My bro got us some tix for this afternoon. I really have no excitement at all for this movie at all but I hope it's not boring like part 1. The setting is what makes me but I'm willing to try and enjoy. Wish me luck!
Saw the DV's version. Haven't seen the Dave Lynch or the Sci Fiction version.
Overall
Denis comments on dialogue vs sight and sound really show in this movie, because the spectacle of this movie...wow.
A lot of the great lines in the book just don't translate to the medium of film.
A lot of the important ideas (imo) don't translate well to film.
OMG, THE WORLD BUILDING - Peter Jackson should take note here. Zac Snyder, George Lucas...
It's still a great rendition of the work, but not necessarily of the story
But Denis really killed it with
Visuals and Cinematography - Every frame was a painting
The Sound - it was rumbling in my theater, a lot - and it added to the whole film.
The Costumes - all of them were great, but in particular the Bene Gesserit
Shai-Hulud was awesome, way better than the 1st one
The battles were good (Some Vietnam Vibes in some parts)
Stilgar/Javier Bardem - give him the Oscar already. I think he was given the most to work with and did the most with it. Rebecca Ferguson and Austin Butler came in 2 and 3.
Timmy C - He played Muad'dib the way that Frank wrote him imo - and there just isn't much there in terms of character in the book for an actor. But he did really kill it when he was allowed to show some emotion.
Coulda used some work
The hand to hand combat - there's an interesting video essay on action cinema - a few guys have sort of hijacked our brains on what good action looks like. Some of it was really good, some ehh.. -
There's a lot of "one stab = one kill in this" and for that saw it...well you know
Acting and The Dialogue - Herbert had a lot of great things to say, but a lot of it didn't translate into great dialogue. Which made this the perfect film for DV.
Chani/Zendaya - The camera did not love her in this.
Josh Brolin and C. Walken - Wasted.
As a movie? I loved it.
As an interpretation of Frank Herbert's Dune - I don't think the message/meaning of Dune could be Hollywood-ified. Dune is not happy and it's not clean. And it's not something that people want to hear, imo.
I don't think they really captured
why Muad'dib was so reluctant. What does it mean to shepherd all of life past destruction? Especially when it means the death of billions so that trillions may live?
Frank Herbert's Dune - I'm still not sure what I think about it. There are so many "extractable" lessons and quotables - but I've read too much Frantz Fanon and Walter Rodney. Some might say to turn off the "wokeness" - but Herbert was trying to be woke in his day, and with this work.
Just got out while ago and I was hating but I liked this one way more than part 1. Way better movie. The sound was crazy. Kinda rushed at the end imo but they had to tell the story so part 3 can happen.
When zendaya found out she was the side chick now
Christopher Walken totally out of place
Bautista getting treated like a bytch the entire movie
Gotta say...from Oppenheimer and this...Florence pugh is so fukkin sexy...like she has pure temptress energy...she seems like an S class next level seductress. She'd probably bankrupt most men...got damn...I get why oppy, Feyd and Paul couldn't resist her ...that type of succubus power fukks me up
this isnt "white savior" at all - even the first movie Paul doesnt know his potential and rejects what his purpose is -
and only a surface reading from a contemporary perspective would call this movie "white savior" becasue the nature of our culture currently has you viewing things thru that lens
and this is the whole point of Dune - the story of Dune isnt about a savior at all its about peoples propensity to reduce things to their immediate needs or have such tunnel vision that they do more harm than good that often they speak and act more out of ignorance rather than actual TRUE knowledge. Dune is about the bias of "knowledge" and the nature of power and leadership and the danger in following a specific ideal to the exclusion of others because supposedly you "know" things..
I don’t think Paul is neither a bad guy or a good guy. I don’t think he’s a savior. You’re right he didn’t even really know who he truly was. His mom’s people, the emperor and Baron all were playing checkers until Paul’s dad and Paul himself actually followed through and worked with the Freman. It’s still white colonialism though.
I heard the dinner scene is not in part 2. In my recollection, that dinner scene is one of the biggest moments in the book, but it's been awhile since I've read it.
Not showing it in Japan
I won’t be home until early May so I’ll probably miss IMAX.
They showing the Color Purple out here.
There is a Gundam movie though so I may catch that.
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but I'm willing to try and enjoy. Wish me luck!
hell no it need it better writing and acting not a bigger budget.
that type of succubus power fukks me up
