Just saw Dune yesterday.
Pros: It's honestly not nearly as woke as the race swapped characters would suggest. The cinematography is great, and I think the cast was well selected (unnecessary race swapping aside). They did a great job of designing the costumes and the spaceships too.
I haven't seen anything in the way of woke pandering and politics thrown in your face, but Zendaya doesn't really do anything in this movie so who knows about the next one.
Cons: It's a bit confusing who/what everyone/everything is if you haven't read the book.
You will have to use the bathroom after watching it.
It falls victim to about all blockbuster movies in the past few years. Hollywood prioritizes the "international market" [China], when making movies. Which means the cinematography will be top notch and everything else will be dumbed down. The plot will be dumbed down, the dialogue will be dumbed down, the acting will be dumbed down, everything.
The plot was already set for this movie but there are two meat head actors in it who cant act, and it cuts out Pauls internal dialogue where you learn he is extremely conflicted. There was the pain box incident and the seeker incident which had Pauls inner dialogue from the 1984 movie cut in the 2021 version. Also there were a few scenes where Paul is staring pensively as the camera slowly zooms in on his face, almost like he was thinking something, perfect for some internal dialogue but it doesnt happen.
It used to be a given that humans all had an internal dialogue, but apparently, this isn't true. Perhaps the people they're aiming at don't have one, and don't understand the concept .........
yep, there were some Twitter posts about it. people are astounded that others have an internal dialogue and/or can picture stuff in their head, like a fucking apple.
If I really think about it, this is terrifying. I want some serious studies done on this phenomenon and I want these people to get the treatment needed to evolve into humans.
Just..thinking about what my life would be like without the ability do some of the mental processing I do every day, it's actually scary. I might want to kill myself if I became like that. Do they gain some other ability in its place? Is it like autism where you can basically be a retard while being really good at math?
I always hoped this stuff was just a joke.