Saw @dunemovie tonight. Overall, a big
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Not to be confused with 2001 Nobel Peace Prize winner Kofi Annan. 54th Clause of the Magna Carta absolutist. Commentary from an NRx perspective.
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Saw @dunemovie tonight. Overall, a big
. A few thoughts follow.pic.twitter.com/A2ibAqoLVi
Denis Villeneuve is clearly the top sci-fi director today. His Dune takes its time (it basically covers the first half of the first Dune book), and includes homages to David Lynch’s movie (see the establishment shot in orbit around Arrakis at ~0.39).https://youtu.be/8g18jFHCLXk
The effects are first rate. As you can see in that trailer, Villeneuve nailed the dragonfly-like ornithopters.
Sets, set design, and costumes were all great, and sort of in keeping with Lynch’s aesthetic. One nice touch was the engravings on the walls.
A big improvement over Lynch was the elimination of expository voice overs.
Casting. Overall, very good. Timothée Chalamet is a better Paul, Rebecca Ferguson is a better Lady Jessica, than their counterparts in Lynch’s movie. Jason Momoa is a better Duncan Idaho, and Oscar Isaac is at least as good as Jürgen Prochnow as Duke Leto Atreides.
The diversity casting is okay until you get to Sharon Duncan-Brewster as a dreadlocked Imperial Planetologist. She is jarringly awful, with zero gravitas, and just a yawning decline from Max von Sydow.pic.twitter.com/yo21hnEcpK
Javier Bardem makes a fine Stilgar; Zendaya is a passable Chani, but looks kind of dumpy compared to Rebecca Ferguson’s beauty. Paul’s love interest should be at least as attractive as his mom. Fin.pic.twitter.com/LDwJ4WExF8
>Zendaya is a passable Chani She's the worst thing about the movie. I don't even mind the planetologist as much - although she's no Max von Sydow
The only way she’s worse is that she’s going to be in the next one. The planetologist just jarred me out of the whole story.
I didn't find the planetologist jarring other than the diversity stunt casting - thought she gave a good performance.
I thought she wasn’t overtly terrible in vacuum, but bad compared to von Sydow & my recollection of the book character
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