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I think while the script was good enough, and hit a lot of themes that it needed to hit, and was enjoyable enough to me, it was maybe also a bit jumbled, trying to hit all those points and not run out of time, and then still missed hitting some of the themes as much as it should have.
some things that are lacking if I think about it:
- the importance of spice: what spice is, what it does, where it comes from, why it's so important (maybe this was in part 1? but IIRC that really should have been expanded on in part 2. where were the navigators?)
- Paul saying how he can see the future after the water of life is good, but I would have liked it to be more significant than it was. he just kind of casually says he can see clearer now, and can find the "narrow path". ok mentioning that is good, but it should be more than just that. he can literally see fourth/fifth dimensionally: a landscape of possibilities, with so many options leading toward holy war and only a few or even one avoiding it. and the fight with Feyd being a nexus point, causing time blindness to him as well as all other spice users because of the importance and uncertainty of that moment.
- Jessica knowing beforehand about inheriting memories; I thought that she only learned this in the process. and then, the actual effects of this are only mentioned casually without really going into the details of what it means.
some of these it seems like it's enough for a reader of the books to have the concepts triggered in their memory, but I don't know how well the ideas are actually conveyed to those who are new to the story.
as in any industry it happens when the people who make the money decisions are too far removed from the end product, and so they make terrible decisions.
basically this. I don't think it's possible for the story to make sense, but it's fun to explore the ideas anyway.
in the book it's even more than that. (spoilers for the book).
<spoiler>in the epilogue he suddenly becomes an advocate _against_ tobacco and is the one who writes the book "thank you for smoking". in fact the whole MOD squad recant saying (at least publically) "we now recognize the wickedness of our former ways".</spoiler>
the storyline reason was so that the redhead reporter could see him transition and know that he was The Mask
exactly
same here. I expected a childrens' "horror" movie and got basically that. it was maybe a little bit slow paced would be my only negative, and maybe it wasn't fantastic or anything but it was good enough for a kids movie. my nephews definitely liked it.
I loved the space exploration theme (reminded me of the movie Explorers) but it was kind of forgotten almost immediately after she got there, and instead of being on the moon she was in strange alien rainbow city instead.
the story felt like it barely made any sense, and most of the characters felt a bit cliched (only exception maybe Chang'e); the moral theme was good though, although maybe it was borrowing quite a bit from Inside Out, where (spoilers for that I guess) <spoiler>the goal of the main character is misguided, where getting what you impulsively want is not the correct solution, but accepting your own feelings of sadness and loss is what you need to do.</spoiler>
[quote]1. I think this point was raised before, but wouldn't the "normal" consciousness notice missing time when the Thing takes over? There is nothing in the movie indicating that scenario...[/quote]
it's possible they can both run concurrently. as long as there are thing neuron cells that are still also functioning like human neuron cells, then the human consciousness can still be running. the thing consciousness must work differently, some kind of cellularly-distributed consciousness, because even a small amount of fluid seems to have some awareness, and nervous tissue is not central to the thing's ability to think; any tissue seems to be.
for a slightly different theory, it's also possible that instead there is an alien "human" consciousness that is controlled by the relatively less intelligent distributed thing consciousness. as a dog, it gets to have a dog mind to make use of, but as a human, it gets to have a human mind. but when reduced to mere tissues, it functions only at a base level of survival instinct.
(some combination of these is also possible. maybe the second occurs at a later stage.)
actually the characters in the movie look like the poster quite a few times; they wear some kind of headgear flashlight. so the poster is just one of the workers... except the point is, is it a human or something else?
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