This movie looks great, but completely missed the writing and dialogue of the book. Every scene is rapid fire with no opportunity for the characters to demonstrate the personality. Leto comes off as a typical general type and you get no sense that he is considered a great man. The sense of love and emotion is completely lost between characters. Even Baron Harkonnen lacks the emotional depth he had in the book. Is this just the result of shit actors like Chalogay and mamoa or are the writers and screenwriters just ass.
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Is this opposite day?
Villeneuve's Dune got the characters mostly right, but the sets and costumes were mostly the sort of generically ugly crap you see in any sci-fi movie these days, with none of the orientalism and baroque splendor that the setting calls for.
As someone who just read the book I couldn't disagree more. Paul is not a b***h in the book, he is the result of thousands of years of selective breeding and has trained from birth to be a bene geseret and ruler. In the movie he's a wet napkin. Gurney adds a great deal of comic relief outwardly and masks a deep desire for revenge. In the movie he's just a badass solder guy. Duncan is similar, tho he doesn't have much screentime in the book to compare to. Again, Leto is a great figure in the book, who knows that he will die. He is fully aware of his own death and is terrorized by it. Barron is a scheming planner in the book with a sense of self righteousness in what he does. He doesn't just order all the atreides dead, it's much more subtle than that. Also his lack of characterization is really going to hurt the next films where he has a lot more scenes. Stillgar is pretty much okay, although the movie doesn't really highlight his superstitious side. Thufir howatt was completely butchered. He might as well not be in the movie. Jessica is mostly alright, although you don't get a sense that she is in control of her own emotions and can manipulate others. Yui is another character that might as well not exist.
>Paul is not a b***h in the book
He is at the start. Paul in the beginning of the book is even more clueless than he is in the movie. He has no idea of his significance or the powers he has.
The book is a coming of age story, where Paul is a normie at the start, but becomes a great man (and then much more than any man) as the story progresses. But at the beginning of the story, he's still just a confused teenager who doesn't understand what's happening to him.
But he's not. He understands the subtly of things. He is literally trained in the way of manipulating others as a bene geseret. Other characters constantly remark on how well he understands situations and how astute he is. The movie glosses over the fact that when he's in the tent with Jessica he basically changes forever and emotionally dies. My point is that Paul is not the typical coming of age character. He's practically a grown man in every way than his body. Stillgar even calls him boyman or something. None of this is helped by the fact that tim can't act for shit.
Everybody who meets Paul remarks upon how mature and insightful he is and how far above their expectations he goes. Literally the first interaction we see between him and someone outside his household is a terrifying bene gesserit matron being shocked by how amazing he is. He constantly has insights that go beyond those of anyone else around him, immediately understanding the likely power and scope of the fremen even as his mother fails to do so before he points it out to her, etc.
paul is a little twink that would be force feminised by the harkonnens if he didnt have strong people around to guide him to his destiny (of which he ultimately falls short)
do you think the tleilaxu would be able to implant a womb into man? feels like the kind of thing they would do
The visuals in Dune set an amazingly high bar. It had a sense of grandeur and scope, but never felt like CGI-fest bullshit where your brain just turns off. It felt realistic and lived-in even though what you'd see was impossible as far as practicality. Looking forward to the sequel.
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I also thought all the armor looked moronic. It didn't even make sense that the sardukars wore their own uniforms when they were supposed.to be disguised as harkonnens. I think a lot of things were axed so that general audiences could understand.
I couldn't believe this is what they made Arakis capital to look like, a fricking concrete bunker. That's supposed to be the planet's culture center, even at the repressed state the Harkonnens left the city at.
Its supposed to turn into Babylon on DUNC2 plus the whole "hyper architecture" concept will entire be ignored by Dennis because the doesn't care.
Arrakkis is a mine, its purpose is extraction, the city houses migrant workers and subjugated fremen. It is without culture. The planet's culture is found in the Desert and the Sietch's of the unconquered Fremen. It is a bunker to survive the harsh weather and defend against enemies.
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I didn't watch this movie because I don't want to see that ugly baboon Zendaya's face on the big screen.
It's funny cus chani is described as having elven facial traits in every scene she is in.
>that feel when the War on Terror caused us to miss out on a mid-2000s big budget Dune movie with young Sophia Boutella as Chani, and maximum-fatness John Goodman as Baron Harkonnen
>War of Terror
FTFY
you mean to tell me this isn't elven like? No way
I don't know the book but it was boring as frick.
The Curse/Grudge, however it's called, the jp version with the white ghost kid. I watched 1 and 2 because I enjoyed the visuals but frankly the story was very subpar.. EXTREMELY subpar. Yet I kept watching because it looked nice.
The movie could be interesting for some fans to see the scenes of the book come to life. I just remember it as constant loud noise and CGI. It fails to adapt any of the book's fascinating exploration of the human mind, civilization, and religion.
And the book was already set in a distant future examining particularly alien characters, but the movie lacks any of its humanity. It's an oppressively emotionless spectacle.
That's basically what I thought as well. The human aspect is completely missing.
>This movie looks great
Cheap bait.
I didn't say the sequel looks great
That's not the sequel, moron.
I must have been shit posting when this scene came on cus the movie is so boring
Don't forget the Hans Zimmer musical score. The impact the soundtrack has on the likability of a film is underrated.
>visuals
D U N C