The casting for this movie is a disaster in general. Zendaya can’t act for shit unless she’s playing a deeply sarcastic character who rolls their eyes every 40 seconds. She was astonishingly bad in Dune.
She’s the only character I completely disliked the casting for. She is supposed to be strong, threatening, and brilliant. In the first movie she sort of is, but she is a wimpy gossip in the second movie. If I remember correctly Paul is afraid of her through the first book (2 movies), that barely translated into the movies.
Okay so cut me some slack because it’s been a few years since I read it (despite it being my favorite book) but it seemed like she was tougher and more independent in the movie than what I remember from the book
Yeah that sounds right to me as well. At least if we’re talking about the first book, she barely had a personality at all. Hell, I liked the book enough to read it multiple times, but sometimes I don’t know how Herbert wrote 400 pages and only managed to flesh out like 5 characters.
I just hate it when there is a hype around an actor so they just get cast in everything. I guess it makes sense financially. Art under capitalism and all that.
I just can’t help but automatically dislike those hyped actors. Zendaya and Chalamet are on top of that list. The stole Dune from me.
I think they wrote the new dune well enough for their characters to work as basically cardboard cutouts. But Austin Butler stole the whole show with his performance. I’m hoping they cast better for children of.
I found Dune to be, in general, quite bad because all the characters acted like modern westerners who had been picked up and dropped into the Dune universe. This is supposed to be a story about the 4D chess of a noble family bred to engage in political intrigue, and their interactions with a hyper-stoic, highly traditional and heirarchical native population. And yet everyone acts like they are hanging out at a BBQ in a Chicago suburb.
There are so many other great picks though. It’s an ensemble story with several arcs where few characters actually stick around for the entire run. If you don’t like an actor, there’s like a 90% chance they won’t be a factor for very long, especially Zendaya who’s likely one of the many characters they meet along the way.
The casting for this movie is a disaster in general. Zendaya can’t act for shit unless she’s playing a deeply sarcastic character who rolls their eyes every 40 seconds. She was astonishingly bad in Dune.
I now am a believer in the many worlds hypothesis. Clearly we have seen very different movies.
I loved her in Dune. She made the character very believable.
She’s the only character I completely disliked the casting for. She is supposed to be strong, threatening, and brilliant. In the first movie she sort of is, but she is a wimpy gossip in the second movie. If I remember correctly Paul is afraid of her through the first book (2 movies), that barely translated into the movies.
Okay so cut me some slack because it’s been a few years since I read it (despite it being my favorite book) but it seemed like she was tougher and more independent in the movie than what I remember from the book
Yeah that sounds right to me as well. At least if we’re talking about the first book, she barely had a personality at all. Hell, I liked the book enough to read it multiple times, but sometimes I don’t know how Herbert wrote 400 pages and only managed to flesh out like 5 characters.
Fair enough. The casting of those movies made them hard for me to enjoy. Chalamet is almost as irritating lol.
We need a gaunt white man! Cillian Murphy isn’t available? Cast Chalamet! They don’t need to be talented for this role anyways.
…could’ve cast elliot page…
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The words you used perfectly describe David Dastalmachian.
I knew about Pongo, Perdita, Lucky and a couple others but how do you manage to keep track of 101 of them?
lol
I just hate it when there is a hype around an actor so they just get cast in everything. I guess it makes sense financially. Art under capitalism and all that.
I just can’t help but automatically dislike those hyped actors. Zendaya and Chalamet are on top of that list. The stole Dune from me.
I think they wrote the new dune well enough for their characters to work as basically cardboard cutouts. But Austin Butler stole the whole show with his performance. I’m hoping they cast better for children of.
19 years of age difference, I don’t think there are that many roles where you could substitute them
I found Dune to be, in general, quite bad because all the characters acted like modern westerners who had been picked up and dropped into the Dune universe. This is supposed to be a story about the 4D chess of a noble family bred to engage in political intrigue, and their interactions with a hyper-stoic, highly traditional and heirarchical native population. And yet everyone acts like they are hanging out at a BBQ in a Chicago suburb.
She gives Disney Channel Original Movie energy in everything she’s in. Not a good fit for Dune or Odyssey.
There are so many other great picks though. It’s an ensemble story with several arcs where few characters actually stick around for the entire run. If you don’t like an actor, there’s like a 90% chance they won’t be a factor for very long, especially Zendaya who’s likely one of the many characters they meet along the way.