Posted on 07/22/2021 6:47:18 AM PDT by C19fan
Oscar nominee Denis Villeneuve (“Arrival,” “Blade Runner 2049”) directs Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures’ “Dune,” the big-screen adaptation of Frank Herbert’s seminal bestseller of the same name.
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The pro-Jihad message is a little dated, at this point.
I loved the idea of the shields they wore that kept fast objects—like bullets—out, which is why they had to fight with blades.
But the story always invokes Muhammad and Muslims in my mind.
But I guess it’s all that sand. And you can’t have sand worms without sand, and spice without the worms...
My brother in law read the book, I did not but watched the movie.
When I mentioned to him the movie was a little confusing he said you’d have to read the book 1st for the movie to make sense.....life’s too short bro.
Looks faithful to the original storyline, with what is presented. Quite a bit more minority placement in the cast but shouldn’t present a problem, as was the case with Cicely Tyson in ‘How Green Was My Valley’ or The farce known as Hamilton.
Liet Kynes being recast as a black woman.
Beast Raban with 6-pack abs.
Environmental messaging.
Capitalism (Harkonnens) are bad.
Not even CLOSE to being “faithful” to the book.
I am now a the point in the novel where Paul has just arrived on Arrakis, and I honestly think Lynch's version would have been pretty good if the studio didn't compress it down into a single film at the last minute, which was not what he was originally agreed to do.
That is exactly correct! Too much of an epic for one movie.
Read book, dated gal who slept with Herbert’s co-author, dumped gal, saw first movie in theater, saw second online (Jodorowsky’s Dune). Not watching this version until on free streaming service. It is way too darkly lit to be understandable or watchable.
Nothing like making a movie in color with lots of CGI, then making it so dark the actors are nearly invisible, akin to making a movie were the characters whisper under loud music score.
Hollywood language that I fail to understand - a trailer is something pulled from behind, what this shows is a PREVIEW so when and where did these become ‘trailers’? Probably just like ‘liberal’ has been perverted into meaning LEFTist and non-LEFTist has been perverted into ‘extremist’!
Knowing that these previews are the very best of what is to be seen, this version of DUNE looks good enough that I might go for the cinema experience about a month after the release! We will see what the reviews and public comment is before I contribute a dollar to Hollyweird again!
FYI: Note the exposed faces in everyone of these DUNE adaptations when the Book has such behavior as suicidal. I DON’T hold THIS against the filmmakers, it is a REQUIREMENT of the process. You have to be able to follow the actors, identify them and SEE them talking, otherwise it loses continuity. Same as space dramas that have lights inside space helmets that show the actor’s faces, it is a necessary device!
I liked the made-for-TV miniseries a lot (and I’m a fan of the novel).
I thought the 1980s movie was unwatchable.
If Jason Mamoa’s in it Imma watch it. 😏
Soon to be followed by a sequel titled “Why Even Bother Watching This Movie?”
Read book - too long and drawn out
Saw first movie - total yawn fest
Didn’t know there was a second movie and can’t imagine the third would be any good, either. Too bad people have no original ideas anymore.
Read book - too long and drawn out
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The original paperback was 541 pages and is now selling for just under $100 ...
Jodorowsky’s Dune is a movie about making the movie which was never made, was going to star S. Dali as the Barron and many others famous people were approached. Elaborate sets were drawn up in book of over 1000 pages of script and illustrations. Worth watching, if how movies are made or not interests you. This would have been a very original movie and also faithful to the original book.
Break it down. Rich privledged white people invade a planet to hoard the market over a drug with the street name called “Spice” and enforce their cartel power by having giant sand worms eat their enemies.
Dune doesn’t have a “pro-Jihad” message... if that’s what you took away from it, you missed the point.
“This would have been a very original movie and also faithful to the original book.”
Original? Yes. Faithful? No way. Jodorowsky was going to completely change the plot and ending.
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