Beware the ides of March.
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Really sad to read this ~~but better delayed and good than on schedule and bad~~ specially since it's due to marketing reasons... it's the second part to a very successful first part, I wouldn't think it needs so much Marketing but I'm not in advertising.
Fuck
What is it with movies releasing in two parts nowadays? Saw the same thing with Across the Spiderverse, and I guess the same thing happened to Ninja Turtles, but I haven't watched that one so I might be wrong. Fast X too from what I hear.
It's an adaptation of a book. And there's a lot of stuff going on in that first book. Most people are not up for a 5 hour movie.
Maybe not, but why not just make it a series at that point? Or end it in a way that has some closure, with potential for a future movie. Like we've done for decades.
I agree with the series sentiment. But a movie like this also really craves the spectacle of being in a movie theater and the budgets that movies are allowed.
I have yet to see a movie theater show any series, and have also never seen a series shot in imax with dolby atmos. Correct me if I'm wrong.
And since this movie is adapting the book quite faithfully so far, I can safely say that this is the closest thing you could have ended it on with a sense of closure... Ending it earlier would have turned to first movie into a complete fizzle with only a bunch of world building, and ending it later would have opened up much more conflict without resolving it.
In my opinion big theater movie is the only format that does the book justice, a series would have cut it's budget and visual quality too much. And given the limitations of the movie format (such as runtime), I don't see how else you would handle this book, there's just too much world building and material to resolve the movie in any other way.
I'm personally very curious to see how they resolve the second part... Because it does not look like something that's easy to adapt to a movie. And I'm absolutely stoked about how faithful the first movie was.
You can't just split a movie up into a series. Every episode has to have its own structure and should have some progression. Splitting up a book into two movies with their own structure is a lot easier than doing the same with 6 or more episodes.
Just look at the Marvel shows. If they had been movies, maybe two-parters, some could have been pretty good stories. This way there's lots of unnecessary downtime and distractions, without a logical through-line.
It's not exactly a new phenomenon. Kill Bill did it 20 years ago. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and Twilight Breaking Dawn did it 12 years ago. The Hobbit was inexplicably split in 3. Mockingjay was a 2 parter. IT released as chapter 1 and chapter 2. Add to your list Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning which just did the same thing this year.
I much prefer a multipart film over a rushed mess. Dune is a great candidate, given that it is adapting almost 1000 pages.
3 years between movies.. ouch. The first movie didn't have enough heart in it for me I'm hoping part 2 improves on that, but I feel like most but not all of Villeneuves movies are more cerebral than emotional.
If this is part of the miserly suits of Hollywoodland in the process of getting battered, I accept it gladly.
But yeah... goddamn it.
FUCK
Whyyyyyyyyyyy
WGA and SAG strikes. 2024 is looking thin for blockbusters.