Dang I liked Dune. I had the feeling Villeneuve was the guy to pull off how big and foreign the universe is but he created one of the most vivid film-worlds I've ever seen
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Replying to @17cShyteposter
The majority of complaints I've seen (and that I have) are about specific choices and the way the characters fit in the world (casting, screenplay, fight sequences). Every set / costume / shot feels like part of a larger world with its own logic and it's great.
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Replying to @RemainsStellar @17cShyteposter
Blinky shields? Dumb. Weird rituals before combat? Great. Villains? A bit under-motivated individually. Villain aesthetic and overall fit into the story? Incredible. As soon as we see that people kowtow to their leaders on Gendi Prime we know who's evil and how and why.
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Replying to @RemainsStellar @17cShyteposter
Shields are from the book and necessary to explain why they fight with edged weapons mostly instead of lasers. And it’s Giedi Prime.
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The book explanation of why they don’t fight with lasguns is ridiculous and self-contradictory. The movie should just skip it.
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It’s not really contradictory, but it ignores a tactic I just thought of. If shooting a laser at a shield causes both to explode, why not have a lawn dart with a time delayed laser attached? Throw it (or shoot it) near the enemy; laser hits enemy shields, and both explode.
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Replying to @dpinsen @SpeakingBee and
Covered in the books - the resulting explosion can't be distinguished from a nuclear strike and using nuclear weapons in combat is a "violation of the convention" that would result in all the houses uniting to destroy the offender.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @SpeakingBee and
Ah, okay. But someone does use nukes to destroy a shield wall in the books, right?
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Paul does when he's ready to fight literally every Great House and the Imperium - he doesn't have to because there's a legal fig leaf - he used the atomics against a terrain feature, not against people.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @SpeakingBee and
Now I’m almost regretting giving my Dune books to my friend’s 12-year-old son over the summer.
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