Dune (2021)

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Kakadu18 said:

I think the old Dune movie is complete garbage. It's insanely boring and extremely confusing and hard to follow. Everything about it, the set designed, the make up, the costumes, everything looks terrible and insanely ugly. Only some of the effects near the end are decent. Harkonnen looks like a clown floating around. In the new movie he looks imposing and actually threatening. The camera work in the old movie is aweful. In the new one it helps making scenes more powerful, in the old one it's boring and uninteresting. Looks like it's almost all just filmed by a guy with a camera on his shoulder. The acting was boring too.
These two movies are like night and day.

Yeah the 80s Dune is horrible, in just about every way, I hate it.

abronn627 said:

curl-6 said:

I have a feeling that now that the foundation has been laid for the characters, setting, and plot in the first film, Part 2, which has already been greenlit, will be meatier, particularly in terms of action.

We even have a release date; October 20th, 2023. The wait is gonna feel like forever haha.

Personally I'm glad they had the wisdom and restraint to do it in two parts instead of dragging it out to three or more just to pad ticket sales as others have done. (Looking at you, The Hobbit)

Villeneuve has a lot of respect for the book and it shows. The first part is covering almost 2/3 of the story, but the latter part is low in term of content and the pacing is way faster, so I’m sure the 2nd movie will be more action oriented, but not as much as we can expect.

The characters development will be insane and I can’t wait to see the director’s approach with their story arc, especially Paul. I know some people complain about how bland he is, just wait and see ! 😂

I don't expect Part II to be wall to wall action, just hoping it won't suffer from the slight loss of momentum in the third act that was my only issue with part 1 haha.

Last edited by curl-6 - on 16 December 2021