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Foundation: The Leap (2021)
Book readers get over it!
I really liked a lot of this episode, especially the storyline with the cleon-clones which remains the best part of the series for me, so i was suprised with the low ratings again reading the comments. Adapting a well-known book is somewhat controversial since a faithfull adaptation almost always fails (like Frank Herbert's Dune miniseries for example), but any deviation of the source material is frowned upon by the bookfans. They did change the original storyline way more extensive than necessary i think, but i've read the first trilogy years ago when i was about 15, loved the first one, my enthousiasm cooled with the secound and found the third more of a bad soap with a lot of cliffhangers and dumb storylines . You've got to remember Asimov wrote these as a young student with little experience yet. If he would have compromised it into one book, it would indeed be a classic, the trilogy not so much. A few years later, late 80's i guess, i read the new books he wrote as a middle aged man, much more mature reading, more focussed on ideas, instead of 'action' what real SF is about for me, but even those seem dated now reading them again, i really got bored with him pushing the Gaia-idea extensively throughout the book.
While it remains to be seen if the series will be a classic in the long run, i am looking forward to season 2!
Dune: Part One (2021)
Beautiful but flawed
I'm one of those few people who read the books first and consequently liked the lynch-adaptation. Somehow it really envisioned most characters how I portrayed them before in my head. Even the guild-members which have yet to appear in the new films. Beautiful cinematography like always with Villeneuve. Some great ideas, like the way they portrayed the 'voice' used by the bene geserit or the fighting with the personal shields. Not wild about the dragonfly choppers. But all in all found myself at times distracted near the end of this part. The visions paul had became anoying very quickly. Ok, he can see fragments of the future, move on.
So a small comparison as to the choice of characters: duke leto was great in both films, paul's mother jessica was much better portrayed in the new version, excellent choice of actress and one to watch I presume, the baron also slightly better in the new one as was beast rabban, didn't see feyd rautha yet? Will be hard to beat a young Sting. Although i like jason momoa, i've had a hard time envisioning him as duncan (which was my favourite figure in the books) : too brawly, not at all calculated. Gurney halleck was an improvement really over 'captain picard' . With piter devries (who plays a bigger roll in the book and was portrayed excellent by brad dourif) they missed out completely in my opinion, unremarkable. I liked both tufir hawat's, missed the eyebrows maybe. Timothee chalamet definitely a big upgrade to the twin peaks guy. Chani was great
Definitely looking forward too part two.
Fukushima 50 (2020)
Terrible
Don't expect anything as good as chernobyl, i tried to keep my attention at the movie but halfway through i found myself wandering why i even should. You don't really care about any of the actors, the story doesn't seems to go anywhere which is suprising since it was one of the biggest nuclear accidents of all time, and the effects are just sad. incompetent leaders, hero-workers and american cowboys ready to save the day.
Hopefully not the final movie on this subject