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MOVIE REVIEW
Slow, Slower, Dune
Everyone was very serious. I was mostly very bored.
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I went into Dune knowing absolutely nothing about the story, the world, or the people in it.
Because a lot of my frustration with this movie comes down to one very simple question. Was I supposed to have attended a briefing seminar before watching this?
The movie opens with Zendaya’s narration.
She talks about what has happened to her people, the cruelty they have faced, and the exploitation of their planet.
And I kept thinking, okay, great, can we actually see some of that?
Show me what spice production looks like, why spice is so valuable, how it made people obscenely rich.
And also, what the hell is spice?
We are shown a red powder that is a hallucinogen that is sacred to the Fremen, but it is also apparently essential to space travel because it allows the imperial people to navigate through space.
Okay, but how?
You can’t just say it and then leave everything else to my imagination, especially for a movie with a run time as ambitious as this. At least make up…
