• heavydust@sh.itjust.works
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    14 hours ago

    I have a hundred of top 10 movies, and I don’t understand the hate for the new Dune movies. The actors are good, the movies stick to the script, the picture is pretty and the music is nice too. I was also pleasantly surprised that you could transpose all this world to a movie because it’s kinda difficult. You can’t please everyone though.

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      13 hours ago

      i think its that theres no investment in the characters unless youve read the books.

      i didnt care about any of the characters in the movie. it feels though that if i had read the books, i might have.

      just a hunch; from someone else who only mildly liked the movies and has not read the source material.

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        7 hours ago

        Pretty accurate. Most of the first movie is basically the prologue to the main story.

        The first movie is extremely loyal to the book; I have yet to see the second movie, but I would be surprised if it wasn’t much the same.

        Funny thing: theres a surprising number of Dune references in The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy.

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        7 hours ago

        That goes for the main characters and the background characters imo. The second movie did a lot better in regard to showing off the different cultures but the first one just felt so…empty. People just did things and had things done to them, and I didn’t understand why I was supposed to care about any of them.

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        13 hours ago

        It’s fair. I have read the books quite a few times in my childhood and the movies were almost like I have been thinking of the whole time.