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Dune: Part Two Is the Best Sci-Fi Film of the Decade

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Re: Dune: Part Two Is the Best Sci-Fi Film of the Decade

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Post by duxup »

I liked the first 2/3 of the first film. It had some fun takes on events and scenes. But after that it felt like it was on auto pilot plowing through plot bits. The events that close that film are really uninteresting / don't feel very climatic.

I get it's a two part film but I do expect a given part to feel somewhat complete, but I felt like it was more of a "to be continued" ending and I was less than entertained by that point.

I do like that there's such a variety of Dune films and content (the sci-fi miniseries including children of dune being my favorites). It's fun to see a different take on things. I really have never felt any of them were "wrong" or fundamentally "bad" just different approaches.

I wish every great sci-fi content could get lots of versions / interpretations.

Re: Dune: Part Two Is the Best Sci-Fi Film of the Decade

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Post by zeroCalories »

boppo1 wrote: post #3
JohnMakin wrote: post #2

Historically, february is the time of the year where studios tend to offload the films they think are going to flop. Maybe that has changed.

The first was okay. I was disappointed, I really like villenueve's other work. But it was just kinda stale.

Well, Dune is kinda stale. It's certainly not for everyone, but I thought he did an amazing job of brining the books to life.

Re: Dune: Part Two Is the Best Sci-Fi Film of the Decade

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Post by RaoulP »

bkishan wrote: post #12

I just came back from the theater. Every word of this article rings true. The movie is a piece of art, the best of star wars with the grandeur of Game of Thrones. Its very rare to get movies like this these days.

What were your feelings about part one, if you saw that back when it came out?

Re: Dune: Part Two Is the Best Sci-Fi Film of the Decade

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Post by kramerger »

jamager wrote: post #10

> Even better than the first film The first part left me quite underwhelmed, tbh. Maybe I had too high expectations given the director, but while the visuals are amazing, the characterization of some characters (like lady Jessica or Thufir Hawat) are very far from how the books depicts them, and I don't think is an interpretation thing. I understand that Dune is too big of a masterpiece for a simple 2 part movie (it…

Really? I was very impressed with Rebecca Ferguson as lady Jessica. The first 10 minutes was worthy of an Oscar.

Re: Dune: Part Two Is the Best Sci-Fi Film of the Decade

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Post by reactordev »

jamager wrote: post #10

> Even better than the first film The first part left me quite underwhelmed, tbh. Maybe I had too high expectations given the director, but while the visuals are amazing, the characterization of some characters (like lady Jessica or Thufir Hawat) are very far from how the books depicts them, and I don't think is an interpretation thing. I understand that Dune is too big of a masterpiece for a simple 2 part movie (it…

For that 6-8 part series, you’re looking for the SyFy Channels version that was done early 2000s. Fantastic. Frank Herbert’s Dune. Had William Hurt in it.

Re: Dune: Part Two Is the Best Sci-Fi Film of the Decade

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Post by exe34 »

jamager wrote: post #10

> Even better than the first film The first part left me quite underwhelmed, tbh. Maybe I had too high expectations given the director, but while the visuals are amazing, the characterization of some characters (like lady Jessica or Thufir Hawat) are very far from how the books depicts them, and I don't think is an interpretation thing. I understand that Dune is too big of a masterpiece for a simple 2 part movie (it…

The first film was half a reboot.

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Post by stronglikedan »

jamager wrote: post #10

> Even better than the first film The first part left me quite underwhelmed, tbh. Maybe I had too high expectations given the director, but while the visuals are amazing, the characterization of some characters (like lady Jessica or Thufir Hawat) are very far from how the books depicts them, and I don't think is an interpretation thing. I understand that Dune is too big of a masterpiece for a simple 2 part movie (it…

> the characterization of some characters... are very far from how the books depicts them

But that's how it always is, because the target audience for the movie is much wider than the target audience for the book, so characters always get the "screen treatment" to make them more palatable to a wider audience.

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