What long-winded movie, despite its greatness, will put you to sleep?
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. . .here are my thoughts.
What long-winded movie, despite its greatness, will put you to sleep?
Dune. When did they start naming films after the setting? That’d be like titling Charlie and the Chocolate Factory … alright, bad example. My wife quite enjoyed the sounds and scenery of the film. [Christmas gift idea for Phoebe: tickets to “Hans Zimmer Live” … if he plays the Mojave Desert.] I, however, wasn’t as impressed. Even though Dune has been a part of pop-culture for decades, I knew little of its canon. Nor did I know this was the first of at least three films in the franchise. As they, too, will undoubtedly get Oscar Best Picture nominations, I’ll begrudgingly end up watching them. Hopefully the info-dumping is finished, though! It seemed that every line of dialogue from the first two hours of this 155-minute film served merely to catch the uninitiated—such as myself—up to the minutiae of the Dune world. If some idiot wants to watch a film without any prior knowledge regarding the 57-year-old book, subsequent popular TV series, or 1984 film it’s based on, let us be lost! At least I had future Wonka star, Timothee Chalamet, to just barely keep me awake.