I Just Saw Dune And While I Enjoyed The Ride This Movie Just Doesn't Even Come Close To What I Expected

I just saw Dune and while I enjoyed the ride this movie just doesn't even come close to what I expected from such a highly praised book series. The political scheming was pretty upfront, simple and painfully spelled out to the audience. I could neither feel the invasion looming, nor was I surprised or shocked when it finally happened. A lot of the emotional moments just fell completely flat and the dialogue was for the most part terrible. The characters motivations and emotions were pretty muddied (not in a good way). Instead of a sense of mystery I felt that the movie didn't know how it wanted to portray its own characters.

I think a lot of these problems have to do with pacing, compared to the astonishing amount of events and characters that are introduced to us, there is shockingly little setup or building to any of them. Instead the film is littered with scenes that just feel unnecessary and say nothing or at least not something we didn't already know.

And yes the movie was humorless, but that's fine with me. They should have committed and cut out the scene with Jason Momoa as well. Not a single person in the packed theater laughed at that cheap 'joke'.

Furthermore Dune wasn't that weird, sure it has some unique ideas, gotta love the sandworms, the fremen and the gene besserit. The inherent evils of colonization and fucked up eugenics are unusual, yet very relevant themes. Aside from that nothing we haven't seen before, but I am open to be surprised by the sequels.

There were some things I really enjoyed about the movie. First and foremost it looked beautiful. I don't regret spending 12 bucks to go see it in theater at all. And although it didn't really spark any special passions in my heart it had me on the edge of my seat for a good amount of the runtime. All in all enjoyable, but nothing special with very little rewatch value

reviews that complain about Dune being bleak and humorless make me want to throw myself against a brick wall.

listen.

Dune is not for everybody. there are many people who won't enjoy it, many who will think it's weird and strange, and whatever. and that's fine. there plenty of valid criticisms of the movie out there, but sweetheart, this ain't one of them.

hollywood's obsession with making mass profits off of movies that passively amuse and entertain people has brainwashed most of the movie-going population into thinking that all good sci-fi/action/adventure movies must have comedic overtones, and that humor is the only way to engage with a movie and its characters (looking at you marvel). i laughed maybe TWICE during the entirety of Dune and i was more invested in the characters and the story than i was with the last three star wars movies.

Dune is a political-thriller space opera. it's an EPIC. it's bleak because jihad and exploitation are its central themes. inserting comedy into the film would have been an enormous disservice to the story and its themes.

we finally got a blockbuster movie that's refreshingly innovative and unique and y'all are whining because it doesn't fit your expectations based on years and years of consuming formulaic, action = humor media. i am going to scream.

From the oxford dictionary

"noun: xenophobia

dislike of or prejudice against people from other countries."

Cambridge has a similar definition. I had greek in high school and If I remember correctly xenos translates to stranger. I'm not about to call someone on the internet an idiot but you should have looked that up...

ykw im actually extremely tired of europeans butting in to conversations about race to say 'actually there is racism against white people in europe :/' cuz no there isnt, yall need to cut it out. there is rampant xenophobia in europe, that is true and its a major problem, but the fact is it would be worse if you werent white. its extremely tone deaf of all of you to make the claim that white people experience racism anywhere when we both know damn well being discriminated against for not being from western europe would be worse if you arent white. as a caribbean native i know this because of the way our diaspora in europe is treated (since theyre both foreigners and nonwhite) and the state of territories like martinique (literally european, still experience discrimination). what you experience isnt fucking racism, and its not comparable to the racism europeans of colour face. just because you experience some discrimination doesnt mean you dont benefit from whiteness and you should all shut the fuck up and realise your hands arent as clean as you seem to think.

this post must be reblogged by everyone

Yeah no as someone coming from Europe Easter certainly has pagan roots or at the very least traditions imbedded in it that are pagan. There is so much more to our Easter celebrations than just eggs and a rabbit. We light a huge fire on the saturday before Easter and have a folk fest*. We then roll literal fire wheels through our villages. We cut branches of certain trees and bushes and decorate our house with them. That's not Christian and nobody really bothers acting like it is.

*first documented in 800 ac

Easter customs and pagan origins

Easter is widely believed to have pagan origins. It’s repeated so often that the belief comes more from the repetitions than from any actual evidence. It’s possible that a couple of Easter customs have pagan origins … possible.

Myth #1: Easter is based on a festival of the goddess Eostre.

No. Romans were celebrating Easter 600 years before Eostre came along. We’re not even totally certain that Eostre was a goddess: there’s only one reference to her in the historical record, in 8th century northern England, and it could be a folk etymology.

Myth #2: OK, it’s based on the Germanic goddess Ostara, then?

No. Jacob Grimm invented Ostara in the early 1800s. She’s a conjecture, based on Eostre.

Ostara does appear in mediaeval German sources … as the name for the Christian Easter festival, not a pagan goddess.

Myth #3: Ishtar, maybe?

Nope. Easter only has the East-/Ost- name in English and German. Nearly every language calls it something based on Greek/Latin Pascha or Hebrew Pesach.

Myth #4: Well at least the bunny is pagan.

We don’t know that. The bunny first appears in Germany in the late 1600s. And it could be a variety of critters, not just a bunny.

Germany was thoroughly Christian at the time by the way.

Myth #5: But isn’t the bunny sacred to Eostre?

No. Grimm made that up. Only one reference to Eostre, remember? It’s in Bede, and he doesn’t mention bunnies. The bunny first appears in 1600s Germany, Eostre is in 700s northern England.

Myth #6: Well it’s based on the equinox, and that’s pagan at least.

Not particularly. What do you think might have been the earliest attested Roman equinox festival?

Go on, guess.

It was Easter.

Myth #7: It’s bloody well based on a lunar calendar! It must be pagan!

The ancient Hebrew calendar is pagan?

All calendars were lunar a few decades before Easter came along. If they had really wanted something pagan, they’d have used the Roman calendar or the Alexandrian calendar … which were both solar!

Myth #8: Hot cross buns are pagan.

No they bloody aren’t. They were invented in protestant England in the 1700s. They’ve always been mainly commercial anyway, not a church thing.

Myth #9: But I heard they were ancient Greek?

That myth comes from an 1876 book and even the author thinks it’s a weird idea. He just quoted it from someone who was very, very wrong about how ancient Greek works.

Myth #10: But the Romans made bread that was quartered. Gotcha!

I had a pull-apart bread the other night. I didn’t call it a hot cross bun.

Anyway, Roman pull-apart loaves found at Herculaneum are in eighths, not quarters.

Myth #11: I also heard they were invented in St Albans in the 1300s?

First, that’s Christian.

Second, sorry St Albans, it isn’t true. The story comes from a baker in Wardour St, London, ca 1850. He made it up for an advertising flyer, to make his buns sound cooler.

Myth #12: Easter eggs are pagan!

OK, at last we get to one that’s actually possible! Painted eggs are a really widespread custom and there might be a link.

And it might also be that eggs were an Easter treat because people abstained from them during Lent. We don’t know.

Myth #13: Wikipedia says the eggs come from ancient Mesopotamia.

The ultimate source for every single one of Wikipedia’s citations is a book talking about Christians in 17th century Turkey and Persia. Not ancient Babylonians. Wikipedia is wrong.

Myth #14: Aren’t Easter eggs based on phoenix eggs?

It’s true ancient Christians did like the phoenix as a symbol for Jesus’ resurrection.

But phoenixes didn’t lay eggs, in the myth that was current at the time. The new phoenix supposedly grew in the rotting flesh of the old phoenix.

So is there anything pagan about Easter?

Well, maybe the eggs. Maybe.

And if Bede is right about Eostre, then the name ‘Easter’, in English, and only in English, is pagan. (Personally I doubt it: I suspect it comes from a Germanic word for the season of the equinox. Details here.)

And I won’t touch Jesus’ supposed resurrection. I’ll just say: that’s complicated. Dying-and-rising gods aren’t as common as some people say, and Frazer basically designed the idea of them around Jesus, and Mithras doesn’t die, and Osiris dies but doesn’t have a resurrection, and … well, complicated. (More detailed discussion here.)

Further reading with sources and stuff: Part 1 | Part 2 

Almost all figures in folklore and pagan myths are somewhat morally ambiguous. Guess why? Bc humans are morally ambiguous by nature. This whole good vs. evil, madonna vs. whore bullshit is of uniquely Christian origin.

i love figures in folklore who are morally ambiguous like. their wikipedia page will say like 'they will help lost travellers find their way back to the path also they are sometimes known to drown people and eat their bones.' ok!!!

Sugar…..spice…..and everything nice. These were the ingredients chosen to create the perfect little girl. But Professor Utonium accidentally added an EXTRA INGREDIENT to the concoction…. CHEMICAL X.

The most extreme black/death metal bands with album covers and music videos full of upside down crosses and pentagrams WISH they could offend the Christian status quo as much as a Black gay rapper did with a single clip