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Dune(Movie), No Time to Die(Movie), Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings(Movie), Avengers: Endgame(Movie), Don't Look Up(Movie), Interstellar(Movie), Dune: Part Two(Movie), Joker(Movie), The Suicide Squad(Movie), Eternals(Movie), Free Guy(Movie), Inception(Movie)
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Story: 8 Visuals: 9 Sound: 9 Character: 6 Enjoyment: 7
The movie has the same problem most other movies have when adapting a book. They have to cut to much... I haven't read the book/books but I can tell there was a problem adapting it in a 2 hour 30 min movie format. A lot of scenes feels very rushed, we are jumping from place to place nonstop and characters have conversations that feel like they should be important/impactful but they have no build up and almost feel like they came out of nowhere in the context that we are at that time. Seems like a lot is left for the viewer to "guess" why the characters are invested in their points of read more Was this review helpful to you?
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March 22, 2022 - by Bosporan
Overall
Rating: 7
Read all the books and loved them. Seen every adaptation, universally terrible or at best mediocre. This is the finest to-date, though ultimately flatters to deceive. The cinematography is Villeneuve gloriously in his element and the visuals are dazzling, but such a sweeping universe is difficult without massive screeds of exposition. This sits naturally on paper, though it translates poorly to screen. Two and a half hours is too long with so little going on - purists may think otherwise, but a better approach may have been to cut more out and shorten some of the scenes that are so... read more Was this review helpful to you?
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excellent foreshadowing, thrilling visuals and man hans zimmer's music, that's entirely something else. dune is a journey, watch it in theaters please, please watch it in the theaters. dune part 1 sets up everything necessary for part 2 and i cant wait for part 2, because i know it's going to be amazing. dune is a slow movie that builds and establishes the world of dune and the "epic" part is really only going to start in part 2 and this is a worthy investment - watch this to experience a movie that's going to be amazing, i can feel it lol. i'm gonna say it again, watch it in theaters please,... read
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