Dune (Denis Villeneuve, October 1, 2021) Movie • Page 45

Meant to read the source material first, but never got to it. Didn't know this was going to be Part 1 until I turned it on, but knowing that, I didn't feel it ended abruptly. Tremendous cast, visually appealing, very fun watch. Thought they built as much of the world as they could in two and a half hours, will be excited for the second part.

 

According to Boxofficemojo, $17.5 million gross yesterday here in the US; not bad. Saturday numbers will be much better

 

so as far as we know all that has been discussed with villeneuve and wb is only two movies that cover the first book right?

 

Yep just two films for the first book

 

On my second watch:


That’s Jamis in one of the dreams towards the end. So I’m assuming he comes back.

 

Dune: The Sisterhood was also ordered straight to series at HBO Max in June 2019, with Villeneuve attached to direct the pilot. It's a prequel series and just got a new showrunner in July of this year.

 

Just left the theater. This is a masterpiece. The visuals, score, costume designs…everything about it was stellar. I do agree with the people that said people might miss stuff if they didn’t read the book, but I imagine they’d catch it if they watched with subtitles at home. Someone in the audience asked someone they were with if this is the new Star Wars. That’s a backwards statement, but I hope it is.

 

I mean Poe Dameron was in it

 

Hopefully gonna see this in Imax tuesday. Hyped that I managed to avoid any substantial spoilers.

Impressions are all over the place though so I'm not sure what frame of mind to go in with.

How's the worldbuilding and writing compared to something like Game of Thrones? Does it it get as cerebral and character study-ish as that show? Does it flesh out the politics of its universe in a similarly dense way? Is the story as unpredictable with lots of twists and turns?

 

It’s much more of a slow burn than a show like Game of Thrones. I wouldn’t say it’s comparable to it at all. GoT is an 8 season show. But there are “info dumps”. The character work doesn’t stand out much and there are cliches in the writing, but it’s an adventure and spectacle.

 

Game of thrones is absolute trash compared to this

 

Definitely sounds like it’s doing well enough to get the sequel

 

Yeah it's a formality at this point that a sequel is getting approved

 

Of course, not to mention GoT is intended as one continuous story but the first Dune (part one and two) should work a bit better as a complete story than that first season maybe?

I dunno, those early seasons were riveting enough to fool much of the world into thinking the show was gonna amount to something substantial. If this movie makes em look like trash, I'm even more hyped now ^_^

 

Never in a million years would I guess a Dune movie directed by Denis Villeneuve would get an A- Cinemascore.

 

This was great. It was my first time in the theater all year, and for anyone who feels comfortable, I’d recommend it. It’s definitely a big-screen movie.

 

I honestly don’t know how someone who likes the books could be genuinely disappointed with this. It hit basically everything on the head, and the parts they omitted were either not that necessary or would be more fitting to introduce in part 2 anyway

 

Thought it was funny that they don’t even try to address how the Baron is floating around. Like yeah he’s the villain so he’s the only one who gets to fly

I guess my one big criticism is that so many big expository parts were whispered, and a lot of those *during* loud musical parts so they were even less comprehensible. Including *both* “Fear is the mind killer” parts. Denis man you gotta be making this shit more accessible for those who haven’t read the book.

Duncan Idaho was the clear hero of this movie. He’s the only member of House Atreides who does anything remotely productive. And when the attack happens he goes into Taken mode and refuses to die until Paul is safe

Coolest sfx moment was when the missiles hit the ships during the raid. For a second I thought it was some weird sci-fi missile that only blows up the single thing it hits, before I realize that what was happening was the missile was penetrating the ship’s shield, then once it entered the shield went back into place, so the explosion was entirely contained within the shield. So fucking cool

Also if this was an MCU movie then the worm rider would be the mid-credits scene, and then the Feyd reveal would be post-credits lol

 

Yeah that slow-missile into the ship’s shield was very spectacular.

 

I need to watch this at least once more to really process it, but I do think it was phenomenal. An absolute powerhouse and honestly a staggering achievement.

From a purely pacing perspective, I think it was the right choice to cut directly from Paul looking at the sunset on Caladan to the 'little' landing ships coming out of the enormous tube ship thing as they arrive at Arrakis - but from a storytelling standpoint, I think it was very strange to completely skip over how spice and interstellar travel 'work' so-to-speak when spice is what drives almost all of the actions in the movie, or certainly is the catalyst for almost all of the plot at this point in the story where we jump into it.

 

I haven't seen this yet but I'd be absolutely shocked if a second one isn't greenlit at this point after all the buzz

 

I’ve never read the books or seen the previous movie or done any significant research (as I’ve mentioned a few times here), and I felt I understood everything well enough. Maybe I didn’t hear every line perfectly or retain most of the names and vocabulary, but I got as much as I needed to follow and enjoy the film. And, I did definitely catch “fear is the mind killer” being a thing.

I dunno, they communicated pretty clearly that it’s needed for space travel. Even if I couldn’t tell you why, like if it’s simply fuel or something else important, I got enough for this film. If I need to know more in Part 2, I bet it’ll make enough sense when it’s time.

 

(I’m also definitely not gonna read the book or do research between now and Part 2. Not because of “spoilers,” lol, but because I’m enjoying this ride enough to not need to understand every bit of worldbuilding or wanna do homework.)