04-09-2024, 11:54 PM
I third the D00M thumbs up on this one. That was very entertaining and really must be seen on the big screen. The final battle was an awesome eyeful. Plus the sound. You need some big speaker to rumble bass like that. From the music to the explosions to the thumpers, those big bass bombs hit home. Made me jonze for some live reggae. Soon come... I drove home to KPFA's Reggae Express on full volume, just to extend that bass bomb high.
Speaking of bass, KB, you'll be delighted to know Lady Jessica steps up. She kinda had to so as to forward the plot. I share your criticisms of p1 on her, and I felt her character came together well in this installment.
Dune is such an odd experience for me. As I've mentioned here, sometimes I can't remember a movie I saw a few weeks ago. But I remember odd bits of reading Dune like 45 years ago. Some situation will happen in teh movie that I'll recognize. Brings back some warm memories of High School sci-fi book binging.
I loved the design of this. The Harkonnens in that monotone was sp stark, almost gigerian. The action scenes were all on point. The big battles were awesome. And the blade-2-blade (yeah, okay, they had me at space sword fights) was thrilling. The choreo wasn't overly impressive, but it was clearly depicted so you could follow the combat conversation. Roger Yuan is a vet (lady cranefly - is this the guy you thought looked like me? Because I'd be totally flattered by that. I have great respect for Yuan's work). The big battle stuff was the freshest I've seen. LotR catapulted the giant cgi battlefield shots and they've been continually getting more awesome. This was state of the art. Who doesn't luv big ass space battles?
I luved the worm riding. I thought they nailed that.
Unfortunately, cf & lcf couldn't make it, but I did have dinner with them and that was delightful as always. Got to meet their new cat. You guys should definitely try to make it to the theater for this.
D00M recommended on the BIG SCREEN.
I really must see the Lynch (not Gref) version again. I only remember the most Lynchian scenes.
Speaking of bass, KB, you'll be delighted to know Lady Jessica steps up. She kinda had to so as to forward the plot. I share your criticisms of p1 on her, and I felt her character came together well in this installment.
Dune is such an odd experience for me. As I've mentioned here, sometimes I can't remember a movie I saw a few weeks ago. But I remember odd bits of reading Dune like 45 years ago. Some situation will happen in teh movie that I'll recognize. Brings back some warm memories of High School sci-fi book binging.
I loved the design of this. The Harkonnens in that monotone was sp stark, almost gigerian. The action scenes were all on point. The big battles were awesome. And the blade-2-blade (yeah, okay, they had me at space sword fights) was thrilling. The choreo wasn't overly impressive, but it was clearly depicted so you could follow the combat conversation. Roger Yuan is a vet (lady cranefly - is this the guy you thought looked like me? Because I'd be totally flattered by that. I have great respect for Yuan's work). The big battle stuff was the freshest I've seen. LotR catapulted the giant cgi battlefield shots and they've been continually getting more awesome. This was state of the art. Who doesn't luv big ass space battles?
I luved the worm riding. I thought they nailed that.
Unfortunately, cf & lcf couldn't make it, but I did have dinner with them and that was delightful as always. Got to meet their new cat. You guys should definitely try to make it to the theater for this.
D00M recommended on the BIG SCREEN.
I really must see the Lynch (not Gref) version again. I only remember the most Lynchian scenes.
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