For sure there is a lot going on and I’m not really sure how I feel about the Chani change. I don’t think it’s terrible other than the fact that it means that they will have to go deep into uncharted territory if there is a part 3 since it’s a fairly big change. Of course, you can pretty easily undo it, but that just raises the question of why it was done in the first place other than for drama. I don’t like this version of Chani very much as a person, but that doesn’t make it a bad change to the story. There are much worse people in the story.
In regards to Liet, I think it’s somewhat unfortunate that we are at a point in wokeism that the criteria is that it doesn’t really hurt the story that much so we just accept it. That’s more or less true in this case, but it isn’t as if the change helps the story at all. I’d like to see a reason why it helps, not why it doesn’t hurt.
I don’t think it does, but who can guess at the internal reasons the choice was made. It’s possible he was under a lot of pressure to go even further and this was the compromise. Or not. I’m not too concerned with a filmmaker who thinks a little woke belongs in his masterful demonstration of science fiction filmmaking.
One guy clapped but everyone else sat totally still and didn’t chatter at all until the black-and-white credits started to roll. I don’t remember ever being in a packed theater that reacted that way to a film before.
I’m in the middle of reading Dune for the first time, and picked up Part 1 to rewatch. Unfortunately I learned the PS4 Pro doesn’t actually play HDR bluray (“regular” bluray, sure; HDR games, sure; HDR bluray, nope). So now I’m debating whether to actually get a player that can, or stick with a streamed version.
Thanks for the general recommendation to see part 2 as IMAX. I’ll do that.
The movie came first, back in 1962. I’m talking about David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia with Peter O’Toole. Frank Herbert took a bunch of stuff from the movie - both plot wise and aesthetically - and put it into the book he began writing later that year.
And O’Toole’s blue eyes were apparently very fascinating - “fuck, I’ll make every bedoui… I mean fremen blue eyed”.
My son is a Senior in HS, a nerd, and has formed a movie club with his diverse group of friends. One of them picks a movie, they all watch it, then discuss.
I am watching along and discussing with my son.
Two weeks ago, it was Dead Poet’s Society, last week was Little Miss Sunshine, this week was Lords of Dogtown.
So I watched Lords this week. It started slow and I wasn’t very into it, but paid attention to the music because Mark Mothersbaugh was the musical director.
It’s based on a true story, and it finished strong. I liked it.
I just saw Lords of Dogtown for the first time a few weeks ago. As someone who grew up skating, I really enjoyed it. I don’t know if it’s a “great” movie but it was fun. The camera work kinda threw me off. Felt like it moved around a lot. Maybe that’s just me.
Just throw it out there, it was not Smoke Signals.
Is that racist?
The beginning sucked, in my opinion. It felt like an amateur screenwriter/director trying to avoid dialogue because that is what their professor told them to do.
Heath Ledger as Skip kind of kept me in it, and the music.
It finished strong. Not a great movie, but decent. If you smoke weed, it would be better.
As he had approached the solitary figure standing near the ornithopter, Leto had studied him: tall, thin, dressed for the desert in loose robe, still-suit, and low boots. The man’s hood was thrown back, its veil hanging to one side, revealing long sandy hair, a sparse beard. The eyes were that fathomless blue-within-blue under thick brows. Remains of dark stains smudged his eye sockets.
I know that you are an Indigenous American, Native American, Indian - feathers, not dots, Sitting Bull, not Gandhi.
Sherman Alexie is one of my favorite authors and I taught The Absolute True Diary of a Part Time Indian to my freshmen in Sacramento. Great book, great movie, great writer.
Smoke Signals was a coming of age movie, as was Lords of Dogtown.
The Iron Claw was pretty awesome. I never really took Zac Effron all that seriously, but he killed it in this one. This movie isn’t a happy feel good movie. It is pretty depressing, as the true story is tragic.
I had a thought after seeing it that it is surprising that there are two great movies I’ve seen about professional wrestling (The Wrestler being the other). I wouldn’t think wrestling would make for a great drama type movie. It is staged entertainment meant for younger males mostly, but it is also an industry that exploits it’s performers. It’s one that PED use is almost required, and pain killer abuse is rampant. The story that the Iron Claw tells isn’t the only sad one in professional wrestling (I don’t think they should make a movie on Benoit though.
