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Re:Predicting Best Picture winners using coughs and sneezes by Fricken on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @08:56AM (#30765455)
Dennis Villeneuve has been watching David Lynch's Dune since he was a boy, and it shows. Villeneuve lifted dozens of shots directly from Lynch's version, and relied on the same key scenes as the 1984 Dune. I started out impressed by all the homages to Lynch's Dune, but beyond a certain threshold "homage" becomes "ripoff".

In Lynch's the Harkonen's were brutal. In Villeneuve's Dune Gurney had to explain to us that they were brutal, because no actual brutality made it to screen. Baron Harkonen was lower energy than Jeb Bush.

Villeneuve basically just took Lynch's Dune and drained the colour out of both the imagery and the performances.

The biggest criticism of Lynch's Dune us that it doesn't make any sense, and I still totally lost the plot 2/3 of the way through the new Dune as well.

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Re:Predicting Best Picture winners using coughs and sneezes by Tycho on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @09:25AM (#30765774)
They are based on a book. They adapted the key scenes from the book.

Also Lynch’s Dune descends into farcical whimsy, it’s not a good movie, although it has some good costume and set design.

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Re:Predicting Best Picture winners using coughs and sneezes by robocat on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @12:06PM (#30767792)
Why Modern Movies Suck - The Soft Reboot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyU63LJV3AE

Not entirely relevant, but mentions many of the same issues, although presumably there is more about how investors drive some of the outcomes.

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