A unique art project, but a very boring one compared to what was before.
The troop antigravity implementation is an improvement.
But all that was as gone as quick as it came.
And its all brown and desaturated. Everyones armor looks almost the same.
Half the movie is just elvish and subtitles. Even Rings of Power knew how dumb this is.
The shields are literal story based plot armor.
Nobody mentioned or shown shields going nuclear from lasers. Someone gave freemen heavy laser cannons they could safely nuke ornithopters from miles away IF THEY TRIED.
There are way too many shield penetrating attacks. If a grenade gets caught between layers, it resonates through. In the final battle a guided rocket takes out one ornithoper no problem. In Dune 2021 a battleship tried blowing up Dunkins ornithopter with a laser.
The freemen used to be hit and run master ambushers. Here they are dumb enough to fight all at once out in the open under a gunship. Their handguns are never to be seen again. Snipers only used ONCE at the start of the film.
No Geiger. No Jodorowsky. No oversaturation, wacky outfits, or over the top acting. No Harconen home world. No navigators. No pugs. No iX, Tailaxu, Ordos, and even a wiff of any of the other great houses.
Just NASA spacesuits for high fashion.
Harkonen are just a skinhead rally in black and white. They have cool creature designs and desert uniforms, but they are set dressing for the sake of weirdness.
The flat pyramid architecture of Atradis base last film was neet, but the final battle zone is just a ball over a cone.
Christopher Walkin did ok for the role. But he is no The Foundation grand powerhouse in blue emperor trio. Nor is he a strategist Dune Emperor clad in black and gold from 1984. Even the 2000s TV series Emperor wore white extravagant gold, white and purple. Cristopher Walkin is just chrome.
The Harkonen badguy trio all died unclimacticaly.
The emperor just gets stabbed. His assassin little girl was never born. He never flew away like a balloon into a sandworms mouth. Just stabbed in the neck having fallen out of his life support medical bed.
The final duel teased at breaking free of fate, and letting Harkonen win. Instead it ends as always.
And it could have been avoided if they used a full ball for their global command, instead of a halfsphere.
At least it wont be as pretentious like Rebel Moon 2 will be... But I will not be rewatching ether of these films.
The troop antigravity implementation is an improvement.
But all that was as gone as quick as it came.
And its all brown and desaturated. Everyones armor looks almost the same.
Half the movie is just elvish and subtitles. Even Rings of Power knew how dumb this is.
The shields are literal story based plot armor.
Nobody mentioned or shown shields going nuclear from lasers. Someone gave freemen heavy laser cannons they could safely nuke ornithopters from miles away IF THEY TRIED.
There are way too many shield penetrating attacks. If a grenade gets caught between layers, it resonates through. In the final battle a guided rocket takes out one ornithoper no problem. In Dune 2021 a battleship tried blowing up Dunkins ornithopter with a laser.
The freemen used to be hit and run master ambushers. Here they are dumb enough to fight all at once out in the open under a gunship. Their handguns are never to be seen again. Snipers only used ONCE at the start of the film.
No Geiger. No Jodorowsky. No oversaturation, wacky outfits, or over the top acting. No Harconen home world. No navigators. No pugs. No iX, Tailaxu, Ordos, and even a wiff of any of the other great houses.
Just NASA spacesuits for high fashion.
Harkonen are just a skinhead rally in black and white. They have cool creature designs and desert uniforms, but they are set dressing for the sake of weirdness.
The flat pyramid architecture of Atradis base last film was neet, but the final battle zone is just a ball over a cone.
Christopher Walkin did ok for the role. But he is no The Foundation grand powerhouse in blue emperor trio. Nor is he a strategist Dune Emperor clad in black and gold from 1984. Even the 2000s TV series Emperor wore white extravagant gold, white and purple. Cristopher Walkin is just chrome.
The Harkonen badguy trio all died unclimacticaly.
The emperor just gets stabbed. His assassin little girl was never born. He never flew away like a balloon into a sandworms mouth. Just stabbed in the neck having fallen out of his life support medical bed.
The final duel teased at breaking free of fate, and letting Harkonen win. Instead it ends as always.
And it could have been avoided if they used a full ball for their global command, instead of a halfsphere.
At least it wont be as pretentious like Rebel Moon 2 will be... But I will not be rewatching ether of these films.