Was really quite bowled over by Dune. It's stunning. One of the most visually arresting sci-fis I've ever seen. I loved getting lost in the pomp and treachery of it.
There is a problem though. It's not really a complete film. It feels like a (very long, very expensive) episode. So you leave feeling slightly frustrated. An odd mixture of over and under-whelmed.
You can't hold it against him, he's grappled with some really complex stuff and made a coherent story out of it. Not just coherant, but mind blowing. But if I'm honest, a part of me left thinking: this should probably be a TV series.
A few replies to this along the lines of: 'it says it's part one, what did you find confusing about that?' But even films in a series have a duty to be films in their own right. The Fellowship of the Ring, Infinity War etc. They stand on their own and as part ones. Dune doesn't.
One of the forgotten pleasures of the cinema is watching films with different audiences. As we were stroking our chins at the commentary on colonialism, the teenage girls next to us were absolutely losing their shit whenever the emo chap took his top off
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