That's in keeping with the book honestly. I loved the cinematography and feel of the 1980's film, but was always aware that it got very mixed, generally negative reviews from fans of the book. The ending always felt very rushed to me. I had always imagined that the book must significantly better, as is often the case.
Imagine my surprise when I finally read Dune a couple of years ago, and it's really not much better than the movie was. Even the ending in the book was rather rushed.
The new film sticks to the book a little bit better, but it lacks the style of the older one in my opinion. When/if they release part 2, it will basically end up stretching the older movie out to twice as long without adding significant content.
Totally agree that the new movie is more accurate to the book than the 1980s Lynch movie. The Lynch movie is long as fuck and weird as fuck, but I love it. Bald women witches, Sting, "OUR STORM!!!", the inner monologue stuff being spoken out loud, the insane set designs. Bizarre and and I love it.
I also love the book (just Dune..not the sequels) but in a very different way.
The new movie was mostly more accurate, some nice cinematography, but I just found it boring. The actors were boring. The characters were boring. I don't even remember what anyone looked like other than Paul and Thufir Hawat. Oh yeah, and they turned Gurney Halleck (Patrick Stewart in the 80s) into a black woman. It has so much of that modern "whispering loudly = drama!!@!@!". Timothy Chalamet is way too mincing to be Paul who is after all supposed to be a very trained fighter. just ... meh.
I saw the new Dune movie, that was my only context. I don't plan to watch the 2nd one. The first one was not bad, but I found it just...very boring.
That's in keeping with the book honestly. I loved the cinematography and feel of the 1980's film, but was always aware that it got very mixed, generally negative reviews from fans of the book. The ending always felt very rushed to me. I had always imagined that the book must significantly better, as is often the case.
Imagine my surprise when I finally read Dune a couple of years ago, and it's really not much better than the movie was. Even the ending in the book was rather rushed.
The new film sticks to the book a little bit better, but it lacks the style of the older one in my opinion. When/if they release part 2, it will basically end up stretching the older movie out to twice as long without adding significant content.
Totally agree that the new movie is more accurate to the book than the 1980s Lynch movie. The Lynch movie is long as fuck and weird as fuck, but I love it. Bald women witches, Sting, "OUR STORM!!!", the inner monologue stuff being spoken out loud, the insane set designs. Bizarre and and I love it.
I also love the book (just Dune..not the sequels) but in a very different way.
The new movie was mostly more accurate, some nice cinematography, but I just found it boring. The actors were boring. The characters were boring. I don't even remember what anyone looked like other than Paul and Thufir Hawat. Oh yeah, and they turned Gurney Halleck (Patrick Stewart in the 80s) into a black woman. It has so much of that modern "whispering loudly = drama!!@!@!". Timothy Chalamet is way too mincing to be Paul who is after all supposed to be a very trained fighter. just ... meh.