Ok, I get your point now. Looking into it her behavior might have been for the benefit of movie audience but you are right - it is inconsistent with her portrayal in the books. They shouldn’t make her in direct opposition to Paul given that…well, she gives birth to twins.
It's a Hanz Zimmer soundtrack. My seat was literally shaking for about half the movie.
I’ve done that many times with my kids when they were little. Roll the dice my friend!
Bruh, don’t do it. Banshee shrieks will scar your kid for a long time.
Oh no the cast is diverse therefore the movie sucks.I guess I'm an outlier on this one, but... I think it's a tragedy that Villeneuve's considerable talent is being wasted on _three_ of these films. That's so many years in which he could have produced something lasting, thoughtful, anything.
I didn't completely hate part 1, it was servicable; but it easily stands as his most forgettable cinematic product, and I think I've watched all his major US films (top: Arrival, Enemy, Prisoners, Blade Runner, Sicario... everything except his earlier French works). Arrival is beautifully constructed, Enemy is startling, and Blade Runner is a visually perfect continuation of its sci-fi franchise that's alone easily worth more than 20 Dune films.
I think it's the saturation of commercial elements in these Dune films, and borderline-Disneyish use of celebrities. Momoa always feels too corny for anything but a comic-book film, please don't hire him again, and Zendaya makes me wish to vomit a bit at her overwhelming blandness and lack of character, particularly when I realize someone thought she should be Mary Jane of all characters. I understand that Villeneuve wants his paycheck at this point in his career, but it's all a bit tiring.
I'll watch it once, but begrudgingly. I actually enjoy the Lynch Dune for its strangeness and read the book like every kid in that era, and I still find these new adaptations to be trying too hard to feel epic, and just a bit too much like popcorn blockbusters.
Also who the hell thought that feminine-face Chalamet and ugly ass Zendaya should ever have replaced these two... unbelievable.
The SyFy Mini series from 2000 is a lot more complete than any of the movies so far.
Yup
From what I hear(ain't seen part 2 yet), the guild barely gets a mention(if at all) while they practically control who gets to space travel. In other works they plot and scheme to ensure that the spice continues to flow. In the Lynch movie they don't let there be any misunderstandings about who's really in charge. This IMO dumbs down the universe.
. Really got swept up in the excitement in a way no other movie has made me feel before. And of course as amazing as it was, Hans Zimmer just elevates it to an entirely other level.
I saw it tonight if your cinema shows it at the ear bleeding volume mine did, nobody is sleeping through it.
Reading something into the post, evidently. I never used the word "diverse." I only cited 3 particularly bad choices of casting: Momoa, for being corny and tainted by association with Marvel trash; Zendaya, for being simply a bad actress who is not remotely beautiful like the book/previous film would suggest for the character; and the new Paul, who is a decent actor but oddly small and effeminate for the role, a major downgrade from McLachlan.
Oh cmon now..,,Zendaya isn’t exactly my type, and she’s clearly not yours either….but to say that she’s not beautiful is a bit ridiculous. Im not a big fan of Momoa either, but I think he fit the character well. Not going to go too into it for obvious reasons if you’re familiar with Dune, but Duncan is considered basically the perfect male specimen. In that alone I think it was a good casting. Hes a friggin tank.
TBH it would have been hell to explain this to someone that didn’t read the books:
... and they use a spice like cummin to see the future so they can fly people through space, but they're the only ones who can do it, so much like Uber during peak hour they charge a lot...
What the hell does this mean?
I was about to make a capeshit joke but then I realized that Paul has a cape and pretty much superpowers soooo...
Sand planets, chosen ones etc Dune is the progenitor of hundreds of SF stories. Have a bit of chill. I didn't say it sucked.
Well, it might surprise you to learn that Frank Herbert's Dune was originally published in 1965. That's 11 years before the first Star Wars movie landed in cinemas. At the time of its release, the only book that seemed an apt comparison was The Lord of the Rings. Dune is literally foundational sci-fi - a lot has been borrowed and stolen over the years. Star Wars, Blade Runner, Star Trek - they all owe a debt to Dune. If it seems like a modern tale, imagine how ahead of its time it must have actually been.
My point was modern storytelling is "Look at me I have a cape and superpowers" and by that metric Dune qualifies.
That and dropping an atomic bomb on them right beforehand.
Oh right. I forgot about the nuke. So many things happened on screen so quickly lol
No offense, but that is one of the most oversimplifications of a story as complex as Dune that I’ve ever heard. Did we read the same book and or/watch the same movie?
It was a JOKE. And dude came back with self fart-sniffing "You ignorant fool, Dune was scribed upon the parchment in the greatest traditions of sci-fi literature so many moons before even such seminal works as Star Wars..."
