How do you do, fellow confederates? Just me, racist confederate with an extremely new-looking confederate flag patch in a very normal place on my jacket at a Glenn Youngkin rally, who is also a racist pro-confederate.
Also not how extremely hidden their identity is. Big hats. Shot conveniently from behind with zero identifying features. The sussiest sus that ever sussed.
This dude just walked up to the press and stood there in front of their cameras like this.
Upon third viewing, I really think Dune's only deficiencies lay in its underdeveloped side characters, but what are you gonna do? How much screen time can you give Yueh or Mapes or Liet or Piter? The shortcuts it takes are clever but definitely work better if you know the book.
Another thing that struck me this time was how fitting the drama is because the book itself is extremely high drama. I reread it right after rereading Foundation last year and the contrast was... stark.
Also this is a rare example of a movie that actually uses the aspect ratio changes for dramatic effect. When Paul is having a vision and his scenes are in wide and the vision images are in full frame, it very vividly illustrates that he's having some sort of spiritual vision.
A good way to understand Dune if you haven't read the books is to think of Mentats, Bene Gesserit, and Guild Navigators as not exactly human, but more like the substitute for AIs. Thinking Machines are banned in that universe due to a past war, so they engineered replacements.
Mentats are effectively human computers. The movie shows them roll their eyes back as they do calculations and "retrieve data." Guild Navigators are like computers that can handle the calculations of space flight. Bene Gesserit do predictive social modeling and engineering.
I actually like that Villeneuve doesn't explain all this stuff in detail but enough of the information is there to not get totally lost, but I do think outside knowledge helps. Think LOTR Director's Cut. Lots of Silmarillion references in there, for instance.
1. The map UI is meh. Hard to filter for items to see which ones you haven't collected yet and you also can't see multiple zones at once like with other Metroidvanias. In general it felt a bit clunky compared to some others I've seen.
2. It's just a bit too linear even though it's a fantastic example of linear Metroidvania done right. Still, would have loved a couple of different branching paths, even minor ones, to let you change the order or skip certain things without have to sequence break.
3. Related to 2 - I would have loved some secret/optional content like bosses or powerups. Something not everyone would find on their first playthrough or maybe even at all. Hollow Knight set the bar very high for that kind of content.
Dune was spectacular. Did it end in the middle? Yes. But whatever. The production design and especially THAT FUCKING SCORE just blew my mind. See it in IMAX.
My only advice is if you absolutely have to watch it at home, put on headphones and crank the volume to max. This movie needs to be LOUD.
And yeah if you haven't read the book a lot of this won't make much sense I think. At least not until there's a second movie.
I'll let you in on a little secret: In markets as competitive as streaming services, you sometimes "overpay" because part of the cost involves denying your competition of that content on their platform. If Netflix doesn't pay Chappelle, Hulu or Amazon or HBO or Showtime will.
It's like when people were asking why Facebook bought Oculus. You know why? So that Google or Amazon or Apple wouldn't buy them. That's why.
He can do what he wants, but he’s not throwing his career away over a principle. He’s either scared of the vaccine or doesn’t believe it works or whatever. Not buying this whole “it’s simply not fair to tell me what to do” shtick.