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I actually watched the original fairly recently. I'm a fan, even if Lynch claims not to be. 🙂
Couldn't get past the first 10 minutes of the remake. Not a fan of Villanueve. After having seen (and not particularly cared for) Arrival, Enemy and Blade Runner 2049, I just couldn't force myself through another personal slog.
Super unpopular opinion, and one that always gets me in trouble. I'm typically a "everyone has different tastes, no reason to shove mine down your throat" guy, but I really dislike Villanueve. He's so talented, but just the antithesis of what I appreciate in film.
Been on a Nicolas Winding Refn kick lately, who ironically is probably just as distasteful to more people than Villanueve is to me. Watched his early Pusher films back when they came out, liked them, forgot him. Rediscovered him recently and he's leaned into his style over substance approach, and lost a lot of his fans as a result. But I love it, and IMO he's keen to the NWO occult agenda and the destruction of the world by the Satanic pedophile elite.
His Neon Demon is about cannibalistic high fashion types who kill someone in a Vanderbilt swimming pool. Too Old to Die Young is a meandering affair that I watched, with no problem, at 1.3x speed most of the time, and touches on corruption, pedophilia, incest and the underlying death cult running things. Not his best work TBH. Copenhagen Cowboy is the newest, and narratively the least cohesive, focusing on sex trafficking in Europe which leads to... No spoilers, but something darker and more supernatural which feels pretty on the nose. Thought it was pretty important. Lastly, Only God Forgives, which I just watched, is a middle period movie and it starts with a HK expat trying to buy a 14 year old for sex, settling for a 16 year old who he rapes and kills, then goes from there. Feels like, in his ouvre, this might be when Refn started to paint the picture we know exists. Still have quite a bit of his work to get through. Recommended for those with the constitution.
As far as B Horror, and exploitation, used to really be into it. Haven't had the urge since my awakening. Used to be extremely into it though.
TLDR: have fun with all that stuff. Always makes me smile when Halloween comes around, even though my spiritual side is so far away from that stuff these days. I used to live it.
The Dune remake is a mixed bag. I hated how they pronounced "Harkonnen" although maybe that is how Herbert wanted it originally? Beats me. Making Paul Atreidis a wimpy beta male was dumb because AFAIK he's supposed to be a strong fighter from the onset. (I have the book but haven't gotten around to tackling it.)
The coolest part of the remake were the Ornithopter designs. I mean, ho-lee crap, seeing those wings swing forward and start flapping was so incredible. Their dragonfly shape are just too cool, and the flapping is something straight from a Miyazaki movie like Laputa or Howl's Moving Castle. Other than that, I like the costume and set designs of the Lynch Dune movie better. The palace of Arrakis looks more like a contemporary art museum rather than a place of living.
The original is what meant, remakes are never as good. :)
I think Logan's Run might be a candidate for a remake, if done well enough. Or The Black Hole, except that Disney is a pile of crap these days. One remake I thought was nice was Sahara, a remake of a WWII movie starring Bogart. The remake starred Belushi and I think it was made exclusively for HBO or something. Watching Nazis getting shot in those old black and white movies, they're like, "Well, I guess I'm dead now." It needn't be Verhoeven-level gore or anything, but those old war movies lack intensity.
Right, and it's okay if I'm in the mood for that sort of thing. I enjoyed Robocop, Total Recall, and Starship Troopers.