To many errors in every Tarantino movie
loading replies
@trench it is ironic that a comment criticising errors has an error in it.....
this would have been a more or less decent thriller, if it weren't for one extremely confusing major plot point:
why were they trying to kill him in the first place? i spent the entire second half of the movie expecting this to be explained, but it never was!
did i miss something? wtf was that all about?
loading replies
@blackhawk1703 but they were trying to kill him before he got the tablet - in fact, that was the main reason he even got the tablet! why did they lie to him, that his partner didn't make it, and why did they start shooting at him at the extraction point, instead of just extracting him? the mission was over, they got what they came for, he hadn't been caught by the police and nobody had the tablet yet - why didn't they just extract him like they extracted his partner?
Shout by Lenny
I saw this movie mainly to see Kevin James in a different role. It wasn't too bad and would have rated higher if it wasn't for Becky's character. She was annoying and I couldn't stand her. A teen high school girl could do some of the things she did? I mean come on anger issues don't make you into John Wick or John Rambo.
loading replies
@lennydz you’ve clearly never been a 13 year old girl facing grief and lost.
I think the message of the movie is rendered more important and urgent by the fact that so many adults simply don’t get it.
The story is beautifully told, but in a society obsessed with being successful the metaphor about the gifts flies over most heads.
loading replies
So what was the message you took from this?
So they turned Muad'Dib into edward scissorhands in a desert. They dragged the story on and on with endless slow mo and flash forwards. Dissapointing, the cinematography and soundtrack was brilliant but thats all. 5/10 is generous. Ive read the books and watched all the dune tv shows and the 1984 movie and i would recommend them as a must watch before this.
loading replies
I’m pretty disappointed too. All hyped reviews and at the end I’ve asked myself ‘is this it’? I’ve red the book, watched all movies (including documentary Jodorowsky’s Dune), played all computer games… for me the TV series was the best till now.
So they turned Muad'Dib into edward scissorhands in a desert. They dragged the story on and on with endless slow mo and flash forwards. Dissapointing, the cinematography and soundtrack was brilliant but thats all. 5/10 is generous. Ive read the books and watched all the dune tv shows and the 1984 movie and i would recommend them as a must watch before this.
loading replies
Yes, this is exactly what I felt. Went into the movie thinking it would be a 8-9 but it was 6 at best. Felt really boring even though I love sci-fi and I didn’t like any of the characters and the desert. The sound was loud and the sudden cuts to bright scenes from darkness gave me a headache in the end.
Shout by Lalo Romero
VIP6What a waste of Rami Malek and Christop Waltz….
Story made no sense…
This is not a James Bond movie TBH should have had a different nameI give it a 4 for the bar scene that was good… the rest better skip and go back to watch some of the classics…
loading replies
Second that. One of the worse Bond movie. Also I’m afraid next Bond will be black trans him/his/it fighting not for Her Majesty but for social justice ;)
Review by dunpealhunter
VIPOG14This movie shows in a very good way how the next virus outbreak that will be just as big or maybe even bigger as the Spanish Flu is gonna happen in the 21th century. And believe me, sooner or later IT WILL HAPPEN.
I liked the electronic music that was playing at the beginning of the movie. It had sort of an panicked tone to it that together with the people who where getting sick and dying set a thrilling tone to the first part of the movie.
I found the movie to be very realistic. Jude Law character was spot-on. When there is gonna be an outbreak we will see people on the internet (who have no medical training whatsoever) who think they have found the cure and millions of people will listen to them. There will be millions of people who stop going to work, who stay at home and avoid contact with anyone. Others will do whatever they can to get their hands on a vaccination, even if that means killing someone else.
I liked the fact that we got to see the story from so many different angles. It really gave an overview of the entire situation and what the virus had for an impact on all the people involved.
The end of the movie was a bit disappointing. In my opinion that could have been a lot better. But overall i find this movie to be really good.
loading replies
@dunpealhunter ''And believe me, sooner or later IT WILL HAPPEN.''
Geez man, you happy now?
Good till I saw Santa "Roll Up" come on now I get it mainly black related movie but ya didn't have to go that far with it
loading replies
literally who cares get over it
The writing of the first act alone and the confusion over the protagonist was magnificent to me. I had an absolute blast in the theater with this one.
loading replies
@hcolesmith95 They go through all that trouble over who the protagonist is. Then have Crystal on the poster lol.
So I knew it was her. Trailers even show her taking on Hilary Swank and one person even blow up. So the poster and trailers ruin any surprises.
Even this site, there’s Crystal holding a gun right above the poster.
I have always been a big fan of Kevin Costner but I’m afraid I found this movie to be absolute crap. The plot, the script and oh my God the acting. Unbelievably terrible. It is not something I would expect Kevin Costner to allow his reputation be connected to.
And the rest of the cast, I’m sorry folks but for me it was a disaster. The best actor was Peter’s horse.
loading replies
@mclellab Dude how could you be a VIP member with such horrible taste in movies? Strongly disagree.
I'll open by saying I am not a fan of Villeneuve. In fact, I think he's a hack whose only genuine talent is making stupid people falsely think they are actually quite smart. I am also a HUGE Dune fan. They have been my favourite series of books since I first discovered them as a teenager. So although I hoped for the best with this, I was expecting the worst. What I got was somewhere in the middle. It's an OK movie, not great, thankfully not terrible, but OK
It got some things right the 1984 Lynch version got wrong, but still somehow managed to get other stuff wrong (including stuff Lynch got right). It was also a surprise how much Villeneuve just lifted directly from the Lynch film, both visually and auditorily.
The wardrobe choices were a huge disappointment. If you didn't know the time setting, going just on the clothes in the new Dune you'd be forgiven for thinking it was set a mere forty or fifty years (if that) in the future rather than the twenty thousand years in the future when it's really set. The Lynch stillsuits look futuristic, unworldly, and something that really would keep you alive in the deep desert. The new desert wear looks like they are just going to go dirt biking for an hour or two in our present-day world.
The casting (completely ignoring the pointless gender swap) was good, However, with the exception of Paul, Chani, and Rabban the original casting was all better. But the original (apart from the odd decision to use the totally unsuited Kyle MacLachlan) was a masterclass in how to cast the perfect people for the role.
Anyway, enough of the comparisons, This film is about the first two-thirds of the first novel. I always thought the story would be better told via a big-budget TV series (or even mini-series) rather than a standalone movie. I still think what they tried to cover here was too much for a single movie, but it was a step in the right direction.
The film mainly sticks to the book story but does make some needless changes, the most obvious of which being the changes made to both the gender and story of Liet Kynes, which in turn impacts the story of Chani. Most other changes are small and mainly insignificant though.
The film being filmed in Norway, Jordan, and Abu Dhabi it looks fantastic and very well suited to the large screen. And it's clear a great deal of time, effort, and money was put into the sets that looked equally good as the places they were meant to be.
The acting was of a suitably high standard, but unfortunately, many of the Dune names and terms were horribly mispronounced. That and the Hans Zimmer fart that is played constantly throughout the soundtrack is likely to pull people out of their immersion in the movie.
I was also somewhat surprised by what was left out, OK the source material is VERY dense and obviously some needed to be cut, but I don't really think it's made clear just how crucial melange is to the functioning of the empire and society as a whole. Also what (and why) mentats are is largely ignored, you may think that isn't overly important, but it is at the core of how many things are done in the Dune universe.
Over all, it's not a bad movie. Despite its flaws, I still think the 1984 Lynch version is better though.
loading replies
@andriagassi I'm not claiming the '84 is perfect, it certainly isn't. But I think (as I said) despite its flaws, it's still better than the 2021 version though.
Ralph Fiennes playing every role himself was very distracting.
loading replies
@atlantis14 Must have been weird for Valerie that her brother, husband, son and grandson all looked the same.
Shout by Atlantis14
Really liked this movie. They chickened out at the end. They shouldn't have shown what happens afterward, that was the whole point. It didn't matter.
loading replies
@atlantis14 I agree. I expected it to end when the bomb went off; I think it would have made for a stronger ending, too.
