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I will die on this hill I legitimately like Mr. Mayor and Picard better than the new one. It took me like 4 tries to get through the new one it is so slow and full of itself. I'm not sure what the line is for me between good slow and being a slog but the new one is so hard for me to pay attention to. I'd rather scroll through spaceship still shots with some space music in the background
It’s adapting a book where sometimes a chapter is two people meeting in a room and having a short conversation, and you get to know what one person is thinking about the conversation at length, and then the same thing from the other person’s perspective, and then they leave the room.
I couldn't get through the book either... Like I said I'm not sure what that line is for me because I've definitely watched and read slow things but Dune can be so off the charts slow it hurts me. LotR is slow and half the movies are spent watching people running through fields but both the books and movies captured my attention (I know this is an imperfect comparison just first example I thought of). I'm excited you all can enjoy the new movie but I'll take the old one
To be fair, I've read the books and love the newest film, but I can't read or watch LotR because to me, they drag on and on while moving nothing.
I read the Hobbit, flew through it one of my favourites. I had to force myself to finish fellowship. It's so obtuse. Dube however. One again flew threw it, even though it's massive. I just could not put it down. Genuinely became my all time favourite book.
The pacing of the new film is great. But I'm the kind of person who wants to stay and linger on aspects of the world and really get to know what's going on. So I like "slow" films like Blade Runner 2049. But to me they never feel slow. The film ends and im still there wanting more, watching the credits to the very end just to eke out every little bit out of the film.
I'm a big Dune fan but I was miffed at how unsatisfying and clipped the first movie was. It's not a complete movie on its own, it really needed to finish with the acceptance ritual of the Fremen and then that would allow movie 2 to start by playing with what happens during the time jump in the latter half of the book. I loved the ambience and the attention to detail in the movie, but tons of the little details lost their meaning and their payoffs without more context. (The bullfighter metaphor, the palms for example). I would have preferred the details to be cut or saved for an "extended version" rather than just be used as Easter eggs. I'm really counting on movie 2 to bring it all together so I can just treat it like one epic movie.
Yeah, I do think it was a weird decision ended it where they did. To me it feels like they started the first act of the next movie but only got part way through. I feel like they must've done it purely just so they can fit more in the next one. Cause a more satisfying ending would be ending it where "Book 1" ended in the book and go all out on the vision scene. The vision scene in the movie was a big let down for me. I still love the movie overall, but that's the thing I was so excited to see all the way through and then it's just a standard flash forward sequence.
The new movie is not slow compared to the book though, in fact it feels like the book shown in a time lapse.