Prouvaire

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Denis Villeneuve Will Stop Making ‘Dune’ Movies After ‘Dune 3,’ Despite More Books in the Series: ‘Dune Messiah Should Be the Last for Me’⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The only major quibble that I have with the film is a design decision. When it came to the costumes, sets, and even ships the film takes a minimalistic approach - probably to highlight how far in the future the story takes place. The books describe the noble houses living in much more opulence.

  I actually preferred some of the production design of the Lynch film for this reason. Overall of course, the Villeneuve version is superior.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Supergirl Found: Milly Alcock to Play Heroine in James Gunn’s DC Movies⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder what the value proposition is for actors taking on these movies anymore.

  A decent pay cheque I imagine. Also, if you've ever dreamed of being able to fly or punch a bad guy through a wall or what have you, you'll be able to live our those fantasies (and getting paid for it). In other words, it might just be a fun experience. Not everything has to be a calculated career move.

  Surely she has the pull to land something better right now?

  I dunno. House of the Dragon was her big break, no doubt, but she was only in a handful of episodes. She didn't break out in the way that, say, Emilia Clarke did on Game of Thrones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Poster] Official Poster for Dune: Part Two⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The mainstream posters for tentpoles are almost floating headshots these days, but there are more interesting variations around. I quite like the IMAX poster for Dune Part 2, just as I liked the IMAX poster for Part 1.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] Do you have franchise fatigue? Or is there still a franchise that you enjoy seeing?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the fact that Anson Mount nailed it as Pike helped. (He followed in the footsteps of Jeffrey Hunter and Bruce Greenwood - all three Pikes have been really good.) Personally, I suspect that the more SNW edges towards being TOS the less I'll enjoy - or, more accurately, the less I'll respect - it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] Do you have franchise fatigue? Or is there still a franchise that you enjoy seeing?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Franchises have always struggled to reconcile the need to reinvent themselves on the one hand, and the need to retain those elements that attract fans to the franchise on the other. As a long-time Star Trek fan I also want the franchise to push forward and try new things (and in some ways recent shows have done so - eg Lower Decks being Trek's first sitcom), but at the same time many fans just want to see the characters that they know and love, hence the obsession with bringing back - or tying new characters to - legacy characters (ala Strange New Worlds or Picard's third season). I wish they'd kept Kirk to the very last episode of Strange New World, and was even a bit disappointed to see the TOS Enterprise appear at the end of the first season of Discovery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the murder at the end of the world worth watching ?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought it was a well acted, somewhat slow moving murder mystery. Unfortunately I guessed the identity of the killer after two episodes, and thought both that, and a certain revelation about one of the characters, were overused tropes in the early 2020s. Give it a go and see if you like it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Kind of weekly thread] What have you been watching?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even though musicals are my life, I don't see every movie or TV musical in the same obsessive way that I see every stage musical that I can. To me musicals usually work so much better as live theatre. Also, I have a bias against jukebox show - I prefer original songs written specifically for the story. So it's taken me almost 12 years to catch up with Pitch Perfect. But I have to say I really enjoyed it. In some ways it's a standard, very predictable underdog story. (I think I was surprised by only one small thing - that the girl everyone thought was a lesbian actually did turn out to be a lesbian - I thought the twist would be that she was straight). But that predictability didn't spoil my enjoyment. Definitely a case of "it's not where you end up, but how you got there". I was most impressed by Anna Camp as the primary antagonist. She could have played the role in a very straight-forward, bitchy. even over-the-top way (much like Adam Devine played the secondary antagonist), but she gave her line readings an earnestness and undercurrent of insecurity that made her interesting and not unlikeable.

  Also watched the fourth season finale of For All Mankind. Overall a better season than season 3 (because of less family soap opera) but not as good as the first two seasons. Still one of my favourite shows currently in production and I hope it gets a fifth season.