Tarkovsky Gordon-Levittโs review published on Letterboxd:
everything here seems like an easy fix with a little bit of ivermectin. ๐ชฑ
this is the missing live-action segment from 1981โs heavy metal.
god, this movie needed a ridiculously bad ass metal soundtrack, can someone recut this movie with some black sabbath and ac/dc?
villanueveโs direction is an acedemic course in minimalism and negative space. itโs truly wondrous to behold. this is cinema.
duneโs biggest fault can really only be traced back to its original source materialโs age, which is that our lead heroโs journey might feel a little too familiar now 56 years after frank herbertโs science fiction epic was written. many have borrowed from dune since then, but this will be the definitive version of this particular story. a story that i admittedly find silly on a macro level. alas, it doesnโt matter. this is just a juicy exercise in silver screen mood and atmosphere and i sucked the bone marrow out of it.ย
deakins (by way of fraser) power.
itโs a class act. with style for days. in a world where marvel movies feel like the only sci-fi epics left and altogether stale, watching dune just made me feel like i was in a sleepy peyote daze with bursts of action here and there. perhaps it couldโve had more character to it, a bit wilder and grotesque like david lynchโs previous adaptation, but thatโs simply not the types of films that villanueve makes. the oneโs he does make iโm very down for.ย
little lord fauntleroy plays the part of a privileged boy held up as the new savior of civilization like heโs been living the part for 25 years now. i dig what heโs bringing to the role of paul atreides.ย
and fraserโs cinematography = ๐จ๐ปโ๐ณ ๐ย
i donโt know why warner bros didnโt already make these two parts back to back.
was a bit nervous that i might actually be disappointed by this film considering iโm not a dune nerd and iโve been pretty excited to see villanueve get out of sci-fi for a bit and do something else. but hey, i canโt complain about this minimalist marie kondo space saga.
also: this movie needed more semi-nude sting. missed opportunity. bad french canadian, bad!
final question: show of hands of how many of you wanted to sit in oscar isaacโs lap when we was slouching in that chair?
