So for the average movie goer it doesn't matter that its actually not a very good film. Look, I get it. From the moment I heard about a new Dune adaptation I was thrilled. You can double that when I heard Villenueve was directing.
Fact of the matter is I'm not the average movie goer. Great VFX just isn't enough to wow me. And thats essentially all that makes this film special at all. Great VFX. The story was 1 dimensional if you can even claim there was a story. The characters - because of the weak story are equally weak.
With the exception of Rebecca Ferguson who I swear is such a talented actress that she made a mountain out of the pathetic mole hill she was handed.
Chalamet does what he can with what he's given which isn't much. I like this guy though. Normally, I have no idea why Hollywood chooses to crown their so called stars but I get Chalamet's appeal. You might be tempted to toss him into the Tween superstar column and that is true. 13 yr old white girls love androgynous looking boy band types. But I have to give him his due...he's a solid actor. I was more than impressed by him in Michod's The King. It was there that I started to believe he just might be legit.
As I said, he's got the appeal the tweenagers love but in his career moves he doesn't play to this everchanging audience that loses interest in whatever latest hearthrob faster than they gained it. He chooses adult roles - Even when he wasn't exactly a legal adult himself. He has my respect.
Zendaya is... sort of in this. Not that it matters but I'm not sold on her at all. I highly doubt she sell tickets on her name alone. So I guess my question is... how is she a star? Isn't putting butts in seats a prereq for being apart of the so-called A-List?
The rest of the cast is an incredibly expensive waste of talent. Look, I get that this is "Part 1" but that talk only started when the reviews for the film started coming in and they were largely negative or sort of middle of the road. The point is that they never knew if they were getting a part 2... especially when they started out making part 1. It's a poor excuse. And it really doesn't matter. Dune is a two hour trailer. It's narratively weak which like a spider web like crack in glass spreads out and sort of ruins everything else about it.
People tend to overlook the SYFY miniseries version of Dune but when I was a kid it was the only live action adaptation I knew of. I certainly wasn't going to watch anything from the outdated 80's. It was also James McAvoy's big break I believe. I encourage anyone and everyone to check it out. For a TV movie - it's leaps and bounds above this current adaptation and incredibly well done for a tv movie in the 00's.
I wanted to love this film... I, like alot of you, decided it was going to be amazing before it came out but being as objective as one can when giving an opinion... it's just not there.
I hope the 2nd film...coming in like 3 years by the way... is better.
Fact of the matter is I'm not the average movie goer. Great VFX just isn't enough to wow me. And thats essentially all that makes this film special at all. Great VFX. The story was 1 dimensional if you can even claim there was a story. The characters - because of the weak story are equally weak.
With the exception of Rebecca Ferguson who I swear is such a talented actress that she made a mountain out of the pathetic mole hill she was handed.
Chalamet does what he can with what he's given which isn't much. I like this guy though. Normally, I have no idea why Hollywood chooses to crown their so called stars but I get Chalamet's appeal. You might be tempted to toss him into the Tween superstar column and that is true. 13 yr old white girls love androgynous looking boy band types. But I have to give him his due...he's a solid actor. I was more than impressed by him in Michod's The King. It was there that I started to believe he just might be legit.
As I said, he's got the appeal the tweenagers love but in his career moves he doesn't play to this everchanging audience that loses interest in whatever latest hearthrob faster than they gained it. He chooses adult roles - Even when he wasn't exactly a legal adult himself. He has my respect.
Zendaya is... sort of in this. Not that it matters but I'm not sold on her at all. I highly doubt she sell tickets on her name alone. So I guess my question is... how is she a star? Isn't putting butts in seats a prereq for being apart of the so-called A-List?
The rest of the cast is an incredibly expensive waste of talent. Look, I get that this is "Part 1" but that talk only started when the reviews for the film started coming in and they were largely negative or sort of middle of the road. The point is that they never knew if they were getting a part 2... especially when they started out making part 1. It's a poor excuse. And it really doesn't matter. Dune is a two hour trailer. It's narratively weak which like a spider web like crack in glass spreads out and sort of ruins everything else about it.
People tend to overlook the SYFY miniseries version of Dune but when I was a kid it was the only live action adaptation I knew of. I certainly wasn't going to watch anything from the outdated 80's. It was also James McAvoy's big break I believe. I encourage anyone and everyone to check it out. For a TV movie - it's leaps and bounds above this current adaptation and incredibly well done for a tv movie in the 00's.
I wanted to love this film... I, like alot of you, decided it was going to be amazing before it came out but being as objective as one can when giving an opinion... it's just not there.
I hope the 2nd film...coming in like 3 years by the way... is better.