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Dune: Part Two (2024)
Amazing world building but...
Sure the cinematography is wonderful, the sound is breathtaking and the actors overall play their part very well but... It's just not a good story.
Everything is binary, characters have no depth, no complexity and are prisoners from their pre-established destiny.
Every single battle except the last one is one sided, every decision from every character is sudden, definitive and not up for debate, everything is presented to the viewer has either completely impossible or super easy, a group of people that seemed desperate suddenly has the firepower to take down armies (they had those worms from the start didn't they ? Couldn't they just take down the capital as they did with the emperor's base).
The movie is a succession of 15 minutes contemplative and insignificant scenes followed by 3 minutes groundbreaking, taken out of nowhere, scenes.
Secondary characters are useless and disposable at will, the viewer cannot even get attached or hate anyone because they no they can disappear in a minute, this a nothing but a one man show.
Babylon (2022)
Somewhere between The Artist and Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, yet completely insipid
Yeah sure the actors are playing well, the cinematography is gorgeous (when it's not atrocious) and the soundtrack is amazing but this movie is just not good.
But if you want to watch a movie about Hollywood with Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt, watch Once Upon A Time In Hollywood : The craziness is better directed and you actually get attached to the characters.
And if you want to watch a movie about the end of silent movies, watch The Artist : It is shorter yet more emotional and meaningful.
It was really hard to spend 3 hours watching characters you couldn't care less about and literally 5 different endings like if the director did not know which one to choose and ended up shooting all those he had in mind.