#kinda janky looking but I did these in like 20 min

[sweetmapple]

I was gonna say that these were studies but I’ll be so real and say I just need to see this man coated in blood

[legionofpotatoes]

my thonks:

I do love the way they designed the title treatment ngl

whoever DP'd this was off their shits huh?? thanks king

to expand on visuals; shape language, scale, composition all top-shelf stuff but I still did not enjoy the brutalist simplicity across the board in art direction. sanitized the entire aesthetic somehow. I get how it can sometimes punch way out of its weight category when blasting establishing shots and the like but. the rest feels like it's drowning in just a bit too much negative space. hard to articulate this, but yeah visually sanitizing dune feels incredibly backwards still. this had to be fifth-element-bonkers if you ask me! but as late 2010s colorized blockbusters go it is definitely not MCU-terrible

oscar isaac with beard

I know the story semiotics are historically Loaded and I've only really read the first and some of the messiah book, so with all due respect to the valid criticism that's out there vis-a-vis appropriation and clunky irl parallels, I do kinda vibe with the overall idea of creating an epic that builds up a white savior before violently tearing him down. all this to say, I did enjoy the subtly layered pride within the outwardly noble hero's journey mr charlatan portrayed, felt like Real Good Acting at the core of the film. which is nice

once I realized this was gonna be like 1/3 of the first book I got really sad because not a lot of worm. when i go into a movie knowing it features a large animal I want to see the large animal much as possible and it is my only reason being there. this here's a bad worm documentary. barely see those big buttholes. loved the space chinchilla though

man 3D is such a moneymaking con. travesty slapping it on well-shot movies like this. especially in a country with a monopolistic theater chain that refuses to crank up their projectors to properly compensate for the godawful brightness drop. fuckin hate it here

anyway so 75% of the impact in this film was hans zimmer violently hypnotizing me with another auditory nutbuster. feel like that dude has an etch-a-sketch approach to every new project he takes on along with a rabbit's foot level success rate. you can't nail him down in a style anymore. instruments, tempo, methods on building leitmotifs, arrangements, interplay of live and digital - always radically different from his previous shit like he seems deathly averse to repeating himself and it really shines here. his music makes this thing hum with raw energy like nothing I've seen in recent years. if I had to comment on specifics - yeah the chants are incredible - but I also appreciate how he can allow a single electric guitar to carry a progressing crescendo without slapping orchestral training wheels on out of fear. it really just works so well for the imagery sometimes. love this guy

oscar isaac with beard but now it's lower on the list

my hottest take really is that this thing is too dang long. come on. yeah stop. come on. you can tell this story in 2 hours or less, come ON. net total of 20 mins is just john dune staring into middle distance squinting at zendaya's ghost. there's room to cut around here fellas

and speaking of "this story", not to sound too Executive in here but if they don't follow this up with a sequel cap it will feel hilariously hollow and awkward as a standalone piece. they carve out a decent character arc that kinda-sorta delivers a 3-act structure with a bit of catharsis in the end, but the overarching story and the plot that is driving it both come to such a jarring, screeching halt by the end? it is definitely Extremely Adapted

shaved jason momoa isn't real he can't get me

let's take a breather from the weight of dune's metaphors for a bit and realize that this is a planet where people wander the desert shitting their pants and walking funny so they dont attract the attention of giant living tubes that shit out the drugs they all want to get high on

I loved the janky analogue scifi look in the outer space shots! I can be an insufferable nerd about those sometimes. felt like maybe some miniature work?

oscar isaac with beard again, closing the curtain!

today's the day! gonna go see the big movie where john dune rides all those cocaine-shitting worms!!