This is a very personal 10. Maybe it should be a 9 for some but for me it was the greatest cinema experience I had in AGES.
I've read some of the worse critiques here and feel like it's more a mismatch of the viewers taste and the movie rather than the movies fault.
The sound is amazing, and even though I'm often a proponent of thematic pieces used by the old masters for movies like Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Indiana Jones or even Harry Potter (1,2 and maybe 3), the whole audio experience including the sparingly used music couldn't have been done better.
The visuals are the most epic shots seen in a long while and surprisingly even the 3D was descend, something I didn't expect.
What REALLY transported me though was the screenplay. I have seldom seen characters with such little screen time and such minuscule amount of Dialogue (this is like the anti-thesis to Lynch's Dune, though there are nods to it throughout) played to such perfection. It's what ultimately transports the viewer into this world.
Another interesting choice is the sparingly used dialogue throughout the whole movie.
Some characters like Duncan Idaho had almost all their dialogue shown in the trailer, other important figures have about 3-5 lines of Dialogue and not much screentime, and yet they feel real and like they were portrayed through a characters lense that might be Paul or a third unnamed and not visible character altogether.
I'm not a fan of minimalism but this movie somehow marries epic and minimalism so well that both feel heightened by the other.
If you loved LotR and always craved for a Star Wars that felt a bit more grounded (don't expect space battles!) this is the one you should look at.
I've read some of the worse critiques here and feel like it's more a mismatch of the viewers taste and the movie rather than the movies fault.
The sound is amazing, and even though I'm often a proponent of thematic pieces used by the old masters for movies like Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Indiana Jones or even Harry Potter (1,2 and maybe 3), the whole audio experience including the sparingly used music couldn't have been done better.
The visuals are the most epic shots seen in a long while and surprisingly even the 3D was descend, something I didn't expect.
What REALLY transported me though was the screenplay. I have seldom seen characters with such little screen time and such minuscule amount of Dialogue (this is like the anti-thesis to Lynch's Dune, though there are nods to it throughout) played to such perfection. It's what ultimately transports the viewer into this world.
Another interesting choice is the sparingly used dialogue throughout the whole movie.
Some characters like Duncan Idaho had almost all their dialogue shown in the trailer, other important figures have about 3-5 lines of Dialogue and not much screentime, and yet they feel real and like they were portrayed through a characters lense that might be Paul or a third unnamed and not visible character altogether.
I'm not a fan of minimalism but this movie somehow marries epic and minimalism so well that both feel heightened by the other.
If you loved LotR and always craved for a Star Wars that felt a bit more grounded (don't expect space battles!) this is the one you should look at.