I felt the movie looks great but it’s didn’t make me feel any more for it then Lynch’s film..who in my opinion depicted the baron and his nephew as true villains and the Benny geserit(spelling ) were awesome..here everything is pretty but dull.
I felt the movie looks great but it’s didn’t make me feel any more for it then Lynch’s film..who in my opinion depicted the baron and his nephew as true villains and the Benny geserit(spelling ) were awesome..here everything is pretty but dull.
Saw it quite a while ago as it premiered in Europe already mid-September but I am still thinking about it and I must see it on a big screen again. I loved everything about it, the cast, the visuals, the music and sound design. I especially liked the relationship between Paul and his mother. It is rather slow and takes its time but I love it. The slow world building and the cinematography reminded me of the monumental movies of old, like a Lawrence of Arabia (although not that slow ).
Never hated the Lynch movie (actually I quite like it) but I recently rewatched it and I think the Harkonnen depiction was too over the top, especially the part where he pulls the plug on these poor slave people to drink their "blood" didn't make any sense and actually detracted from his menace. The calm, calculated portrayal of the Baron by Stellan Skarsgard made him more frightening in my view. Bautista's character compensates for that as he is an animal and if I remember correctly from the book, he was one also there. The depiction of the Sardaukar was also awesome, doing justice to the book. Also I thought the Villeneuve version explains just as much but through less exhausting exposition.
My only problem with it was that it ended and I really don't like that we will have to wait years to see the second part (if we even get it). Current box office take stands at 117 million (versus production costs of 165 million) and that's only international, so I'm hopeful that when it opens in the US, enough people will go see it in the theatres and that the HBO Max streaming will not kill the momentum.
It was decent enough. I actually still prefer Lynch's version but i'm quite willing to admit that a lot of nostalgia is involved here.
The music, the curiously 40's look of the uniform that i happen to love, the amazing casting, the fact that Herbert himself was consultant on that movie and of course Kyle MacLachlan's disturbing haircut, how to forget all that?
But, yeah, that new version is not bad at all. I do share your opinion that it's kinda dull though. But eh, i'm dude who grew up during the 80's so nothing is too flamboyant for me lol.
Oh, and i know it's not canon and quite frankly a bit on the silly side but i actually find that sound weapon of the Atreides in the 80's version to be a kinda cool idea.
So are people going to now pretend the old version was good?
I have a preview screening tonight.
I will let you know how it goes.
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Good luck. I hope it's good. The trailer already looks better than the whole original movie did
No, it was bad. But it had some cool and memorable moments.
Looking forward to seeing the new one and being disappointed yet again! Breaking it up into two parts is an odd move, to me. I'd much rather they have done a Jackson (RotK) and make the movie a bladder buster in length to just cover it all in one shot.
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Not seen it yet, I would however love to watch Jodowosky's Dune at some point, that seems like am interesting documentary
The Lynch version is... Fine.
But as a massive Lynch fan (he is my favorite director), it's my least favorite of his films).