Nice. We don't have any real imax theaters in Auckland. Just some larger screens with names like vmax and titan xc.so, my brother is going to be my ride since he's going to the imax showings tomorrow, which means I get to see it in imax
Some books, you either do a half ass attempt and the fans hate you for it, other times you you lean too much into the book and have to split it, and you get hate for it.
And in this case "Dune" is a rather expansive book, with a great deal of detail. "The Hobbit" was really more of a novella, especially by comparison, and they padded the movies' run time with a load of extra drek.
They would have me through "Dune Messiah." Not "Children of Dune." T'was a silly book.
I'd still watch...
While I agree that some of PJ’s additions were awful (like the giant worm drills during the Battle of the Five Armies), a decent amount of it was taken from the LotR (both the main story and the appendices). I enjoyed getting to see that more fleshed out version of the Hobbit with its clearer ties to LotR.
Except they seem to have skipped a lot of that detail in favor of long awkward pauses and lengthy shots of submerged spaceships rising out of the water for no explicable reason and so on. I think the movie would’ve been better with more character development, especially between the likes of Paul and Duncan. And they never let Gurney be the minstrel he’s meant to be! Nor did they bother to explain the mentats.
My understanding is that the third film would cover Dune Messiah, which has never been filmed before. I’m curious to see how they’d do it, since it turns Paul into more of an anti-hero.
I believe the first book is covered by the first two films.
