I Don't Care What Ya'll Say
Added 2024-02-12 02:28:57 +0000 UTCI don't watch football. So I'm doing the lord's work. Watching Dune Part I again in preparation for Part II. It is not good ya'll....sorry...it just isn''t compelling. It's not terrible. It's just so lacking in anything memorable or emotional or meaningful. It's minimalist to a fault. Nowhere near the richness of a Bladerunner 2049. You can sit here and complain about how structurally messy Lynch's Dune is, and I would agree with you 100%. But at least it had some flesh, some skin, some tactile energy, eccentricity...concepts, costumes, sets, style that sticks with you, that felt unique. I find nothing of traction in this new film. Nothing that stands out as special. Sorry. It's just boring. Give it five years and I think most people will say the same thing. I think Lynch's Dune will hold up much better with age...and I'm not kidding. It has a cult edgy energy that is appealing comparatively. The new one I see getting lost in the shuffle of many modern films of this time that lack distinguishable characteristics. But who knows. I've been wrong before.
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I was ready to turn it off, but then the 4th quarter and overtime was the most exciting football game I’ve seen in years
Henri J. Mertens
2024-02-13 21:18:38 +0000 UTCI wish I could call it a flawed masterpiece but great art design doesn't make up for standard storytelling and miscast actors. (Ironically the most colorful performances come from actors playing secondary characters, ones with only one scene!) What is most surprising is the lack of negative reviews on YouTube. I had to go to unexpected places to find one. I enjoyed the nods to previous films, including Lynch's, but on the whole, with three already previously botched adaptations of the 'number one selling science fiction book of all time,' this film was a missed opportunity of some magnitude.
Matt C
2024-02-13 20:39:51 +0000 UTCThe NFL is all fixed and predetermined. Yes, I'm one of those.
Carl
2024-02-12 20:34:41 +0000 UTCI agree with everything you say. Villeneuve's Dune was too safe, stylistically and artistically. Nothing memorable there.
Paul Todisco
2024-02-12 15:31:17 +0000 UTCI totally prefer Lynch’s DUNE, I didn’t care for Villeneuve’s, actually. At all. Lynch’s DUNE 1000% has cult energy, some great scenes, great performances, genuine spookiness, daring imagery, texture and as for future cult status, benefits greatly from Villeneuve’s as a bridge to help make Lynch’s more digestible. It does have a future. Could care less about Dune 2. Or football. Never watch the Superbowl. Last night I watched Lumet’s THE VERDICT, twice in a row. This was my half-time: https://youtu.be/lB-Gacybj4A?feature=shared
Dean Imperial
2024-02-12 14:52:09 +0000 UTCI’m with you. I like Villeneuve and I like Dune the book but that movie is a 2/5 at best. Very heartless. The standout moment is when Idaho dies and you feel absolutely nothing because they haven’t built up his character at all. They also removed all the political intrigue and it feels like the climax lasts 90 minutes. My friend suggests Part 2 will have all the “good stuff” and Part 1 was necessary setup. I really doubt it. I don’t think anything in that first movie is successful.
Arthur Augustyn
2024-02-12 05:41:53 +0000 UTCNever was interested in seeing Dune anyway. For once, I would've willingly watched the Super Bowl without my dad making me watch it if my hometown Lions didn't fucking choke in the second half against the 49ers. I'm not a fan of football or this team but for the first time in my life after they beat L.A. and Tampa, I actually had faith in them and thought they were going to win it. That was one of, if not the biggest, choke job I've seen from a Detroit team in over 20 years of watching Detroit teams. When I say they did everything wrong in the second half, I mean EVERYTHING without hyperbole or exaggerating. The only one that might've been worse was the Tigers getting swept in the 2012 World Series which was ironically also against San Francisco. Also, you should've seen younger me rage back in 2006 when my Red Wings had one of the best regular seasons in NHL history only to lose in the first round to the 8th seed Edmonton Oilers.
Wolfman Brandon
2024-02-12 03:12:35 +0000 UTCThe sepia tone look felt dated. It lacked in the tactile richness of 2049. Which was also very Kafka-esque minimalist. But with some backbone. This felt empty.
Deepfocuslens
2024-02-12 03:02:16 +0000 UTCAmen. I first watched it in a crappy theater in Hawaii and we were late so we had to sit in the front row. I had to bend the hell outta my neck look up at the screen and I was so bored. The aesthetic was cold and unoriginal, there wasn’t enough boldness to the violence, and sorry but I’m not a big fan of Timothee Chalamet. He just looks bored all the time and has a smug expression. He didn’t have the same charm as young Kyle MacLachlan. Jacob Elordi also has a bored, iPhone face but at least he can do exaggerated facial expressions to keep me interested in his characters, unlike Chalamet. I won’t be watching Part II….I’ll just stay over here and watch the original, and Hey Arnold during the super bowl lol.
Shane Palamara
2024-02-12 02:49:18 +0000 UTCFriends of mine kept talking about how visually amazing it is, but to me the color grading is incredibly bland and makes me sleepy.
Coyote 87
2024-02-12 02:47:29 +0000 UTCRight? Just because it's Dune, and because of the cast, the director...we must pretend it was this great film. It's not.
Deepfocuslens
2024-02-12 02:45:10 +0000 UTCYeah I heard in the other room the fam saying it was a letdown.
Deepfocuslens
2024-02-12 02:44:45 +0000 UTCI agree. It didn’t make me FEEL anything and that’s the point of a film.
Coyote 87
2024-02-12 02:31:17 +0000 UTCYou’re not missing much anyway. This has been one of the more boring super bowls I’ve ever seen, at least through the first 3 quarters.
Shaeffer Holt
2024-02-12 02:30:36 +0000 UTC
