Dune (2021) Review | Spicy Worms Edition™ | Smack Talk
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- Опубліковано 4 сер 2022
- It’s time to review Dune (2021) Part1, directed by cheese eating Denis Villeneuve and based on Frank Herbert’s classic novel Dune. What’s it all about? Is it good? The Smack Talk must flow…
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We love you too, professor! Screw UA-cam for demonetizing you.
Happy to have you back!
The ads are gonna tea bag me to death because my shields don't work 😭
@@christianzetterstrom9470 I think he's just decided not to go for monetarisation as it imposes constraints on his videos (e.g. in terms of the music he can use)
The Tosspot must flow
IT'S A GUNDAAAAAAAAAM! Btw I may have need of your voice in the future.
Gundam I would love to see Billy and the Professor team up , a match in heaven.
Y’all need to do collab videos or some streams or something, I’d be all the way there for it
Billy and A. Andy are who we need.
Ayy Papi!!
"He's not a racist! He's an ethnicity critic!" Why have people not used that more often? 😆😆😆
Dude, I am from Mexico and when he said Mexico and out an image of the Dump Site I'm still bursting out laughing!!!
To be fair, millions of Mexicans aren't trying to get into the US because Mexico smells so great! 😆
They may now? 😅
"Ethnicity Critic". What a time to be alive. 😂
"Paul believes black lives splatter" wow. I have missed you Professor. You could get a job writing for the Boys
Whenever UA-cam bores me and has nothing interesting to offer, I always come back to re-watch Voxis Productions. I'm on my 10th run of all his videos! 👌
10th run, huh?
Rookie!
@@jegzhdNow now... everyone is a rookie at first, you can't get to the triple digit club without actually watching them 100 times 😉
@@mmm-mmmBryce Dallas Howard in his Jurassic World video?
@@karlepaul6632Not a hard challenge. This is my comfy viewing channel ✌
Id say the sci-fi got depressing and the absence of colorful futurism is a reflection of the times we live in.
Alot of the optimism for the future left the building a while ago.
The Atriedes Battle Pug accounted for three legions of Saudarkar and it still haunts the desert with its battle yips
I miss those pugs. The Imperials had pugs too.
It makes sense to me that royals would have a toy dog for their son , I didn't find it odd
Long live Pug Leto!
@@RichardPhillips1066 Not at all. I also liked that the Padishah Emperor had a pack of bulldogs.
World of Warcraft decided to import the pug into Stormwind with boss level ugliness and stuff to run around. At least I think that was it. That or some weird woke thing.
UA-cam is so boring without the professor !!! I'm going on a Tosspot marathon before I watch this video.
Not the worst idea
Open every single tosspot video in separate tabs and play them all at the same time, for the ultimate effect.
Agreed
@@TheHungrySlug Open every single youtube video in separate tabs and play them all at the same time, for the ultimate effect.
Fasts
The rose and bulldog analogy is pure gold
Laughed so hard at "Dunc, by Calvin Klein".
You have a gift, sir!
A tosspot is never late, nor early. He arrives precisely when he means to.
He always gets held up by a guy name Al Zheimers.
Lol
Good to have you back, Blessed Pipeman.
You as well, Chris
Two legends welcoming each other back. It’s great to have the both of you fine gentlemen back.
@@VoxisProductions Laying the pipe
I smell a podcast reunion
"What does a vagina after sex look like"
"Well have you seen a buldog eating mayonese?"
Oh god :D :D This cannot be unseen,
You nailed literally every thought I had about this movie. From the literally bad, eardrum shattering OST, to the fact that it should have been an HBO show.
7:36 "Dunc. By Calvin Klein."
This had me in stitches 😂
Same, what a great cutaway!
17:23 give me a better one saying "the hight colesterol."
“ Paul, fantasizes about a deserrt girl called chAAAAAni, looking like she’s trapped inna ponsie perfume add!” Hahaha hahahahahahahaha😅
You gotta lay off teh ponies
Congratulations this review and this take has aged like fine wine. Your review for part two can just be a ten second video of you saying “I told you this would happen.”
"Have you ever seen a bulldog eating mayonnaise"? I spit my beer across the room hearing that. Maybe too much reality for young Andy there, but 100% correct comparison. I was so happy too see you posted a new movie review, made my day.
It's not the quantity of videos, it's the quality. Good to have you back.
Word, I love his bashing
I haven't laughed so hard in a long time. "Have you ever seen a bulldog eat mayonnaise". Absolutely hilarious.
Zendaya getting as little screen time as possible is a good thing…
As soon as I learned "Frenchy" was making this a few years ago, I moaned, "AW no!!!!" I'd just seen his shit Blade Runner sequel, where he actually turns all the neon lights off so it looks nothing like the original, enough said...
Seriously? He wanted to make the Baron Harkonnen less "comical", but then made him just some big guy? And the whole planet looking like a Necron homeworld instead of...well. The Dark Eldar.
The Baron is supposed to look disgusting. He's taken so much spice that he can survive any disease. He's a hedonist who the consequences don't apply to. How do you screw this up?
I think the books just say he's fat and needs a gravity belt to hold up his bulk. It was lynch who decided that meant he looked like a monster looking MF.
Where is the second comment?
@@mkultra2456 huh…good question. I don’t see it either.
Friends don't let friends play Eldar.
Baron has never been done justice on the screen - he's supposed to look like a cherub, an innocent, pretty, plump face speaking in a pleasant, deep bassetto voice, and a sharp, scheming mind that run circles around everybody until a literal clairvoyant, Alia, stabs him
he still gets the upper hand on her later - that's how powerful the Baron is
He wasn't so smart. The Emperor was going to deal with him next.
@@rafalemiec8683 Haven't read the books so am curious what you mean about the Baron getting the upper hand.
@@QueenSydon I heard the gene-memory of the Baron pulls a Buffalo Bill and wears Alia like a stilsuit. "Goodbye sandworms..."
Brian Blessed would've been great.
Once again, the professor takes on a film that only he is capable of tearing apart adequately. Great job, sir!
Yes, I love the book and yes I actually enjoyed the movie BUT I couldn't resist laughing at this review. Great video! Keep up the good work
Glad you enjoyed it!
Couldnt have said it better. The movie got me to read the books this year, and I still like it, but this review was hilarious, and raises a lot of valid points.
Right? This review made me feel like an idiot!
Tremors (1990) > Dune (2021)
I enjoyed it enough, but the criticisms are precise and cutting.
Oh, how I missed Smacktalk. Nobody does this like you. Absolute gold, mate!
I miss smack. It goes god with smack talk.
Dude, I am from Mexico and when you said Mexico and out an image of the Dump Site I'm still bursting out laughing!!!
I'm just going by what Ridley Scott said.
Holy crap, you're spot on with the accusation of "Hack" - I constantly feel Villeneuve presents the veneer of an auteur, and yet always seemed to fall short. And now I know why!
Every French director/film is like that - all style no substance.
@@MB-ms3ud bs
I think Hollywood directors get promoted based on one of these two attributes:
1)They are good at writing.
or
2)They are good at cinematography.
I put "or" there because a director can only be one of these things. Villeneuve (and Zack Synder and JJ Abrams too) fall into good at cinematography category. They can make good-looking scenes, but the characterization and world-building tends to suffer. Hollywood has chosen this kind of director for sci-fi films because the CGI has to look superb and directors with good visual eyes are more necessary. It just comes with pretty significant trade offs in that the movie's storytelling gets funky.
Writer directors have their own pitfalls. Aside from more TV-looking kinds of scenes, they can disappear up their own ass with ego trips like Rian Johnson. Overall, I prefer a director that's a good writer over one who's a good cinematographer.
I liked the SYFY channels take on Dune, David Lynch's movie is underrated and far better than the the new slop we've been given.
Bwahahahaha....
@@45641560456405640563 My best friend actually laughs like that, we call him Bwhaffles. Aaaaand, you're a fucking idiot. Frank would have been your father, but your mother is ugly and carries bad genetics.
Great review, despite all its faults I have a soft spot for the Lynch version... Not so much this one.
I love the Lynch one too. I spat my tea out when he called it crap. And I love Bladerunner 2049. oh well. I tried to like the new Dune but i kept falling asleep. Two months later and after repeated attempts I still haven't made it all the way through the film. I've finally decided it's taking up valuable hard disk space.
@@uberbeast113
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@@uberbeast113 You gotta watch the Spice Diver fan edit of the 1984 Dune movie. It's on UA-cam. You will love it.
@@mkultra2456 thanks for the recommendation -- my friends showed me some deleted scenes from Lynch's version that were really interesting, hopefully those are cut in there? I don't think an edit can save what Lynch did to the Harkonnens, but it had such a bold vision and art style that I keep going back to it. Denis' version while quite good was missing that.
@@jdraven0890 I think all the deleted scenes were restored. There's more Harkonnen scenes. More Sting. *;)*
Can't wait to see how the Sietches will be portrayed in part 2! Cambrian Petra-esque sandstone marvels? Absolutely not. Brown grey amorphous caverns with flat concrete brutalist architecture will do just fine to represent the mysterious Fremen. Lighting? None existent of course!
What about the glow globes?
@@mkultra2456 Dulled and muted.
@Mono Poly "flat concrete brutalist architecture" It was an imperial outpost, wasn't it? They did not show any fremen structers yet.
@@jetmad79 Yeah, im not sure what OP is on about, each faction has a different art style, the palace and outpost were both imperial works under their brutalist style that works well for them.
You would assume the fremen structures will be different.
@@chromicm6686 "Part 2"
We miss you professor
Miss my fans too 🥲 I'm coming back
The main lead has the charisma of a pet rock
I've read the first book around sixteen times it's one of my favorites. The movie was pretty cool and I like how they had some word for word book-to-screen moments and scenes, but there was way too many slow motion shots and lack of character development. Also, Jessica is supposed to have supreme control over her emotions and facial expressions, yet in the movie she was one of the most emotionally distraught people who seemed to be floundering more than being in total control of herself. David Lynch did a much better job with her character imo
Man, for me, Dune was one of sci-fi's great disappointments for me (along with Ringworld). But hey, I get that people like it.
@@danepatterson8107 Ringworld is a bunch of insectoid descriptions and technical obsession that forgot how to create people anyone would care about. It came from a time where the setting, rather than those exploring it, could hold an audience's attention. Dune dovetails the best of both worlds in my opinion- it gives us people to care about, it gives us the technical limitations of the universe, and it also explains how such a technologically limited empire maintains itself. It pulls off the descent of an Empire better than 'Foundation' did and gives me a world to care about better than 'Ringworld' ever did. The handful of chapters in Iain M. Banks' 'Consider Phlebas' on a Culture Orbital did a better job than all of Ringworld in making me care.
Lynch's movie was better on almost ever level.
You gotta understand how French men view women in general. Than you'll understand her not being in control of her emotions. Its goes against their religion
@@Maehedrose Have you seen SpiceDiver's 4K fan edit of 1984 Dune? It's on UA-cam.
I enjoyed the movie even with its shortcomings, but the line at 18:30 really stood out to me. For the most part DUNC keeps moving whether or not you’re paying attention, so having a character so blatantly say “he’s locked the door” when we the audience literally see Duncan lock the door was bizarre.
Kynes and Boba Fett would get along well. She could tell him when people lock doors on him. He could tell her how to survive dying embarrassingly.
Do we? There's plenty of room to interpret the scene that leaves the audience asking, why doesn't Paul and co. just open the door if they want to get through? Alien -like doors, adrenaline, shock etc.
Do you know how to ride shai hulud?
Like a bantha! Yes?
@@John-tc9gp *wiggles moronically in senility*
Today is the day ! Dunc II review! LOL. No, no rush , of course. I can wait a couple years.😎😎
I doubt that we will ever get a proper movie adaptation of Dune, perhaps an animated adaptation would work better.
I think it is possible as a mini series with the modern budgets that the streaming giants have to throw about.
Likely not a movie - but with the huge jump forward in CG tech and TV/streaming spending since the SyFy miniseries they could easily make a good adaptation in miniseries format.
Part of the problem I think was simply casting a known Hollywood quantity with Chalamet (largely due to a campaign in support of his casting) rather than seeking out the right person for the role at closer to the right age.
The other problem was changing the story to try and make the Atreides family more relatable to the average person.
The problem with that change is that the Atreides are royalty and would not act or think as most of their subjects would.
"Dune" is like "Lord of the Rings” if Frodo gave into the darkness, killed Sauron, took over as dark lord and set the army of men to genocide anyone who opposed his rule. And Sam helps him out of love.
You gotta learn how to spell genocide.
@@mkultra2456
Fixed it, thanks.
Not even close. Its about high and mighty thinking they can do better, and failing over and over again. Leto, going to Arrakis, knowing full well it is a setup, but thinking he can overcome the odds since he's better than the Harkonnen. Kynes, dying in the middle of the desert while having hallucinations of his father lecturing him on how they would shape the planet into whatever they want to. Harkonnen, retaking Dune and thinking about replacing the Emperor with one of their own, only to be slaughtered by the victims of their crimes instead. Bene Gesserit, thinking they can breed a superhuman who would lead humanity into a better future only to have their plans scrambled by one of their own (Jessica), and get Paul, who sees the "better future" they've unwittingly created, and tries - and fails - to avoid it.
“No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero” - its the whole Herbert's shtick.
While I agree there's a strong element of 'be careful what you wish for' in Dune, I disagree wholly that either Paul or his son are 'evil' or 'dark'... or even failures at all. The trap in which they are caught, however, is one that is noted in many other stories going all the way back to the Sword of Damocles. It seems like they have vast gifts and powers which would allow them to overcome any obstacle, but those powers come with their own awareness and limitations which end up forcing their choices in ways other people cannot imagine. They alone can see how humanity could be consumed by dissension and war and reduced to nothing, and so averting that end becomes their primary goal - and one they achieve, albeit after centuries. I am reminded of a thought question in the beginning of Plato's 'Republic' where he considers if a good man would remain good purely for the sake of goodness even if it cost him everything he had, his friends, and his reputation. This is essentially what happens to our protagonists, where they are forced at times to be taken for brutal tyrants and give up their loves and their lives one after another as they literally save all of humanity.
@@HerculesBallsInc
I don't think Paul's son is evil. I think Leto II is actually a genuine hero. Leto II sacrfices himself, endures 1000's of years of pain and misery all to clean up a mess that he didn't create and save humanity. He's also an "anti-Paul" in the sense that he's not charsimatic but still is a competant and loving leader.
At first I used to think that Paul was more along what you said...but I re-read the series and even the first book he is manipulative, cynical, power hungry, cowardly (given that he knows the danger of the path that he is forcing onto humanity and does it anyway), He also, sets his army on a path of genocide to consolodate his own power, he lies as well.
And then by the second book he's abusive, more genocidal, more power hungry and more of a coward.
As a very big fan of the books, I thought that all the 'little' changes V made each showed how little he understood at all what was going on in the books. You can't just turn Jessica into a weepy mother - it defies the very nature of the Bene Gesserit. You can't just turn Liet Kynes into a black woman - it defies the entire patriarchal structure of the Fremen which isn't at all arbitrary but based on necessary adaptations to warrior culture. You can't just make Paul into a lovesick teenager who sometimes has funky dreams - he has lifelong training in three wholly different disciplines making him a human computer, in perfect control of his body, and a top-notch warrior and strategist before the movie even starts. Nor can you really just gloss over the politics and religion because the story is soaked to the gills with it. It's no accident that Paul is seen as the messiah - those prophesies were specifically planted long ago and specifically to be taken advantage of later. In the end, I felt that the adaptation had as little to do with actual 'Dune' as it did with 'Ishtar', 'Casablanca', or 'Star Wars'.
Well said...
never fully read the book, just watched the previous adaptations, so would say I didn't think the movie was bad, but it was apparently confusing enough that the person I watched it with, who had never heard of this series before, had no idea what was going on. Personally could see how much they skimmed over things, and from watching the previous adaptations knew the Harkonnen duke wasn't just some one big scheme evil guy but one who had plots within plots all the time.
A reason i dont listen to the positive reviews. All after 2017 is the same crap for me. A bunch of POC, Female , Feminists, LGBTQPA++ jump around on the screen and are the bestest ever.
But I enjoy all the Reviews like this one.
As someone who never even finished the Dune novel (i... just cannot enjoy the prose), the micharacterisation of Jessica *really* confused me. How does that even happen?? That he would portray her as almost the opposite of what she should be?
This reminds me of the time they changed Yagami Light in the Netflix Death Note adaptation just to make him more 'relatable'. I can bet the thought process was 'the audience will empathise with a concerned mother', never considering how it breaks the story.
Changes like these really baffle me. First of all, the adaptation only happens because the original worked, so wy change it. Secondly they often break story or world logic. Thirdly, likely a massive part of the appeal of many acclaimed stories is that it is full of characters who do not fit the usual hollywood 'relatable' box. People actually want to see atypical people.
@@mr.s2005 I also never read the book and found the movie very simplified, which Tosspot notes when there's a general lack of intrigue i.e. the reason why the story works in the first place. Take that meeting between Duke Atreides and Stilgar (I had to look him up). That negotiation, aside from being in a darkly lit conference room, was very fast and had very little negotiation going on in it. It seemed like it should have been a haggling scene where both parties should be trying to get the most out of the agreement as they can. Instead, it's something like "We still need the spice, but we'll leave your villages alone."
It was a bizarrely boring movie to watch that isn't nearly as smart as it thinks it is despite the arthouse presentation.
This movie completely leaves out the Orange Bible, the war against thinking machines, Sapho juice and the Mentats who take it to act as human computers! That's a solid half the fuckin' story!!!
So great to see another review from you, Professor. In terms of adaptations, I think Dune is much like Berserk. It's too rich, heavy, weird, and beautiful to translate faithfully. These stories were destined to remain on pages.
I disagree.
The potential is there - the problem is studio interference.
This entire film feels wantonly gutted of story or character definition to the point that almost all characters but Paul and his mother could be merged into other characters without noticeably changing the story because they don't actually stand out as distinct enough.
I think the reason this film was as well received as it was is because it wasn't offensively bad and just competent. Unfortunately, being 'just competent' makes for a bland watch which leaves no desire to return. There's a reason all the Dune media uses the Lynch ascetic
I think this was one of the greatest films ever made. I do love this critique though, especially the reference to Viper Higgins and the Zendaya/Weinstein thing.
Or maybe people just have different tastes and opinions to yours.
I'm old enough to remember the first one(which was excruciating, I.M.O.), and the Sci-fi series(which I liked ), so competent was fine with me. Game of Thrones spoiled me for character development, so I went in with realistic expectations, and will watch the next one.
Dune TV show was better despite the lower budget. Actually focused a bit on the underlying conspiracy plot.
AcTuAlLy
@Bionick Toa I wish this was a 3 hour movie. It's only 2 and a half. It could have been a 3 hour movie but Denis cut out a bunch of character development scenes.
For of all of it's short commings, the TV series is still the most faithful adaptation so far and the better one becuase it's done.
@@genmaicha.lapsang Despite the hilarious costumes I liked the TV series. Also Chani... baby got back.
Before seeing this movie in theatre i had never heard of Dune. Leaving the theatre after the movie ended, I still had no fucking idea what Dune was. I had pretty much no idea what was happening on screen at any given moment.
F*ck sake Prof. where have you been, I didn't know how much I missed you till you came back. The critical drinker kept me going but why settle for silver when you can go for gold. Don't ever stop.
Aaaawww thanks
"Death by scrotum"
The joke that cannot be unseen
Also... dj assault was the icing on the cake ❤️
All hail the blessed pipe man 🙌
YES!! Professor Tosspot is back! You’ve made my day, sir. Your reviews are typically more entertaining than the films they review. UA-cam needs more Tosspot!
DUNC that is still making me laugh my ass off!!
Love your videos!
"He puts his hand in an old lady's box", "HEE-HEE". That part of the vid always has me smiling, and then laughing uncontrollably.
The miniseries (well the first one at least) was actually pretty good I thought. It’s my favorite depiction of Baron Harkonnen and they have him end his scenes with a monologue in iambic pentameter so it’s got this great Shakespearean vibe to it.
The miniseries was good for sticking closer to the books, despite the low budget. The costumes were ridiculous, however.
Also, Ian McNeice as the Baron was fantastic.
Stellan Skarsgard reminded me more of a poor man's Colonal Kurze, then the scheming, degenerate Baron Harkonnen from the book.
@@NefariousKoel some were weird yeah, they didn’t bother me a whole lot and I liked the Sardaukar/Harkonnen troop outfits and a few others, but regardless at least they went for something that was gonna catch the eye. Raise an eyebrow as well, but those outfits certainly caught the attention.
@@doublep1980 yknow if he’d been given something better to work with I’ve no doubt - well speaks for itself really - we’d have gotten a better Baron than Mr. Floaty two liners.
@@schaddenkorp6977 If you can forgive Toto rock music and some occasion low res blocky graphics, ...well...i always found magic in this film. I would say a Jungian mythological vibe. Hero archetype and all that good stuff. Paul meeting his big love/anima/feminine energy. Love it.
I'm glad you underpinned your bulldog mayonnaise joke at the end. There's alot of good movie UA-camrs out there, but you're by far the funniest.
Hope everything is going well professor, can't wait to hear from you again!
Thanks friend. Just getting back on my feet.
@@VoxisProductions Been following you since 7k, glad to hear from ya!
04:10 rare to see a fellow connoisseur of independant literature,
that still dares to be entertaining with unpleasant historical matters
As someone who has also read Dune, I think if the book was successfully adapted into anything, it'd be an anime. The book is intended for young adults, so an anime would hit the target audience perfectly. The cartoon medium also assists in the suspension of disbelief, so all of the fantastical (and sometimes downright goofy) bits of the book could be portrayed much more naturally.
Agree! And you could have a lot of inner monologues without them seeming out of place as it would in live action
While I never thought to myself "I'd love to see that as a movie" while reading a book, "I'd love to see that as an anime" came to my mind quite often.
It wasn't intended for young adults. It was mainstream science fiction with commentary on contemporaneous issues.... like psychotropics.
Uh God please..don't turn dune into a anime
@@IanMcGarrett Maybe "young" isn't that young... but the protagonist is a mid- to late-teen, making that group seem like the target.
“Like a bulldog having just eaten mayonnaise”
Nearly choked on my drink hearing that
I nearly choked on my food at the end of the video.
Btw, Professor you forgot that they (Denny and Roth, may their names be forever blackened by this atrocity to writing) cut the plotline that leads to the climax. Speaking of Roth (cursed be his line), he confessed that he himself hated the novel because "it was too populous," so again someone hired because he hated the job
Caladan looked amazing. The first hour of this film is beautiful- even if the script is dead-set on making sure no one ever addresses the Duke Leto by his name, they entirely skip informing the audience of Yueh's betrayal (and by extension skip Yueh's short character arc, which makes his betrayal seem like a total plot contrivance) and they turn House Harkonnen into a single-dimension saturday morning cartoon villain, and they wasted 9 minutes filming Chani for a perfume commercial rather than spending that 9 minutes on characterization, motivation, or making us give a shit about anyone or anything.
If Arrakis looks like flat grey-scale garbage, if Arrakeen looks like the 3D modellers forgot to do anything beyond the initial euclidean geometry, if the script is intentionally tight and emotionless, and if characters that persist throughout the story aren't established and made familiar to the audience that is supposed to watch the sequels- what, in this film, should anyone precisely give a shit about?
I feel like we didn't see the same film.
Mandela effect?
I'm in the better universe for once.
Channiel No. 5
And it's over a half hour long. I have so missed you, Professor. Thank you so much for all your hard work abd dedication for us.
Fun fact. The original dune in ms DOS based on the original movie spawned the beginnings of real time strategy games like command and conquer which brought us cameos from the likes of Tim curry and more recently, Gemma Atkinson. Who makes for an exhilarating wank.
It's not that straight forward a hero's journey story. Paul is the protagonist, but hero is pushing it a bit. He knows better then anyone the horrible future that not even he can avoid, and the bloodshed that inevitably happens once he accepts the mantle of Muad-dib. His story is one part revenge story and a kind of morality tale on the dangers of following charismatic individuals.
Villeneuve glosses over a lot of it with making not only Paul but many of the characters more melodramatic then necessary and including comedy awkwardly in scenes that aren't meant to be humorous, the gift of water scene being a particular offender. Also Zendaya is kind of bad, for what little she appears as Chani.
I will give the film this they did try to portray Duke Leito Atreides as a good father who cares about his son. Which while in normal times would just be the norm in "modern" Hollywood it is worth giving at least a modicum of praise to.
That’s not how punctuation and sentences work. I think I know what you’re trying to say however.
Despite the cringy fight choreography, Paul's vision in the tent and his reaction to the horrible revelation of the jihad which he cannot avoid is probably the only emotionally effective scene in the film.
I thought Paul yelling about what the audience was seeing in the vision was a bit hackey.
Took your advice and read the book. I'm very impressed with how well it was written, easily jumped to being my fav piece of sci-fi. As someone who loves Lord of the Rings, I'd say that Dune is the sci-fi version of that level of passion, writing, world building, and characterization. Wish it got a worthy adaptation like LoTR did.
Dune did for Sci-Fi what Lord of the Rings did for Fantasy. It deserves MUCH better treatment and greater respect, it's basically modern epic mythic text that inspires us all.
On that note, I always wondered how Lord of the Ring got the more or less respectable movie adaptation but Dune has yet to get to the same treatment and only has gotten the ones we have now.
@@Dinofan219 sheer dumb luck and the reluctance of the IP holder to sell the rights until he had too in order to settle a tax bill.
Ah, yes, Dune's great moral lessons that inspire us all; scheme and manipulate your way into pseudo-godhood that is afforded to those blessed with racial superiority and purity.
Other people are assets for you to use, and you should always make decisions on behalf of others. They wouldn't understand anyway.
@@Dinofan219 tolkiens stories are alot easier to translate it's still hard but his writing translated alot easier to film due to the lack of constant politicking
GLORY TO THE INTERNET. THE PROFESSOR IS BACK! Praise be to you, your surly and loveable SOB.
Great video, and glad to hear you well! I watched this movie rooting for the worms the whole time. They were just as relatable as the characters! Also, thanks again for your work on Two Towers! Keep well!
I couldn't help thinking of Tremors...
You're missed, Prof.
Trailer just dropped, looking forward to Voxis Productions review of DUNC part 2
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That’s how a lot of actresses get their start LOL 😂
The casting couch is no joke.
As someone who has not read the books. On it's own, I really enjoyed it. Idk it's accurate or not, or whether book fans liked it or not. But as a movie, it was a absolute joy to watch. The sound design alone was just amazing
Watch the one from the 80s it is much better
@@berettaroadchronicles9637
Hard disagree. The 80’s one has charm but is worse than even the scfi mini-series.
@@genmaicha.lapsang then we have differing opinions. No problem.
@@berettaroadchronicles9637 I find the 80's film quite magical. Emotionally it is far more multi-layered than the recent drab effort. The typecasting was spot on. Some vivid dramatic acting. Everyone was larger than life. I guess in places it seems dated eg the shonky FX during the fights with those energy shields...a bit blocky. And some of the music could have been better (Toto). But if you cast aside negative judgment and try to watch with the eyes of a child, I get a Jungian mythological vibe from Lynch's vision.
@@genmaicha.lapsang Watch SpiceDiver's 4K fan edit of the 1984 movie. It's waaaaaaaay better than the theatrical release.
I came back to rewatch this review to calm myself down, after seeing what they are planning for part 2.
I’m glad that there is someone else in this crazy world who shares the same opinion as me and sees through all the BS.
Guess the big dick chads will never get the adaptation they deserve, sad.
Hope you make a review of part 2, I definitely be needing it to cope after the movie is released.
Oh I'm on it.
@@VoxisProductionsNice, looking forward to it :D
@@VoxisProductionsI’m gonna need it, feels like some french guy pissed and shit in my face for nearly 3 hours. And I think he had some asparagus and curry out of spite…
This is possibly your best work yet. Please never stop.
I really enjoyed about how they went out of their way to talk about how only the slow blade kills, and then no one told the fight choreographers so everyone's just hitting each other as hard as they can.
Naw you can see them slowing down for any killing blow. When Duncan slits people's throats you see him wedge the blade firmly into the shield.
I'd say half and half. Half the time we see fast strikes against blue that end with a slow checkmate in red. Like in Gurney's training scene. That was perfection. Or Duncan's first fight with Sardaukar, that too had gorgeous red checkmates after flurries of tactics.
In the large scale battles things were very obscured into black, red and and blue so can't say much of the intricacies of the choreo except they looked gorgeous in the wide shot.
It's really Duncan's last stand which lacks the red checkmate. Yeah, shame. But it's an enormously lengthy scramble, I forgive them on two levels. One it's a 20 man action sequence, that is an environment extremely hostile to supporting intricacies. Two this is Duncan fuckin Idaho and Sardaukar. Let's say his skill should be such that his slowing hand is imperceptible to 24 frames per second. He probably does it at the last fraction of a billionth of a second.
@@mkultra2456 That's literally the only time they do that. Every other strike is at normal speed.
@@BoneistJ Ease off the word literally. It's bad for our health lol. Now read Pseudonymous Being's comment. He knows best.
The glorious return of Smacktalk. Professor Tosspot well done dear sir. I definitely needed this.
Hope you are staying in good health.
I felt bored and sleepy throughout Dune part 1 while in contracts to most prominent UA-camrs praising this movie highly.
Now part 2 has been released. Definitely not going to pay to watch it at cinema, rather would enjoy the movie reviews, such as yours.
I almost feel guilty for having liked this so much. Thank you for saying everything I think about the movie. And thanks for giving me a fit of the giggles that started around "put his hand in an old lady's box" and didn't stop until the end.
Yeah, it was an awfully drab, monochrome and sullen film lacking color and detail in most shots. Sometimes visually impressive and with great atmospheric moments inbetween though. Just not nearly often enough. It felt barebones, like too many important scenes were cut, especially those fleshing out the various main characters. And Zendaya really degrades any film she's in. Most implausible girlfriend/love interest actress ever.
Two thumbs up for that Sardaukar ending though professor! Your musical taste remains exquisite!
The ending.......I had tears, literal tears. So freaking funny.
Thank you Professor!!
I rewatched Dunc yesterday, before part 2 drops in the cinemas. What a boring mess. Seriously, this review is more entertaining than the whole movie. Frenchie is like Cameron, but without any imagination. Dunc looks more like high budget minimalist play, than a real movie.
7:01-7:02 nice.....
The 1984 film was at least fun to watch. The re-make is boring trash.
Absolutely fantastic video!. This movie became a litmus test for me, in the sense that I helped me weed out the good UA-cam movie reviewers from the mediocre ones. Here's the final report: you're the only one that I can trust. And the fact that the review is presented in such original and comical way? the icing on the cake
Very good piece, Prof. Controversial opinion: I feel that the 80s version, directed by David Lynch, while generally accepted to be a cinematic disaster, is actually still a *better* film than the Villeneuve remake. Acting, dialogue and style, still outclass the 2021 version.
You gotta check out Spice Diver's Fan Edit for David Lynch's movie. It's on UA-cam and it's in 4K.
Honestly the Lynch film was a great movie that just had some cringe scenes and moments which can be excused by the limitations of the budget and technology of the era. I'd say the new version is immeasurably worse because with all the advantages of modern CGI and an all star cast they made a less impactful and interesting film.
100% It's not even close.
@@MB-ms3ud Are you sure you're being honest?
Casting was definitely better. Prochnow as Leto, Von Sydow as Kynes, and Stewart as Gurney-man, not to mention Sting at the height of his career. Watching Po-faced Dameron mangle the Red Duke was painful.
You never fail to entertain. Thank you for half an hour of sheer enjoyment. I got slaughtered on IMDB for criticising this film when it was released lol. Nice to hear someone else disliking the Zimmer soundtrack that some hail as a masterpiece?!?!
Zimmer soundtrack: "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH HHHHAAAAAYEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH" crazy desert lady.
But then there are some pretty cool moments, like when the ships surface from the ocean, that song was badass. The songs played during the opening scenes where cool too.
Like the rest of the movie, it was fine. It was.
But do you remember a thing about the score after you left the theater?
The Lynch version I own the record of, however.
This was awesome! I love the voice of the viper saying are "you fing serious!" I laughed so hard throughout this whole thing. I've missed you professor tosspot. You absolute legend.
When the boredom is gone, only Professor Tosspot will remain.
Always glad to see a project from you again, Blessed Pipe Man!
As a non-reader of Dune, I could only judge the movie for what it was, without references or comparisons. I thought there was semi-regular grand spectacle and two-ish memorable performances, shrouded by an overbearing soundtrack, stale personalities and sci-fi concepts that felt like paltry blueprints of the full potential of a space opera. Wasn't so much a problem of my being lost, just that I found it to be like proactively unengaging, in just about every choice it makes with world-building and characterization. The opening exposition is unearned, because Paul shouldn't be learning all this just now; it was clearly the cheapest way to get the important stuff across to the audience. The bad guys are obvious but not in a hammy, fun way like Palpatine. I hated how lacking the Harkonnen's forces seemed when Paul and his mom have to escape for the third act to take place. The sand-walk/rules on how to avoid worm detection are scuffed (maybe it's better in the book). The man that Paul is told will be like the most significant person he'll ever meet/he will need to follow... he just kills him in their first scene? But it's not treated by the movie or by Paul as a big uh-oh moment (is this another book thing that will make sense later?) The whole "Fremen aren't actually savages" thing is just a tired trope; I guess it was semi-original when the book came out, but by *now* it's been done a million times, and I don't know why anyone's dying to read/watch such a paint-by-numbers journey anymore.
I found it interesting to learn from this video that movie-Paul had a love interest, a personal foil *and* a (fan-favorite, apparently?) round-table political discussion, all from the book, taken away from him. Any of those things might've given me more of a reason to care about him. Mostly, I got that he's curious, but kind of stuffy... he gets visions. .
I forgot movie-Kynes is referred to as "eccentric", what a laugh. I wanted to know more about her, but we got next to nothing before her sacrifice. She was a bridge into Fremen culture, and they barely gave her time to interact with any of the main cast. She was like a detached tour guide.
Gurney is totally a secret bad guy, right? Or he will be one? He won't get behind Paul being buddies with the Fremen. They'll have a sword rematch. etc.
"Wasn't so much a problem of my being lost, just that I found it to be like proactively unengaging, in just about every choice it makes with world-building and characterization"
I felt the same - even to the point of comparing it to the MCU and how those films pale in story/character richness compared to the comics that many of the films are based on.
It's like.... they picked these IPs to adapt because of their name and the fan culture around them that generates hype, but then they decided to sanitise everything that made them stand out in the first place as different.
Thor Ragnarok was an extreme example that could easily have been a truly epic story, but was instead rendered into a purile comedy mixed with a half baked Hulk film.
"I forgot movie-Kynes is referred to as "eccentric", what a laugh. I wanted to know more about her, but we got next to nothing before her sacrifice. She was a bridge into Fremen culture, and they barely gave her time to interact with any of the main cast. She was like a detached tour guide."
100% - made worse by the fact that they gender switched the character without any actual character definition or development, so it comes across as a laughably token thing to point out to feminists or whatever Hollywood producers think will boost a films female audience...... as if the massive female character presence already in the story wasn't enough to sate such uninterested (and likely non paying) audience members.
@@mnomadvfx I thought maybe I was a little jaded going into this movie, and kind of harsh in my immediate impressions. But this much time later, I just haven't gotten any more out of it when reflecting on the choices made for the story, and I have TRIED to engage with/understand praise for it.
I agree with you not wholly but still broadly about how the MCU has adapted stories, and I definitely feel that Thor Ragnarok particularly has a better reputation than it earns.
Great to spend some time watching your work again. Thank you for the fun!
I like the 1980,s version.
He didn't say the casting was s--t. Not hypocritical. Agreed with the rest. And thank you, I now have an explanation for Zendaya.
The characterization of Jessica in this movie is a let down. Even at her worst in the Lynch version she was a strong character. In this one she looks like she is ready to crumble at any moment.
I only noticed her crumbling during the Gom Jabbar scene. Her emotional stress seemed warranted due to the potential of her son dying.
I've lost a friend a day before, thank you for this
I'm sorry to hear that. A loved one of mine tried to kill them self while this video was being made. Misery likes company am I right?
@@VoxisProductions he was also on efap, sadly he lost battle with cancer
Finally someone with the honesty and keen insight to not fool themselves into mindlessly agreeing with the hype surrounding this underwhelming adaptation of the greatest novel fantasy and philosophy novel of the last century.
Thank you. My lady and I couldn't finish watching this clunky snooze fest... finally someone drops the hammer on this polished turd with grace and style.
Correct. I cannot understand the positive reviews of some of my favorite antiwoke channels on YT.
I have seen the cover and Mormoa and the soyboy and already knew all I need to know.
You and your wife must have shit taste and poor attention spans, which is all I can conclude from empty critique like 'clunky snooze fest'. Honestly, plebs these days.
Nice to see the other David's Dune adaptation get some recognition. It's how I was first introduced to the world of Dune.
Its always good to hear from you Professor Tosspot, even if its not in a video or livestream its always good to know you're still alive and well!
Is there anything better then being a bit down then watching the Professor vid and being picked up agin. Fantastic vid 👏
Bless you 🙂
Every time I try starting a movie on Netflix, I get bored 15 minutes in and end up re-watching some Professor Tosspot.
Love your work and editing is great also. Voice-over is a great treat to listen to as well. Cheers from USA. COMEDY GOLD REVIEWS
It's one of those things where if it had everything it needed to, the first part would be 8+ hours long.
Maybe Dune would be better as a show, but I think the movie did achieve what it set out to do, because if we got the Dune exactly how it is in the book, no one would've produced it with a high budget in mind.
I enjoy Villanueve's style a lot and I think if that's not your cup of tea, you wouldn't like DUNC, so I understand your opinion.
He just took basic ideas of Dune, the made a medieval future with a bunch of really subtle occult Egyptian/Babylonian/Phoenician symbolism
Can’t say I agree with your hypothesis BUT it’s always nice to see you and hear your voice! Don’t be a stranger!
I hate it when a guy teases me with glimpses of his worm.
Made my day that the prof is back! Keep up the good work lad 👍
this video so new you can still hear parts where the professor forgot to edit out andys screams