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Historically, february is the time of the year where studios tend to offload the films they think are going to flop. Maybe that has changed.
by JohnMakin 3y ago
Historically, february is the time of the year where studios tend to offload the films they think are going to flop. Maybe that has changed.
- boppo1 3y agoThe first was okay. I was disappointed, I really like villenueve's other work. But it was just kinda stale.
- drittich 3y agoI really wanted to like it, and the visuals were fantastic. But, I had no emotional reaction to the characters and feel like the plot was just flowing along without a reason for me to care. I gave it 30 minutes.
- zeroCalories 3y agoWell, Dune is kinda stale. It's certainly not for everyone, but I thought he did an amazing job of brining the books to life.
- boppo1 3y agoI disagree, I loved Dune. Messiah was a little hard to follow, but Dune was ace. It felt like part one sanded off all the interesting bits and gave us a really generic brutalist aesthetic scifi.
- lores 3y ago> sanded off Good one!
- bsder 3y ago> Well, Dune is kinda stale. Yeah, I have to concur with that take. When I read Dune, I just didn't find it that interesting. It rarely felt like the characters had agency--a lot of plot tokens were collected and redeemed to move the story forward (whoops, story needs to move--time for a new, previously unmentioned superpower). And quite often the characters were just cartoonishly dumb or smart or good or evil. As you said, it's certainly not for everyone. I suspect it's more a "product of its time".
- doc_gunthrop 3y agoIt suffers partially from contrived exposition. It seems whenever a Dune film is made, the filmmakers tend to try to include as much of the lore as tolerably possible. They could've just started off the first film with Paul entering a room to encounter Gaius Helen Mohiam and the audience being introduced to the box.
- queuebert 3y agoThat's too early -- we'd have no reason to care about him by then. But that would work as the second scene potentially.
- grilledchickenw 3y agoDune: Part Two was actually scheduled for release end of last year, but got delayed due to the writers' strike. Maybe it hasn't changed afterall.
- JohnMakin 3y agoRight, but it's not like they had to release it now. My comment was more speaking to the peculiarity of releasing a potential blockbuster at this time of year. They could have made a summer or spring release as well.