Current Events > i rewatched dune part 1 last night. stray thoughts and spoilers.

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this movie is so awful and boring

first half of the movie is just explaining stuff and/or setup

• oh you dont want to be duke, son? neither did i lol! anyway enough of that bullshit lets go
• btw youre a psychic messiah. put your hand in the box and dont scream or else
• they arent human they are BRRUUUTAALLLLLLLLL
• spoilers: i have dreams you're gonna die.

this is all just lore building or incredibly ham fisted telegraphing what is going to happen which kinda ruins the dramatic impact. instead of like i dont know getting to know the characters so that we can feel bad when they inevitably die? you don't have to slavishly adapt the book you know. not that big of a deal. just make it better. easy.

think the only good scene in the movie is the worm attack on the harvester. that was neat. there should have been more cool shit with giant sand worms.

started laughing a few times at unintentional comedy. like when he's mad at his mom in the tent about being a freak. or when he has visions of the future. we see a soldier doing cartwheels over guys and slicing them up super easy. face visor lowers and its a forlorn timmy. was howling. so ridiculous. scrawny ass dude trying to act like jackie chan or tom cruise or keanu reeves while looking like he could be 130 lbs soaking wet.

and what is with the ending? mom does her quick defense against bardem and all of a sudden there's some fight that has to happen. timmy fights this random dude super fast. bardem 'is he toying with him?'. terrible fight choreography btw. and then he kills him and that's it. that's the movie. oh except for the 'on the next episode of dune.... riding worms!' part after that. man. pretty much nothing of consequence happens in this movie. like am i supposed to be awestruck by this knife fight? kinda comes out of nowhere to be the 'climax' of the movie. i don't get it.

on top of this why is every shot just a medium closeup in a big giant brown/gray/yellow room? doesnt denis know how to direct conversations? why do people like this guy? movies are a visual medium, can't you do something interesting within the frame? no? just a bunch of cgi? ok....

really wish this movie was just pulpier and less serious. you have a guy with psychic powers that is the messiah to some witch cult and some sand people. weird creepy albinos with human/spider pets. a dude named duncan idaho. giant fucking sandworms. sword fights. drugs flying through the air that cause interstellar travel on top of the hallucinations. shouldn't the movie be... i dunno... kinda goofy and weird and fun? instead of nothing but funereal solemnity?

anyway can't wait to see dune 2 next week. there is no way it could possibly be worse than part one so i got something to look forward to.

@Makeveli_lives i feel u

How did I get involved in this.

Makeveli_lives posted...

How did I get involved in this.

you made a thread about dune that got recommended in the 'more topics from this board'

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what are the deeply engaging politics? when is it incredibly beautiful?

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i believe i mentioned some of the whack cgi and how denis shoots conversation in medium closeups. not particularly cinematic and fun to look at.

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what exactly is "deeply engaging" about it though? there's no tension built to give any gravity to the situation. the emperor wants to get rid of atreides apparently but why? and the harkonnen's are willing to go along with it because, well why wouldn't they i guess. the spice makes them rich. i dunno. didn't find any of this engaging.

Movie snobbery is something that will never not be funny to me

The characters, plot and pretty much everything is dull as fuck but the scenery is nice

UnholyMudcrab posted...

Movie snobbery is something that will never not be funny to me

somebody has to do it

secured tickets for dune 2 on 70mm tmrw

can't wait

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That's their entire shtick.

Exposition is the worst way for a movie to tell a story.

only a couple hours away from dune 2 on 70mm

lfg

dune 2 is a perfectly acceptable blockbuster

i saw it on 70mm and have decided all movies should be projected on film. has anyone ever thought of this? imagine if all movies were shown that way in theaters. that would be sick.

Zithers posted...

dune 2 is a perfectly acceptable blockbuster

It's a Christmas miracle! Happy you at least somewhat enjoyed it

i saw it on 70mm and have decided all movies should be projected on film. has anyone ever thought of this? imagine if all movies were shown that way in theaters. that would be sick.

We need more 70mm theaters