• TerranFenrir
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    1 month ago

    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.

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      1 month ago

      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.

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        1 month ago

        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

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          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.

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      1 month ago

      Fair enough. The casting of those movies made them hard for me to enjoy. Chalamet is almost as irritating lol.

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        1 month ago

        We need a gaunt white man! Cillian Murphy isn’t available? Cast Chalamet! They don’t need to be talented for this role anyways.

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          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.

          • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today
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            1 month ago

            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.

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          1 month ago

          19 years of age difference, I don’t think there are that many roles where you could substitute them

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      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.