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The first one was good enough for me to see 2/3 times in IMAX :) The director literally made some of his other movies to prep for Dune. Movies with dozens of

The first one was good enough for me to see 2/3 times in IMAX :) The director literally made some of his other movies to prep for Dune. Movies with dozens of Millions in budget were his practice for this next flick, so hey, I'm ready to give my money and be blown away!

boppo1 3y ago
>The director literally made some of his other movies to prep for Dune. You're saying BR2047 was practice? Because it was way better than DP1
justin66 3y ago
That’s ironic, considering how much better Arrival and the Blade Runner sequel were than Dune.
- bostik 3y ago
  Arrival is an incredible film. (And sure enough, as is the story it's based on.) That's even with the discounting factor of the useless rogue bombers subplot. Blade runner 2049 is an interesting film. Visually gorgeous. Ana de Armas doing one of the best stone-cold scenes I have ever seen. And the whole film having the guts to tell a small story in a big world. Commendable. But I also find myself cringing at how it took a well constructed universe and pretty much dismantled it. So I'm rather torn over what I should think of the film. Of course, story telling wise the Dune mini-series was far above the first new film. But that didn't make the new film bad, it just made it ... different. And too packed. Dune's story is fundamentally big, sweeping and slow. Squeezing it into a film format will cripple it.
  - justin66 3y ago
    I enjoyed Peter Watts' provocative review of Arrival, which I thought I'd shared on HN in the past, but search suggests apparently not: https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=7021 https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=7021 In terms of quality I want to rate it above the other two movies we're talking about, and right up there with, ahem, the original Blade Runner as a classic science fiction film. (for me that's saying something, since I dislike the visual style of Villeneuve's films) edit: my main problem with the bomber subplot was just how heavy handed it was

boppo1 3y ago

>The director literally made some of his other movies to prep for Dune. You're saying BR2047 was practice? Because it was way better than DP1

justin66 3y ago

That’s ironic, considering how much better Arrival and the Blade Runner sequel were than Dune.

bostik 3y ago
Arrival is an incredible film. (And sure enough, as is the story it's based on.) That's even with the discounting factor of the useless rogue bombers subplot. Blade runner 2049 is an interesting film. Visually gorgeous. Ana de Armas doing one of the best stone-cold scenes I have ever seen. And the whole film having the guts to tell a small story in a big world. Commendable. But I also find myself cringing at how it took a well constructed universe and pretty much dismantled it. So I'm rather torn over what I should think of the film. Of course, story telling wise the Dune mini-series was far above the first new film. But that didn't make the new film bad, it just made it ... different. And too packed. Dune's story is fundamentally big, sweeping and slow. Squeezing it into a film format will cripple it.
- justin66 3y ago
  I enjoyed Peter Watts' provocative review of Arrival, which I thought I'd shared on HN in the past, but search suggests apparently not: https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=7021 https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=7021 In terms of quality I want to rate it above the other two movies we're talking about, and right up there with, ahem, the original Blade Runner as a classic science fiction film. (for me that's saying something, since I dislike the visual style of Villeneuve's films) edit: my main problem with the bomber subplot was just how heavy handed it was