While I entirely agree that Denis Villeneuve's "Dune" is expertly directed and filmed, I can say that, like the book, I found it to be mostly boring. This isn't about the film being slow-moving. I have watched a ton of old Horror and Sci-Fi from the 1950s through the 1980s and actually prefer their slow burn, thought-provoking tales over current films that have an action scene every two minutes. My personal, lukewarm opinion of "Dune" is the same as I feel about Asimov's "Foundation". To me, space politics are dull.
Also, the knife and sword fighting is just getting so old. I know that the shield/force-field that the characters wore makes the firing of projectiles largely ineffective, but "Dune" is just more of the same knife-fu and sword-fu that is prevalent in just about every current action film. There's not really any way to make it different enough to be interesting (and yeah, I know "Dune" came before most of the current crop of TV and FIlm Sci-Fi).
There are a lot of people who love "Dune". I'm just not one of them. The book, David Lynch's film and this latest adaptation just aren't of much interest to me.
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While I entirely agree that Denis Villeneuve's "Dune" is expertly directed and filmed, I can say that, like the book, I found it to be mostly boring. This isn't about the film being slow-moving. I have watched a ton of old Horror and Sci-Fi from the 1950s through the 1980s and actually prefer their slow burn, thought-provoking tales over current films that have an action scene every two minutes. My personal, lukewarm opinion of "Dune" is the same as I feel about Asimov's "Foundation". To me, space politics are dull.
Also, the knife and sword fighting is just getting so old. I know that the shield/force-field that the characters wore makes the firing of projectiles largely ineffective, but "Dune" is just more of the same knife-fu and sword-fu that is prevalent in just about every current action film. There's not really any way to make it different enough to be interesting (and yeah, I know "Dune" came before most of the current crop of TV and FIlm Sci-Fi).
There are a lot of people who love "Dune". I'm just not one of them. The book, David Lynch's film and this latest adaptation just aren't of much interest to me.