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  1. verdict (verdict): Avatar → Dune. Avatar is compared to Dune as a movie that rewards giving yourself over to it.
    “Can I compare it to another more recent movie that I was reminded of when I watched yesterday was Dune.”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 1:00:14 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): Dune → Avatar. Dune looks good on a TV and feels more tactile and realistic than Avatar's world.
    “Personally, I prefer the world of Dune over the world of Avatar because it feels like more tactile and realistic”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 1:01:05 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (lineage): Dune → Dune. The episode cannot be done without comparing Lynch's film to the Villeneuve movies.
    “We can't do this episode without comparing this movie to the Villanova films”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 0:19:09 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. craft (craft): Javier Bardem → Dune. Villeneuve uses comforting faces like Bardem as shortcut casting.
    “Javier Burden walks in and people are like, I get what this is.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 0:19:38 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. verdict (verdict): Dune → Dune. Lynch's film plays better now because Villeneuve's adaptation exists and takes the pressure off.
    “There is a pressure off of this movie.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 0:20:20 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  6. craft (craft): Dune → Dune. Villeneuve's film makes the plot easier to follow when watching Lynch's.
    “it's easier for me to track what's going on in the plot of this movie because I can keep relating it back to the movie that is more narratively functional.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 0:20:27 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  7. craft (craft): Dune → Dune. Lynch's film reaches the end of Villeneuve's Part One in about 90 minutes, then crams the rest into 45.
    “Everything that he made the 2nd film is contained within 45 minutes.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 0:28:46 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  8. craft (craft): Carlo Rambaldi → Dune. Rambaldi's Guild Navigator design is the grotesque, sexual image the speaker calls the moment the whole film began to unpack for him.
    “That Carlo Rimbaldi design.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 0:50:07 · John Hodgman (0.80 sure it was them)
  9. contrast (contrast): Dune → Eraserhead. Lynch is credited as sound designer on Eraserhead and The Elephant Man but not on Dune.
    “Not Dune.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 2:39:15 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  10. fun, about Dune: A creator friend told Hodgman not to take a Dune job: sci-fi people should make new things, not reboots. The lesson of Dune is the sleeper must awaken.
    “But as people who are involved in science fiction, our job is to think of the new.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 2:42:51 · John Hodgman (0.85 sure it was them)
  11. craft (craft): Bob Ringwood → Dune. Ringwood's costume designs are singled out as incredible, down to the 1000 Fremen hats made for a scene that was cut.
    “I think Bob Ringwood did the costume designs.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 2:46:29 · John Hodgman (0.80 sure it was them)
  12. theme (thematic): Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind → Dune. Blasted world with creatures the people cannot understand, and Nausicaä as a feminine Fremen-like figure who learns to coexist with the land, versus industrial nations running roughshod.
    “Nausicaa is sort of like the feminine, you know, like the feminine Dunehurst sort of like they can work the land.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind with Lulu Wang · 1:28:42 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  13. theme (plot motif): Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind → Dune. The promise that you can grow plants in a place everyone says you cannot is central to Dune and to Nausicaä's ending.
    “And everyone's like, you can't grow anything on Dune.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind with Lulu Wang · 1:33:15 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  14. theme (theme): Dune → The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Everyone keeps comparing Dune's trilogy to Lord of the Rings.
    “everyone keeps talking about it as the Lord of the Rings.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:27:43 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  15. verdict (verdict): Rebecca Ferguson → Dune. Ferguson deserved the Oscar for Dune Part One.
    “In part one, it is undoubtedly Rebecca Ferguson”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:28:39 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  16. theme (comparison): Dune → Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Joke: Chip's co-producer was Judge Doom, so Doom/Dune won.
    “my co-producer was, of course, Judge Doom.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2022 MARCH MADNESS UPDATE 2 PRESENTED BY THE CHIP REPORT · 0:07:14 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  17. theme (comparison): Chip Smith → Dune. Chip is called a Baron Harkonnen type; Dune won the most Oscars on a Chip-produced telecast.
    “you got some like kind of baron Harkonan vibes.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2022 MARCH MADNESS UPDATE 2 PRESENTED BY THE CHIP REPORT · 0:07:29 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  18. verdict (verdict): Dune → Frank Herbert. The Baron is a predatory gay villain, which the speaker finds homophobic in a modern light.
    “I mean, it's kind of weird predatory, gay villain, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2022 MARCH MADNESS UPDATE 2 PRESENTED BY THE CHIP REPORT · 0:08:05 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  19. career (career): Dave Bautista → Dune. Bautista is cast as Beast Rabban in Dune, where they hope he is not wasted as a roaring villain.
    “He's really, like, I hope that Dune treats him well.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 0:41:36 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)