Snake Eyes I didn't really care for it that much. Action scenes were boring. Arrow tv show had better fight scenes. The plot has a simple find out who killed a guy thing going but it was still hard to follow. Multiple times I was like what does this have to do with finding the killer. The camera work was bad. There was a point where he gets a bike and they don't show the bike. They kind of made it out that it was a boss bike but they didn't give a good shot of it until like 20 minutes later and it wasn't that boss.
I might have fell asleep during it. So maybe I should try watching it again. They introduce one joe and then she just kind of pops up near the end. I have no idea how or why she pops up when she does. I feel like I must have missed a scene or two. None of the characters were memorable.
I guess it was better than the first gi joe movie but not as good as the second one. Might not be fare to compare them since this is just a snake eyes movie not a full on gi joe movie. I wonder if this movie even started off as joe movie.
Snake Eyes I didn't really care for it that much. Action scenes were boring. Arrow tv show had better fight scenes. The plot has a simple find out who killed a guy thing going but it was still hard to follow. Multiple times I was like what does this have to do with finding the killer. The camera work was bad. There was a point where he gets a bike and they don't show the bike. They kind of made it out that it was a boss bike but they didn't give a good shot of it until like 20 minutes later and it wasn't that boss.
I might have fell asleep during it. So maybe I should try watching it again. They introduce one joe and then she just kind of pops up near the end. I have no idea how or why she pops up when she does. I feel like I must have missed a scene or two. None of the characters were memorable.
I guess it was better than the first gi joe movie but not as good as the second one. Might not be fare to compare them since this is just a snake eyes movie not a full on gi joe movie. I wonder if this movie even started off as joe movie.
I gave it another watch and I did indeed miss a couple of key scenes. So the story does make sense mostly but everything else is still bad.
80's me wants Joe's to reach MCU+Star Wars levels of pop culture stardom.
But then I remember it's a toy line that thrived because of Reagan's 80s and it just doesn't fit in today's world. Oh well. I'll just have to continue to watch Vin Diesel and Dwayne and Statham and Stringer Bell and Michelle Rodriguez bro out in that other throwback to vehicle-based machismo and pretend they're Gung Ho and Roadblock and Flint and General Flagg and Jinx.
80's me wants Joe's to reach MCU+Star Wars levels of pop culture stardom.
But then I remember it's a toy line that thrived because of Reagan's 80s and it just doesn't fit in today's world. Oh well. I'll just have to continue to watch Vin Diesel and Dwayne and Statham and Stringer Bell and Michelle Rodriguez bro out in that other throwback to vehicle-based machismo and pretend they're Gung Ho and Roadblock and Flint and General Flagg and Jinx.
Me too buddy...me too...Same with I want more good transformers movies like Bumblebee kind of was. They still don't really get it.
There's only one Kevin Feige to go around, I guess.
The Green Knight what the F did I just watch. I don't know but it was pretty, might want to see it on the big screen if you aren't staying away form covid factories. You won't have to do any drugs or maybe you should do a lot of drugs when seeing this movie.
The trailer told you what the movie is about and that is exactly what the movie is about. It is like if it was a movie about taking a trip to the grocery store and on that trip the hero ran into space aliens, Elvis, and a horny woman. Then when the hero gets back home you find out he forgot the milk, damn. None of that is in this movie but that is what the movie is like.
This will completely ruin the movie or maybe not if you are high. I could be high now.
There is a fable about a woman that wears a ribbon around her neck. She tells her husband she can never take it off.
I think this movie was a series of converted fables the ribbon lady being one of them except they changed it to sash. Each fable is a test or trial for the green knight not The Green Knight.
He used that sash to clean up and didn't clean it before wearing it, gross.
Watched The Green Knight a second time. Much better the second time and I liked it first time I seen it. Picked up on a few things I missed the first go around.
Also watched Risen which is a terrible movie. I'm doing Halloween early and this failed as a Halloween movie. Thought there would be things. There were no things. All the things were gone.
Also the B plot was just a reveal not a plot.
The way the lady was acting I thought she was molested as kid by her father. Nope turns she is just a weird alien that we find out about in the last 10 minutes of the film. Then everyone dies from lack of breathable air. The alien changed Earth so they can live on it .
I would have nuked the planet. unleashed every nuke on Earth turning it into a radioactive waste. What they didn't do for a ending was stupid. The movie built up to nothing, it was just okay THE END. Bad movie, terrible movie, rotten movie. You are no First Contact, You are not Arrival, You are not Dawn of the Dead, You are not anything. You are the Fantastic Four idiot brother but without any good looking people to at least look at.
I think I'm going to need a Baron of Hell review of all movies from now on. At least the ones I'm thinking of watching.
Dune was freaking amazing and I just might go see it a second time in theaters. Which I haven’t done since Titanic and that was under duress.
Dune was freaking amazing and I just might go see it a second time in theaters. Which I haven’t done since Titanic and that was under duress.
I’ve never read the novel. Do you think I’d enjoy the film?
You might have a hard time getting into it because there’s A LOT to take into, a lot of exposition. A close friend has never read the book and noped out of the Lynch film about half an hour in and still enjoyed it but appreciated it better on the second viewing. I think non Dune fans can still enjoy it because there’s a lot of world building, it’s gorgeous and the actors are brillant. Just don’t expect a fast paced action movie, this is not it.
Im going back tomorrow.
And it doesn't end from what I've heard (it's a part 1 of 2).
And it doesn't end from what I've heard (it's a part 1 of 2).
That is correct. I can specify exactly where it ends for those who want to know what they're getting into.
The movie ends right after Paul kills Jamis and as they're making their journey towards Sietch Tabr.
The biggest complaint from non readers (and why are there so many of them? Go read it!) I've seen has been that the 2nd half of the movie drags on too much.
Got a screening of Dune last night. I've never read the books but plan to. Really well done. Inhad forgotten it was broken up so I was amazed at the pacing. My friend who is a huge Dune fan came with me and thought it was very well done all things considered. I've loved everything this Director has done so if you've liked his other work you'll like this probably. Such great talent, visuals, and everything!
I'll say as a dad of young kids I did take a few eye rests for a second or two in the slow motion flashbacks or flashfuture scenes but I never fell asleep. That's a me problem not the movie.
Definitely less slow motion than the Snyder cut.
8 of 9 spice vessels. Production to increase per the Emperor!
Just saw Dune last night also!
I last read the novel maybe 20 years ago, but since it is so powerful, I remember a lot of it, and I thought the movie did a fantastic job of realising it.
I think it could have been a touch shorter, but I enjoyed all my time watching it.
So what did folks think of Dune? I watched about half last night and was wowed by the sets, costumes, etc. and so bored by the acting that I couldn't bother to stay up late to finish.
It seems like how I felt about Blade Runner 2049. He crafts really cool set pieces but can't bring it all together in a way that matters.
For all its flaws I cared a lot more about Dr. Yueh in the Lynch versionf for example. I felt like it was throw away bit in this one about his wife but in the Lynch version they did much better with his pain and desire for revenge on the Harkonins.
All in all the characters felt wooden and dull but it sure is pretty.
WELL I THINK BLADE RUNNER 2049 IS A MASTERPIECE AND BETTER THAN THE ORIGINAL SO MAYBE YOU'RE A BIG DUM-DUM
*Ahem*
Anyway, It's been about a month since I saw it, but I thought it was a very efficient and handsome half of the story. I think re-reading the novel this summer might have been a mistake, because I couldn't help myself from looking at it as an adaptation and evaluating which beats they omitted or re-worked, but I think they made good, efficient choices. About the only note I have - aside from it literally being half a story - is that Villeneuve's fondness for stark imagery makes the time on Caladan a bit of a wasted opportunity. The opening segments should've been way more lush and opulent to bring the harshness of Arrakis into focus.
I liked the new Blade Runner 2049, too. It's not like the original wasn't slow to develop in the style of the age it was made.
It certainly has stirred some interest. From my local library page
Dune / Frank Herbert
Herbert, Frank,
E-AUDIO | 1984
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Not Available (0 of 7 copies available; 40 on hold)
I have never read the book so I put my name on the list.
I will say that having watched both I liked some of the costumes better in the new one, and the hoppers but I liked the worms better in the first one. They looked neater to me.
I am afraid I am nitpicking this too much because while watching I noticed that they didn't put on their stilsuits (sp) until after the crash. Why did they not have them on the night before? It seems like they would have been losing water all the time and getting them on as quickly as possible would be important.
It certainly has stirred some interest. From my local library page
Dune / Frank Herbert
Herbert, Frank,
E-AUDIO | 1984
see all
Not Available (0 of 7 copies available; 40 on hold)I have never read the book so I put my name on the list.
Funny, I picked up a Kindle version several months ago when it was on sale for a buck or two. My paperback copy is with the rest of my physical book collection, in a plastic crate in my basement.
It certainly has stirred some interest. From my local library page
Dune / Frank Herbert
Herbert, Frank,
E-AUDIO | 1984
see all
Not Available (0 of 7 copies available; 40 on hold)I have never read the book so I put my name on the list.
I will say that having watched both I liked some of the costumes better in the new one, and the hoppers but I liked the worms better in the first one. They looked neater to me.
Overdrive/Libby looks to have a 2015 version of the audio. They've updated it with the movie image. Not sure if it's the same version and yours just lists the publication date on the original book or not.
I'm actually finishing the newer version up right now, after having read the book years ago as well as I believe listening once before.
Well last night I watched a fan-edit of Lynch's 80s Dune, and while it was overlong (nearly 3 hours), it's a *much* better movie, and is vaguely comprehensible to people without a pre-existing knowledge of the story.
Same group will be catching Villeneuve's Dune next week whenever we can wrangle our schedules.
I thought the new Dune was pretty good, and felt like a more faithful adaptation of the book. I got into Dune through the Lynch version, so it was jarring to see a lot of the exact same scenes and exact same lines spoken by different actors in a different setting.
Jessica was my favorite casting choice, Stilgar a close second. Everyone else felt like too much of their actual real-life persona shone through. It wasn't "here comes Duncan Idaho", it was "here comes Jason Momoa". Lynch's movie has similar well-known actors but at the time I was 10 and didn't know any of them, so it felt like meeting new people.
Agree that the acting was pretty wooden in a lot of places, especially (I thought) from Chalomet. Zendaya gets maybe a minute of screentime and a handful of lines in the entire thing, so I don't have a sense of her yet. It's a lot of exposition and backstory to tell, and it felt long. The vision of Arrakis and that universe is great though.
I liked Dune, thought it was a good adaption of a difficult book and universe. I'm not sure how much better it will be on the big screen as really you'll just be seeing more sand.
I agree with the statement that the acting seems to take a backseat to the set pieces. None of the characters seem to have much depth.
As I said in the HBO thread, I hope they end the series before it gets too weird because the books get damn weird.
the books get damn weird.
This is an understatement.
Nevin73 wrote:the books get damn weird.
This is an understatement.
What's weird about space sex witches and talking worms oh right.
I'm not so sure Dune isn't far more mainstream these days than even 10-15 years ago.
Just watched it with a buddy of mine. I enjoyed Lynch's version, which I've seen multiple times, and have probably read the book a dozen or so times over the years.
Villeneuve's version blew Lynch's version away and I say that as someone who saw Lynch's designs in my mind when I re-read the book.
I thought Villeneuve and the other writers also did a great job explaining the Dune universe through exposition instead of relying on voice over and their reveal of those explanations were spot on for people unfamiliar with the story (like my buddy.)
I'm definitely going to watch it again in the theater to get the full experience. I don't know about others, but I thought the HBO Max version had some serious sound mixing issues where some of the dialog got completely drowned out in some scenes.
And they should fire whatever Warner Bros. executive decided not to do this as a two or three picture deal. Part 2 should have been greenlit long ago and well into production.
I am afraid I am nitpicking this too much because while watching I noticed that they didn't put on their stilsuits (sp) until after the crash. Why did they not have them on the night before? It seems like they would have been losing water all the time and getting them on as quickly as possible would be important.
The night before they rested in a stilltent from the gear Yueh hid for them on the thopter. The tent functions like a stillsuit, reclaiming the moisture of its occupants. There was a brief scene of water flowing through tubes in the ceiling of the tent and Paul even had a line about his mother's reaction to drinking the reclaimed water saying it tasted like sweat and tears.
They didn't get stillsuits until after Duncan and Kynes found them. Kynes had the Fremen get them suits at the abandoned imperial ecological station.
Agree that the acting was pretty wooden in a lot of places, especially (I thought) from Chalomet.
I thought Chalamet's performance was fine mostly because the first half of the book is essentially Paul coming to terms with a bunch of things that that are way bigger than him. The same with the other's. Pretty much no one in Dune is expressive or expansive because they all have things they want to protect or not reveal.
There was almost nothing about:
the navigators or the IXians or the Orange Catholic Bible
all of which were necessary for understanding the underlying structure of the society and for the book's general tone of strangeness and mystery.
I still really liked this version of Dune. But it did feel as though they sanded off a lot of weirdness of the story.
Also, the Voice is supposed to be more like learned charisma maxxing and less like a Jedi mind trick.
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