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To avoid spoilers I will be generic, but I can say this is pretty rough. The bad guys are incompetent and/or have pretty dumb motivations. The show looks and feels cheap, which is crazy since Disney has all the money in the world to get the right people and do some quality assurance, but they didn't seem to.

Ewan is amazing but that is because he is a great actor, the story around him is sub par at best(although Star Wars doesn't actually have a great track record for quality to begin with so it might be par for the course for them) and when he is giving a real performance, he isn't getting much back from those around him. There are obvious issues that should've been addressed long before releasing this show and they weren't, (The infamous "Chase" scene for example), and the series feels all around amateurish. Not to spoil anything specific but characters make some pretty out of character decisions during episodes 2 and 3 and it just doesn't make sense.

Rough all around.

A beautiful, cinematic, and extravagant adaptation of the classic book by Frank Herbert. Possibly the best book adaptation I have seen since The Lord of the Rings, with the ability to cut what needed to be cut for the story to flow and include and portray what needed to be shown for the heart of Dune to remain.

This film is gorgeous, a visual experience like Blade Runner 2042 before it, this film screams for watching on a large screen at least once, and will be a beautiful watch for years to come.

The casting was perfect, each actor portraying their respective characters wonderfully, and the humanization of the characters through their performances was very welcome. While we don't get as much character development as I would like, what we do get is more than enough to establish the relationships in place between these characters and the absolutely HUGE world they live in. Seeing the guild ship conquering the night sky was majestic.

The sound design is punchy, and clean, and the soundtrack by Hans Zimmer is tonally perfect for what we as the audience are witnessing.

I loved every second of this film, and did not want it to end. I look forward to watching it over and over and over again.

This documentary is fairly enthralling, and contains a lot of extremely useful information. It makes a good point of pointing out the shady decision making and terrible events that led up to the L.A Riots, and it really puts those events front and center. However, there are very odd editing choices made throughout the documentary that have the capability to throw the viewer out of the experience.

There are drops in audio, moments of complete silence, weird fades to black, interviews without names of who we are seeing talk to us, awkward breaks in the flow of conversation and in the flow of the entire documentary. The events and terrible choices and racially motivated hatred that led to these riots are important to know, and they are probably more important now then ever because we are still living with this systematic racism in our police across the US. However, the editing for this documentary leaves a lot to be desired.