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Hey lovelies, I hope you all having a good week so far. I am on holiday at the moment and today have been to the cinema to see Doom, which obviously is a remake from a third film that was originally based on a book, so I absolutely loved seeing it today. I thought that it was really well put together. I think the storyline was really good, the characters and the way they develop
Charlie Olivieri
@Charlieri · 2:08
I do want to read it, but yeah, I feel like this is probably okay as a remake because it's trying to make like the version of the film that probably stays truest to the book. I'm presuming. Whereas David Lynch was very much like interpretive. It was very much him taking it, making it as completely his own and getting as like David Lynch and weird with it as possible
Melissa Mccarter
@lissahoop · 0:32
And so you're saying that you saw it and that you liked it gives me a little more of a push to see it. So thank you for that. And I'd be curious what other people's thoughts on it are, too
Another thing that really interested me was the fact that the film has a Dune one title card, and that was before the film was technically greenlit. I think that's an ambitious move, even though there's really no doubt in my mind it was going to get greenlit for a sequel. It's just you never know with Hollywood these days. So that's kind of a cool thing to see from a director. The directing and the cinematography and the sound design I've heard are just absolutely next level
Melissa Mccarter
@lissahoop · 0:24
I'll just say off topic, listening to you and Taylor, having seen it in the theater, that just blows me away. The idea of seeing anything in the theater anytime soon, whether or not it's even empty or it's just so foreign concept to me that I didn't even realize people are actually doing this. So that's just totally off topic. But that's a random thought I had
Sontaia Briggs
@PKBriggs · 2:38
But if you're a person that doesn't like a story to just take its time and build up or it could not feel that it could feel a little bit like, what's happening here, because I'm looking at the time when I was watching it and it's 25 minutes left. And I'm like, there's so many things that are not solved. And literally, once the movie went off, I was like, I'm ready to see part two because it said part one
Sontaia Briggs
@PKBriggs · 1:47
I've never seen him in anything before, but not that I can recall. He seemed fine in regards to what it looked like. Absolutely correct. It's beautiful. The cinematography, like you said, it's amazing. It's stunning to look at it. That is 100% true. And yes, with the comment about the action also true. It's a story. I think I said that it's just a real. It's a story and it's not like it has action
What you heard me say and what I heard you say is pretty much all I know. So that's pretty cool. I feel like that's rare these days when you go to the theaters. Melissa. Yeah, actually, all of the screenings of Dune in my area are more or less sold out, and I live in a big city. So the theaters have really been raging for a while now. There's no vaccine requirement just yet
Tasha Frank
@NLOFrank · 3:56
And so I thoughts I could have seen the film in the trailer, but I know that for the people, it can feel a bit kind of off because they go and see a film that they weren't expecting to see and it can be a little bit deceiving, but I think it can then give you surprises. So yeah, I definitely hear you on that one
Tasha Frank
@NLOFrank · 3:53
And I think I've kind of got that from this movie. So yeah, again, agreeing with you, that for people who are expecting a jampacked action kind of thing, it takes his time, but it's good that it takes his time. And as you said again, I didn't actually realize that it was more than one part, but I went with my partner who said that it's a really big story and I don't know how they're going to get it into one movie
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:55
Hey, I'm really enjoying this conversation, and I want to shout out to all of you, but Tasha, specifically when you were talking about, I think with Taylor, about just close scenes and ending intentions and just some of the there's something extremely theatrical. I mean, not to say, like small T, but large T, like you feel on the big screen when you watch it, that you're really watching a dance performance and some of the fight scenes
Tasha Frank
@NLOFrank · 1:03
Hey, Deborah, thank you for your reply. I totally understand that being in the kind of in the moment in the scene as opposed to in the whole plot. I sometimes actually if I really enjoy film, I will go see it more than once for that reason, because then I've got the whole plot in and then I go back and watch it again so that I can see all the little details that I've missed because I was trying to look at the bigger picture
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