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Sep 3, 2021 - 6:53 PM
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Ado
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this describes DV perfectly
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/09/dune-movie-review-timothee-chalamet
David Lynch’s 1984 misfire (a misfire according to some, anyway) and truly honor Herbert’s text. But Villenueve can’t help but lacquer it all up into something hyper polished and hard to the touch. Even Arrival, his most successful big-budget film, groans under the tremendous onus of his construction. He’s an overloader, and only the keenest and most urgent of scripts can survive beneath that weight.
Dune, unfortunately, is not one of those. Maybe the source material, with its unending glossary of terms describing places, peoples, religious traditions, and political systems, is just too dense to hone into something cinematically agile. Villeneuve’s film is somehow plodding and hurried at once, flurries of exposition and table-setting ringing around set-piece monolith
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Sep 4, 2021 - 8:08 AM
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Ado
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I also like DL's Dune for all it's problems, and enjoyed the very dense books. What I will say is that if anyone is looking to see an action movie out of the source material is looking for the wrong thing, it's just not what the books are about. Detail, depth, plotting, politics, etc, that's the story and if DV has managed to shoehorn that kind of stuff in then I think I'll probably like it.
I like compelling dramas. But you need great characters and performances. Zen (I just woke up) Daya isn't gonna deliver the performance needed for such a movie.
I also question peoples comments about the director being a great visionary. I hear critics say this or that film had great visuals/action sequences all the time and I find most of them generic and cheap looking. The fact the sandworms in this new film looks like giant @ssholes with hemorrhoids don't help much.
Hey Sol, 'Great Visionary" is not what it used to be, and the term "Masterpiece" is handed easily and quickly as well. So the relevance of these previously meaningful terms is thereby diminished. $150 million and expensive sets and visual effects do not make you a brilliant director.
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Sep 4, 2021 - 9:22 AM
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Solium
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I also like DL's Dune for all it's problems, and enjoyed the very dense books. What I will say is that if anyone is looking to see an action movie out of the source material is looking for the wrong thing, it's just not what the books are about. Detail, depth, plotting, politics, etc, that's the story and if DV has managed to shoehorn that kind of stuff in then I think I'll probably like it.
I like compelling dramas. But you need great characters and performances. Zen (I just woke up) Daya isn't gonna deliver the performance needed for such a movie.
I also question peoples comments about the director being a great visionary. I hear critics say this or that film had great visuals/action sequences all the time and I find most of them generic and cheap looking. The fact the sandworms in this new film looks like giant @ssholes with hemorrhoids don't help much.
Hey Sol, 'Great Visionary" is not what it used to be, and the term "Masterpiece" is handed easily and quickly as well. So the relevance of these previously meaningful terms is thereby diminished. $150 million and expensive sets and visual effects do not make you a brilliant director.
Indeed. Today's "Brilliance" usually means something pretentious. "Visionary" isn't a hundred million in shoddy CGI. There's plenty of low budget films who are beautifully filmed and inventive in style.
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