Dune (movie)
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- nb-1
Do I have to sit thru the first one to enjoy the sequel?
I started the first one twice and couldn’t get more than 15min into it. Oh my yawn another space world where there’s a trade war and a young hero’s journey yawwwwwn zzzzz
I love Villeneuve’s work so much but this story is tired
- I dislike jazz, which is why i generally don't listen to it.Nairn
- I see yeah that’s what I’m looking for Happy to skip this movienb
- PS I love Jazznb
- I can imagine.Nairn
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https://static-3.bit…pango - it was written in the 60s. does get a bit cliché. but the writer did subvert the tropepango
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- Thanks for the advice chapsnb
- what's the point of trying to suffer 2 if you couldn't be doing with 1? if you burn yourself with a candle flame, do you stick your hand back into again?hans_glib
- If people say the 2nd candle is different, maybe? I’m an adventurous fellownb
- probably not.... the first one lacks emotion and empathy... the second one is no different i guess.....not classic material there in terms of filmmaking..neverscared
- So this isn’t villeneuves derivative story about a space trade war. It’s actually the OG story everything else is derivative of.monospaced
- The story is epic, and it’s been around for many decades. What a weird criticism. The story is a science fi archetype legendmonospaced
- Different strokesnb
- Hope I didn’t offend anyone. I was just asking for your opinions on a movie in the very thread for that movienb
- Well, I for one am offended.
Sorry, 'offensive'. As you were.Nairn - You also implied the story was an unoriginal derivative bore, which obviously it isn’t, because it was a book and is regarded as a very good storymonospaced
- I too am deeply offended! I can't even enjoy my night now!pango
- I've read the canon books, and I agree they're not antiquated. Villeneuve 1 was amazing. Villeneuve 2 was harrowingly boring..garbage
- The pacing, the editing, the misuse of MCU shots. It felt like it was made in the mud. I tried rewatching it, and still couldn't.garbage
- I had hope because ol' V seemed to have finally caught Dune by the tale, but 2 is an absolute yawnfest.garbage
- I probs stil watch it, tho I know they will be zero inspo compared to the books. The first ones were waaaay to goodmaikel
- Watch it at home with the fast forward ready. The rare times that you start seeing something interesting..garbage
- ..it divorces itself from the cinematic interest of the first one, and falls into teen romance and sloppy foreverism.garbage
- It might sound insane, but P2 accomplishes the unimaginable: A Dune attempt that lasts too long.garbage
- It's the rise of Hitler, but in space.robthelad
- calm down... its only one mans opinion on filmaking... or a couple of more...neverscared
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- hans_glib5
on Morning_star's advice i went back for another look (it's cheap on mondays, see). having had my expectations dashed on the first showing i wasn't expecting a loth and i have to say it was much better as a result.
there are still a couple of sections that need cutting out, and christopher walken still phones it in as emperor, but otherwise i enjoyed it much more than when i first saw it. fabulous visuals, fabulous sound and for some reason the plot stumbled along a lot better than on the first showing.
so thank you Morning_star!
- You're very welcome. A second viewing is definitely the key.Morning_star
- Walken and Pugh were disappointing. An empire of excesses, they should have raised the bar in some way.i_monk
- To hear that Pugh was disappointing hurts a bit. Normally, she's a first-rate scene stealer.Continuity
- Definitely think walken is the weakest part of it. They needed some one with more menace/gravitas.thumb_screws
- +1 Pugh and Walken didn't belong in this onegrafician
- ^ why not try Sienna Miller and Russell Crowe?grafician
- I think Pugh was good but Walken definitly didnt fit in there, his playing and caracter doesnt work.HAL9001
- interview said Pugh will have more to do next movie. like how zendaya was barely in the first movie.pango
- Reckon a Gary Oldman, Hugo Weaving or Jeremy Irons would of worked better. I thought Pugh was ok.thumb_screws
- She was nondescript compared to Lady Fenring.i_monk
- Morning_star4
I watched Dune 2 twice this weekend. It was like watching one of my kids in a school production - it's never, ever going to be bad. However appallingly acted, technically inept, shoddily produced my love for their performance abides and defines the experience.
There's so much about the film that rocks hard: Villeneuve's direction, the costume design, the sound design, the cinematography, the score, the art direction... the lore, the humour... Giedi Prime, Feyd-Routha, the final fight scene, The voice, the unborn child, Stilgar, Validimir Harkonen... Paul getting all shouty when he addresses the Fremen... Chani getting rejected... Lady Jessica stoving the Harkonan soldiers head in... Riding the Shai-Hulud...and on and on.
It's imperfect, intricate, magnificent, visually and aurally stunning and if you have the desire? somewhere to lose yourself for 3 hours. I want to watch it again.
Silence!
- mg330
I watched a bit of the original Dune on Friday night and holy hell on wheels, YUCK.
- hydro747
- haha there was definitely a moment of this where stilgar tells his men that paul refusing to accept he's the one means that he is definitely the onehans_glib
- ^ I laughed out loud when Stilgar delivered that line because it reminded me of https://www.youtube.…GM278
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- everyone chuckled in the theatre when that line came up.pango
- utopian0
Watched it last night, it was above average at best.
To be honest it was a bit of a let down, more of a soap opera than a sci-fi movie. Dune 2021 was much better.- Any notes without spoilers (I mean I know what going to happen)?
I was planning on watching it on one of the fancy screens tonight.garbage - The cinematography and sound design are both incredible. Buy the story, script and acting were all subpar, bland and kitschy. Still a decent movie to watch.utopian
- i'd agree. it was a bit of a mess, storyline wise. looks and sounds great, but fuck me it was all over the place as far as the plot went.hans_glib
- and christopher walken did not convince as the emperor, he was just christopher walken wandering onto arakis for no apparent reasonhans_glib
- and was it just me or did paul atreides go a bit tetsuo with that cape an' all?hans_glib
- God, I should have listened. Every time there was a good shot, it immediately cut away into some TV movie shit.garbage
- There was no drive, the editing was horrible, the acting was horrible. It had no energy of the first one.garbage
- It had no business even trying to be that long, we walked out with an hour or so left. So fucking boring, they are 100% paying Rotten Tomatoes.garbage
- You walked out? LOLmonospaced
- Ha yeah, not dramatically or anything. I was hungry and the missus was only along for the ride. For one night, we were united in not giving a fuck about Dune.garbage
- Any notes without spoilers (I mean I know what going to happen)?
- pango2
- Never actually seen the show.i_monk
- It's a great showcrazyprick
- The original run was great, highly recommended. The Netflix run.. not so much. RIP John Dunsworth.garbage
- Nairn3
I'm going to need to read Dune Messiah now, aren't I?
I think I have them all up to God Emperor, so... aiieee.
- I love the idea of it being titled, 'God Emperor of DUNC'.Continuity
- thumb_screws6
Just got back from watching part 2.
It looks and sounds incredible and gets weird. It does change some things up from the source that I thought were intrinsic to character motives. I'm not sure they worked.
Geidi Prime looks incredible, feels like they have taken some influence from Geigers old concept art and incorporate brutalist elements.
We're totally getting Messiah.
- nice got my tix for Tues night, excitedprophetone
- See it on a big a screen with the best sound possible toothumb_screws
- D U N Cmaikel
- sted0
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- dibec0
I am in.
- https://i.imgur.com/…utopian
- I just work here.dibec
- you sonavabitch! i'm in!pango