It's not even that good at action. It's acceptable at it, but those energy shields really feel like plot armor rather than a thing characters have to navigate around, and at the price it costs, acceptable isn't good enough. By acceptable, I mean to the untrained eye, it looks fine. To actual swordspeople, it's a bit sus at times and opens up all kinds of questions as to why they have the weapons they have instead of the better medieval versions of what they have.
Walken was the worst part of this movie IMO. Dude looked like he was trying to recreate Joe Biden. He was worse than Zendaya for me.
No Dune actually sucks. It’s seriously poorly written and fucking gay. I listened to it and I was cringing. Amazing world building but otherwise it’s amazing gay how he endlessly focuses on how the characters are Ubermensch and writes wanky sentences with dumb words. How can you take a book as serious literature when it includes rot, like the excerpt below? Spicelike HARMONICS?
Chapter 36 said:
>posts perfectly well-written excerpt
What the fuck are you talking about?
You're a queer.
Am I being baited? Dune is widely panned as having horrible writing despite its compelling narrative and seminal world building. If you think that excerpt is good writing then you are either a pig who will read anything or a scrub who has read nothing.
I've never heard this criticism. Granted, it's been a hot minute since I read Dune and I was in high school at the time, so the writing could very well be dogshit. But if it is that doesn't seem like a very pertinent example. It's just a slightly flowery description of the smell of dead bodies with some purple phrasing tacked on at the end.
Why must you be such an angry young man?
It’s a description of the smell of a sietch, not dead bodies, which goes to my point of the writing being bad.
Because I’m a Devout Muslim.
It's an out-of-context piece describing smelly bodies and the scent of water that's been sucked out of the dead. In context I doubt I'd mistake it for being about anything other than a sietch.
I want to agree with you but that's a terrible example. Describing subtle smells and flavors as "harmonics" is perfectly cromulent. There are way better examples of bad writing in these books.
On second thought it’s pretty obviously not about dead bodies even out of context. That’s on you not Frank Herbet. Anyway, have a good day, looking forward to watching dune 2
I’m having an autistic meltdown
I dunno about that but he is French which is arguably worse.
You joke but I've read Robin Hobb. A bit of purple prose doesn't phase me.
Part 2's more actiony but hews even further from the source material. I enjoyed both parts, though I find the act of sitting down to watch a movie boring in and of itself so I think I tend to give movies more leeway than others might because of that.
T4 was a let down but I like it, I liked 3 as well.
I am not a long time dune fan, got into it in 2016, but the fact of the matter is Dune mini series 1-6 did 100 times the story telling and honor to cannon and this was 20 fucking years ago.
My weak spot in the movie was Walken, Honestly wish he had the screen time the Emporer's character and the actor Christopher Walken deserve. So many important plot points are not here which leaves a phoned in movie that makes no sense.
