pronuke

This movie is garbage. Dune is an epic science fiction novel. This movie completely fails to do the novel justice. Hard to believe it's worse than part one. The 1984 movie is so much better. Again I really have to point out the special effects in 1984 were as good and in some cases better than either of these movies. Not only that but the shameless greed mongers had to change the ending to set up a third movie. So many great stories begging to be made into movies and when one is remade it's twice as long and worse than a movie made forty years ago? How does that happen? Anyone that actually read the book would despise what was done to this story.

What a pathetic excuse for a movie. Boring with nothing new. Darkness does not equal suspense. Using darkness to mask bad effects is a common method used to mask crappy effects. This movie employs that method throughout. Jump scares do not make a good plot. There's no origin or explanation of the monster. Is it really that hard to come up with something original. Acting is sub par. Not sure if the actors are sub par or if the direction is lacking. The result is poor. The movie is disjointed. It does not flow. Nothing really happens for the first half of the film. It's just so generic. A TV movie on the big screen. Don't bother with this one. It's a waste of time and money.

I can't really say why I liked this movie. I believe it's destined to be cult classic. Over the top violence and gore but not to the 'Kill Bill' stupid level. More clichés than I ever remember seeing in any movie. No surprises everything is telegraphed. I guess it was just fun. Kind of a 'Bad Santa', 'Die Hard', 'Conan/Thor', mash up with an obvious 'Home Alone' scene thrown in. Acting was OK, directing and camera work same. Nothing to really set it apart but as a whole it works. Honestly this lands in the same category as 'Team America World police' and to a lesser extent 'Mars Attacks'. You could ask yourself who the heck thinks of this but I really can't think of one original scene in the entire movie. Maybe it's the fact that so many ideas from so many different movies can be thrown together into a film that actually works. Whatever the reason this movie works for me. This could become a Christmas tradition.