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Dune (2021)
I loved it, and I will watch it again but this is not a good movie its just a really long trailer for a movie that hasn't been made jet.
What is there looks great. This is the sort of movie prop makers will be rewatching for years to come for inspiration (I certainly will).
However the movie barely manages to superficially introduce most of the major players of this story and then it just stops there.... Imagine the first lord of the Rings movie that just stopped when Frodo left the shire. Its the best trailer for a movie that has jet to be made, but its simply not a finished movie. Steam users would have annihilated this movie in their reviews if it was a game.
Also I'm oddly enough not entirely convinced by the soundscapes and sound effects. I can't tell you why but exactly. Some of the major themes and sounds appear to be recycled or at least inspired from other recent movies and there wasn't a particular moment where I was really impressed by the background music. It wasn't as bad as all the big blockbusters who just use popular music hits, but I expected more from this movie when it came down to the sound.
Lovecraft Country: Sundown (2020)
Not lovecraftian, all the characters wear plot armour and are immune to any form of trauma.
I expected this series to be somewhat Lovecraftian horror with a black cast, that was filled with some form of angst, (white) degenerates, dread and or insanity. It became clear early on that I had to change my expectations. The main character was no angsty disturbed loner / scholar like. We got a group of well functioning and loving human beings instead. And the backdrop wasn't some half decayed backwater village with a hint of moist vermin it was a lively but overly racist town.
It soon became clear that I had to change my expectations. This was clearly not going to be a modified Lovecraft story with black actors. This was a going to be a commentary on racism with some references to Lovecraft and a love for showing of CGI tentacles. So I changed my expectations, and expected some form of brutal trauma inducing racism similar to watchmen, preacher or even the umbrella academy. The episode did not deliver on this.
Yes it was incredibly violent, somewhat gory and really bad thing happened in this episode, but nothing really got to the characters. Only a fraction of the horrors in this episode would be enough to drive a sane man insane but they just all seemed totally immune to the trauma and their plot armour was just too obvious when it came to the scenes that could have been thrilling.