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CorsiHockeyLeague · 10-24-2021, 11:41 PM

You can sort of understand it though because BR2049 is one of the greatest sci fi movies ever made and had a built-in prequel that's regarded as also one of the greatest sci fi movies ever... and it didn't do well.

I saw this tonight in IMAX, which was the right way to do it for the first time I think. I suspect I'll see it once more in theatres, possibly in 3D DBox just to try that.

I agree with Nik, if you enjoy movies for the way they look and the way they feel, this would tick all the boxes for you. And it should, because that's what Villeneuve is good at, and it's why I love his movies so much, more or less regardless of what the material is. But aside from that, I actually am not sure how this would appeal to people who aren't already fans of the books. There is so much that requires you to just accept that you're being brought into a world that hasn't been fully explained to you. Who are these Bene Gesserit women? What are the rules around space travel? Why is the Emperor willing to team up with these apparent bad guys to take out these apparent good guys? What are these visions Paul's having supposed to show me - is all this going to happen in the next movie? In short, what in the blue hell is going on? I just don't really blame people for zoning out, I guess.

If someone were to make the ideal Dune movie series for me, I would have done it a bit differently - without any book spoilers, I basically would have spent more of the movie world building and character building so that you care more when Leto dies and understand more about the politics going on and some more Fremen culture. Plenty more time spent with Harkonnen and De Vries, who really didn't have much to do in this movie. And a longer lead-up on the visions. I would have had the film end with the big invasion scene at Arrakeen. Not sure if I would have saved the poison tooth scene for the sequel or done it but left it unclear whether the Baron survives.

... But that's for me. I get why they had to move things along a bit faster. I do think the ending wound up a bit anticlimactic where they cut it off, though.

10-24-2021, 11:41 PM	#20
CorsiHockeyLeague Franchise Player Join Date: Feb 2015 Exp:	You can sort of understand it though because BR2049 is one of the greatest sci fi movies ever made and had a built-in prequel that's regarded as also one of the greatest sci fi movies ever... and it didn't do well. I saw this tonight in IMAX, which was the right way to do it for the first time I think. I suspect I'll see it once more in theatres, possibly in 3D DBox just to try that. I agree with Nik, if you enjoy movies for the way they look and the way they feel, this would tick all the boxes for you. And it should, because that's what Villeneuve is good at, and it's why I love his movies so much, more or less regardless of what the material is. But aside from that, I actually am not sure how this would appeal to people who aren't already fans of the books. There is so much that requires you to just accept that you're being brought into a world that hasn't been fully explained to you. Who are these Bene Gesserit women? What are the rules around space travel? Why is the Emperor willing to team up with these apparent bad guys to take out these apparent good guys? What are these visions Paul's having supposed to show me - is all this going to happen in the next movie? In short, what in the blue hell is going on? I just don't really blame people for zoning out, I guess. If someone were to make the ideal Dune movie series for me, I would have done it a bit differently - without any book spoilers, I basically would have spent more of the movie world building and character building so that you care more when Leto dies and understand more about the politics going on and some more Fremen culture. Plenty more time spent with Harkonnen and De Vries, who really didn't have much to do in this movie. And a longer lead-up on the visions. I would have had the film end with the big invasion scene at Arrakeen. Not sure if I would have saved the poison tooth scene for the sequel or done it but left it unclear whether the Baron survives. ... But that's for me. I get why they had to move things along a bit faster. I do think the ending wound up a bit anticlimactic where they cut it off, though. __________________ "The great promise of the Internet was that more information would automatically yield better decisions. The great disappointment is that more information actually yields more possibilities to confirm what you already believed anyway." - Brian Eno