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unnamednewbie13 wrote:

An Affleck interview has pretty much set the tone for what I expect:

latimes wrote:

“So it wasn’t so much about hewing fastidiously to historical truth, because that wouldn’t have served the narrative needs we were as interested in, as much as illuminating the fact that the vestiges of the sexism and misogyny of the patriarchy we live with now come from a place that was Western civilization’s codified value system.”

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-a … leck-damon

"Historical truth wouldn't have served the narrative needs," suggests to me that the movie is a highly fictionalized cherry pick.

The article goes on to state that the movie is "at least 75% accurate," which is hugely not useful in terms of historical viewing without a lot of disclaimer and supplementary material like an historian's commentary/caption track or even a lecture.

This genre is all like "based on a true story!" and I'm sitting here like "bAsEd oN a TrUe StOrY," and then people watch it thinking they might have learned something but a quarter or more of it could be complete and utter fabrication for "narrative needs."

Like Chernobyl.

Dislike.

Last Duel did not have a good weekend at the box office. As a medieval epic from director Ridley Scott for the post-#MeToo era, the 20th Century Studios release posted a meager $4.8 million over its first three days in release. And that is on a reported budget of $100 million—a figure which does not include marketing and publicity costs.
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On social media, I’ve already seen some suggesting that The Last Duel should have been a streaming release. And there’s some cold, despairing logic to that. Older audiences who might be attracted to a movie like The Last Duel are more inclined to stay home and watch whatever’s on Netflix, especially after the pandemic.

RTHKI wrote:

Ah yes. 3 billion for 3 movies. A narrow audience.

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

SuperJail Warden wrote:

20 minutes into Dune...was the book a young adult novel? The hero seems like a youth that young men could project themselves onto.

I can't do a 2 and a half hour coming of age story set in space.

HOW OLD IS PAUL IN DUNE?
The character of Paul is 15-years-old in Dune.

Although it’s not explicitly addressed in the movie, the ducal heir of House Atreides is this age in the novel. He was born in 10175 AG.

As for Timothée, the American actor is 25-years-old. Although the star is a decade older than the character he’s portraying, the creative team arguably does a terrific job of making him appear even more youthful.

https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2021/10/20/d … d-is-paul/

So anyway let me get this straight, you don't like sci-fi movies, but were still going to watch a sci-fi movie to moan and groan about it over a series of posts. And that people who watch Marvel are duck people, or duckling people.

Please, tell us about the next throwaway zombie TV series you get into.

SuperJail Warden wrote:

Newbie, duck man.
I only tried to watch this meh movie to understand the memes duck people post.

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

Why do you care about Dune memes? You don't like sci-fi,