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Re:“Dune” (The Movie), Annotated by Andrew_nenakhov on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @11:21AM (#29014505)
One must know how to watch it. Younger people can hardly see past the flashy pictures. Lynch's Paul was particularly brilliant, his figure had some mystic qualities around it, new movie has nothing like it.
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Re:“Dune” (The Movie), Annotated by pwned1 on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @11:29AM (#29014614)
I'm not young :)

I just couldn't get past the horribly stilted dialogue, the clowny costumes, and the completely terrible "inner monologue."

Oh, and the last scene where the emperor himself jumps on the merry-go-round and is shooting things. wtf.

The movie was so completely bad in every dimension.

The only positive is that after watching it, I got a better idea of what was happening in the 2021 version.

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Re:“Dune” (The Movie), Annotated by Andrew_nenakhov on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @11:57AM (#29014998)
Well, I can agree with parts of that, and still, the new movie is worse. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Re:“Dune” (The Movie), Annotated by denton-scratch on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @11:43AM (#29014794)
Totally agree. I think it was badly done. Big waste of lots of millions of dollars; and it blocked the stream for a new version, for two decades.

Not criticising Lynch for having a go; props. I just don't think it worked out. That's how the cookie crumbles for most movies. Nice try.

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Re:“Dune” (The Movie), Annotated by euroderf on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @12:01PM (#29015065)
The merry-go-round thing was pretty cool tho, for a society without computers. I've yet to read an essay that examines it and tries to figure out its principle of operation.
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