Comment on I can't believe Dredd (2012) is over ten years old
shasta@lemm.ee 1 year agoI gotta agree with you on the Tarantino films.
However, I really loved BR2049. I’ve heard so many conflicting opinions on it and I haven’t figured out yet exactly what other people hate about it. I think it captured the original vibe of BR really well and carried on the story in a realistic and exciting way. Maybe people miss the voiceover narration? But the original BR director never wanted the voiceover and only added it because the studio said people wouldn’t be able to follow the story otherwise. I think the lack of voiceover in BR2049 is a compliment to viewers for assuming we are smarter now and able to better understand scifi without being spoonfed.
I find your opinion on Dune very interesting too. I have not seen the old movie but I have read the books. From my perspective, I think new Dune does a fantastic job of adapting the book to screen. There are way too many slow parts and introspection in the book that would not play out well on screen. There were a lot of added scenes too that were entirely not in the source material, but which I believe really enhance the plot, giving the characters more motivation for the actions and doing a better job at world building which I think the book glosses over too much.
bandario@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Yeah, I 100% owe both of those movies a re-watch just based on what yourself and /u/azazaridanger@lemmy.villa-straylight.social have said. I liked the vibe of both but as I said, they somehow just felt like cheap copies of master works.
Dune I think my main issues were pacing and casting. Just generally what they did to some of the characters. I read a couple of Dune books again over the last few years as excitement built around the upcoming film.
They really did my boy Paul Atreides dirty by casting Chalamet in the role. Paul is not supposed to be a simpering, anxious boy…
With that said, the world of Frank Herbert’s Dune is one that has proved impossibly difficult to adapt to screen over the years and in terms of overall world building and feel this is by far the closest to hit the mark for the overall world I think. I just feel they missed the mark entirely with some of the characters to the overall detriment of the story and spent a lot of screentime on scenes that don’t contribute a great deal whilst ignoring a lot of good source material entirely.
I’m going to track down all of the apes movies and spent a weekend on these and re-watching Dredd, BR2049 and Dune. Been a while since I had a proper movie day! Good chats, all. Thanks for the ted talk ;p