@Shebuka: Always real. No fakery ‘round ‘ere, son.
I for one feel elated when I discover an exploit (I never search online for them, I just mess around with the mechanics and that’s it) and I’m usually rewarded for my in-game discovery.
@sippio: I can see you really don’t like the actress for some reason but those Chani scenes were mostly dream like sequences when Paul was in a trance. When she’s finally revealed, she’s apprehensive of this stranger in which her tribe has suddenly come in conflict with and then the scene when she handed him the Chrystknife was great, I didn’t see a problem with her facial expressions or delivery of dialogue.
@xnshd: It’s basically Facebook making a big mistake by confusing the only people who are still on there. The older generation aren’t going to want to control a virtual avatar. Man, FB are pretty stupid, has to be said. I welcome the change, only to see the service diminish further.
Metaverse… I had the same reaction as you before Googling it yesterday. And that reaction will probably remain the consensus.
I think it’s great that terrible awful things meet their inevitable conclusion.
@xnshd: It’s a virtual reality space like the PS3 used to have. Sony called it “Home”. It’s to encourage users to spend more time online and interact with each other that way.
I don’t like it, personally. But I am happy to see Facebook commit suicide. If only old people go on Facebook with the youth branching off elsewhere (WhatsApp, Tinder, Snapchat etc.) then those older ppl are not going to like the change. Hopefully this change will set them free and get the old folk unplugged because they’ve been useless ever since they got attached to social media. It really has grabbed a hold of people and turned their brains into jelly. They have to concentrate just to cross the road now.
@sonofabevo: To me, that was for the book readers. There’s a lot of monologue in those moments in the book and for me, they played over in my head, in the actors’ acting expressions which conveyed the writing so lovingly to me in those moments. But it’s a movie so it couldn’t have tonnes of thought and monologues with the characters. That’s not how a movie works. That my favourite thing about the book though, actually, being inside the characters heads, and it’s very intimate, but wow, I did not expect it be so much of an action movie with so many scenes for like two hours being massive effects scenes. Didn’t get any of that in the book. Lol.
I was really blown away by the pace of it. The beginning had some great new scenes that weren’t in the book and every character scene in movie was over quickly, no messing about.
After that great beginning, to me, everything was just massive special effects scene after massive special effects scene after massive special effects scene. It was quite the ride.
Not a single cringe line of dialogue and no Disney-calibre cringe acting in a single moment of it. Also, no waiting for a big action scene at the end because the middle was so packed full of epic.
It amazes me to see this intimate character story of literature turned into an action movie. 😲😯
Oh, and that bit when Momoa/Duncan pulls that sword out of his chest and goes to work on those Sarkaudar… OMG. Momoa was F-ing brilliant, way better than I expected.
If I have any criticism, is that I would have liked to have had the confrontation between Thufir Hawat and the Lady Jessica, some more suspicion surrounding her and more time with that political intrigue as a whole. I would have also liked to have seen the political dinner with the Atreides family on Dune, just to see Paul being awesome in a political setting. So it’s a shame the movie didn’t include these story aspects. But this was aimed at newcomers, explaining all of the overwhelming depth of detail so effortlessly. The writing was superb.
Part 2 is the main course and it’s going to completely blow everyone’s socks off.
Despite some criticism in how I would have preferred to have seen more scenes with the characters and the political intrigue of it before the main attack on the Atreides… I would still say that Dune is a near-perfect 10/10 Part 1 of the Saga.
Lastly, I want to say, wow, Jamis was awesome! Such a great ending. I look forward to Paul’s reaction to now having to father his two boys. That’s right. It is the way. Audiences will learn of the Fremen way in Part 2. It will start very heavy on the messiah stuff. I’m really looking forward to it.
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