it has a lot of shots that last longer than 5 seconds, so unwatchable for modern audiences
I honestly tried to watch is like 4 times and it put me to sleep. It's so devoid of everything it was like watching paint dry.
And I'm usually one to immerse myself in films and have patient with long, world building stuff. Loved the Blade Runners and the environments. Its just in Dune there ... wasn't. I desperately wanted to get into it given the hype of it all and me being a Dune virgin. It just sapped me. It was worse than an office safety meeting. Just the dullest, most boring thing I ever saw. And it frustrates me. Made me ask what the hell was I missing?
So I eventually sought out the fan edit of the 80s film on YouTube and got through that despite it's many flaws ok. Wasn't the best, but it had pacing and COLOR and set pieces and
BowieSting.Loved the Blade Runners
We might be each other's evil twins. I fell asleep in Blade runner, but enjoyed Dune
Same here. I actually haven’t been able to make it through the original or the new blade runner.
I liked the new Dune, and I also really like the Lynch version. I often put on the soundtrack as wallpaper.
With the new movie I felt like I couldn't really form a complete opinion without seeing both parts though. It feels less like I watched a complete movie and more like I had to leave in the middle of a really long one
This is exactly what I said walking out of the theatre. "I feel like I have to reserve my judgement about it until after seeing the second half." I'm generally of the opinion that film is just a bad medium for the story, but I thought the Villeneuve film has so far been the closest to what I imagined while reading the books and if nothing else does a good job using the advantages of the medium.
the movie certainly needed more color, but other than that, it was a strong adaptation and the book is what it is
it had boring parts for sure, maybe 1-2 too many dreamy Paul sequences.
for me, also, there should have been like 5 minutes more of Atreides fighting Harkonnen/Sardaukar.
5 minutes more of Atreides fighting Harkonnen/Sardaukar
fully agreed here
maybe 1-2 too many dreamy Paul sequences
it's been a while but if i recall correctly the book was extremely that way too lol, at a certain point paul just never stops tripping balls
That point will happen about an hour into part 2 I think.
I thought it was beautiful but ultimately boring. I’m also not really a fan of Timothee Chalamet so I guess that adds to it
I did. I thought it sucked lol. I honestly think I was falling asleep around where it ended.
Like we're being asked to care about all these flat personalityless mopes who don't have any characteristics besides like a vague sense of duty and don't ever seem to actually like anything or anybody. Sorry if your characters suck that shit is boring to me I have no investment on whether they can or cannot make it out of a cave or whatever
This is the biggest problem with the (first) book imo. Poor characterization.
That might be true, I've heard that from a lot of people that it is. That being said I think it's the responsibility of a filmmaker adapting material to address shortcomings of that material not just be like "don't look at me the source material sucked too lol"
This was the darkest ffucking movie i've ever seen, not grim dark, like literally could not see shit on the screen half the fucking time. I literally watched it IN the dark.
Looked fine in my theatre. I mean yeah it was dark but most movies are pretty dark nowadays.
I'm glad it looked fine for you, but this was not like other modern movies at all the invasion scene and the sandwoem scene were so dark it was baffling
Strange, maybe my country got a slightly different edit when they figured out it was too dark or something. Or your theatre fucked up some settings.
Sounds like other people had the same experience though, I'm not the original person you replied to
Just saying it's a bit odd, in my country nobody was complaining about it being too dark, people might be seeing different edits or something.
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Its not only dark the colors are flat so even if you adjust your setings and make it btigther there is little contrast and things are still hard yo see. Its a desert planet shouldnt it be the oposite.
God I want to see big budget, thematically faithful adaptations continue up to God Emperor, if only to see pop culture try to grapple with them
It's so insanely unsuited to adapting it in a way that fits with the current trends of blockbuster moviemaking. The way that it's structured, as a series of dialogues, makes me want to see it adapted in a weird arthouse theater way, like Dogville. If it gets made, I assume it will just focus on Jason Momoa action scenes.
The only thing I demand from God Emperor Of Dune on the silver screen is a long, loving, nearly pornographic depiction of Jason Momoa rock climbing.
Dune in the style of French New Wave. Just a bunch of mundane conversations laden with layers of metaphor and subtext, and a bunch of unhinged, non-diegetic cuts to paintings and ordinary household objects as puns and visual metaphors for the dialogue.
The movie will run four and a half hours and only about fifteen minutes of it will not involve someone monologuing at length.
Only if those 15, non-monologue minutes are spent watching a character slowly do a mundane task morosely with no sound but the ambience of a distant storm.
I think this would work particularly if every aspect of it is taken super seriously as an arthouse project, but Jason Momoa is directed to act like a big dumb action hero and filmed accordingly.
You're forgetting the montage scene of a succession of hundreds of Jason Momoas fresh from the Axolotl Tanks trying to murder hundreds of face dancer faked Timothée Chalamets to unlock their memories.
My Dinner with Andre is a classic arthouse film in the genre of "waiters giving people the stink eye for staying way past closing".
0/10
No Kynes having a heat stroke and talking ecology with a hallucination of their father.
harsh but fair. the book definitely offered a far superior take on that scene.
This is probably the main thing I'm looking forward to atm. That, and a mech-eng course I'm probably about to do. And a new shelving unit to put stuff on. And maybe making a mold for a hard hat.
Sci Fi Dune/Messiah/Children miniserieses are the best adaptation.
Both have merits the screenplay is better on the new one. Why was princes irluan in the dinner at the begining in the sci fi version? However customes and sets were way better in the 2000 series. They were colorful and looked like an actual meditereanean middle eastern setting. The new asthetic is garbage.
For example pauls family aresuposedly mediterranean themed mixture of greek and spanish. Jessika descrives olive trees in the coast and expeditions to a tropical jungle. But in the movie it looks like scotland.
Why was princes irluan in the dinner at the begining in the sci fi version?
Cause she's hot.
