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Dune (2021)
Apr. 25th, 2022 11:23 pmYes, this is a Star Wars icon, but it has a desert in it.
I enjoyed it, although -100 points for lack of orange-haired, knife-fighting Sting. It's absolutely wild to me how much I remember of the original David Lynch version, because I know I haven't seen it since I was a teenager and I didn't think I had watched it more than once or twice. If you had asked me to describe basically any scene from the original movie cold, I don't think I could have, and yet I remembered nearly all of it as I was watching - allowing for adaptational differences, of course. There were some scenes (e.g. the box scene) where I could even anticipate most of the dialogue.
I had absolutely no idea the new movie wasn't the entire book, though! At roughly the point when I was thinking "Wow, if we're no farther along than this, this must be one heck of a long movie," it just stopped. So, uh, I guess I'll be watching the next one at some point.
It's a pretty movie, although I would have liked more colorful, less generically sci-fi visuals - it's very monochrome, not just because of the desert but also because everyone dresses in shades of black or brown most of the time. (The future apparently spends its budget on floating tactical monoliths and not on paint.) But the visuals are really beautiful other than that, the ornithopters are really cool, and there was genuinely quite a lot of character focus, more than I was expecting. Lots of well-known actors in this, at least known for niche SF things; it was a constant parade of "Hey, it's them!"
Then I looked up the fic on AO3 for both this and the original movie just out of curiosity to see what kind of things people are into, and was amazed that Feyd/Paul isn't the runaway pairing for the original movie. Either fandom was really different in 1984, or it's out there but not on AO3. The dominant pairing? Paul/Jessica. Also kind of a surprise. (The fic for the remake is very unsurprisingly dominated by Paul/Duncan Idaho.)
I enjoyed it, although -100 points for lack of orange-haired, knife-fighting Sting. It's absolutely wild to me how much I remember of the original David Lynch version, because I know I haven't seen it since I was a teenager and I didn't think I had watched it more than once or twice. If you had asked me to describe basically any scene from the original movie cold, I don't think I could have, and yet I remembered nearly all of it as I was watching - allowing for adaptational differences, of course. There were some scenes (e.g. the box scene) where I could even anticipate most of the dialogue.
I had absolutely no idea the new movie wasn't the entire book, though! At roughly the point when I was thinking "Wow, if we're no farther along than this, this must be one heck of a long movie," it just stopped. So, uh, I guess I'll be watching the next one at some point.
It's a pretty movie, although I would have liked more colorful, less generically sci-fi visuals - it's very monochrome, not just because of the desert but also because everyone dresses in shades of black or brown most of the time. (The future apparently spends its budget on floating tactical monoliths and not on paint.) But the visuals are really beautiful other than that, the ornithopters are really cool, and there was genuinely quite a lot of character focus, more than I was expecting. Lots of well-known actors in this, at least known for niche SF things; it was a constant parade of "Hey, it's them!"
Then I looked up the fic on AO3 for both this and the original movie just out of curiosity to see what kind of things people are into, and was amazed that Feyd/Paul isn't the runaway pairing for the original movie. Either fandom was really different in 1984, or it's out there but not on AO3. The dominant pairing? Paul/Jessica. Also kind of a surprise. (The fic for the remake is very unsurprisingly dominated by Paul/Duncan Idaho.)