Like the other Bong Joon Ho I’ve seen, a mildly entertaining if rather unexceptional Hollywood-style flick with incredibly heavy-handed eye-rolling social commentary/satire.
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Dune: Part Two 2024
Less impactful on rewatch on a screen smaller than IMAX. With the exception of the opening scene and the section on Giedi Prime, Denis Villeneuve‘s brutalist vision is flat and lifeless. In an attempt to respond to the uncritical use of the hero’s journey in Lynch’s adaptation, Villeneuve reduces a complex epic about ecology, human potential, ethical vs. moral law, etc. into a staid and didactic secularist vs. fundamentalist binary. Almost every character is unrecognizable from the book, either serving…
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Dune: Part Two 2024
To begin, let me recap my take on "Part One": Flatly directed, generic art direction, and poor pacing. Cuts out important scenes from Book I of the novel only for the movie to go too long after its climax to end with a non-ending.
"Dune: Part Two" is a step forward and a step back. As a step forward, there's far more color and style to Villeneuve's direction. While it can retreat into the lifeless direction of "Part One," that…
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