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  • #46
    Watched this over the weekend and really enjoyed it. The visuals are so strong. Jason Mamoa might not be a great actor though.
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    • #47
      Originally posted by Ian Jane View Post
      Watched this over the weekend and really enjoyed it. The visuals are so strong. Jason Mamoa might not be a great actor though.
      He is good at playing Jason Momoa, and that is about the limit of it.

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      • #48
        Florence Pugh and Christopher Walken have been added to the cast for Dune 2.

        https://cinemachords.com/florence-pu...-cast-members/
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        • #49
          Oh yeah!!! A trailer for the trailer! Apparently the trailer trailer is coming tomorrow! Trailer!



          . . .fuck me gently with a chainsaw...
          "Never let the fact that they are doing it wrong stop you from doing it right." Hyman Mandell.

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          • #50
            Part 2 thoughts:

            DUNE PART TWO (2024) Theaters.
            When DUNE Part One debuted, I gave it a grade of 'Incomplete'. It was decent, well-mounted, but there wasn't enough that was definitive to give it final marks. With Part Two, Director Denis Villenueve earns a solid passing grade.

            After a brief prologue, which introduces Florence Pugh as Princess Irulan (this also functions as a tidy recap), the new entry picks up with Paul Atreidies (Timothee Chalamet) and his mother Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson) who have joined forces with Chani (Zendaya), Stilgar (Javier Bardem) and the Freman.

            Villenueve and Jon Spaiht's script improves on the pacing of the original, managing to weave in new plot developments and important new characters such as the Emperor (Christopher Walker) and the menacing nephew Feyd-Rautha (Austin Butler) of Baron Harkonnen (a returning Stellan Skarsgard) . The screenplay is still burdened with much exposition and some of the dialogue rings flat. The cast does their best with Butler and Pugh making the strongest impressions of the newcommers. Ferguson is excellent once again. Chalamet is better than in the first half, and grows into the role. Unfortunately, Bardem and Walken are saddled with lesser material.

            As a combined film, DUNE is an impressive achievement on a grand scale. Some of the Greig Fraser's cinematography is a bit too murky at times, but otherwise quite solid. The production design, sound, costumes, VFX, Zimmer's score - all set a high standard.

            For hard SF fans, the fantasy elements may create a certain distance with their amorphous and seemingly flexible rules. Unless one is truly steeped in Frank Herbert's mythos, the details often create more confusion than cohesion; Not to mention that the 'ending' truly isn't -- as there are five more original books to go. For all the criticism the 1984 David Lynch version gets, he did manage to distill it into a coherent enough film that runs less than two and a half hours. The collective Dune here runs over five. Obviously, there are many more details explored, but there are times where it hinders the overall dramatic rhythm.

            All that noted, Villeneuve can hold his head up high. His two-parter is a good attempt at adapting a dense series of novels which have gained their own mythic status. If there are to be more Dune filmed adaptations, Villenueve can walk away proud of his accomplishment.




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