By Laboured Go To PostOnly Dune review I need (@Fender)Did he call the desert "as dry as my wife" ?
Dune was solid.
as a non-book reader,
I would have liked to read more about the Imperium etc.
I feel there is deeper lore here and then it sort of just ends.
I expected more.
as a non-book reader,
I would have liked to read more about the Imperium etc.
I feel there is deeper lore here and then it sort of just ends.
I expected more.
By Not Go To PostDipped as low as 63%Marvel movies have been getting overly inflated reviews for a long time now.
Marvel about to actually start cutting checks
Black Widow, in recent memory, sticks out like a sore thumb.
Very much seems like Disney has cultivated an "enthusiast press" like we see in the gaming industry for these comic book movies.
Marvel critic bump is real. That's why all the nerds are freaking out. They know these movies are handled with kiddy gloves because everyone is afraid to piss off the mouse and the crazy fans. Low 60s for Marvel is everyone else's low teens maybe low 20s
So much bullshit on this page. Here's the actual article with the opening paragraphs quoted for clarification:
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-enduring-appeal-of-dune-as-an-adolescent-power-fantasy
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-enduring-appeal-of-dune-as-an-adolescent-power-fantasy
Pressed inside an old book of mine is a gray sheet of paper, folded in uneven quarters, titled “Dune Terminology.” On it, there are thirty-seven words and phrases, including a baffling array of place names (Giedi Prime, pronounced “Gee-dee”), machinery (ornithopter, a “small aircraft capable of sustained wing-beat flight in the manner of birds”), and rituals (kanly, a “formal feud or vendetta under the rules of the Great Convention”). Moviegoers with tickets to David Lynch’s “Dune,” which premièred December 14, 1984—I saw it on opening weekend at a mall, in suburban Buffalo—would have picked up the glossary from a stack as they entered the theatre, though the guide was unreadable in the dark, and it contained more than a few spoilers. To the novice, it must have looked like homework. It must have looked like no fun at all.
I didn’t need the cheat sheet—at fourteen, I was conversant with the “Dune”-iverse, having already read Frank Herbert’s best-selling science-fiction novel. By 1984, the book had sold over ten million copies and spawned four sequels. Focussing on the fifteen-year-old hero Paul Atreides, the story unfolds twenty thousand years in the future, on the desert planet of Arrakis, home to sandworms as big as spaceships, a group of guerrilla survivalists called the Fremen, and the coveted spice known as melange, which allows its users to “fold space”—a necessity for interstellar travel—and which colors the entirety of their eyes blue. “Dune” mesmerized me. I scribbled the Fremen rallying cry, “Ya hya chouhada,” in the margins of my notebooks and studied the vibrant cover painting, with its dozens of tiny people fleeing a rampant sandworm, its maw lit up like a jet engine. The movie couldn’t arrive fast enough.
By Daz Go To PostHalf way throughwhen they first said his name that was the hardest i'd laughed at a movie in some time.
Duncan Idaho is a dumb ass name.
So how does the Apple TV+ series turn this into a visually compelling tale? It doesn’t. What it does instead is remake “Star Wars” under another name. There are indispensable heroes, mystical powers, even a Death Star. These aren’t necessarily bad things to include in a TV series, but they’re completely antithetical to the spirit of Asimov’s writing. Pretending that this series has anything to do with the “Foundation” novels is fraudulent marketing, and I’ve stopped watching.
Now on to “Dune.” The book is everything “Foundation” isn’t: There’s a glittering, hierarchical society wracked by intrigue and warfare, a young hero of noble birth who may be a prophesied messiah, a sinister but alluring sisterhood of witches, fierce desert warriors and, of course, giant worms.
And yes, it’s fun. When I was a teenager, my friends and I would engage in mock combat in which the killing blow had to be delivered slowly to penetrate your opponent’s shield — which will make sense if you read the book or watch the movie.
I wouldn’t say that this “Dune” matches the vision I had when reading the book. It’s better. The visuals surpass my imagination — those ornithopters! The actors give the characters more depth than the book’s author previously had in my mind.Sixty-eight-year-old economics nerds weigh in
By Laboured Go To PostOnly Dune review I need (@Fender)
“It’s dry in Arakis and water is a very precious resource, which is why the song WAP is not only medically implausible but also morally reprehensible”
By Lunatic Go To PostThe movie built on a wooden fever dream is out in the usual places.
Titane has been out on distros for a bit m8. But fuck yeah, about time.
By Not Go To PostSixty-eight-year-old economics nerds weigh in
Pac-12 wrote this?
Great dialogue from the game developers in Free Guy:
"The guy was smoked by a non-playable character."
"An NPC?"
"The guy was smoked by a non-playable character."
"An NPC?"
By Lupercal Go To PostIce Cube said "Oh Hell No" to the vaccine.C'mon Pac-12 this is a new low
By Not Go To PostJohn Carpenter is a rough 73
Feel like John Carpenter been old all my life. Just like Morgan Freeman
I already loved Carpenter but the fact that him and Chvrches did remixes of each others songs just made me love him more.
By Kuma Go To PostFeel like John Carpenter been old all my life. Just like Morgan FreemanMorgan in Driving Miss Daisy from 1990 looks exactly the same today.
Just saw Last Night in Soho. I think Wright's typical editing style works far better for comedies, with the tone of this being so different there is far less of his classic editing and therefore it doesn't really feel like an Edgar Wright film.
Ending was pretty messy and the pacing in the middle was a bit off but despite that I enjoyed it, nice visual style, good soundtrack, Thomasin McKenzie was pretty good in it. Yeah, not a bad film at all.
Ending was pretty messy and the pacing in the middle was a bit off but despite that I enjoyed it, nice visual style, good soundtrack, Thomasin McKenzie was pretty good in it. Yeah, not a bad film at all.
As someone who loves found footage movies and always enjoyed the Paranormal Activity, I liked PA: Next Of Kind.
It has some issues but I appreciate they tried they tried to refresh it a bit and instead of domestic footage, it's a faux documentary.
It's not a great movie or original in any way but I wasn't bored a bit.
It's a Paranormal Activity movie after all, things start normal but a bit creepy and then escalate quickly.
I'll probably going to rewatch them all in the next few weeks but right now I would place it around the middle of the ranking, way below the first one and Tokyo Nights but above the lower ones.
The only thing I really didn't like was how they completely abanonded the found footage thing for a minute or so.
Also, a few of the documentary shots weren't possible with just 1 or 2 cameramen.
It has some issues but I appreciate they tried they tried to refresh it a bit and instead of domestic footage, it's a faux documentary.
It's not a great movie or original in any way but I wasn't bored a bit.
It's a Paranormal Activity movie after all, things start normal but a bit creepy and then escalate quickly.
I'll probably going to rewatch them all in the next few weeks but right now I would place it around the middle of the ranking, way below the first one and Tokyo Nights but above the lower ones.
The only thing I really didn't like was how they completely abanonded the found footage thing for a minute or so.
Also, a few of the documentary shots weren't possible with just 1 or 2 cameramen.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/marvel-finally-made-a-sex-scene-in-eternals-its-so-bad-youll-wish-they-hadnt?ref=scroll
Eternals sounds tremendously awkward.
Eternals sounds tremendously awkward.
@figureskatingflan: what are your thoughts on Le Guin?
Also, you should lead a Dune reading group. It should have more success than the Marxism
Also, you should lead a Dune reading group. It should have more success than the Marxism
Has there been an MCU movie that dude didn't like? The fact it's the lowest rated MCU movie (60%!) speaks more to the review process because shit like Thor 2 and Iron Man 2 are awful movies in general.
By reilo Go To PostHas there been an MCU movie that dude didn't like? The fact it's the lowest rated MCU movie (60%!) speaks more to the review process because shit like Thor 2 and Iron Man 2 are awful movies in general.Isn't that kind of the point of the Marvel process, though? The movies are made by committee to be as widely appealing and inoffensive as possible, and that makes them a bit review-proof. That and reviewers are too scared of the lunatic fans.
I read a review that said something in the likes of the focus was so strong on the cinematography that everything else was lifeless and dull and it kinda makes sense. People go into these expecting the action and all that not a planet earth documentary
Some of the synopsis I read was that the movie does something unique for the MCU like have the characters sit around and have dinner and actually converse and I'm like yea the bar is that low
By pkaz01 Go To PostI read a review that said something in the likes of the focus was so strong on the cinematography that everything else was lifeless and dull and it kinda makes sense. People go into these expecting the action and all that not a planet earth documentary
By reilo Go To PostSome of the synopsis I read was that the movie does something unique for the MCU like have the characters sit around and have dinner and actually converse and I'm like yea the bar is that lowSo it's actually Kino?
It’s very hard to imagine any Marvel movie, at least based on the many I have seen so far, ever being described as transcendently good.
There is still no way in hell I am going to the cinema to see The Eternals though.
There is still no way in hell I am going to the cinema to see The Eternals though.
By Not Go To PostSixty percentVenom 2 currently has a better RT score than the Eternals.
Feige is counting down to go Mob Psycho
No one expected that.
So if it’s shot for IMAX why don’t they just show it at that aspect ratio for the non-IMAX release? Why crop it like that to 2.39:1. I don’t get it lol.
Watched Dune
Liked, but confused about those visions and dreams the main character has. Are they premonitions, or is he experiencing things happening to other characters.
Like for example, the black dude he fought at the end, wasn't he in the visions a helpful dude trying to show him ''the way?''
Liked, but confused about those visions and dreams the main character has. Are they premonitions, or is he experiencing things happening to other characters.
Like for example, the black dude he fought at the end, wasn't he in the visions a helpful dude trying to show him ''the way?''