Dune Part 1 is fine if you’ve read the book. Even the previous movies struggle on this account. There’s a lot of world building that translates to pretty CGI but not television as a story telling format. This rendition cut more exposition than most and it shows.
If you view the Lord of the Rings through a critical lens, you get the mostly same result mostly for the same reason.
My presumption is that the reasons people liked Dune Part 1 require things that I have not experienced. So I hope to retroactively change my opinion after Part 2. But for now, that’s my reaction, I’m confused why this is a thing.
Do you know a lot of people who read it in quarantine, or because of the movie?
(I also made another comment on this, but whether or not that has an effect, and makes up a large amount of the audience seems like the biggest factor. Unless it was people watching it in theaters and just super excited about that, especially for social reasons, what with Covid.)
Great reminder to focus on complex truth, instead of a simple safe/unsafe options.
Very interesting story about the normalization of ‘child isolation’.
But how dare you dislike Dune!
Dune Part 1 is fine if you’ve read the book. Even the previous movies struggle on this account. There’s a lot of world building that translates to pretty CGI but not television as a story telling format. This rendition cut more exposition than most and it shows.
If you view the Lord of the Rings through a critical lens, you get the mostly same result mostly for the same reason.
My presumption is that the reasons people liked Dune Part 1 require things that I have not experienced. So I hope to retroactively change my opinion after Part 2. But for now, that’s my reaction, I’m confused why this is a thing.
Do you know a lot of people who read it in quarantine, or because of the movie?
(I also made another comment on this, but whether or not that has an effect, and makes up a large amount of the audience seems like the biggest factor. Unless it was people watching it in theaters and just super excited about that, especially for social reasons, what with Covid.)
I don’t know anyone who did either of those things to my knowledge, no.