I liked blade runner 2047 so i thought this was a fantastic movie compared to past dune movies, which felt like an impossible translation. Def watched this on Max instead of leaks to support a sequel/conclusion
I saw this just now: https://www.cinemablend.com/intervi...olans-tenet-several-times-gives-us-his-review And it made me realize I need to give that film another try. I saw it in theater when it came out and was underwhelmed. I felt the same about Dunkirk and now think its a masterpiece so Tenet is on the list. Maybe I'll watch dune for a 2nd time at home as well tomorrow.
The giant scope of it deserves IMAX. I wish I watched blade runner 2049 imax and deeply regret missing that experience. Cameron, Nolan, Denis, Quienten, Alejandro, and several others deserve imax viewing if filmed for imax or 70mm and the list expands to guys like Scorsese etc. Theres a bigger list of guys who deserve a theatrical viewing too and for those not filmed specifically with imax cameras, they deserve Dolby cinema. Home theater builds with high end audio systems and OLEDS or 4k projectors make movies at home amazing but nothing compares to films made for IMAX by the masters of their craft and viewed in Imax. We all need to get together and petition for there to be a dual laser imax projector in Houston. Austin has one. You can view Dune In true 1.43 ratio there. 40% more image. Moody Gardens has one but they only show 4d shorts. Houston has Edwards single laser projector which is next best compared to the rest which are all "liemax" digital xenon. Dune as ive mentioned was made specifically for a format only a few theaters in this country have. Houston deserves at least one dual laser imax.
BTW hbomax has none of the imax scenes. Nolan films for example will change from full screen to top and bottom black bars for imax scenes when watched on TV. Dune is all cropped on hbomax. Those adverts saying showing example of 40% more image? We can't get that here in Houston on any of thse imax theaters. Thats only 1.43. I hope I'm not rambling im really drunk on2013 2014 and Pumpkinator
Okay, so I gave this one another go and it's not actually boring, it was that I wasn't fully paying attention to the movie the first time around so I had no clue what was going on. Upon watching it again, I really enjoyed it and I hope they get to make the 2nd half of the film at some point.
The movie wasn't bad by any means. I watched it in Dolby Cinema and watched it on HBO Max. I enjoyed HBO max more although I know im probably in the minority. After the second time, I realized how much has been left out that makes Dune such a great novel. I think it would have been better served to be a 3 part series following the books Part One, Two and Three. In retrospect, Dune would have been a better TV series if it was well funded. Hopefully Part 2 will lead into a premium TV series that can fill in everything that was missed in the movie version. The Bene Gesserit, Mentats and Fremen deserve so much. Peter DeVries was such a great character that I was really disappointed to see him discarded as a background character.
Really enjoyed the movie. Top notch production. From wardrobe, to the vehicles (dragonfly). Some action but not too much. The politics side of things I'm not too cray cray over, but it moves the plot along. First movie feels has good world building. Feels like we're just scratching the service. A long TV series may been a better format to explore the deep lore. Good enjoyment. (even if on a laptop screen ) Grade A
I just started reading the book and it was clear from the start that the movie left out a LOT that IMO should have been left in.
Of course. You watched Dune w/out the internal monologue. Internal monologue is hard. Its like watching a Marvel movie on mute. you may not know what is said, but by the end of the movie, you can tell someone exactly what happened. The only thing more dumbed down than superhero movies is p*rn.
Outstanding movie, just saw it in the theatre. No complaints about any of the cast. A few minor spoiler-free nitpicks: What's the point of the dragonfly fliers when they have ships without mechanical parts that shake the ship and can break that defy gravity? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I don't get the big hubub about Zendaya. She's not especially pretty and sort of bland in her acting. Does she have a pron video that would change my mind? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I'm sort of over it at this point but why does Hollywood insist on multi-racial 'ancient' cultures? Dune's Freemen weren't as bad as the Asgardians in Thor, but still, it's very incongruous and jarring to me. At some point, an isolated society is going to interbreed to the point where skin tone evens out. There will be recessive genes but not white guy, black guy, brown lady, etc. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Anyway, great movie. I recommend seeing it in the theatre.
It's a requirement from the Academy. You have to check enough boxes to get consideration for Oscars. It's why they took certain male characters and just randomly made them female. To the credit of the movie, I think they did a pretty good job of it to where it wasn't overly obvious. Also, with a planet like Arrakis, you'd constantly have new people coming from other planets to work mining spice and they'd be inter-breeding with the locals so I would think you'd end up with a fairly diverse population as a result. Or rather, it's at least plausible to think that could be the case so I don't mind the box checking. My biggest complaint, as I read more of the source material, is that I feel this could have been infinitely better as a Game of Thrones type series. That way you could keep the high budget while being able to spread things out over 12 or 13 hours.
Agreed on the series but what are you going to do? If we get a director's cut of the trilogy(?) it could work out like LOTR. Stupid that they have to check the PC boxes for the Academy. I mean, at that level isn't it considered art? And they're telling the artist what to do....damn liberal hippies. So many rules they have to break their own rules to follow their new rules. Not a massive spoiler to point out that the Fremen were a pretty closed society and their enclaves are far out in the desert. It's not like they have a red light district. And the Harkonnens were all white skinheads and I didn't see any of that with the Fremen. And wasn't Dune under Harkonnen rule pretty dictatorial and limited? Not conducive to a mixing pot. But I'll digress because I did enjoy the movie, it's just a minor irritant to me that I'm mostly over at this point. I don't want it to take away from the movie, which was fantastic.
