With Ads. We're gonna rank Dune in 1984.

Yeah, that was the year this came out. We're gonna rank this movie on a scale of 1 to 10 super loud commercials Yeah, maybe it maybe I'll I'll think I'll set us up to go what I think will be probably be low to high I'm gonna give this movie an 8. I think it is it is really cool I do think that you like if you've heard it's bad Like I heard it was bad my whole life and like kind of stayed away from it. You you should totally watch it. It's like it's a weird mess. It was obviously edited to hell, you know, it is in a genre that You know, maybe maybe David Lynch isn't super suited for but like it's super compelling a lot of it's really cool

Yeah, and like the villain stuff just fucking rules all the villain stuff is so so cool and great and yeah And if you like like the new ones and you're like, oh, just fucking rules. All the villain stuff is so cool and great. And yeah, and if you like the new ones and you're like, oh, maybe I won't watch the Lynch one, no, like I think you should. I think they're great to watch together. Yeah, I really like this movie. I've watched it before, I'll fucking watch it again. Matt, first timer, what'd you think?

I don't know if I've done this before, but I'm giving this a tippy 10. This is a tippy 10 for me. Okay, I think you've done this before but I'm giving this a tippy ten Okay, I think you've done an 11 on the show before did I do an 11 I think you did an 11 for was a godfather No, what was it? It was oh death becomes her. I think you gave Whoever keeps our wiki we don't have one. I don't think but yeah Yeah, one day we'll be popular enough to have a wiki. Yeah, that's right. I will say I very much love this movie. I give it a tipy ten.

I would watch it again. I would watch it twice in a row, just like I'm watching Dune part one and two. That's what I'm saying. Check it out. All right. Emily, last word? I really enjoyed it.

The whispering was tough for me. I don't know why. The whispering's weird. It's like, I don't know if it's just some sensation thing where it was just kind of bugging me, but I did love it. I really loved, I remember this line that, as he was becoming the worm man, as Paul was like, he drank the water of life or whatever,

and he was like, I'm traveling without moving, and I was like, that's all I want to do. I would travel. You gotta drink the water of life, you gotta find a worm, you gotta milk it. If I didn't have to move. I thought that was great. I like it too.

I think I'm gonna give it a 7.5. Okay. Fair enough. That's good rating. Yeah, thank you. Well yeah, that is Dune. Oh, this is kinda cool. By the way, I guess they tried to make this movie in the 70s with Alejandro Jodorowsky,

who's kind of a David Lynch-y art filmmaker. I've actually never seen one of his movies. I hope you watch one. Holy Mountain. I'd love to watch one of those for the show sometime. I've never seen them. Trippy and fun. And I can't just watch anything

without doing content about it. Yeah, what's the point of watching something and just having your thoughts when you can monetize them? Must create content. Anyway, there's a documentary about his failed attempt to make this movie called Jodorowsky's Dune, also free with ads. I watched it after I put on this one.

Really? It's fascinating, yeah, totally a fun watch if you're interested in how movies get made and fall apart and stuff. Very cool watch, Yodorowsky's Dune. Okay, personal plugs. Hey, I'm gonna be doing some book events coming up, celebrating Godzilla versus LA,

the new 4 Charity comic book that I contributed to, coming to stores on April 30th. On April 26th, I'm gonna be at the Peninsula Libraries Comic and Arts Festival. That's at the Library Parks and Recreation Center in South San Francisco. On the 30th, I'm gonna be at Collector's Paradise in North Hollywood, 5 to 7. On May 2nd, I will be at LitFest in the Dina at Pasadena Presbyterian Church, 630 to 730.

On May 3rd, my birthday, I'll be at Things from Another World at Universal City Walk, 2 to 4 p.m. And on May 10th, I will be at Mission Comics in San Francisco. So please come out to one of those. And then get Godzilla versus L.A. wherever you get your comics. Emily, anything?

I'm doing stand up at the Broadwater Theater on May 24th. It's a 7 p.m. show. If you'd like to come see me, do stand up here in Los Angeles. I am doing that May 24th, it's a 7 p.m. show. If you'd like to come see me, do stand up here in Los Angeles. I am doing that May 24th, 7 p.m. Broadwater Theater. Matt, what do you got? So once again, I am going to be doing Cobb's Comedy Club on Wednesday, May 7th in San Francisco.

So please tell all your friends about it and you should also come. Cobb's Comedy Club, it's gonna be really fun, me and my wife go headlining. But also, I figured I should let it be known that my wife and I do a monthly showcase at the Ice House in Pasadena. Hey! It's usually, yeah, it's usually the fourth Wednesday

of the month, so this month it'll be April 23rd, which is tomorrow If you know based on when this episode comes out So please if you're in Pasadena or in the LA area and you want to see some stand-up come to new world disorder At the ice house in Pasadena All right, hey listen sounds like if you're in the LA area you don't come to one of these things You're a fucking asshole. You're a fucking asshole. You're a fucking asshole, you're a fucking asshole. You're gonna have to milk this cat or you're gonna die.

Milk this cat that's taped to a rat. Taped to a rat somehow for some reason. No one will explain it, it'll go unexplained. Tune in next week when our movie will be The Talented Mr. Ripley.