Dune - Movie Review

[Music] all right guys it's finally here dune was one of my most anticipated movies of whatever year they decided to release it because it's you know been pushed back and moved around like so many other things and i'm really excited to talk about it but before i do i do want to give a big thank you to the sponsor for this video disc plate at disc plate you can find high quality prints on metal they're mounted on the wall with the help of a magnet it's extremely easy to hang them and if you have multiple designs it's really easy to swap them out this plate has millions of cool designs from everything including gaming movies comics or sports with officially licensed designs from bethesda star wars marvel and much more with this plate you can build collections of things you're passionate about right on your wall and with every disc plate that you buy they plant one tree this is one of the recent ones i got ripley being one of the best movie characters of all time of course and the print 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lynch originally directed an adaptation of this movie and the books are filled with so much lore and so much backstory and so much stuff happening that many people felt a film like this would be very difficult to translate to the big screen dune is a feature adaptation of frank herbert's science fiction novel about the son of a noble family entrusted with the protection of the most valuable asset and most vital element in the galaxy dune is masterfully directed denis villeneuve is easily one of the best filmmakers working today and he consistently consistently blows you out of the water with incredible visuals the visual effects in arrival and blade runner and now dune have a real depth to them most of the visual effects are aided by the fact that the shot they're in usually has something else in it that we understand the size of whether it's a planet a human being a building that creates this feeling of scope whether it's a sand worm and we're seeing it from the perspective of two people who are on the docking bay of a ship or it's a massive army of people but there's a ship in the sky that's descending towards them the focus is usually on something within the frame that we understand the size of which creates this massive feeling of depth in every single image everything about dune feels otherworldly it feels like you're being transported to a different place the art department outdid themselves the interiors of their homes the interiors of the ships or the places they go underground or this incredible city that they visit everything feels like a living breathing tangible world one of the hardest things about dune though is how much lore there is just how much information a viewer has to understand about this world about things that people can do with certain abilities something called the voice that allows them to influence other people's actions all of this has to be communicated to the audience in a way that feels organic without an overload of exposition or backstory which is very difficult when the source material has so much information and so much depth already but i think they did a really good job of communicating the key elements the things that are most important for the audience to understand so they can relate to these characters and appreciate their journey and their sacrifices when rebecca ferguson's character is teaching her son played by timothy chalamet to use this thing called the voice you immediately understand its power but there's also a long history of politics with different civilizations and they're all sort of warring with each other some actually fighting and some are fighting more in ways that are signatures and treaties and contracts and you can tell they're not really agreeing and there might be some sinister things happening under the surface this is a lot of information and it's understandable why so many people thought that doom is such a difficult thing to translate to the big screen because not everybody really enjoyed david lynch's version and there was also a tv show as well there hasn't been what most people would consider the definitive big screen version of dune i think until now because this movie genuinely is masterful that being said it is incomplete this pretty much the only thing that i could compare dune to halloween kills is that they both feel incomplete this is 100 percent of part one and even though it wasn't really marketed that way it does say dune part 1 in the opening titles and when the film ends you're sort of hanging a little bit there's a lot of things you were looking forward to seeing come to fruition that you're not going to see yet and if the film doesn't do well enough we might not ever see it it's a very strange time we live in where a person who has made great films like enemy prisoners in sandy blade runner 2049 arrival and now dune isn't entirely sure if he can finance dune part two it's such a strange time we live in we live in a time where ridley scott can make a movie with jason bourne batman and kylo ren and it bombs at the box office which i'm going to make a video about that by the way because i saw the film and it's excellent and you should see it too so i hope that we do get a dune part two because i really love this setup and i love real gritty hard sci-fi like this and once again han zimmer out does himself he creates a score here that is somehow very linked to him and sounds like something that he would create but also sounds incredibly unique to what he usually creates i can't wait to listen to it over and over again for years to come timothy chalamet is excellent in this film i think it might actually be my favorite performance of his i also loved oscar isaac rebecca ferguson and josh brolin who once again shows up as a cool guy who's just awesome i don't know why he keeps doing that but he's good at it since this is very much so half a movie zendaya is not in the film that much so if you were really excited to see what she was going to do she's mostly a music video character in the movie because she almost primarily exists in the film as a vision that chalamet's character is having so she's not in the movie all that much and i'm assuming she'll be in part two if they get to make it a lot more i really loved dune the action set pieces were phenomenal but the focus was almost always on the characters to be these massive explosions and ships crashing in the background but you're focused on josh brolin running and i have to say they did an amazing job at setting up so much backstory and so much information and making it feel very digestible for someone who's never read the books or seen david lynch's film or the tv show everything was handled in a way that i think most audiences will be able to understand but denise villeneuve has a way of making big budget movies where a person could see dune and make a movie like say michael bay might have made but his bigger films like blade runner are blockbuster entertainment combined with arthouse and so i don't know if everyone who sees this film is going to appreciate it or if it will make the type of money that a movie like a transformers would make it's a very disappointing world that we live in where these masterful films people are like i'll wait for it to be on streaming which it will be but it's just it's disappointing you know i wish that more people supported films like this because these are the types of movies i want to see more of so guys if you can see dune in theaters i would strongly recommend it as well as the last duel which i'm going to be making a video of i think that's a really damn good movie guys thank you so much as always for watching look forward to more videos very soon and if you like this you can click right here and get stuck manized [Music] you

Channel: Chris Stuckmann

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Keywords: Dune, Movie Review, Reviews, Film, Scene, Clip, Trailer, Teaser, 2021, Chris Stuckmann, Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Zendaya, David Dastmalchian, Chang Chen, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Charlotte Rampling, Jason Momoa, Javier Bardem, Denis Villeneuve

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Length: 8min 30sec (510 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 22 2021

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