Dune Part Two (October 20th, 2023)
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Haha - I didn't think Florence was attractive... until I saw her in this movie. I thought Zendaya was attractive... until this movie. Moral of the story... don't mess with sand chicks.
I'm gonna have to agree with this about Zendaya. The fact that the stillsuit/hair scraped back makes her face look completely round isnt helping matters. Usually she has a cloud of hair going on, which helps blunt the issue.
Florence is a lovely young woman, again a tidge more makeup would help matters greatly.
You won’t get Star Wars of this quality unless you have the right people overseeing it.
This has Villeneuve.
Andor has Gilroy.
The rest of the current ******** speaks for itself.
This has Villeneuve.
Andor has Gilroy.
The rest of the current ******** speaks for itself.
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This was not Zendaya's best showing. Florence Pugh was attractive as hell in Oppenheimer (not just because she was undressed, I'm talking about her whole look) ... but in Dune I have to give it to Rebecca Ferguson in most scenes.
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I think that Herbert's contemplation of power, corruption and human failings got lost somewhere along the line? By the second book Paul was thoroughly fallen from whatever heroic grace he might have scraped by on when we first met him.
You could almost argue that there are no heroes in this story.
Straight up villain. Lawful Evil.
Zero. But I've been crying about the casting from more or less the beginning. My issue with Chalamet is I don't buy physicality or leadership from him.
You can be 'girly' -- and still be lethal but he's never sold me on Paul because I don't see him as leadership material, and even though he puts the work in, I don't buy him as a fighter anymore than I did in 'The King'. It's bad casting just as I think Zendaya is too modern and not otherworldly enough to be a Fremen.
Yeah that was great.
Lynch's sandworms undulated. It's very unclear how the Villeneuve versions achieve locomotion above ground.
Also a vibe. I liked the lack of make-up. It's mentioned in later books that humans don't even wear deodorant anymore. 20,000 years in the future humans are comfortable being the animals they are, I guess.
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Both Zendaya and Florence are waaaayyyy too young for me.
Give me a fierce, confident, magnificent woman in her 40's or 50's.
Anyway, really liked the first one, even if one or 2 casting choices didn't quite work for me.
Greatly looking forward to seeing this one.
Give me a fierce, confident, magnificent woman in her 40's or 50's.
Anyway, really liked the first one, even if one or 2 casting choices didn't quite work for me.
Greatly looking forward to seeing this one.
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Me too, I'm talking just pure aesthetics, but I did pick the 40-year old anyway so there it is.
Same.
I haven't seen cinema spectacle like this in a long time. I feel like it ultimately missed the mark on a few aspects, but what an effort. I still enjoyed it.
My comment was more rhetorical. I just dont understand why SW has to [almost always] be so damn hokey in live action. Really infuriating.
I get you. They go back to making it directly for kids, then back to adults. It's all over the place, always has been.
I understand what they're trying to do here - Paul was never that physically intimidating in the books, it was more about his metal training and his psychic powers. Yet onscreen I'm having a problem with this willowy, beautiful young man and accepting him as a serious physical threat. Although Chalamet did great with his fight scenes, not faulting those at all.
I'm really much more accepting of Idaho and Halleck. I laughed when Idaho stormed out, shouting "DOGS!" and waving knives at Harkonnen troops and they just .... moved aside like ok dude, the keys are in the thopter and have a good trip. [1st movie]
The contrarian part of me has a problem with these people who never bathe, they never brush their teeth. How would someone in a stillsuit actually smell?! Can you even IMAGINE, not me. You would be able to smell them fifty feet away. What about the diseases this would cause? Ugh! I overthink things way too much.
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Well that's just it. I can buy a small-framed fighter and leader, but not Chalamet.
LOL..I'll have to re-watch that.
I'm assuming they may have some 20,000-years-in-the-future tech for dental hygiene, but I remember well how several times (in the book) the sietch was described as having a "woolly smell" or scent. Still-suits and caves got a bit rich but I guess it was the sea they swam in, as it were.
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Haven't seen part 2 yet so can only go by the first film but I'm not sold on Chalamet at all. Mental powers sure, but not in combat or as a leader.
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Well then you should see Part 2
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2 is better than one. Go see it.
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And both combined as a single movie makes for one epic experience.
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chrisstbh
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I love smart movie goons that recognise when they’re outmatched though.Thanks for that. Guess he ran into the B-team.
Rather than the typical:
“Huh, Batman just put 15 of my buddies into temporary comas, let me have a go”
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