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Dune: Part Two (2024)
The desert looks beautiful but on inspection is very dry and largely dead
That sums up the film. The 2 leads are void of charisma (in this) and can't carry a script that is weak without all the MASSIVE budget that is used to glam it up and drown out your thoughts with all the huge bass effects.
The film has no soul, it's pure "emperors new clothes" for the modern era the dialogue is dumb, the mind bending plot holes number in the same type of figures as every grain of sand on "Dune" (I couldn't believe they said the film name - stands up and leaves the cinema).
I enjoyed part one - it had it's issues but it was coherent and what contrivances there may have been - I could overlook caught up in the connection I had to decent acting.
I really wanted to like this but it feels like a 5 hour film reduced to 2:45 (or whatever). The costume and set design is top drawer and that's where it get's my 3 stars.
The modern world gets the Dune it deserves.
I miss the cat milking.
Night Shift (2023)
No strings attached - fun
It was at times difficult to tell the target audience for this unorthodox (what I assumed to be) teen-horror. Moments reminded me of the mild shock of offbeat Ozzie kids show - Round the Twist, occasionally blended with the more modern peril of a Fargoesque thriller.
The well arranged cast (including Lamorne Morris - Fargo, Patrick Fischler - Twin Peaks:The Return, Lauren Bowles - True Blood) do a decent job throughout, but at times the dialogue is delivered in a slightly camp style, adding a whiff of black comedy to a narrative that doesn't appear to be desiring it (I can't find a listing that describes it as a comedy horror).
There are enough classic horror nods throughout to keep the purest horror aficionados comfortable, yet it moves at a pace fast enough to cater for the more modern, often less forgiving "bite size" horror audience.
The soundtrack was at times a little lightweight in creating a more threatening vibe but for the budget it likely had, do an adequate job.
Each time I see a China Brothers production/script they move on in leaps and bounds and this is again another leap forward in what will likely be a lengthy film career.