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Finally watched Dune 2, this was not a good movie
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Date: July 6th, 2024 2:23 PM Author: Silver mood set Felt like I was watching randomly selected vignettes from a 12-episode tv season. It looked cool but the story was completely incoherent for being so simplistic at its core.
-Paul is completely put off by his mom after she drinks the poison, disagree with her constantly, but then he still does exactly what she wants. The mom abruptly changed into a tattoo'd freak and the talking fetus thing was wtf -Paul is watching Stilgar ride a worm and being told by everyone he will never ride one. Smash cut to Paul riding the biggest worm anyone ever saw and it's easy as shit -Paul is supposed to do this insane life or death vision quest alone in the desert to prove his worth. Chani inexplicably shows up like 5 mins later to help him -Paul and Chani have some argument the whole movie about whether he should fulfill the prophecy. Fulfilling the prophecy would be a means to her end of freeing the planet. This conflict makes no sense at all -They're out in the desert fighting Harkonnens and Josh Brolin suddenly shows up. Where did he come from? Why did they almost kill him? I burst out laughing at this scene. Also what happened to Brolin's entire crew? -The Baron is built up as this superpowered villain in Dune 1 and then gets ragdolled at the end by regular dudes. Wasn't he planning to kill the emperor or some shit? Why did he just lay down and take a beating?
Timothy Chalamet was great and carried the entire movie. Unfortunately he was held back by the writing, and sword fight scenes that have worse choreography than the Netflix show about ninja family.
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Date: July 6th, 2024 2:35 PM Author: Odious patrolman kitchen I predict there will eventually be a “Chani cut” of this movie where all Chani scenes/dialogues are deleted and it will develop a cult following. Just like they did with the Star Wars prequel movie with jar jar binks (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5551284&forum_id=2#47815151) |
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Date: July 6th, 2024 2:36 PM Author: Disrespectful internal respiration (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5551284&forum_id=2#47815153) |
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Date: July 6th, 2024 6:15 PM Author: Turquoise Dead Library (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5551284&forum_id=2#47815732) |
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Date: July 6th, 2024 6:26 PM Author: Swashbuckling umber dilemma striped hyena haven't seen a single person laud the movie here. there are a lot of dune fans that were happy it wasn't sloppified as hard as star wars/MCU shit. everyone pointed out how brown woman chani being the wise paul doubter sucked. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5551284&forum_id=2#47815762) |
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Date: July 7th, 2024 11:26 AM Author: Disrespectful internal respiration (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5551284&forum_id=2#47817176) |
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Date: July 7th, 2024 12:51 PM Author: Swashbuckling umber dilemma striped hyena classic xo non-response. nobody was lauding the movie and you just retcon history so you can feel superior. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5551284&forum_id=2#47817399) |
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Date: July 6th, 2024 2:44 PM Author: Bateful theater pozpig i think we are spoiled by golden age tv where they have 56 hours to tell a story.
There will be some disjointedness in 120 minutes, or whatever. And characters who "break bad" may seem a little abrupt.
But it's aesthetically wonderful. It builds a world and holds suspense and tells an interesting story. It also created a world-class villain - even if it had to kill him off.
And the most hated part, using Chani as a stand-in for normie morality, was likely a necessary feature for a blockbuster. A more faithful retelling of the book(s) may appeal to 130+IQmos and take 19 movies, but Villeneueve also has to ensure the movie makes $800 million or he loses the stage on which he creates his art in the first place.
There are hard limits to hollywood blockbusters and expecting something entirely different is sometimes the problem of the moviegoer, not the movie maker |
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Date: July 6th, 2024 2:48 PM Author: Self-centered bull headed toilet seat (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5551284&forum_id=2#47815192) |
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Date: July 6th, 2024 3:03 PM Author: drunken becky Muh golden age of tv where Ozark just stalls for 10 hours bc they don't know wtf to do (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5551284&forum_id=2#47815251) |
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Date: July 6th, 2024 3:14 PM Author: Silver mood set They could've dropped hints during acts 1-2 that Baron was getting weak from spice withdrawal
They could've spent 10-20 secs of exposition to explain why Paul knowingly drank poison and how he survived, rather than portray him as making reckless choices that improbably work out for him over and over
This evidences a lack of competence and conscientiousness at the script development stage |
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Date: July 6th, 2024 5:30 PM Author: navy faggot firefighter Villeneuve's thing is not caring about plot or dialogue (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5551284&forum_id=2#47815617) |
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Date: July 6th, 2024 6:23 PM Author: brass floppy tanning salon codepig No, without making the mentats more central it turns out the themes and motifs in Dune are surface thin. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5551284&forum_id=2#47815747) |
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Date: July 6th, 2024 2:47 PM Author: drunken becky Muh bitchy girrrrrlpower ruined it.
I'll give credit to the faggy director for offering an explanation as to why he actually wanted that. But that's as far my respect extends: he attempted to justify it. Did not succeed. |
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Date: July 6th, 2024 2:49 PM Author: cerebral address it was terrible (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5551284&forum_id=2#47815197) |
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Date: July 6th, 2024 2:51 PM Author: Scarlet Wonderful Puppy lot of good responses itt. maybe it hits harder if you watch it in a theater. I saw it on a plane so I didnt have the sound and scope others had. still, story is story, and this one just kinda did the same old "the one" schtick that star wars, matrix, lotr, etc all did. I know its a huge part of the book (which predates all others) but villaneuve should have realized that shit is played out and made the appropriate changes.
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Date: July 6th, 2024 2:58 PM Author: drunken becky Again, to be fair to our faggy director, I streamed the first one on my decent home TV setup and I was like, "shit, he wasn't kidding. You do need to see this in theater."
I RARELY think my streaming setup isn't good enough.
So I saw part 2 in imax. |
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Date: July 6th, 2024 4:44 PM Author: contagious shrine feces just so we're clear, he's not the "one" he does cause billions to die however (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5551284&forum_id=2#47815485) |
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Date: July 6th, 2024 6:22 PM Author: Scarlet Wonderful Puppy irrelevant, the plot is still a chosen one trope which has been played out for two thousand years before herbert even wrote dune. its shit writing and herbert should be taken to task for it. Redundancy is not art. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5551284&forum_id=2#47815744) |
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Date: July 6th, 2024 2:53 PM Author: Scarlet Wonderful Puppy zendaya is a horrible actress. she has one look - scowl. and is built like a ten year old boy (and one with an ugly prole face). she must have fucked the right jews silly to become the "star" she is. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5551284&forum_id=2#47815211) |
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Date: July 6th, 2024 2:57 PM Author: Frum Lay Selfie shes the female ben affleck. a horrible actor with zero talent who just shows up in everything. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5551284&forum_id=2#47815228) |
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Date: July 6th, 2024 3:00 PM Author: drunken becky Ben Affleck has no talent as an actor but has some as a filmmaker (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5551284&forum_id=2#47815239) |
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Date: July 6th, 2024 3:01 PM Author: talented rehab stock car stfu, it was a Triumph (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5551284&forum_id=2#47815242) |
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Date: July 6th, 2024 3:16 PM Author: vivacious cyan masturbator first one is very watchable, this one is a turd
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Date: July 6th, 2024 4:04 PM Author: mustard rigpig travel guidebook I thought the first one was okay. Only made it halfway through the second (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5551284&forum_id=2#47815405) |
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Date: July 6th, 2024 4:54 PM Author: shivering brunch private investor Dune is complete shit and worse than Star Wars shit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5551284&forum_id=2#47815511) |
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Date: July 6th, 2024 5:32 PM Author: drunken becky sup, george (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5551284&forum_id=2#47815620) |
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Date: July 6th, 2024 6:12 PM Author: maniacal site The xo smart poasters all showed up itt (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5551284&forum_id=2#47815729) |
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Date: July 6th, 2024 6:16 PM Author: Turquoise Dead Library denis is no lynch (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5551284&forum_id=2#47815734) |
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Date: July 6th, 2024 6:17 PM Author: Racy mewling locus Probably the best movie of the past twenty years. Absolute masterpiece (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5551284&forum_id=2#47815736) |
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Date: July 6th, 2024 6:22 PM Author: brass floppy tanning salon codepig Yeah, it was bad. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5551284&forum_id=2#47815746) |
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Date: July 7th, 2024 11:15 AM Author: amethyst big whorehouse agreed lots of good thoughts itt. i thought it was visually gorgeous. but agree with all the plot holes / weird disjunctions / zendaya was terrible. like visually it was everything i could have wanted in a dune film (again, other than zendaya). agree chalamet has been great in this role. i thought javier bardem and rebecca ferguson were good too. agree that if we had hours and hours this could've been incredible tv. but would also need a director who cares about plot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5551284&forum_id=2#47817140) |