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I should add that the graphics of the 2021 film are better for everything except how impressive the sandworms look.

I just wanted to point out that Dune 2021 is not a remake of the 1984 film. It is a re-adaption of the book. If your expectations are based on what the 1984 movie was it makes sense that you would be disappointed.

Fine, it's a new adaption, not a remake.

Though both movies are adaptions of the same book/s, and many of the scenes are extremely similar.

The two movies are so similar, it seems like the 2021 version is Part One of a remake of the 1984 version.

My expectations were NOT based on what the 1984 movie was, but I was disappointed nonetheless.

I actually liked the 1984 movie, but I did not like the 2021 movie.

I haven’t read the book or watched the movies yet. I have impressions of the first film based off of seeing clips of various scenes and I have been asking people about the book.

So my impression is that the director of the 1984 adaption “Hollywoodized” the story to ensure that it would be successful at the box office. The new director seems to want to be more faithful to the source material, but he has taken a horrible risk. By faithfully adapting a slow(er) book and ONLY THE FIRST HALF he may have doomed any chances he had of getting the second half made. He probably should have stuck to his guns like Peter Jackson and shopped around for a studio that would fund both parts simultaneously as a single production. This is like if Peter Jackson got greenlit for just The Fellowship of the Ring and he then proceeded to make a 2.5 hr movie that skipped nothing in the book (old forest, Tom Bombadil, barrow downs, etc) but the 2.5 hr movie only got the characters to Rivendell. (Although to be fair to LotR there would still be some action in that first half!)

At this point if you have seen Dune 2021 I think you’ve basically seen half of a 5 hr movie with no concessions made to book-end the parts. It’s no surprise to me that the 1984 is currently a better overall experience. Hopefully the second part of Dune 2021 exonerates the first half but maybe it wont. Maybe the director of the 1984 film was just being realistic and Dune-the-book is just not structured correctly to be made into a blockbuster movie. Anyway, I’ll watch Dune 2021 soon and we’ll see if my outlook changes at all.

From what I’ve read, the sandworms should be seen much more in part 2, assuming it gets made. Hopefully everyone will be much less disappointed with them then…

I was hoping for more of them in part 1, but I’m cautiously optimistic.

I think “Dune” might’ve been better if Samuel Jackson did it instead of Peter Jackson.

“Where’s my spice, m#%(erf@#*ers!!”

I saw Don't Breathe 2 (2021).

The acting is great for a horror film.

The music is excellent.

The first movie is superb, but this sequel is pretty good.

I'd say it's a worthy sequel.

It's worth at least one viewing.

We just watched The Many Saints of Newark. This is the prequel of The Sopranos. Very dark, maybe to represent earlier times. I’d give it a 8.

The Florida Project is generally rated so well… but I was so bored to tears, I had to bail on it.

“”Red Rock West”:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Rock_West” was OK… so very, very dated (1993). Dennis Hopper was pretty much the same as Frank Booth from Blue Velvet seven years earlier, just without the gas. Generally, not a bad movie… but one of those “can’t think of anything to watch on a rainy day” kind of flick.

Finally caught Dave Chappelle’s “The Closer”.

Man, I never liked standup comedy, but Dave had me literally laffing out loud (rarely happens) quite often. He’s a hoot!

He funny!

I saw all of Chappelle's Show years ago when it first came out.

Now I'm watching his stand-up specials in chronological order.

It'll be a while before I get to "The Closer."

Dave Chappelle is one of the best at stand-up comedy.

Yeh, I got the complete set of CS, probably take a while for me to rewatch them.

Only problem is when I’d want to find a particular skit, like “Ribs” or “Ashy Larry”, like which season/episode it’d be in. The summary for each ep only has a partial listing. And forget trying to find a part of his stand-up between skits.

Dave had me rolling on the floor with his Clayton Bigsby, the World’s Only Black White Supremacist

Saw Dune [2021] and I thought it was pretty good.

Some thoughts:

  • It felt a little long, but that’s only because it’s a 2hr 35min movie with no intermission to use the bathroom or buy concessions. They should really bring back the intermission! On the other hand, it was an EPIC watch on the big screen. Glad I went to the theater.
  • I recently watched Blade Runner [1982] and compared to that movie, Dune Part I is an action-packed thrill ride with a completely transparent plot. But even on its own merit I thought this movie’s pacing was pretty decent. The slower sections were not wasted and served to establish the world(s) and characters. One of the things that separates movies and TV shows is that in movies you actually get to see big chunks of the environment instead of having to imagine the larger world outside of the tiny sets.
  • Despite ending in the middle of the first book, I thought the stopping point actually felt fairly natural.
  • The sand worms are being teased like a horror movie monster. I guess we’ll probably see more of them in the sequel (hope they make it)
  • The world building/design was freaking INCREDIBLE in this movie. Absolutely gorgeous. Buying this on 4K Blu-ray for sure.
  • One thing was a bit weird—the term “Sand Power” was uttered several times in the movie. Apparently in the book this is used in contrast with Air Power and Water Power when referring to tactical military might. In the movie this is subtly changed to mean the people of the desert as well. So when a main character sees a desert dweller doing something impressive and says “Sand Power!” and it felt a bit like saying “Black Power” or “White Power”. I don’t think it was intended that way but it definitely felt weird. I think it’s just an iconic phrase from the book they felt they couldn’t axe for some reason.
  • It’s SO NICE seeing a big Sci-Fi movie that isn’t Marvel or Star Wars. I want more of these.

Law Abiding Citizen
Shooter
Death Wish
The Accountant

Probably the last four I watched.

The Night House.

1. hysterical horror, since it is mostly a female film.
2. worth watching, but not worth paying for.
3. Bag of Bones remake, essentially.

- Halloween : Kills

- Dune

- Den of Thieves

  • Th Devil’s Advocate

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

I think this is a fun movie and I think the hate it gets is largely undeserved. I’d watch it over Genisys or Dark Fate for sure. And like the Matrix sequels, if you let go of what might of been it’s possible to enjoy what was actually delivered.

John Wick [2014] (rewatch)

Still great. That fight in the club is a masterpiece. Pretty grounded movie compared to the later installments. The only part I thought was downright silly was John Wick driving around in a car near the end and behaving like he was clearing a room when he looked out the window with his gun.

A Pigeon Sat On a Branch Reflecting On Existence (2014)

If you like your comedy dark and very dry, and you also have a philosophical or introspective nature, Roy Andersson’s film uses abstraction and surrealism combined with bleak realism to distill human frailty, folly, cruelty, and compassion into a concentrated elixir that leaves a strong aftertaste. The movie is pieced together in a unique string of small episodes, most of which combine comedy with tragedy or depravity from real everyday and historic events and are strewn together in a way that only makes sense somehow at the end of the movie when you consider the whole. Along the way you’ll see the worst and the best of which humanity is capable, and you’ll also witness things you’ve definitely never seen before, such as Swedish soldiers circa the 1780’s walking into a current-day bar and finding that the bathroom Sweden’s King needs to use is occupied. Like I said, it’s unique, and a real work of art.