I think as regards ‘Dune’, part II will tell if it was great or not.
IIRC there was some criticism here about how Timothee Chalamet was kind of a lame soyboy type, but that missed the entire point- he goes *into* ‘the desert a coddled, protected child (albeit one with serious training in mental and martial arts), he comes OUT of the desert as a mesiah figure, and a badass; it’s kind of the ‘Hero’s Journey’ thing. What all the movies and TV gets wrong is that he is supposedly about 14 or 15 when thrust into exile, not 18 or 20.
I liked the new Dune. I had seen the older 1980's version and was pretty unimpressed. I have never read any of the books, but when I was in college in the 1970's lots of people read them and all the paperback racks in stores had the books.
One thing I noticed with the new version was that some of its concepts were stolen by George Lucas with Star Wars. This may make some newer viewers see Dune as a rip-off of Star Wars when it was the other way around.
So you reccomend Dune?
I haven’t seen it yet. I get mixed reports on it.