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This is NOT a bad movie

posted 3 years ago by [deleted]
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I'm watching it now as I couldn't see the new movie in cinemas due to a cough, but I suppose it's not bad at all!

The story is easy to understand, the Atreides are honourable and the Harkonnens are icky bastards, and I don't mind the inner monologues at all, it helps to advance the plot.

The only sequence I didn't like was the trip by the Atreides to Arrakis itself, a very trippy sequence apparently caused by that sentient worm in the tank at the start.

I've still got 40 or so minutes to go, but it's been interesting so far.

[–] 123Guy (7259) 3 years ago

OMG I just watched the new one, and it makes the 1984 version look like a fricking masterpiece!
in the 1984, the sets, the clothes, even the dated effects are glorious, and in the new one, they are fine but dull.

yes, dated FX never stand up, but what was shown in them was much more visually interesting that what is in the new version.

This is not a great movie, but it fits in more interesting things than the new one does, AND this completes a whole story, not a drawn out half of one.

[–] Owlwise (1535) 3 years ago

Agreed. All I ask of FX from any film, from any decade, is whether the filmmakers did the best they could with what was available & feasible then. If so, then I have no complaints. For instance, the FX from Jason and The Argonauts still work for me today, because they were imaginative & well-integrated into the story. As do the FX from the original King Kong. And the same for the 1984 Dune.

[–] brux (14724) a year ago

When I looked the what was supposed to be the royal palace, it reminded me of the cheap way the videogame Doom painted its graphics - the operative word being cheap.

[–] [email protected] (2017) 7 months ago

The robes in the new one are fine imo but all the western inspired costumes are ill fitted, too big, and look like they came from department stores. The uniforms of House Atreides need to be tailor made, well fitted like in the 1984 version or like the film The Charge of the Light Brigade. The costume designer really is weak in the new one.

[–] maximmm (3335) 7 months ago

It should make everyone wonder where this technological progress is heading - everything that is said to be good and superior is in fact..... quite the opposite? That includes the CGI

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

Update: The cough I mentioned in my OP was actually COVID. I found out later and I forgot to update the OP then.

[–] bobbydallas (8511) a year ago

the worm design in this one is superior to the new version

[–] brux (14724) a year ago

It goes over the top with the Harkonnen comedy villains, and Sting-o prancing about.
It definitely had possibilities, which it wasted.
But, I'd say it is still better and feels more "Duney" than the new version.

[–] Dsx2006 (188) 7 months ago

I don't know man, I'm not that young anymore and I find this version objectively goofy. I tried to like it but in some parts it just looks so dated.

Eg. The personal shield looks like the guy transformed into a Roblox Avatar 🤦🏻‍♂️

Also, what's with the pug dog? It looks off in two scenes I can remember from the top of my head... We don't need the cute factor there 🤦🏻‍♂️

[–] johnmiller (3889) 6 months ago

Still easily my favorite "Dune" film. Yes, we know its issues. But, this is the only "Dune" film that is actually passionate about the story it it telling.