You know what? It was just good, it wasn't amazing, I don't know what all these critics and fans are blowing their load over.
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You know what? It was just good, it wasn't amazing, I don't know what all these critics and fans are blowing their load over.
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chalamet sucks at acting and im tired of pretending otherwise
For me the only good part was the knife fight. Similar to the only good 15 minutes in dune 1
I thought it was okay, but people making the LOTR comparisons are crazy.
Imagine this movie series in 10 years. You sat there in the theaters blown away for a few scenes. But then sat there uncomfortably. That anxious feeling taking over, get on with it. And it does, and there is another amazing scene. Whew. Now back to that broken feeling of immersion because the writing, or acting or choices are just so damn off putting. You felt all that on the first fricking showing in the best setting in theaters. Watching it for the 10th time at home. It's such an unimaginable hell that we know no human being will get through this pile of shit 10 tens.
The only salvation will be some fricking Tolkien lilac forest cut like they did with the Hobbit just gutting these films of everything heinous.
Agree. I enjoyed it and it's better than most movies these days but it's not a classic. If the third follows the trend and only improves again though it might do a lot to justify the trilogy as a whole.
>It was just good, it wasn't amazing, I don't know what all these critics and fans are blowing their load over.
I agree and I felt like a crazy person when I saw the critical reception talked to my friends who saw it. It's not amazing nor is it terrible. It's pretty good. I still think the first 45mins to hour of the first movie is my favorite segment of the whole thing but I still like both.
I watched this yesterday. Zendaya’s character sucks.
The point is that it's the first major truly cinematic non-superhero film in a long time. It's not Stanley Kubrick levels of deep and the script isn't Shakespearean, I don't think anybody is saying that, but it's the first film I've seen in years that made me excited for the cinema
You're full of shit.
>the first major truly cinematic non-superhero film in a long time.
Capeshit only makes up a miniscule portion of all films coming out. And that's just looking at the US, which is the only country that actually produces capeshit on a large scale. Hell, even if we just look at fricking Hollywood, capeshit is far from making up a majority of their output. You just don't actually watch good cinema. Or even decent cinema. Or even just overhyped trash like Oppenheimer and Barbie. No, you watch capeshit and DUNC, that's why you think nothing else exists.
>It's not Stanley Kubrick levels of deep
No one, and I mean NO ONE, who actually knows shit about Kubrick, would ever call his films particularly "deep". He's an excellent visual storyteller, he likes symbolism (whether that always leads anywhere is another question), he's a technical perfectionist, but he is not telling "deep" stories. Hell, his arguably most famous work is a fricking Steven King adaptation, followed by a sci-fi adaptation, followed by a dystopian novel adaptation, followed by ... a historical drama, a satirical look at the cold war, and a critique of power structure and elitary circles. That's not any deeper than Dune (the book). Come on.
>isn't Shakespearean
No shit. Do you even understand what that would entail?
>the first film I've seen in years that made me excited for the cinema
Again, you need to watch better films.
>Again, you need to watch better films.
better films, or good films at all, aren't made anymore
>aren't made anymore
They are. You just don't seek them out.
Try looking outside the US, or outside mainstream cinema, or both.
>subtitle slop
no thanks
Oh, so you're one of those.
You do realize that you wouldn't need subtitles if you just learnt a few more languages, right? Any film fan should have at least basic knowledge of English, French, German and maybe a bit of Japanese and Italian. Maybe Russian as well, if it wasn't so damn different from the rest.
No that wasn't me.
>Try looking outside the US, or outside mainstream cinema, or both.
We just are in rock bottom moment of pop culture. Everything is still a product or the current shitty zeitgeist. Everything is devoid of imagination and skill.
The only new things I currently like are old things I've never seen before. In a sense I'm grateful that it allowed me to explore all those decades that produced so much (mostly) unkown quality stuff
Nothing is ever truly new, everything builds on what came before.
I do still encourage you to look beyond what you called "popculture". Not all culture needs to be popular.
>Nothing is ever truly new, everything builds on what came before.
A statement with no substance
>I do still encourage you to look beyond what you called "popculture". Not all culture needs to be popular.
Obscure stuff is still "pop culture".
>A statement with no substance
A trivial statement, yes, but a true one nonetheless.
>Obscure stuff is still "pop culture".
"Pop culture" literally means popular culture, anon.
>it's the first film I've seen in years that made me excited for the cinema
That's just plain sad.
Critics are supposed to laud certain big releases as long as they are competent. Fans want to believe they're seeing some all-time classic in real time.
>It was just good
No, it really was not.
It fails as an adaptation and as a film in its own right.
it was fun to watch in theatres. That premium feeling of proper blockbuster scale is not something we get very often. Everything is too self aware or looks like shit. Dune takes itself seriously and looks great. That's all I ever wanted, really. It is acceptable tbh
>looks great
It looks like shit.
I watched it but forgot most of what actually happened, and I refuse to watch breakdown videos on YouTube
Just read the book. Then remember that DUNC skipped most of the book and replaced it with shots of Zendaya standing in the desert and capeshit-tier hack-and-slash action scenes.
it's a classic emperor has no clothes situation
>emperor has no clothes
As ridiculous as the costumes were, they were still better than having a completely naked Christopher Walken on-screen, anon.
>Chani being a grumpy ugly c**t
>nobody wears a proper mask in the desert
>shitty knife fights
>fetus with adult voice
>Irulan is not that good looking
>worms feel more like pets rather than a genuine threat
>Hark leaders are killed in a boring manner in quick succession
>Stilgar flies away into space to do jihad 30 seconds after the fight for Arrakeen is over
>Chalamed is sporting the same facial expression throughout the movie
My personnel grapes.
The one with Sting was unironically better
It was kino. I need Rebecca Ferguson to sit on my face.
I think the point is the original works are inspiring, so any adaptation is going to have some good stuff in it.