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[otc]

I had a hard time understanding why missiles, explosives, drones, guns and handheld/airplane-mounted lasers that cut through everything were available and used, but the palace guards used swords. Also, if the personal armor thing caused a worm feeding frenzy, why not used mannequins and those as decoys to save people?

I remember absolutely nothing from the book except the fact that I read it as a child...but I feel like I was able to figure it out from context clues. Googling after confirmed.

Basically their shield technology stops fast moving objects. So you need something like a dart gun that fires darts that will get to the shield and then slowly insert themselves. Sword fighting ends up working a little different since you can't just hack and slash---instead you get the sword up to the shield and then have to hold it there and slowly push it through until you can cut.

The missiles and **** work because

Spoiler

the traitors turned the main shields off

Googling suggests that they do have normal guns in the dune world, but they aren't going to work in any sort of combat situation, so troops don't use them.

And they have laser beam guns, but those blow up when they hit a shield (so the shooter gets blown up too).

As for why not using shields to draw the worms away? I dunno...but why waste a perfectly good shield when it seems like you can just use a device that pounds the ground.

 

[noob in 89]

Where were the sound guns is what I want to know.

 

[javyn]

Where were the sound guns is what I want to know.

In the Lynch film and Westwood Studios Dune rts game only.

 

[javyn]

 

[mhip]

The cow takes a little solace in the fact it's a long movie.
Because, once it ends..........

 

[luca_defumo]

A Toshiro Mifune mad as hell in Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low, totally pissed off with his colleagues, who wants to produce bad quality shoes to make more profits. ??❤

 

[Adsky Luck]

Volver yesterday

a 2007 Almodovar film
Very good, Penelope Cruz in a proper acting role and not what she gets to play in Hollywood.
The subject matter is controversial, as in murder, ****, incest, but Almodovar's magical realism does wonders, makes for an uplifting movie almost or even comedy. Very colorful too.

 

[double00]

Get Shorty .

saw this in the theaters many moons ago . holds up terrifically ,

from a story by elmore leonard ...

... NY-via-Miami gangsters arrive in LA to settle the books , but the movie racket proves distracting .

great fun . recommend .

 

[javyn]

I don't mean to be a spoilsport, but tbh, I'm not feeling the new Baron Harkonnen

 

[Big Pun]

Ronin. 8.5/10. Excellent action movie with good dialogue, locations, and characters. The plot was so simplistic it was almost bizarre. We don't really know anyone's motivations.

Prometheus. 8/10. I wish I watched this in theaters. Left a lot of things ambiguous, which are hopefully explained further in Covenant which I'm watching next. The best one since Aliens.

Lonely Hearts. 7/10. Pretty compelling story with the main villains but I thought the sides plots with the cops were kind of pointless.

Resident Evil: Degeneration. 6/10. I'm a big fan of this franchise. If you aren't, this isn't really worth a watch. A decent CGI action movie with a predictable plot.

The Russia House. 5/10. I normally like Connery but this movie was just flat out boring. Did not care about the romance.

 

[ter1413]

8.5 for Ronin is a little high for me.

 

[Texasmade]

8/10 for Prometheus is way too high for me. I gave it like 4/10.

I did see this in theaters with high hopes. The storyline was decent but the characters were so ******* stupid that I just couldn't enjoy the movie. Covenant was good though with Fassbender's creepy scary mannerisms throughout the movie.

 

[javyn]

I was excited for Prometheus but was a big letdown for me.

 

[noob in 89]

Prometheus: we answer the big questions: where did people come from?

Also Prometheus: people were created from other people. Who look just like people! But taller!

 

[Texasmade]

I was excited for Prometheus but was a big letdown for me.

That one geologist who was all like "I like ROCKS!!!!" in his Aussie accent but was scared of everything else suddenly deciding to get high and play with the alien snake was a serious wtf.

Charlize Theron's "I didn't travel half a billion miles..." was also stupid since that doesn't even get you out of the Solar System.

Just so many stupid character moments that stood out like a sore thumb. Fassbender and Pierce I though were great though.