Dune 2021

[Five_Point_Five_Six]

Some of you boomers are about to be big mad when this one ends up being better than the original. Kinda like when Jeff Bridges dunked on the original True Grit. Yeah I said it. The remake of True Grit is better than the original.

As far as whether or not it will feature wokeness, if you're familiar with the storyline, then you already know what it's gonna be.

I could be wrong about Dune, but we'll see. If I don't think it's better, I'll admit I was wrong. Post angry replies below.

Well I wasn't wrong, at least as far as opinions go. It was better than the original. My wife has been looking forward to it for a while, she loves the book and the original movie and she liked Dune 2021 better.

It wasn't the greatest movie ever, and there were a few things I didn't like, which were mostly casting choices. I don't like Timothy Chalamet, he's like the person you throw into a role when you don't know if you want a teenage male or a young lesbian to have the part. He's like a Hollywood NPC but unironically.

[Tanner]

Saw most of it last evening....boring/dull/useless. Waste of time.

[JDH1]

So, pretty much like the original then.

[Business_Casual]

Saw most of it last evening....boring/dull/useless. Waste of time.

Woke and go broke?

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

Woke and go broke?

One character flips from male to female, but The main characters were not screwed with.

[georgeib]

I overall liked it. But I still got the general feeling that the story was a bit rushed. There wasn't sufficient character development as they left out the inner monolog of the first film and book, and if I hadn't watched the first one a couple of times and read the book, I could see people thinking it was disjointed. Also, no weirding modules.

Hope they hurry up and release the second one.

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

I overall liked it. But I still got the general feeling that the story was a bit rushed. There wasn't sufficient character development as they left out the inner monolog of the first film and book, and if I hadn't watched the first one a couple of times and read the book, I could see people thinking it was disjointed. Also, no weirding modules.

Hope they hurry up and release the second one.

My wife had a hard time following. Inner monologue is a lazy filmmakers way of getting the job done. You have the visual medium that can convey huge amounts of info, but sometimes you need to mainline the info to make sure that people get it. They really needed the scene from the 80s that better explains the need for spice for travel- otherwise it just looks like the spaceships are coming from a sewer pipe in the sky. They made the travel on par with it being used as a drug.

[JoshNC]

I thought it was great. In an ideal world, this should have been a multi-part series like Foundation.

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

I thought it was great. In an ideal world, this should have been a multi-part series like Foundation.

Agreed. Foundation seems to be neither developing chatractes or moving the plot forward. I just hope they make the second part. It was #1 in theater $ sales, $40m. Pretty high per-screen sales. Hope that bodes well. Just what kind of time line. Those are some pretty big/hot actors.

[Adrenaline_6]

Saw it. Not too bad. Can't complain actually, with what they have been doing to movies and remakes, this was refreshing.

I just hope part II doesn't take too long... and bring on the weirding modules!