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8 Nov, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Shooting a movie in full frame 1.43:1 IMAX is a conscious choice that involves most people not seeing it like that. Even most IMAX theaters don't have those screens and putting it on a TV zooms the image out so unless your screen is huge, it's kinda unimpressive looking.
Disney+ using Enhanced IMAX 1.90:1 rather than full 1.43:1 is still bringing the 2.39:1 Anamorphic cut of the movie that most people saw in theaters and is the one on home releases closer to 1.43:1 without sacrificing the size of the images on screen. It's the smarter choice.
And for the people traumatized by pan and scan and full frame movies - they aren't cropping the anamorphic cut. They are adding the additional material they originally shot to the anamorphic cut. It's an additive aspect ratio change, not a subtractive one. You're getting more.
The French Dispatch or The Lighthouse used those aspect ratios in a slightly different way than big action movies use 1.43:1. They do it to create massive headroom for long tall shots while Anderson did it for shot composition and Eggers for vintage look.
That's a good question and I'm honestly not sure. It could be something related to specific IMAX aspect ratios.

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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