IMHO, the original Dune movie has taken on a different feeling over time. I appreciate it more, actually. There was a ton of artistic talent that went into making it. Yeah, it wasn’t always true to the book… and unfortunately, some of the CGI looks worse than 1957’s Forbidden Planet (which made heavy use of graphics over matte paintings), all the while the original Star Wars movie had come out 7 years prior and had vastly superior graphics. There are some real ‘dead spots’ where it moves slowly. But the casting was very good.
The new Dune movie is better than I’d expected. It’s going to be painful waiting for the sequel, though… since they split it up.
They split the book, but they didn’t film one movie and then split it; I can appreciate that. The amazing part that they made a Part I without having a green light for Part II. It was risky but it looks like it paid off since Part II is now green-lit.
The way The Hobbit was adapted though… The Hobbit is written at a lower reading level than LotR and is 95,356 words long and they made it into three movies. The Fellowship of the Ring is 187,790 words and it got one movie! I would be in favor of a longer adaption of Lord of the Rings some day. Maybe not a 6 movie series, but a 9 part miniseries could work.
Serviceable action schlock, just as I remembered. It’s surprisingly funny at times. The explosion effects are good and the action is fairly well-shot (not too much shaky cam, fight scenes have a sense of space, actual choreography). However, there are a couple of really bad CGI gore moments. For example, at one point a knife pierces someone from behind and it’s really obvious that the tip of the blade emerging from his chest is CGI.
The sound design for the action scenes was quite good on this movie. I’m sure it isn’t 100% realistic but it was impactful and no sounds were glaringly mismatched to the visuals. I saw the Monster Hunter movie last year and I no longer take that for granted.
Watched both of the Christmas Chronicles movies on Netflix — we had all four grandkids over this weekend — quite enjoyable — especially with the younger three that still believe
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Mrs. Jeff and I liked it.
Typical Marvel excellent CGI.
Plenty of action and a great way to waste an evening.
Popcorn required…
Monster Hunter
There’s 90m I won’t get back.
The fight scene between MJ and TJ goes on and on and on.
Nobody gets hurt from being tossed 10s of yards and stopped by rocks.
Monsters are bullet and RPG proof are injured by exploding arrows and swords.
Flying monster somehow can catch an AWACS that’s going what 400+ MPH?
Mostly the acting is OK but the whole is less than the sum of the parts.
Not even the popcorn helped.
Aww, man, I’ve been reading all kinds of stuff about that. Sounds like a huge slow-burning dumpster fire.
“Redefining” the meaning of “red pill”, no Hugo Weaving nor Laurence Fishburne, Doogie Hoser as The Analyst (wtf?!?), making open jabs about Warner Bros and “doing it without you” (referring to the Wachowski Brothers/Sisters/Whatevers and their contracts with WB), and I’m rechecking the urls to make sure these articles aren’t from The Onion, and nope, they’re absolutely serious.