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the entire sequence of scenes on Giedi Prime were far from visually predictable. Denis is a master and flexed it a number of times in Dune. i think a fair take
by boogieknite 2y ago
the entire sequence of scenes on Giedi Prime were far from visually predictable. Denis is a master and flexed it a number of times in Dune. i think a fair take is Dune 1 and 2 are doing more creatively than any other big budget blockbuster franchise has since Avatar 1
- colordrops 2y agoGiedi Prime was the only sequence that held me transfixed during the movie. Funny, I was considering mentioning it as an exception with my first comment lest someone point it out.
- comebyrrh 2y agoIt was gladiator in black and white with the contrast cranked to 11. Take away the overexposure and … just like everything else the sci fi bad guys build in the last three decades of film. The Lynch Giedi Prime was terrifying. But that’s probably because I’ve been watching sci fi films for fifty years.
- duped 2y agoI mean I'm fairly sure it's the first/only infrared shot on imax, which is neat and gives it that unique look.
- guappa 2y agoIf you read scifi from the 50s you'll find that there was no original idea in any scifi film.
- comebyrrh 2y agoSigh. Asimov didn’t write EVERYTHING. He didn’t write about gender and politics like LeGuin He didn’t write about drug addicted Mars settlers like PKD. He didnt write about dimensional fragments and gravitation wave communication and laws of existence like Liu. Even the grandfather of it all HG Wells didn’t …. You trolled me and I fell for it. Damn.
- guappa 2y agoSigh… there's more than one scifi writer. You've read ONE out of HUNDREDS! Wow you're so cultured and intellectual! > He didn’t write about drug addicted Mars settlers like PKD. Read the first stories on mars colonization, long before philip k dick. It's not a moral fault to not have read something. But perhaps don't go lecturing people who have? You don't see me going to china to lecture about chinese literature while I don't even speak chinese. Don't do that. It's sad.
- thorin 2y agoInception would be another one that springs to mind, I notice that came out the year after Avatar, although I think Inception probably took it's lead from the Matrix.
- boogieknite 2y agoif i throw out the "franchise" qualifier then Nolan's a great example of visual novelty in big budget blockbusters. i enjoyed TENET more than anyone ive met
- thorin 2y agoI think Tenet could be enjoyable in the same way that Primer is enjoyable, but I found it unwatchable at the time I tried to watch it. I'm sure if I watched it at the right time I would like it.