Dune Part Two (October 20th, 2023)

[YoNoSe]

Folie a Dune?! 😮

 

[Mandible]

I think she's a fine actress. I didn't pick up on any messaging. But boy was I tired of seeing her resting b*tch face in nearly every scene she's in. She feels very one dimensional.

She's actually got a beautiful smile. Not that you'd ever know it from these films..

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Her character flip-flops too much; one minute she's loves him, then she hates him, etc. The (Chani) writing is a mess and completely inconsistent and added for no benefit. To my understanding (told from a friendd who loves the books because I haven't read them) her and Paul are on the same page, they know what must be done, etc.

Definitely not her fault as an actor - she was directed that way from a script written that way.

 

[Khev]

Rewatched Gladiator again last night for the first time in probably 20 years since the new one will be out soon. Wow, talk about a film that still holds up.

Why am I posting this in the Dune thread? Because it reminded me that much more how utterly lame Dune's bloodless combat is. This story absolutely deserved the Gladiator treatment. "Oooh the Harkonnen arena looks so cool in black in white." Yeah, and it's also G-rated so who cares. Hell AOTC was more brutal with Padme getting all those slices across her back, how stupid is that!

 

[YoNoSe]

Padme landing on that rhino thing made me audibly groan in the the theater. I know it was some fx tomfoolery but she lands crotch first from a decent height snd nobody acknowledges it. Then again she also falls out of a speeding gunship and shakes it off like the T 1000.

 

[YoNoSe]

Btw I love both Dune movies but I also enjoy the critiques.

 

[chrisstbh]

Padme landing on that rhino thing made me audibly groan in the the theater. I know it was some fx tomfoolery but she lands crotch first from a decent height snd nobody acknowledges it. Then again she also falls out of a speeding gunship and shakes it off like the T 1000.

Star Wars has never really played by real world physics laws, so I don't think most people really care. It's sci-fantasy.

 

[YoNoSe]

Oh.

 

[ZE_501]

Why am I posting this in the Dune thread? Because it reminded me that much more how utterly lame Dune's bloodless combat is.

I agree. It lacked a visceral, brutal component. The large scale fight scenes left me especially cold and yeah, I get it -- elite of the elite bla bla bla but the way some of the main characters cut through enemies like they were video game NPCs took away the stakes.

I haven't seen Gladiator in years but still remember the immediacy and tension of Maximus getting unhorsed and fending off blows from the ground. And this was a main character at the beginning of his own film, I knew he wouldn't die and it was still intense. Never mind the battle raging around him.

I enjoyed the Dune films but there are several issues with them.