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rose_griffes ([personal profile] rose_griffes) wrote2021-11-08 07:10 pm
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stealing trees

I almost dug up a baby tree the other day. It was at the edge of some soon-to-be-developed property, so I knew it wasn't going to be long before it was bulldozed. But after double-checking the leaf shape when I got home, it turns out I was mistaken about the tree species.

Aside from almost-guerrilla gardening, I've been to the movies. Dune was... weighty. Which is both good and bad. Overall I did feel positive about it, but dang, Denis Villeneuve, maybe lighten up a little? Just a smidge? That two and a half hours felt longer than it was, in part because there's ZERO levity.

The cast was spectacular, the movie looked awesome, and the story was apparently pretty faithful to the source material. But also, it was half of a book, which leads to an incomplete narrative. That's a REALLY long movie to have only half of a story.

I agreed with most of this review, which also had this hilarious and spot-on description of the movie's lead: "I have also barely mentioned Chalamet, and that’s because I believe very strongly that if you have nothing bad to say about a malnourished chap who spells Timothy with two e’s, you should say nothing at all."

So have you seen it? What did you think?
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[personal profile] shadowkat 2021-11-14 02:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Same here. I read the first book in the 1980s and never got into the sequels. I don't remember if there was humor in there or not - it is present in David Lynch's 1984 film (but that's also Lynch, who had a sick sort of humor anyhow).

I thought he was doing a three-parter, but apparently not. I don't remember enough of the books to really comment on them.

Edited 2021-11-14 14:57 (UTC)