BallochSonsFan Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 Dune. Not quite a dumpster fire of flaming garbage, but such a missed opportunity. Characters aren't developed. Plot threads are skipped. The end result is that things happen because the film needs them to happen - if you've read the book then you know why they happen, but the film doesnt do anything like a good enough job of showing you why. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 Re Bond they can and should just retcon the lore because why would anyone give a shite it's about a psycho doing cool shit for Britain it doesn't have to be more coherent than that 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 7 hours ago, accies1874 said: I'm not all that interested in a pre-agent Bond but did quite like the idea further up the thread of taking it back to the 60s. I'm more a fan of the books than the movies. They should take it to the 50s. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the jambo-rocker Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 5 hours ago, BallochSonsFan said: Dune. Not quite a dumpster fire of flaming garbage, but such a missed opportunity. Characters aren't developed. Plot threads are skipped. The end result is that things happen because the film needs them to happen - if you've read the book then you know why they happen, but the film doesnt do anything like a good enough job of showing you why. Would agree with that. A lot of good style, but gaping lack of substance. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accies1874 Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 I'm more a fan of the books than the movies. They should take it to the 50s. f**k it why not. Just do what the X-Men did and set each film in a new decade. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lofarl Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 The forgotten battle on Netflix. Giving that an 8/10. Better than it had any right to be. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotty Tunbridge Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 Dune 3/10. This was horrendous the only thing stopping me marking it lower is that it was visually impressive through the effects, sets/backgrounds and the costumes. It was soooo long it just went on and on and on. Ridiculously over complicated/hard to follow but somehow still stupid and no reason to invest in any of the characters who some just appeared 3/4 of the way through the film with little to no intoduction. Nearly 3 hours of your life you won't get back. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophe Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 Dune (2021) The worst film I have paid full price in the cinema to see. Was going to write a big long thing but it's just a self-important and portentious dumb film that remixes aspects of Star Wars and Game of Thrones in a parade of dull neofascist imagery and themes (hereditary power, great men, narratively convenient magic). There's some nice imagery but honestly filmmaking is so much more than nice images that look a bit like David Lean. Really boring. 2/10 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UpInTheAyr Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 Dune 10/10f**k all you philistines.Was everything I hoped it would be and more. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 First Reformed More Paul Schrader magic. Ethan Hawke is a minister in crisis who meets an environmental activist who challenges him about the correct religious response to climate change. Hawke is brilliant in every scene and the use of 4:3, fixed camera and austere colours gives the movie the look of a painting. Maybe the best film I've seen from the past 5 years. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 On 17/10/2021 at 22:05, Arch Stanton said: The Departed (2006) Just magnificent from start to finish and gave Scorsese his long awaited Oscar win. Brilliant acting from Di Caprio, Damon, Nicholson, Wahlberg, Farmiga, Sheen, Baldwin...everybody! It even has a guy from Paisley in it, trying hard to keep the smile off his face. I know it's a remake of a Japanese film (Infernal Affairs) and I really need to get around to watching it. However, for everyone who hasn't seen The Departed, give it a watch, it's outstanding. ETA it also stars a not so youthful Ray Winstone! Bloody Mexicans, always remaking Japanese films. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 Interesting to see Dune getting pelters. The trailers have made it look like the most generic and tedious sci-fi blockbuster imaginable. Still seems to be getting good reviews elsewhere, though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stellaboz Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 Interesting to see Dune getting pelters. The trailers have made it look like the most generic and tedious sci-fi blockbuster imaginable. Still seems to be getting good reviews elsewhere, though.I'm tempted to go see it, despite nor reading the book, watching the original or knowing anything other than seeing the trailer a few weeks ago. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 3 minutes ago, Stellaboz said: I'm tempted to go see it, despite nor reading the book, watching the original or knowing anything other than seeing the trailer a few weeks ago. A variety of people have been determined that I ought to read fantasy books at various points in my life, and Dune was one of them, but I'd already realised the genre wasn't for me by that point. However, I definitely saw the David Lynch film on the telly when I was a kid and found it very dull but, to be fair, I was pretty young. Any film that features Sting in a metal nappy can't be all bad. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 Dune for me is hard to recommend because the writing has aged badly and it’s boring in a lot of places but it does have some of the most interesting concepts and setting that I can recall. I’ll probably see it in IMAX to see the big spaceships and see how it translates but I’m not surprised some people aren’t into it.It’s also one of the most openly psychosexual novels ever written. Put your hand in the box, Paul. The pussy box. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 5 hours ago, BFTD said: Still seems to be getting good reviews elsewhere, though. Movies reviews are more crooked than Kevin Clancy reffing a Celtic game. 3 hours to cover 2/3rds of the Lynch film sounds like hard work. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 1 hour ago, NotThePars said: It’s also one of the most openly psychosexual novels ever written. Put your hand in the box, Paul. The pussy box. Sweet summer child you are making William Burroughs spin in his grave. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BallochSonsFan Posted October 24, 2021 Share Posted October 24, 2021 On 23/10/2021 at 00:35, Christophe said: Dune (2021) The worst film I have paid full price in the cinema to see. Was going to write a big long thing but it's just a self-important and portentious dumb film that remixes aspects of Star Wars and Game of Thrones in a parade of dull neofascist imagery and themes (hereditary power, great men, narratively convenient magic). There's some nice imagery but honestly filmmaking is so much more than nice images that look a bit like David Lean. Really boring. 2/10 Other than being an adaptation of a novel that was published in 1965, 12 years before Star Wars was released? It was a poor adaptation. It's probably proof that if anybody is going to do a proper Dune adaptation then it has to be a large scale TV series over a number of seasons. For folk who havent read the book(s) then its understandable that they were confused. For those who have, its understandable that people are disappointed that it was done so poorly. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stellaboz Posted October 24, 2021 Share Posted October 24, 2021 Watched No Time to Die last night.4/10Couldn't get into it till late on by which time I felt ill and had a wave of sweats hit me for no bloody reason. Wife thought I was totally engrossed in it leaning forward but I was trying not to spew.I appreciate I haven't seen any of the previous films for years but...I dunno. It fell a bit flat and if the lady takes over as main role, I'm out. She was fucking boring. However Ana whatshername was an absolute delight. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted October 24, 2021 Share Posted October 24, 2021 Boss baby 2 Was ok. Seemed to expect the audience to remember bits of the first one, which wasn't memorable enough for that. Didn't really make a lot of sense on its own terms, but it was stupid and pacy enough for basic entertainment. 5/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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