Say What?

Yesterday’s post was just a minute or two before midnight, just one word (“Wow”), and one enigmatic and non-flattering picture of me.

What’s up with that?!

Well, I’ve always been a huge fan of “Dune,” both the original novels by Frank Herbert and the 1984 film by David Lynch. But I am freakin’ obsessed with the new movies by Denis Villeneuve.

When the first of Villeneuve’s “Dune” films came out in 2021 I wanted to see it in IMAX, but almost missed my chance. (I probably wrote about it here – it’s too late and I’m too tired to go look it up.) I had tickets for the final IMAX showing but there were technical problems with the theater, so they cancelled. I thought I had missed my chance, but then it came back into the IMAX theaters for just a few days a month or two later, so I got to see it in IMAX.

Since then I’ve probably watched it forty or fifty times on television. It’s great, but nothing compares to IMAX.

With the second “Dune” movie opening on March 1st, they’re bringing the first movie back to IMAX for a week. Of course I had to see it.

This last weekend was out due to the Super Bowl and our party on Sunday, and prepping for that party on Saturday. But during the week, the showings are at something like 10:00, 15:15, and 20:45. I have a day job… So 20:45 it is!

That’s really late for an olde phart like me. And of course, a movie that “starts” at 20:45 actually doesn’t start until 21:10 after 25 minutes of trailers and ads for popcorn and Nichole Kidman. Then it’s a 2:35 long movie. Then, and I wasn’t going to miss this, there’s a ten-minute special extended preview of “Dune 2” following the movie…

Add in the fact that I’ve got that 737 day streak going for my posts on this site…

I knew that I would be pushing midnight when we got out, but I figured that I would have time to do a quick post before midnight when I got to the car.

WRONG!

So as I’m taking the escalator down from the theater at 23:58, I’m pulling the app up on my phone, typing in a title and one word and the one useable picture I took all day, praying for a decent wi-fi connection, trying not to drop the phone or lose my balance and go ass over tea kettle down the escalator, and hitting “SEND!”

It worked.

As for the film in IMAX. Well, as I said yesterday, “Wow!” Focusing on the film, seeing it bright and LOUD, catching every detail, it was so much more marvelous than just having it on the television in my home office. And the trailer for “Dune 2?” You can see that extended trailer online, but just like with the first movie, it’s so big and spectacular on the IMAX screen, it’s just breathtaking.

Yes, I have tickets to see “Dune 2” the first weekend it comes out. I can’t wait.

What, you read all the way through all of that?

Thank you! Here’s a picture of the three-day old moon and some high, thin clouds as a reward!