The Lynch film is awful, the two miniseries (with William Hurt as Leto) adapting the first three novels have much better scripts but the first one literally has the actors sitting on a bit of sand with a cheap painted desert background behind them.
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Vanity Fair: First Look at Denis Villeneuve's DUNE [New Images]
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My point was, Dune is very much in its own league and deserves a visual treatment that has something special something striking that makes it instantly recognizable as Dune, and that quality I haven't seen in any of his films except bladerunner and even there its muted and toned down.
That was literally what was going trough my mind in the theaters. The most striking element in arrival where the aliens themselves and its something I have not seen before. That is all I want. show me shit that I have not seen in any other movie and then we get close to what kind of visuals dune deserves.
Dune deserves to sit among giants like Alien, and honestly, I don't think Denis has what it takes to direct a feature that has that level of striking visuals.
Unless you're watching with the sound off. It looks amazing but it's a trash ass script, and the acting is all over the place.
The ScyFi adaptations are the opposite, they look like shit but they execute the story better.
I don't agree, I also think it's one Villeneuves weaker ones, but that is a high bar.
Damn...guess I'll read the book before this comes out. I'm still interested in seeing the Lynch film just to see how fucked up it is.
Now this...is truth. I think Blade Runner 2049 is a masterpiece (and indisputably better than the original), but the one aspect where it falls short compared to the first film is production design. Blade Runner just looks so much better throughout.
Does it look better than the original?"uninteresting to look at."
Or even come close?
BR2049 is the movie i think of when i hear the phrase "every frame a painting"
What the fuck?The eventual Salon review is going to be something else isn't it.
maybe i'm just sniffing farts, but i hope this whole movie adopts a minimalist bleakcore aesthetic
plebians clutching their speed racer blurays while i drown in tasteful monochromatic bliss
edit: trying to imagine some lines from "Fun Dune", which is a cursed idea
<14 yr old youtube sensation as young PaulAtreides Anderson>: "Now this is worm riding!"
plebians clutching their speed racer blurays while i drown in tasteful monochromatic bliss
edit: trying to imagine some lines from "Fun Dune", which is a cursed idea
<14 yr old youtube sensation as young Paul
Not me. That would be Barry Lyndon.BR2049 is the movie i think of when i hear the phrase "every frame a painting"
Most scenes in 2049 look artificial to me.
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The eventual Salon review is going to be something else isn't it.
Lol who would look to Harvey Pekar for film opinions? What the Fuck?The eventual Salon review is going to be something else isn't it.
I wonder if Johann Johansson would've had a chance to score this film or was H. Zimmer always the first choice.
Hope he comes up with something exotic and different for Dune.
Hope he comes up with something exotic and different for Dune.
"You want me to ride that... you guys are crazy"
Que montage of Paul trying and failing countless times to ride the worm
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How likely will Villeneuve do that anime thing Lynch did where everyone internally monologues their thoughts?
"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."
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in muh veins
Someone needs to edit the ships to Tie Fighters and we would have a extra scene of Kylo Ren in that forest planet that appears on Force Awaken.
"DUNC - All new episodes - Every tuesdays at 9/8c only on FOX! "
I'll join if you add "Promoted drug use" cause someone needs to think of the children
As others have said, it's not very good. However, it's worth a watch IMO. The production design is interesting and it inspired all the Dune video games that were released prior to the awful second Cryo one.
Read the book first though. The pacing in the second half of the Lynch movie is breakneck and cuts far too much, so it helps to know the story. It almost feels like they got half way though making it before realising that it was going to be four hours long, and then just dumped half the script in the trash to hit the two hour target.
lmao
I like the font, but yeah, the coloring and the background really makes this look something I'd see from some standard TV show.
I remember seeing a leaked image a while back with that same font that had some sort of beautiful aerial desert shot behind it. They really should have used that.
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here it is in case it hasn't already been posted
I don't dislike it. I just think it doesn't come close to the original visually.
Ah yes, the famously fun and upbeat story of Dune.The eventual Salon review is going to be something else isn't it.
I don't agree with your comments in general about Denis' visual aesthetic, but I do agree that 2049 doesn't look as impressive as the original. The original is an absolute masterclass in lighting and the city feels much more lived in. I'm also a little bias when I say I prefer the grainy texture of film.
Visuals should serve the story/theme. Denis understands this though it seems some people in this thread don't seem to. If people wanted a less 'muted' BR 2049 then they would want a different film. Same goes for whatever Dune will be.
Forget about what has come before. Denis is adapting the book.
Forget about what has come before. Denis is adapting the book.
Its things I have seen before executed differently."uninteresting to look at."
Solar farms, neon lit skyscrapers, 2 cars, it is visually sound and stylish, but in its essence they are boring takes, to the point where the tears in rain speech where far more visually captivating than the entire Bladerunner 2049 movie. And I don't say that as hating the movie, I don't, I think its a great film, but its not on the same level as the original Bladerunner at all.
(The original bladerunner pulled that off in the 80's and 30 years later what we got is the same, and nothing more. A good take for sure, far better than any could have hoped, but not as great as it should have been.)
Bladerunner and Alien where 2 movies that blew my mind as a kid to what was possible in cinema. it showed me scenes that I have never seen before.
With Dune I want to see what I have not seen before, I want my eyeballs blown out of my skull. I want a movie that is that directors magnum opus, a work that is as elevated as the books where. Not just a cinematic treatment as if its just another movie on the directors list.
I want a director that can deliver even a sliver of the passion and dream that Jodorowsky had for this material. Maybe I am expecting too much, but I don't think I am, not for dune.
Maybe Denis can pull that off, and if he does he has my all time respect and I think the respect of all fans who love Dune. But I am lowering my expectation by a lot in terms of what to expect from Denis and this Dune movie just so I don't get massively disappointed once footage gets shown.
Jodorowsky's Dune concepts were beautiful... but it would have been a god awful adaptation.