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The Arrival, Blade Runner 2049, and Dune director speaks out about his trilogy-capper, Dune Messiah.

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[–] flemtone 1 points 5 days ago (4 children)

After watching the first two movies, I preferred the 1984 version of Dune.

[–] mPony 10 points 5 days ago

After reading your comment, I preferred Reddit

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, you and three others....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

my 10 year old really likes that one. we watch it as a group and crack jokes the whole time, absolutely a blast

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I'll expand. The new movies are good but they're just... Bland? Generic sci-fi with no pizazz IMHO. Lynch version is flawed AF but it was a superior sci-fi movie.

I'll die on that cross.

[–] I_Has_A_Hat 8 points 5 days ago

Dune as a whole is bland, generic sci-fi. Ok, I guess that's unfair. When it was written, it was groundbreaking and unique, but it was so good that over time it's tropes have been reused again and again in other sci-fi. So from a modern perspective, it all feels generic.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

I also found them boring. I watched the first one in the theater and remember thinking it was decent but when I rewatched it before the second one came out I ended up shutting it off halfway through. I tried watching the second one and did the same thing.

[–] stephan262 2 points 5 days ago

Understandable. The 1984 Dune movie has some unique charm to it. though by pretty much every metric, the new films are objectively better. Though I do very much prefer Kyle McLachlan as Paul Atriedes.