Dune | Movie Review by Nerdrotic

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Dune | Movie Review

Nerdrotic

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  in an era where respect

the lore is considered by some idiots as

an alt-right dog whistle it’s rare that

we get anything that does that even if

that source material fits some of the

messaging of today yes i’m here to talk

about dune and i have to admit it’s a

bit of a nerd blind spot for me i have

tried to read the book multiple times i

have tried to listen to the book

multiple times i did half watch the

television series that came out about 20

years ago my ex-wife liked it so that’s

why i have watched it and i did see the

entirety of david lynch’s 1984’s dune

really high on drugs and i walked out of

it thinking i saw something spiritual

although i didn’t remember half of it

now if i haven’t read the books how do i

know it’s respecting the lore well i

talked to a couple of friends who i

trust who have read the books and they

say it does so if it’s good enough for

them it’s good enough for me by the way

this is gonna be spoiler free and a tad

bit low tier i know you come to this

channel for high quality videos and the

proper pronunciation of names you will

get neither here i’ve got some time to

kill before i jump on a plane to go to

tim cast irl now when it comes to denis

velanev and i don’t know if i pronounced

his name right and i’m just gonna call

him denis from now on i’m not the

biggest fan of the work i have seen

including blade runner 2049 which was a

very pretty dull film with a bunch of

people walking very slowly up to

doorways or through hallways and to

harrison ford who didn’t even bother

getting into a costume i was expecting

much of the same with this film and i

was pleasantly surprised now there are

some out there who are comparing this to

lord of the rings stop right there i

think warner brothers was hoping they

would have their next lord of the rings

on their hands and i heard a lot of dune

fans saying that i am sorry to say that

is not the case i would say this was a

mildly good film that had my interest i

definitely want to see it again the

pacing was actually pretty good for this

film the exposition didn’t feel like

exposition i feel like i knew what was

going on but i did see david lynch’s

dune and some of that tv series so that

helped i’m not sure how it’s going to

play out to somebody who’s going in cold

it does feel like you might need to do a

little homework there is a lot to take

in but it doesn’t feel overwhelming it

is a beautifully shot film it is a

beautifully edited film it is epic in

scale and i’m sure a lot of people are

gonna say this and i would agree with

them this does need to be seen on an

imax screen if you are going to see the

film at all i wouldn’t suggest seeing it

on hbo max for the first time maybe for

your second viewing if you even want to

go into a second viewing i’m not sure

how the normies are going to take to

this and i’m going to use that as a very

broad term because dune has a very

specific fan base and audience it is

nerdum dialed up to 11 or 12. it’s not

for everyone this is very serious film

and it’s a very pretentious film at

times and it’s missing the one thing i

like and this is just my bias fantasy is

one of my favorite genres because i do

enjoy a lot of world building but it

can’t come at the cost of a good

character and since this is essentially

a very well made prologue it’s hard to

get into any character that either is

dispatched early on or you don’t see

enough of them now timothy charlemay the

very wafey lead in this film i guess is

cast correctly according to my friends

paul maudib is supposed to be a scrawny

kid and and he is a scrawny kid the rest

of the cast is jason momoa playing

essentially a good version of jason

mamoa josh brolin playing a very stoic

gurney halleck and stellen skarsgard is

great as baron harkonnen oh and it also

has zendaya but she doesn’t really come

in until the end the cast is rounded out

by oscar isaac dave batista javier

bardem and polka dot man amongst other

people and i thought they all did a

pretty good job my favorite scenes are

with the harkonnens and i honestly

thought there wasn’t enough and this

might be the only time we ever see them

because here is the biggest problem with

the film again it is just a well-made

prologue some say it only covers

one-third of the book some say it’s half

of the book and it feels like it it ends

abruptly and proving that warner

brothers is one of the dumbest companies

in america i mean they own superman they

have henry cavill wanting to play the

character and they refused to make a

superman film and they didn’t have a

dune sequel in production when they’re

rolling out their very expensive film

it’s not looking good i hope i’m wrong

because i don’t think this is going to

have a high re-watchability rate with

the normies now the story centers around

a scrawny little prince with super

powers paul atreides or maudib which

translates into messiah in the freeman

language the indigenous people of

arrakis the planet dune it’s a very

political story centered around one very

precious resource spice which helps with

interstellar space travel and some

superpower this is a well-earned

question that will be asked is this film

woke i’m gonna say no whatever messaging

was in there was already in the source

material including the all-female order

of the benedezurites who are super

powered but they ended up needing a man

anyway so i’m not sure how well that’s

gonna play with the feminists there’s

also the imperial colonists oppressing

the indigenous people and exploiting

their land that being said that’s

exactly what science fiction is for what

if there was a giant universe spanning

kingdom with a jealous emperor pitting

one house against another for a precious

resource featuring a superhero space

jesus and for the most part it worked it

was a well-made pretty prologue that

gives you a bit of nerd blue balls at

the end but i wouldn’t be surprised or i

wouldn’t blame anybody for just being

fed up with political allegory even if

it is based on a book from decades ago

timing is everything and if this is

somebody’s first time watching this film

after putting up with hollywood’s

politics over the last few years that

wouldn’t blame you for just wanting to

dip out as far as the acting goes the

only standout performance for me anyway

was stellan skarsgard as baron harkonnen

like i said before timothy chalamet is

competent as paul it’s not terrible it’s

not standout and that’s what i would say

about all of the other performances this

is a very well made professional

spectacle that isn’t a ton of fun and

yes again it needs to be seen in the

theaters in a time where not a lot of

people are going to the theaters and

lastly as far as the soundtrack goes i

think it’s pretty good probably not as

good as the david lynch film but if

you’re a fan of hans zimmer’s french

horn farts they are back in a big way a

bit of good news and a bit of bad news

so we’ll start with the good news dune

fans i think you got the faithful

adaptation that you have been looking

for unfortunately i’m not sure you’re

gonna get any more because warner

brothers made a good film but not a

great one if you like what you heard

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didn’t like what you heard i thank you

for listening this long i will see you

in the next video

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