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Mar 6Liked by Daniel O’Donnell

Great read, Dan, plus a good few chuckles in here too :)

I really want to go back and watch some of Lynch's film, just to remind myself how bad it is.

There's a lot I agree with here. My wife's first comment was that Zimmer had overdone it here and I think I agree. At times the score was too dramatic for no reason. (I do think he nailed it in the first film, though.) Personally, I prefer the first film. This is a huge, epic, spectacle of a film but I felt there were issues with pacing, there were a few lines of questionable dialogue, and the alterations from the book's major plot points seemed a bit bizarre.

I still found it really impressive and visually stunning, but it felt like it had the Hollywood action taint rather than the more political intrigue set up in the first film.

Performances, on the whole, were great and it ended feeling like the focus was very much shifting to Chani.

I thought Greig Fraser had done the cinematography on both films? I'm sure I watched a short documentary on his choice of shots for Part 1. He's an Aussie who went to one of the Unis specialising in film here in Melbourne.

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Thanks Nathan. Yeah, will be good to discuss in detail with the gang for Letter 4. Lots to get stuck into 👍🏼

You and Alexander are right on the DP. I was sure it was Deakins in Part 1. Annoyed with myself now. Will change it and hopefully no one else noticed 😁

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Mar 6Liked by Daniel O’Donnell

Hehe don't worry. The only reason I frowned and went to check was because I'd seen a short documentary on Greig 😅

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Changed it now. However, the article doesn’t seem to be publishing properly anyway which has happened before and is a bit annoying but maybe this time it was for the best 😁

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Mar 6Liked by Daniel O’Donnell

It came to my inbox and I can see it at the top of your homepage, so looks OK to me :)

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Thanks Nathan. Normally when I publish it also appears in my inbox but it’s not there but is showing as published on my home page. Odd. Might be something on my side 🤔

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Mar 6Liked by Daniel O’Donnell

Just a bug I reckon. I think I've had that before.

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Mar 6·edited Mar 8Liked by Daniel O’Donnell

"David Lynch’s Dune, is an absolutely appalling film." I laughed. Truth! Which is why David had his name removed from it. 😂

Also: " Roger Deakins was no longer DP with Greig Fraser taking over" Hmm, I think it was Fraser on both? But regardless, the visuals in part one maybe were more stunning because it was part 1, now we expect more! and even more for part 3 ! 😅

And: " The much discussed monochrome gladiatorial scene was stunning" Infrared. Filmed in Infrared, madness. Absolutely bombastic, for me the highlight of the film which is funny because in the book it is THE most boring scene and nothing is described, certainly no triangular arena, but that visual! Stunning. More on that in Letter 4 ;)

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Thanks Alexander. Yeah, got the DP wrong. One of those brain farts. Will change it now. Glad we feel the same on the Lynch version 😁

Looking forward to the chat on letter 4 👍🏼

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No worries. I forgot to say... we had a similar experience during LOTR, I was in Vienna back then. It was truly magical. Seeing Gandalf arrive in the Shire in the beginning, I was 12 again! Unforgettable.

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Yeah, The Fellowship has so many great moments. When Gandalf lights his staff in Moria was another one that took me back all those years 👍🏼

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❤️❤️❤️

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Mar 8Liked by Daniel O’Donnell

I'm not into this genre at all, and yet I really enjoyed the first installment. I thought it was an excellent production. I haven't seen the second film yet.

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Thanks Caz

I’m definitely an outlier here with my thoughts on these movies. I was going to say if you liked the first one then you’ll love this one, but interestingly Nathan said above that he preferred the first to the second as this one was more Hollywood than the last

It is a huge spectacle though so worth catching on the big screen 👍🏼

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Going to see this on Saturday with my oldest and the father-in-law! It'll be my first time seeing a movie in theaters since No Time to Die in '21.

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I’ll be interested to hear your thoughts. It’s quite the spectacle, that’s for sure, but maybe take some ear plugs for the soundtrack 😁

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Hans Zimmer is my favorite film composer, but even I thought his score was too much at times during Part One.

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I went to see it in IMAX and the whole cinema was shaking with it!

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