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  • Just watched Dune Pt1. Unpopular opinion perhaps but what a fucking snooze fest. Every scene was exactly the same, the plot makes zero sense (OK, exposition/setting things up but even so…)

    It’s just a weird mash up of Star Wars/Lord of the Rings/Prometheus. Seen it alllll before…

    And yet another film where key points of the plot are fucking mumbled AND whispered. Absolutely infuriating.

    That was a real struggle to get through.

    (Best bit for me was the Emporer dude looked like Syd Barrett when he’d got really fat and gone batshit. And I quite enjoyed him floating around like Vic Reeves in the Masterchef sketch. But I don't think I was supposed to be laughing)

  • It’s just a weird mash up of Star Wars

    The fucking irony of that statement lol.

  • Yeah, I agree, everything about it is very beige and in retrospect I didn't understand all the negativity towards the David Lynch version when it turns out the story is indeed dull and it wasn't his fault he just tried to make it look interesting.

    I feel like the books inspired people differently 40-50 years ago, now it just runs through the
    same standardized film industry like any other Sci-Fi film.
    Maybe it's more for the Harry Potter/ Lord of the Rings crowd and people who use the word lore a lot.

  • If you haven't read the 14 books how can you say that...the same way as I haven't and was so meh.

    Seems a thing we should all admire as the press and people tell us we should like it.

    I liked to original dune movie, but didn't move me to read the many books.

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