I saw Lynch’s Dune when it came out, and hated it. I saw it again years later and thought it was better than I’d originally given it credit for. It did have at least one immortal line from Linda Hunt: “I am the housekeeper.”
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We went to see Dune last night, at a small downtown theater. I wish I’d found a bigger screen.
Because Zendaya is really pretty or because the special effects would have been enhanced by the bigger screen?
Yes.
Loved Dune. We are lucky to have Denis Villaneuve making sci-fi movies right now.
Loved The French Dispatch. How does Wes Anderson keep getting better? It is perplexing, and a joy to watch.
Watched Finch last night. It was… fine.
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Hanks has not been on a good streak of choosing scripts.
We started watching it. I wondered away about 30 minutes in.
We saw Dune yesterday. Best movie I’ve seen in a hell of a long time, and definitely worth catching on the big screen. Effects and cinematography were beautiful, script and pacing were fantastic… Denis Villeneuve is a master at what he’s doing. Can’t wait for the sequel.
And, yes, Zendaya is quite fetching.
Spaceship landing porn as some have described it.
Hey, what we do on our time is our own business.
I’ll take this as another opportunity to evangelize for Blade Runner 2049, where Villeneuve and legendary cinematographer Roger Deakins created a visual masterpiece that I think puts even Dune to shame. It’s slow-moving and it really doesn’t feed you exposition (I didn’t really grasp the plot the first time through, anyway), but it is stunning, and really quite a touching personal story underneath it all. It’s become one of my favorite movies and I prefer it to the original in many ways.
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Ditto in every respect.
I’l have to give it another watch then. The original Blade Runner is in my top 2 favorite movies of all time so it set a high bar. Watching 2049 seemed a bit contrived to me so it turned me off and I have not watched it again. I am guessing I missed some of the visuals because of that.
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I think a lot of diehard fans agree with you. 2049 arguably would have worked better without bringing Deckard into the plot at all. I get why they had to do it, and I loved seeing Harrison Ford in the role again, but it makes it hard to watch the movie outside the shadow of the original. As a standalone sequel, not making Deckard and Rachael so “special” within the story universe, the plot might seem less contrived.
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I was one of the Blade Runner diehards that said we didn’t need a sequel but I was very happy to be wrong. And just like with Dune, my wife had no previous knowledge of Blade Runner going in and she loved both of them which says a lot I think. I was a little bit worried about Dune and gave her a quick summary at dinner before we headed in to the theater.
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A QUICK SUMMARY OF DUNE
Bad guy kills the father.
Son finds the worms from Tremors and kills the bad guy.
A little bit more succinct than Frank Herbert