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Quoted: It was literally scored by Hans fucking Zimmer, the best living film composer there is. View Quote I feel like one of the only people who doesn't like his scores. To me they're full of a lot of random noise (Zimmer seems to love clicking sounds), and often mixed so loud to a level that they overpower the movie itself, but that's not entirely his fault. Imo Dark Knight is one example of a movie where the score is like the elephant in the room, smashing everything around it to bits while you're trying to hear the dialogue in vain |
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Wow! What an epic movie!
They deviated in a number of spots from the book and older films to great effect. It kept the story fresh and I think it really made it easier to follow and appreciate. Casting was fantastic for the whole thing too. Great choices and really added some realism. The Geidi Prime “black sun”, and high contrast black and white made the world feel so very unique and alien. Stunning. |
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I saw it today. First time I’ve been in a theater since I don’t know when.
Excellent film. Faithful to the feel and substance of the book. |
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Took my pop last night.
He was overwhelmed from my take. The story is overly complicated for many people. I LOVED IT. They did a fantastic job with this installment. The cinematography is on a level rarely seen on film. My huge take away was the SOUNDS. The sound work was like nothing I have heard. You could feel the scenes as much as see them. |
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Quoted: Wow! What an epic movie! They deviated in a number of spots from the book and older films to great effect. It kept the story fresh and I think it really made it easier to follow and appreciate. Casting was fantastic for the whole thing too. Great choices and really added some realism. The Geidi Prime “black sun”, and high contrast black and white made the world feel so very unique and alien. Stunning. View Quote Geidi Prime was filmed in using IR film from what I am reading. It made for amazing visuals. |
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Quoted: I saw it last night and this is right. It's not a 1:1 adaptation, but it's about as well done as a film can be. The ranged weapons were neat worldbuilding too. View Quote The laser weapons were insane. I can easily imagine portable laser weapons being like that 20,000 years from now. Plus, they kept the mechanic in there that if a laser hits a shield it causes a nuclear detonation from feedback, so they were careful with them. The ornithopter machine shotguns were cool too. All the various weapons and countermeasures make for difficult and bloody war. |
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Saw it last night with my family.
Outstanding movie. I love Dune and I've seen the 1980 movie, the miniseries and the first part of this rendition. Fantastic! I can't wait for the next part. It's beautiful, sound is intense, story is captivating... 9/10 great movie. |
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I thought it was ok.
Casting Walken was a mistake I think. He is too typecast. |
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Movie started slow. Then Austin Butler was introduced and it took off. Sound was mega powerful in IMAX. My one ear was still ringing after. The filming color change on the Harkonnen home world was crazy looking.
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Saw it last night, walked out giving it a 9/120, as I think on it 8-8.5/10.
Over all great movie. Click To View Spoiler Ok spoilers. As noted the Emperors troops were to weak, and or the movie over showed how "bad ass" the Fremen are, but the Weirding Way was cut out 100%, that helped explain why the Fremen were so "powerful". Seemed like a missed item. The whole Chani is mad at Paul thing was a wtf? totally added and unneeded, it honestly took away from the relationship, the sacrifices and politics. The book lines on Paul taking a wife and his Mothers Relationship w Chani was much better done than this weird oh she mad thing they threw in. They had three kids together, and were together decades after the movie time line. The rest of the universe is built on there relationship and there kids. This still makes me go wtf. The weirs Princess Irulan banging the Barons Nephew to get knocked up was total wtf also. See above, the whole point of her and Paul's marriage was political and Paul flipped a bird to the Benate Jezerite by NEVER giving her a child, hence ruining there whole "blood lines" thing was a big item. Over all loved it. Great visuals, score was amazing, it's space fighting where personal shields basically made range weapons point less, to much flipping and voodoo kong fu fighting but it looked cool. |
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No One Is Talking About THIS! DUNE Cinematography IR film |
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Great movie 10/10, that isn't without some minor issues of continuity but easily shrugged off (someone already said that Paul goes out into the desert solo and then it flashes forward). Will see in theater again before it's gone.
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I just got out of the theater a few hours ago and am still digesting it. But overall, I'm unsatisfied. I've done all of Herbert's six books and am a big fan of the Dune universe. This struck me as more of a love letter to Dune than an adaption which was loosely based on Part 2.
Click To View Spoiler Changing Jessica from a motherly figure who's helming Paul's ascension into proficiency with that of a symbiotic mama-bear psycho with the pre-born Aleia was considerably jarring. Using Chani as the lens to force feed the "don't blindly trust leaders' theme was disrespectful to the viewer. Paul clearly jumps the rails into despot territory in the end and Chani GTFOing on a wurm in the end was pretty bad. The fact that Leto I was not included changes the dynamic of Pauls ascension with that really pushing him over the edge. If they go forward into Messiah, which I think they will, they'll have set themselves on their own path which will make for a different story. It's not the golden path from the books, that's for sure. Overall, it was stunning and I'm glad it exist. But if the first book was -A/A level of work, this was more like C grade IMO. It was a missed opportunity in the sense they strayed from the source material and made their own thing. |
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My wife and I saw it last night in IMAX. Somehow, it exceeded my expectations. I loved it. My wife, who isn’t a sci-fi fan at all, enjoyed it as well. Prior to this, she had no interest in watching part 1 and was content watching a recap. She’s now interested in watching the entire movie.
Fantastic movie. |
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Quoted: Saw it last night, walked out giving it a 9/120, as I think on it 8-8.5/10. Over all great movie. Click To View Spoiler Ok spoilers. As noted the Emperors troops were to weak, and or the movie over showed how "bad ass" the Fremen are, but the Weirding Way was cut out 100%, that helped explain why the Fremen were so "powerful". Seemed like a missed item. The whole Chani is mad at Paul thing was a wtf? totally added and unneeded, it honestly took away from the relationship, the sacrifices and politics. The book lines on Paul taking a wife and his Mothers Relationship w Chani was much better done than this weird oh she mad thing they threw in. They had three kids together, and were together decades after the movie time line. The rest of the universe is built on there relationship and there kids. This still makes me go wtf. The weirs Princess Irulan banging the Barons Nephew to get knocked up was total wtf also. See above, the whole point of her and Paul's marriage was political and Paul flipped a bird to the Benate Jezerite by NEVER giving her a child, hence ruining there whole "blood lines" thing was a big item. Over all loved it. Great visuals, score was amazing, it's space fighting where personal shields basically made range weapons point less, to much flipping and voodoo kong fu fighting but it looked cool. View Quote Click To View Spoiler I agree with your first two points. However, it wasn't Irulan who slept with Feyd and conceived, it was Lady Margot Fenring. |
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Visuals were very good. Chani and her angry girl bullshit was horrible. Jessica, I mean, wtf. They really needed 3 movies to do this right. It was like chapter after chapter was given 2 mins of screentime. It was very disjointed and overall shit compared to the first one. Far too many deviations, enormously important ones, from the book. The whole ending was garbage. TC is simply not convincing. You cant cast a manlet as Paul Atreides. Wait for it somewhere you dont have to pay.
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Just got home.
KILLER flick. Yeah yeah, it's not the book verbatim. Who gives a shit? It kept my total attention from the opening till the end. I thought it was better than the 1st one and that's a pretty tall order. |
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Saw it this morning. A better movie than the first. The first was the most beautiful movie I have ever seen. Whatever these people making these movies are doing... they are killing it.
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Quoted: Click To View Spoiler I agree with your first two points. However, it wasn't Irulan who slept with Feyd and conceived, it was Lady Margot Fenring. View Quote Oh I missed that it was her, hot blond looked like a hot blond. Make a lot more since now. |
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I read a take it said in the books halls concern about becoming. The Messiah was mostly internal dialogue. The Director decided to make Chani the personification of that reluctance since anytime you do internal dialogue on a movie it sucks.
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Quoted: Visuals were very good. Chani and her angry girl bullshit was horrible. Jessica, I mean, wtf. They really needed 3 movies to do this right. It was like chapter after chapter was given 2 mins of screentime. It was very disjointed and overall shit compared to the first one. Far too many deviations, enormously important ones, from the book. The whole ending was garbage. TC is simply not convincing. You cant cast a manlet as Paul Atreides. Wait for it somewhere you dont have to pay. View Quote |
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Stilgar's casting was good but giving him the 'Gimli treatment' was frustrating. He went from the stoic wise man to the plucky uncle/comic relief which was very different than Part 1 and the books.
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Just got back. Deviations from the books, but an awesome movie!
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Quoted: I didn't really feel like Chalamet had the gravitas to pull off a convincing Messiah/Emperor, but Stilgar, Gurney, and Rabban in particular I thought were pretty well cast. View Quote I was thinking the same thing most of the movie. But, after the water of life, his entire screen presence changed. He became a rage filled character quickly and it was a stark contrast that I think worked. He wasn't a physical force of nature as much as an impassioned one. In the book, he was in the desert for years, allowing him to grow into a man. They forwent that in this movie to be a stretch of about 6 months, going by Jessica’s pregnancy. So, he didn't age and grow into a warrior, but instead a leader in this version. Kind of how they approached Pattinson as Batman. |
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Saw it in 4DX yesterday.... wish I had just done the IMAX. The moving seats made following the hand-to-hand combat scenes really difficult. (I've said it before, but I saw Top Gun: Maverick in 4DX and it was AMAZING for that movie; Dune2 is the third movie I've done in 4DX and it just doesn't seem to work as well for any other movie)
Completely agree on the cinematography - the scale of it was amazing. Though for such a long movie, I felt they could have explained a few plot points better. I've never read the books or watched the '80s movie, and I've seen the SciFi series but that was when it first aired probably.. Click To View Spoiler
I don't know, definitely preferred the first movie. I think either a lot of finer points got cut in editing or they were just too constrained by time. |
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Quoted: Agreed. My only complaint of the movie. In every scene I kept expecting him to talk with his weird vocal cadence and it pulled me out of the moment. View Quote This. Movie was amazing just like part 1. Many movies don't follow the book exactly and is expected. I'm still on high from watching it last night in Imax but I was wanting more! Should have been a 3 part series for book 1. Let's hope they make Messiah next and can keep the "spice" flowing! |
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When the emporer showed up at the end and everyone was congregated in one spot, I leaned over to my girl and said "now's when they need to launch the nukes". Seconds later, my face:
Attached File I had a huge smile on my face through the rest of the battle. |
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8/10. I could list a lot of gripes but I enjoyed it. I think I liked Godzilla more as it was a total satisfying package.
When Paul drank the water of life I felt the effect on the Navigators and Bene Geserit was downplayed too much. Lynch actually did a better job on that. |
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It will be interesting to see how they follow Chani's story in the next movie, since they went completely off the reservation with her. Other than that, great movie.
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Great movie!
They definitely made some interesting choices. Click To View Spoiler Thufir completely out of the picture. Click To View SpoilerNo Count Fenring. Changed up the backstory of the Slave vs Feyd gladiator battle. No backstop on Gurney joining the Spice smugglers No Paul's son Leto the 2nd. One thing I liked a lot as a change; is Paul killing the Baron and not Frank's cheesy version where Paul's 2 year old sister kills the Baron lol When you make a movie, you have to really manage the number of characters and gyrations within the story or the large casual audience will get lost in the minute. Also the choices felt like they came from with the idea to holding to the soul of Dune. Not some Hollywood schmuck who think he knew Dune better than Frank. 8.5/10 |
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View Quote Click To View Spoiler Gurney never got captured by the Harks. He joined up with the Smugglers to go "underground" so he could eventually plot to kill Rabban & the Baron and avenge his Duke. The smugglers have a whole 'legit' operation. They have their own harvesters, carryalls. They're not like raiding Spice depots or anything. They're generating their own Spice flow. How does this stay undetected? The smugglers and Spacing guild are working together. The Spacing guild.... the people who have a monopoly on Space Travel; they also control all the Satellite surveillance and everything of the planet. Not even the Emperor can compel them on this. Nukes are barely talked about in the Dune novel. I'm guessing where Paul threatens to nuke the Spice comes from the Sequel "Dune Messiah " |
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I saw it today in IMAX and I thought it was amazing.
Full disclosure, I haven’t read the book yet, and I vaguely remember the 80s movie from my childhood. I do have Dune in paperback and audible, but for some reason have never gotten to it yet. My opinion might change once I read it as most often happens with big screen book adaptations. I assume this second movie concludes the original book? Are the follow on books good as well? |
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Quoted: I saw it today in IMAX and I thought it was amazing. Full disclosure, I haven't read the book yet, and I vaguely remember the 80s movie from my childhood. I do have Dune in paperback and audible, but for some reason have never gotten to it yet. My opinion might change once I read it as most often happens with big screen book adaptations. I assume this second movie concludes the original book? Are the follow on books good as well? View Quote The books are good if you like off the wall sci-fi, but it only goes downhill from the first one. |
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Quoted: It was okay. Lots of wasted time of Chani making angry girl faces that could have been used to expand on the lore. Walken was a horrible emperor. Part 1 was the better film. View Quote I’ve seen it 3 times in 3 different theaters (2 in IMAX). I have been a fan for the book for over 40 years. Part 2 blew me away in all the good ways. I love this movie. However, Zendayas constant angry girl face was getting to be a bit much, so you’re not wrong in that. Walker was awesome. |
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