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Loved Dune. Loved that it was very true to the book without being a scene-by-scene duplicate. The shields and the Voice are hard to portray and I thought they did a pretty good job conceptualizing them.
 
myDeaconmyhand said:
I mean, not every Lightyear character has to have Tim Allen’s voice, but I hope his politics aren’t the reason he’s not involved - he’s a good comedic actor and an excellent voice actor.
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like he's not going to have a voice cameo somewhere
 
or that TimBuzz is just the toy's voice or something

disney isn't stupid and TA isn't that cancelled. Toy Story 4 came out in '19; buzz was sidelined in that movie but he was still in it.
 
Watched Fast 9 on my flight on Saturday and hoo boy is it ridiculous. I was definitely anticipating next-level ridiculousness, but it may have even exceeded my expectations. I mean, space? WTF?
 
Dune was excellent. Glad I waited and saw it at the IMAX. Most satisfying movie experience I've had in a very long time.
 
It has been a long time (pre-pandemic, perhaps) since I've been in the theater, but it sure seemed to me like Dune was loud as fuck. Like louder than most movies. Similar to how Beverly Hills Cop 2 was louder than everything else that came before it and seemed to set a standard for everything after it.
 
I liked Dune as well. Watched it with my super sci-fi nerd buddy and he loved it. Really wish that they'd gone like LoTR and filmed them concurrently so that the second could be released sooner, but I get that they didn't want to do that when the franchise has been pretty cursed in the past.
 
Finally caught the Bond film. Good in general and good action sequences, villain's lair, etc. But the other stuff...well, I'm not sure what I think about it
 
Dune was alright for a ripoff combo of Star Wars and Tremors. It would have been better with a Kevin Bacon or Michael Gross cameo. I was waiting for them to start pole vaulting from rock to rock. “Hey guys, I think I’ve found the ass end!”
 
dune was written 12 years before star wars came out and 25 before Tremors but yea good ripoff combo
 
Going to say more about Bond now, but with spoiler tag...
While I liked the villain's lair (very typical Bond), they really didn't do a good job with the actual villain. Underdeveloped and a bit meh for his backstory. I realize that most Bond baddies aren't very overly developed, but you're talking 60 years of Bonds. In 2021, I expect better.

The whole kid angle felt cheap. I mean, it was hit and miss. I don't have any problem with him having one, but then it just seems obvious to endanger the kid.

And as it applies to the above, to the love story, and to the end, it's all waaaaay too sentimental for a Bond film. There have been moments in the franchise, particularly with the Lazenby film and Casino Royale, where Bond is shown in a different light. But this was an entirely different level. Too much of the dialogue seemed like nothing James Bond would say.

And you can't kill him. For fuck's sake. That has not sat well with me at all. I realize that there are inconsistencies in the Bond franchise. I mean, didn't Felix get munched by sharks in Licence To Kill? And Bond obviously comes to an end at some point, but it's called a Bond film for a reason. You can't do a Bond film with a woman as Bond, if that's where they're going. You do a Bond film with James fucking Bond.

Oh, and Q is gay because of course he is. Let's just throw that in the movie for no good reason other than it seems the reflexive thing to do.

I still thought the movie overall was good, though way too long. Probably a middling Bond in the franchise when all is said and done, slightly above Spectre. Craig has maybe the best Bond on his resume in Skyfall, a very good one in Casino, a few in the middle, and one of the worst with Quantum. Definitely time to stand down, as he was looking Roger Moore View To A Kill old in this, minus his pec implants.
 
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TownieDeac said:
dune was written 12 years before star wars came out and 25 before Tremors but yea good ripoff combo
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ImTheCaptain said:
yeah but Denny V's Dune was made 43 years and 100% after every star wars and tremors movie
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Right. Visually it was a straight jacking of the two series. Even down to the shots of the full Empire army which look like they were taken right out of Episode IX, or the visual contrast of high tech equipment against sand/dirt building floors, which has been a Star Wars visual staple for 30+ years and really makes no logical sense outside of the tradition of that series. You can build and pilot intergalactic space ships but you are incapable of installing a floor in your fucking house? We accept that because it is an original key visual component of the Star Wars legacy, but seeing it elsewhere is nonsensical.

Or the running from the worms and jumping on the rocky land mass from Tremors. What are the odds that in one of the future films they use the thumper (radio) to run the worm through and off a cliff edge? I'm guessing pretty high.

The underlying story could have been visualized many different ways without making it seem like it was a movie directly within either of the other two series.
 
LOL +1 (adding to prior LOL counter, not to ITC's post)
 
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