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j-exclamationmark-l · 8 months ago

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Was watching John Oliver's video about student loans yesterday morning as it was a holiday. Partner hobbles downstairs, says movie tickets are on sale, let's go see Dune 2. I wasn't a huge fan of the first one but he really wanted to go so I said sure.

I tried really hard to like it, but ultimately, I did not care about a single thing that happened in that film. I felt way more invested in John Oliver's video in the morning. I felt so much more for the woman who joined the military and had student loan payments automatically withdrawn from her account but the computer always withdrew a single penny short so it actually didn't register any of her payments than for Timothee Chalamet and his obsession with worms and then whispering and shouting randomly. I just don't get that movie... maybe the books make more sense?

#dune 2 #personal #i honestly feel like talk to me broke my brain #i have such high standards for movies now #not a single second of talk to me felt wasted #not one scene felt extra or boring or like it could be cut #not one word of dialogue #not one glance #not one gaze was meaningless #every single action and word and camera shot felt weighted and heavy and meaningful #and dune felt so watered down and meaningless in comparison #that movie did NOT need to be three hours long #talk to me felt like a hearty meal #dune felt like cheetohs but without the cheese dust just the styrofoam part #ive never read the dune books but ive heard so much good about them #i cant help but feel like this is the seventh grade honor student's book report about it #like sure #maybe good for a certain grade or class #but nothing compared to how thoughtfully put together Talk to Me was #talk to me was realistic #but also carefully planned art #dune was like duuude let's recreate my favorite scene from the book where he fuckin rides the sandworm #and its like the biggest and bestest sandworm #and even the planet's natives are like duuude noooo thats too big #but hes all like yeeaahhh

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