Marvels won't make it to IMAX
(media.kotakuinaction2.win)
You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread.
Comments (42)
sorted by:
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.
It’s only a mystery for basically the first half, but I agree them revealing that was an interesting move but I trust Denis Villneuve to nail it because the rest of the movie showed a deep understanding of the world Herbert created.