I am doing a full Dune wave here - going through all the board games, video games and even rewatched the 1984 movie, 3h version. Watched the 2 SyFy series as well and this was my most expected movie of the year.
Movie premiered here tonight and damn I was excited. About hour into the movie I realized - this is not going to be full movie. The pace is slow - like slow below acceptable. The first half of this movie builds the world, sets the stage - I understand that, but the moment Paul and his mother escape the Harkkonnen, it comes to almost a stand still - it takes them the other half of the movie, up to like an hour, to reach Fremen. To compare, in the 1984 version this was about 4-5 minutes top. In the books it is like 2-3 pages, focus being on the tent scene between Paul and his mother. Why is this here so long? Do they want an award for adding runtime?
The score of 1 is here until I can actually see the full movie. So we might have to wait 5 years, it might never come. Visuals and general production is superb. Music, acting, etc. Just pacing is very wrong - it feels wrong.
Why was Jason Momoa in this movie? Bautista had under 1 minute of screen time? What is happening here?
Be very careful on expectations here - the movie has almost no purpose and is like a pilot episode, that never got the series to explain and explore it.
Movie premiered here tonight and damn I was excited. About hour into the movie I realized - this is not going to be full movie. The pace is slow - like slow below acceptable. The first half of this movie builds the world, sets the stage - I understand that, but the moment Paul and his mother escape the Harkkonnen, it comes to almost a stand still - it takes them the other half of the movie, up to like an hour, to reach Fremen. To compare, in the 1984 version this was about 4-5 minutes top. In the books it is like 2-3 pages, focus being on the tent scene between Paul and his mother. Why is this here so long? Do they want an award for adding runtime?
The score of 1 is here until I can actually see the full movie. So we might have to wait 5 years, it might never come. Visuals and general production is superb. Music, acting, etc. Just pacing is very wrong - it feels wrong.
Why was Jason Momoa in this movie? Bautista had under 1 minute of screen time? What is happening here?
Be very careful on expectations here - the movie has almost no purpose and is like a pilot episode, that never got the series to explain and explore it.
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