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What is wild is that, I remembered the Dune trailer was dropping today. Just watched the trailer for the trailer and said, "The trailer is probably going to drop in the next few minutes...lol" because I sensed the trailer was about to drop, finished posting, searched for the trailer and there it was...posted 3minutes ago...WILD!!!
THIS TRAILER THOUGH!!!
I've never watched the original Dune from back in the day. I saw some pictures prior to posting this and it doesn't hold up at all. Everything looks like a set, it looks like the old Planet of the Apes from way back when. Maybe they came out at a similar time, I would need to look that up. But I wasn't captivated by the small images I saw to want to watch. Maybe in 40-60 years time, folks would look at this trailer and think the same, but damn does this film look beautiful! Visually stunning and a film that seems to be about two families who have been in a life long beef with one another on a Lord of the Rings meets Star Wars for real! The ships look great! That land vehicle has Jawa angles, I'm not the only person who noticed that, surely. But seeing Jason Mamoa, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson and Oscar Isaac brought some heavy weight to this film. Dave Batista and Josh Brolin, damn! I think I saw Stellan, but I'm not sure. Glad to see a black person as well, for crying out loud, even if it IS just one.
Oh, and that THING AT THE END!!!
Having watched this trailer, I can only assume the film is going to be as great as the trailer...I want to see a Mass Effect film now!
Directed by Denis Villeneuve and starring Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Zendaya, David Dastmalchian, Chang Chen, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Charlotte Rampling, Jason Momoa & Javier Bardem.
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I didn't want to do this, but I remembered I did one for the Fast and Furious latest one which has now been pushed back to next year. Great call...but a trailer for a trailer? I'll say it again, is stupid. It's just unnecessary hype. If you had no idea or a slight idea that a film was in the works, why tease someone even further with a trailer to a trailer because dependant on how great the trailer is, you will capture those who are interested, no? I mean, if not a lot of people watch the trailer to the trailer, you are going to drop the trailer regardless, no? Not like you are going to make any changes because the 30seconds people saw, people just wasn't feeling it? It's silly, it really is, but here I am.
Looking at a trailer, with faces on it (which I must say, is one of the better trailers to a trailer...lol) which is giving NOTHING away apart from a Luke Skywalker moment at the end. Consider Dune is meant to have deserts in it or something, meant to be Lord of the Rings meets Star Wars (or is that He-Man)? I like the actors involved...well 4-5 of them anyway and if anything, if they ARE going to keep this pointless trailer for a trailer going...at least do it like this! This way you get to know who is in it rather that silly snippets of action and face shots.
The trailer is probably going to drop in the next few minutes...lol
Directed by Denis Villeneuve and starring Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Zendaya, David Dastmalchian, Chang Chen, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Charlotte Rampling, Jason Momoa & Javier Bardem,
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20th Century Fox had purchased the X-Men off of Marvel when Marvel was heading into bankruptcy and in a desperate attempt, to gain some money to stay afloat, Marvel sold a lot of their characters. It meant that everything to do with X-Men and Mutants belonged to Fox. They sold Spider-Man and his universe, Ghost Rider, Blade, Hulk, Namor, Daredevil and only kept a handful of heroes. Fox also purchased The Fantastic 4, so Fox had both the world of the X-Men and Fantastic 4 to do what they will with. The only stipulation like the others, keep making films and if there is a period of possibly 5 years (I could be wrong, might be 10 years - as it's from memory) where there is no production on a movie, then the rights will go back to Marvel. We have seen this play out twice between movie studios. One with The Fantastic 4 and another with The Spider-Man movies (Hence why we are on our 3rd Spidey). Where Fantastic 4, seems to have NOW gone back to Marvel (although there has been no talk on it) and will likely be an announcement of a upcoming film by Marvel in the next few years, the X-Men franchise and their weird success over the years stayed with Fox until Disney bought Fox whilst they were making this movie.
Disney's purchase of Fox Studios meant that not only would Disney automatically acquire The fantastic 4 (if they didn't already have it by then), they would also acquire all the rights to the X-Men and the word Mutants. What it meant for the movie though, was that the film had finished initial production and then went into a limbo state. No reshoots, no release date, just nothing. The film was meant to come out 2 years ago and it kept getting pushed and pushed and pushed back. The end product is this and personally, while I don't think the film is terrible, reshoots or a more in-depth storyline would have been more beneficial and would have went a long way. I'll explain.
Five teenagers coming into Mutant-hood have been sent to a facility where a doctor named Dr. Reyes (Alice Braga) is assigned to help them harness and control their powers when they first discover them, however when newcomer Danielle Moonstar (Blu Hunt) arrives, everyones greatest fears come to life and an entity called the Demon Bear arrives to feast off of their fear and kill them. The New Mutants, Wolfsbane (Maisie Williams), Magik (Anya Taylor-Joy), Cannonball (Charlie Heaton) and Sunspot (Henry Zaga) along with Dani Moonstar must band together, confront their fears and defeat the Demon Bear.
So, as I've previously stated, the film isn't terrible. However, where I think they tripped up, was trying to do a horror movie for kids. Josh Boone was not ideal or he didn't push the boat out far enough. Drag Me to Hell by Sam Rami is a PG-13 and successfully bridges that gap between horror and child-friendly (PG-13), where this movie, although has some scary-ish imagery, I didn't find it creepy, atmospheric, spooky or frightening at all. That could well be due to my fresh-hold and Drag Me to Hell is a completely different movie, but this movie tries, but not successfully. You are not allowed enough time with the characters or to get inside their heads to understand their personal problems, journey or their powers. When I think of this movie, I think of Leonardo DiCaprio's Shutter Island, mixed with some kind of home invasion movie like Home Alone, but with a bunch of kids, The Goonies, but this movie only scratches the surface. The story was decent but could have been more compelling and gripping. The film was fairly choppy at the beginning and felt slightly rushed. The connection between the Demon Bear and Danielle, although obvious, could have played out better. It would have been nice if the movie was slower paced and more character driven with insane things happening in spats only to become a big deal later. The film does that, but it just wasn't long enough, you are simply not engaged with the characters or feel for them other than the fact that they are a bunch of kids. Even the final fight could have been longer and mo cohesive.
Not to bash the film, but I loved the acting between the characters although the LGBTQ+ moment felt forced. The special effects were great especially something as ridiculous as a Demon Bear, looked amazing with smokey red eyes. Magik and Sunspot looked great. I loved the effects on the eyes. The Magik scenes were also great. The Wolfsbane design was ok and I loved the Cannonball look as well as Sunspot, but I wish I got more from the. Even those things which were meant to be scary looked ok, but could have been a touch scarier but I liked the design of them.
Since the acquisition, I know a lot of people were wondering if there was any reshoots or anything that could tie into the MCU. Could this be a standalone movie they can incorporate into the MCU? The answer is no. This is likely a one and done and although established connections to the X-Men universe of years that have passed, this movie doesn't carry near enough the same weight as those films. Possibly without the merger or at least with the reshoots, we may have had something better, but this film is more or less on the same scale as Apocalypse and the Phoenix one... Average at best, but had a lot of potential.
