|
Just watched this movie. Never read book, never saw any other versions. Amazing visuals and sounds. Old school pacing could definitely have been sped up without sacrificing anything. I felt like they were stretching out a short story to be honest, even though I know Dune is a dense book, it didn't feel like that. Either that's a testament to getting the points across visually and with as little dialogue as possible, like an old school movie, or they cut A LOT and maybe I lost out because of that. I'm a sci-fi fan and was getting bored about a third into it, and that never changed although the intense scenes did reel me back in, my gf was complaining the whole time, but she has 0 patience for movies and is not a sci-fi fan, so that was to be expected. I am looking forward to the 2nd movie but I will probably never re-watch this. I am curious to read the book.
|
#
¿
Feb 21, 2022 19:54
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ Apr 26, 2024 19:22 |
|
|
Grandpa Palpatine posted:It is definitely an "old school movie" and I'm not sure why that phrase even exists because it is entirely synonymous with "good" I'm not as avid a movie goer as I used to be ,as I said my partner has no patience, so my viewing has gone WAY down. I'm also not even close to a critic, but I am referring to the pacing. Other "old school movies" that are not "good" in my opinion because they take so long would be "No Country for Old Men" or "There will be Blood." On the flip side I liked "A History of Violence" and "A Most Violent Year" and I didn't realize how similar those titles were till just now when I was thinking of other slower burns that I enjoyed. I think there is definitely a better term to use, I just can't think of one. Ghost Leviathan posted:Slower pacing and not desperately trying to keep the audience's attention with quips, probably. And for horror movies relying on constant jump scares! Eason the Fifth posted:You nailed it with the comment about the visual language but also about how much exposition they cut out. Dune is a pretty great book, I'd recommend reading it for all the reasons everyone else says, but also specifically I think you'd like it because you can see what Villeneue did with such dense material (which will probably make you appreciate the movie more). I think I will try to carve some time between now and Part two to give it a read! Nitramster fucked around with this message at 16:22 on Feb 22, 2022 |
|
#
¿
Feb 22, 2022 16:20
|
|