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God the Prometheus movies are so bad. If any of them just had a semblance of a brain, nothing would have happened. I raged so much at those movies.
I could still appreciate some things about the movies though.
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God the Prometheus movies are so bad. If any of them just had a semblance of a brain, nothing would have happened. I raged so much at those movies.
I could still appreciate some things about the movies though.
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Prepare for your kid friendly movie times and then rushing to try to watch R rated or not kid friendly movies. We are so behind on the shows and movies our kids can’t see.
I like the alien movies. Prometheus could have jump started the franchise again but Scott wanted to make such an un-alien movie that the studio apparently intervened and I imagine that was not helpful. That said, I did read that alternate script that was posted at one point. It wasn't that different in my view. The biggest letdown for me was that Prometheus dissuaded Guillermo Del Toro from filming At the Mountains of Madness which I think would have been great. At their root they both tell an "aliens put humans on the planet" story which took all the wind out of Del Toro's sails.
The difficulty of adapting fantasy book series to film/TV is why I'm hesitant on Amazon's Wheel of Time series. That first trailer didn't really impress me, although I think Rosamund Pike as Moiraine is a perfect casting. I just have the feeling it's going to be one of those "good performance by an actor in a terrible movie/series" situations.
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Yeahhh.. that trailer looked so bad. Looks like something that would be on the SyFy channel. I dont have high hopes
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Pretty much the entire 2nd half of the season was a disappointment to me which includes today’s season finale. Just felt like a whole lot of filler and character development and not enough meaningful action.
Pretty much the entire 2nd half of the season was a disappointment to me which includes today’s season finale. Just felt like a whole lot of filler and character development and not enough meaningful action.
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No matter how many times I’ve tried to watch Dune 84 I’ve never made to the end. I don’t know what it is, I get bored or have no clue what is going on or I just lose interest. It’s weird cause I normally love weird sci-if shit like that but there’s something about that movie I just don’t get.
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I love the old Dune movie. It is so crazy and campy. As an actual faithful Dune movie... It is meh.
Two reasons: David Lynch, everything he does is weird. Also, the original running time of the movie was something like 3 hours and they made him cut it down. The editing decisions were not the best and it made the movie confusing and disjointed. Although, I'm not sure even the full director's cut would have been much better. It is David Lynch, after all.
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i saw mulholland drive not long after it came out…..20 years ago ……now the question is……. do i watch it again and see what i think of it now?
(i was negative on it then)
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Dune is f***ing awesome, if you liked the book you'll love the movie. Obviously not as derp as the book but it hit all of the major notes and the acting/cinematography/visual direction more than makes up for it. The best adaptation of a book I've seen since Fellowship of the Ring.
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I heard it only covers 1/2 -2/3 of the book. Is there or should there be another movie?
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Yes, the opening title says Dune: Part I. In the books there is a time skip a little more than halfway through, this movie ends more or less in the same place the time skip does.
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I never read the book but it was very popular back in the day. I’m almost done watching the movie now and I have to say, it’s a fantastic sci fi movie. Great cast and high quality visuals. I was worried when I heard this movie essentially lays the groundwork’s for the next installment but I have been rather pleased with it overall.
Watched Dune tonight, and I agree that it is excellent. Very faithful to the book, and many things are the way I imagined them when I first read it.
My only small criticism is that they glossed over important points of backstory for several characters. I think they could have spared the running time to do so by cutting a little from the overly-long desert scenes, but that's ok.
My wife said she liked it too, but honestly I think she liked watching me nerd out about it even more than the movie itself.
My only small criticism is that they glossed over important points of backstory for several characters. I think they could have spared the running time to do so by cutting a little from the overly-long desert scenes, but that's ok.
My wife said she liked it too, but honestly I think she liked watching me nerd out about it even more than the movie itself.
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