Dunes Cantina
July 25, 2016 9:30 AM Subscribe
Plymouth Barracuda = Sandworm
posted by cazoo at 9:54 AM on July 25, 2016 [6 favorites]
posted by cazoo at 9:54 AM on July 25, 2016 [6 favorites]
They both use similar weapons. Paul’s uses is a Crysknife... , while Mike’s wields a bowie knife.
This is pushing it.
posted by BlueHorse at 9:59 AM on July 25, 2016 [2 favorites]
This is pushing it.
posted by BlueHorse at 9:59 AM on July 25, 2016 [2 favorites]
The fortune teller scene undeniably cribs from Dune. But Phantasm is a mashup of Something Wicked This Way Comes, Invaders from Mars, and Suspiria.
posted by maxsparber at 10:03 AM on July 25, 2016 [4 favorites]
posted by maxsparber at 10:03 AM on July 25, 2016 [4 favorites]
Tell me of your homeworld, boy!
posted by Artw at 10:32 AM on July 25, 2016 [5 favorites]
posted by Artw at 10:32 AM on July 25, 2016 [5 favorites]
And Star Wars.
Phantasm kind of holds a plot together, but it's sequels don't even try.
posted by P.o.B. at 10:33 AM on July 25, 2016 [1 favorite]
Phantasm kind of holds a plot together, but it's sequels don't even try.
posted by P.o.B. at 10:33 AM on July 25, 2016 [1 favorite]
Phantasm is a weird guerrilla filmmaking masterpeice, its successors are just generic franchise horror. I've a soft spot for John Dies at the End though.
posted by Artw at 10:38 AM on July 25, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by Artw at 10:38 AM on July 25, 2016 [2 favorites]
Showgirls and the original Star Wars trilogy have basically the same plot arc, you know.
posted by Artw at 10:39 AM on July 25, 2016 [4 favorites]
posted by Artw at 10:39 AM on July 25, 2016 [4 favorites]
Phantasm is lightning in a bottle, a film with a semi-improvised script and a shit-ton of edits that was manhandled by test screening results and insightful producers into something groundbreaking and memorable. It shares this production and post-production narrative with Austin Powers.
Phantasm's sequels are transparent attempts to shovel as many of the high points of the first movie as possible into subsequent films. It also shares this with Austin Powers.
posted by infinitewindow at 11:03 AM on July 25, 2016 [3 favorites]
Phantasm's sequels are transparent attempts to shovel as many of the high points of the first movie as possible into subsequent films. It also shares this with Austin Powers.
posted by infinitewindow at 11:03 AM on July 25, 2016 [3 favorites]
Thanks a lot. Now I have a weird conflation of Mark Hamill and Elizabeth Berkeley in my head and I can hear "But I waaanted to go Toshi Station.... Because I'M A DANCER!!!"
posted by seasparrow at 11:20 AM on July 25, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by seasparrow at 11:20 AM on July 25, 2016 [1 favorite]
The more I delved into Frank Herbert’s adaptation of Dune
Um, what? Surely he means David Lynch's adaptation?
posted by misterbee at 5:35 PM on July 25, 2016
Um, what? Surely he means David Lynch's adaptation?
posted by misterbee at 5:35 PM on July 25, 2016
If I ever thought an FPP would have a comment by cortex, it was this one.
posted by Chrysostom at 7:52 PM on July 25, 2016
posted by Chrysostom at 7:52 PM on July 25, 2016
Phantasm is obviously a prequel to Highlander.
posted by benzenedream at 11:08 PM on July 25, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by benzenedream at 11:08 PM on July 25, 2016 [2 favorites]
There's no question the fortuneteller scene is borrowed from Dune, but I don't buy the rest of it.
posted by kittens for breakfast at 7:10 AM on July 26, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by kittens for breakfast at 7:10 AM on July 26, 2016 [1 favorite]
Because it doesn't really track. Herbert's Dune was released in 65. Phantasm came out in 79. Lynch's Dune was released in 84, Phantasm II in 88. If he wants to say there was a lot of influence from Dune overall then okay, but these examples are really weak and connect through several movies and decades. Also, Jawas are nothing like the Fremen.
posted by P.o.B. at 8:31 AM on July 26, 2016
posted by P.o.B. at 8:31 AM on July 26, 2016
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Hello, Arrakis, you're more than a planet; you're a state of mind!
posted by Naberius at 9:36 AM on July 25, 2016 [2 favorites]