I've come to accept that these movies will never be for me and I'm happy for the fans who do like them, but outside of a couple decent gags this was honestly kind of a snoozer.
With one exception the fights all look like shit. Multiple times Deadpool will look at the camera and exclaim how cool the fight scene is about to be only to deliver the same weightless, uncreative dreck the MCU has been churning out for over…
Saw it again in IMAX and I think I have fully made peace with any adaptation hangups I had on first viewing. Everything just feels and looks so good. The action scenes are weighty and visceral, Timothee and Zendaya have real chemistry, and all the critical themes of the book make it on screen. Messiah is going to be a wild ride, but as a standalone Part 2 is still brilliant.
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I think this is the best adaptation of Dune we could reasonably hope for. Denny pulled it off! I'm sure other book fans like me have their own quibbles with changes to the source material, but importantly I think the spirit of the book was captured perfectly. Chani ends up feeling the most different from her book counterpart, but I feel like her changes in the film are critical in articulating the tragedy of Paul Atreides and positioning the film…
Excellent performances throughout, some very funny gags and truly unsettling dream sequences, but the ending of this movie truly confounds me. Why on earth at the end of this cynical and mean spirited black comedy am I expected to feel any kind of connection with these characters?
At the end of the day I feel like this film was just an hour and a half of the "Man Behind Winkies" scene from Mullholand Drive but without Lynch's mastery of atmosphere…
