I feel like the love this adaptation gets is proof that the average person really is a lot stupider than I had previously assumed.
The source material is sci-fi legend, and I’m sure adaptations are difficult, but come on, the difficult part (the creativity) has already been taken care of. This version is just plain BAD. |
Saw it today. Liked it as much as I did One which is to say it’s a big blockbuster film done fine. |
Maybe you are the stupid one. It was amazing. |
Amazing!?! Haha! What a pitifully low bar you have. I guess you have spent too much time watching marvel movies and telling everyone ted lasso and community are SO good… but if you think this movie was good I think you are lacking some essential brain function. |
Don't be ridiculous. Dune 2 is not a Transformers/Marvel level of film. I accept that not everyone will like it or disagree with some of the choices that were made, but calling the vast majority of critics/audience dumb for enjoying a really well done movie is incredibly childish. You need to check your superiority complex. |
It is time to come up from the basement, your mom is calling. |
I haven't read the books and felt this after watching the first one. It seemed to assume viewers knew the world. I assume I missed a lot of the significance of actions and dialogue choice because I didn't know the backstory. It was visually interesting, but your statement of "impression of a movie" rings true to my experience. |
I loved both part 1 and part 2. This is what we need in entertainment right now.
The theater was packed. |
Saw it yesterday. Thought it was really good! I didn't remember a lot about the first installment and I've never read the books, so I'm sure there's tons I missed. But still enjoyed myself.
That said if you added an R2D2 I'd have believed this was a Star Wars movie, for good or bad! |
DP. Please tell us which movie is so great that you loved it? Give a sci-fi one if you can. |
Excellent movie. I like Dune 1 better, because it had so much story line and character development.
This is the Dune series I have been waiting for since I read it in 8th grade so long ago. I wish there was more development about the suffering of the Fremen under Imperial/colonial rule to give us even more reason to understand why this rebellion was necessary. Paul going south in the books was well explained, however in the movie it was hasty and due to bombing. |
It is very easy to tell his head is huge, eyes look small due to so much prosthetics covering the hair. |
Sure. I think Alien was a very well done sci-fi movie. The plot was fairly straightforward but you did have to pay attention to figure out some of the subtleties. Interstellar had flaws but I found the story compelling, moving, and most importantly I cared enough about the characters and the overall story that it was easy to choose to overlook the flaws. Dune (the movie, not the book) was ALL about the surface level aesthetics and atmosphere, which is great if they were working on the illustrated companion to the book, but as a standalone film? It’s boring and lazy. |
Have you read the whole series? Because it seems to me that he wants to make the whole series and focus on the Bene Gesserit. Yes, he cut a lot from the book. Changed how Paul integrates into the Fremen. But I really liked how Jessica’s character in the second movie lays groundwork for the rest of the series (because in the books you don’t realize her role in it all until much later in the series). |
Yet movie Feyd Rautha had to put zero effort into hooking up with Lea Seydoux. |