This week I decided to watch the new Dune movie. It was its last day for being on HBO Max so I took this opportunity to watch it before it goes away for a while. I also watched this with my brother and my dad because we agreed we would all watch it together. Overall I enjoyed this movie. I was going in with only the information of the box scene because that was about how far I got reading the book. Even though things were a bit confusing with the politics I still think I understand why things happen. The only real questions I have are about a character that didn't even show up in the film, the Emperor. I want to know more about that character, but besides that, I think I understand things. Enjoyment was still high though. Even though though the movie is 2 hours and 35 minutes long I didn't feel bored at all which is a very good thing.
I'll start by saying that so far the world that was created in this film is awesome. All the different peoples environments say a lot about how they do things. The Atreides' world was about what I expected and the same was for the Harkonnen's and how things were dark and ominous. Arrakis was awesome to see especially the main city that Paul and Co. went to when the first arrived on Arrakis. I liked how we went from the houses from Atreides being rounded to the sharp angles all around in the city on Arrakis. It shows the differences between Atreides and Arrakis. All the technology in the movie is really cool as well. I liked the designs of the dragon fly like vehicles as well as the massive hollow cylinder ship because its so massive and it makes it super menacing looking. The stillsuits for the desert are well designed and look awesome as well. The only technology I didn't really like was the shields. I guess it's because I don't quite understand how they work, but they just didn't appeal to me because why would you turn it on if it doesn't seem to do anything whenever someone is in a fight. Another cool looking thing in the movie are the sandworms. We really only get a good look at one outside of the sand, but their design is both creepy and threatening and it makes you wonder how anyone survived before the technology came around. The spice was... there. That's all I'll say about that. However, it did lead to one of my favorite little things in the film. The cinematography in this film was pretty good. I'm a sucker for silhouette shots and those got me good in this film. I also felt lots of Star Wars vibes whenever the sun was shown during sunset. I kept thinking to myself "hey this is similar to the Luke looking at the double suns shot" but I didn't think it was a bad shot at all. Another shot I remember being pretty cool was when the House of Atreides was first arriving on Arrakis in all of their ships because we were basically seeing it from the view of someone on the ground and with the silhouette shot of all the ships coming into view I saw a nice shot. It was in the trailer, but when the leader of the Harkonnen's did the first float up into the air it was so creepy looking because we see that he has feet that touch the floor, but its almost disturbing because everyone else looks normal compared to him. Now onto the scene I mentioned earlier relating to the spice. When the spice miner is going to get eaten by the sandworm and Paul falls to the ground outside because the spice gets to him Brolin's character goes to get him. The cool thing is while Paul is on the ground you can hear him lightly say "I recognize your footsteps old man." Bam! All of the sudden Brolin's character is there and grabbing Paul even though you didn't see him. I don't know what kind of cut that is, but I saw it and thought that it was an awesome shot. I also enjoyed all the different shots of people getting in or out of their ships because they were appealing to look at. The cinematography of this film was really freaking good. Now onto the characters. I really liked Paul as a character. It took a second for me to really like how Chalamet portrayed Paul. Especially in the beginning, but as soon as they left the planet wherever the House of Atreides was and got to Arrakis I really started to enjoy Paul as a character. I would actually disagree with what other people in the class have said about Zendaya in this film. Yeah I know she isn't in a lot of it and is mostly there in visions, but I think that she did really well with the stuff she did do. I agree that more of her would be nice, but from what I've heard she'll play a bigger role in the next movie. I actually enjoyed a lot of the actor's performances in this film. Oscar Isaac did really well, which was surprising because I think him being Poe Dameron in the new Star Wars movies killed my perception of him, but he really proved he is a good actor in my opinion. Rebecca Ferguson wasn't my favorite in the film, but she was still was pretty good. Jason Momoa was pretty good as well. I think that Bautista was a little wasted in this film, but he was there. Every time I heard Josh Brolin speak I couldn't get Thanos' voice out of my head. His first line was really off putting too because it sounds exactly like Thanos does in the MCU and I wanted to laugh because Brolin will only be known for Thanos now. At the end of the film when Paul fights the Fremen, both the one Paul kills and the leader of that Fremen group played their roles really well even if it wasn't for a long time. The music/soundtrack of this movie was also really well done. I just looked up who composed the music for it and I don't know why I was surprised that Zimmer did it. Hans Zimmer is the guy you get for any movie soundtrack. Looking at his Discography you know that he is THE guy for a big movie now. Some other guys are good too like John Williams, but I think that Zimmer is the most famous movie composer and is the greatest of all time. Anyways the music timing and everything was so nice to listen to in this film. Dune was a solid movie. I think that I'll need to read the book to get more when the second film comes out but I think that this movie led pretty well into setting up the second film. 8.5/10.
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