Marvels won't make it to IMAX
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The first is great, with a notable race and gender swap of a character. Overall I enjoyed it, but I also loved the books and I was just ecstatic to see it on the big screen so I’m a tad biased. Seeing it opening night in imax was awesome though
Kynes?
Spoiler: I'm guessing they dropped the subplot of him being the leader of the Fremen and Chani's father. Certainly the latter, because a black woman can only be a father in a liberal's fever dreams.
Yes. They swapped her for being a mother, which is less impactful
While the fact they gender-swapped Kynes shows they have the same understanding of the Dune universe as a shallow puddle, the part that pisses me off the most is that they showed the Sardaukar homeworld.
Which was very much a surprise on my part on how much it pissed me off. Didn't watch the movie, didn't plan on it, and I was very confused on the sudden inclusion of youtube feeds about the 'Sardaukar home planet'.
So, yeah. While I'm sure it looks great, I really fucking hate that movie.
The inclusion of what Selucis Secundis looks like wasn’t that immersion breaking for me, since they haven’t spoken at all about the hard planet -> hard men pipeline like the books allude to
They're never going to be able to translate all the layers of intrigue that's in the books over to films. But given that the source of the Saurdukar are a really big mystery in the book - well.
I wouldn't have expected that to be my line for the movie, but apparently it was.
The first was good. It got some things right that the 1980s film got wrong- like the ornithopters. The Baron Harkonnen wasn't as outrageous a caricature either.
I'm personally partial to the late 1800s european great powers vibe of the old movie. Certainly the last quarter of it was very rushed , but honestly original book was the same way.
They probably toned down the Baron because he's the only homosexual depiction in it. I will never forgive them for ruining Kynes character, and putting somebody so ugly as Chani.
Genderswapping Kynes alone should have sent alarm bells off with anyone who knows anything about Dune.
I could go off on a large tangent about how it makes no fucking sense given the entire political and gender-aspect of the setting as a whole, but, eh. Try to point this out and you get a horde of midwits mumbling something about how I hate women or blacks or something.
IMHO, it was .... meh. I mean, there was nothing in it that I hated. I mostly just found it totally bland and unwatchably boring.
They genderswapped a somewhat main character (Kynes) for no reason, didn't show another early key character (Feyd-Rautha), they have the classic thing that all movies have now where bad guys HAVE TO TALK IN WEIRD ECHOEY MONSTER VOICES LIKE BANE which is annoying and pointless.
I found the casting incredibly uninspired. None of the characters had any chemistry or on screen charisma. Maybe Jason Moamoa?
Paul Atreides is supposed to be a strong youth who has been trained in combat from a young age. Timothee Chalamet just looks like a pussy twink who hangs out at the record store and wears skinny jeans. Zendaya, boring. Thufir Hawat, boring. Duke Leo and Jessica--I honestly don't even remember them at all.
It wasn't offensive, just bland and boring. The only thing it had going for it was pretty tight cinematography and sets. Those were pretty great.