Brundlefly

A little better, but not perfect, as my favourite movie of his (Inglourious Basterds) is not what I consider his best movie (Pulp Fiction).

A pretty solid indication of the fact that an artist's evaluation of the own work often is totally amiss.

Ironically, The Way of Water is the opposite of Dune: While the latter is one of the rare occasions of Hollywood showing us, how devastating a victory can feel, the former goes full pro war à la 'to crush the enemy is the only solution to this'. Ideologically, these films are quite literally like water and fire (or let's say water and earth; Avatar and Oppenheimer are like water and fire).

Can anyone who bought this set confirm that this release is click-free, devoid of volume dips and worth the upgrade?

I love Fellini and I love that one especially! I may even prefer it over 8 1/2.

This Bond movie surprised me, its kind of a hidden gem, cause it's actually very good, escpecially the action sequences and the tense final castle break-in, despite never being mentioned among the superior entries of the Moore era.

I agree.

Is it possible that the first track of the album is an addition to the Dune Sketchbook and not actual score? Its position within the album, the length and the thematic focus would imply that.

Oppenheimer deserved all of these Oscars sooo much! The only thing that bothers me is the fact that it didn't win for the sublime script too.

You're right. Having seen the second part, I maybe just wanted to emphasize the narrative flow that I assume the three movies will be connected by. Yeah, it's more like Kill Bill and less like Nymphomaniac or 1900, where the films were just split up, AFTER they were shot and edited. I haven't read the books, but isn't it the case, that Villeneuve leans the second movie towards the Messiah book, unlike Herbert did?

I'm very happy that Dune: Part II got delayed. That way they can give the Oscar to Chrisopher Nolan this year and next year they can give it to Denis Villeneuve.

The ending feels so open (much like ESB) that I've got the impression, we will have a movie trilogy, where you won't feel the "cut" between the two books that the whole story is based on. It just will be one big seven and a half hours movie.

Oh no, why they doin' this?

Your logic is that you should get a free copy, only if there is little difference between the respective releases. I don't get that in the first place, but nevermind... You now imply that a new release which is more or less the same as the old release is not desirable, or at least not "desirable for those who already own the 2020 set". I get that. So, you want to get a free copy of the new release only if/because it is less desirable to you? I mean, why even bother then?

I think one reason is the fact that this movie does not really know what it is, a muscial, a light phantasy movie for children, a grim adventure - to me it always felt very inconsistent. The other thing might be the very stripped down and naive message about family - a major and sometimes eye-rolling shortcoming in (not only) my opinion. Spielberg has done that much more profound and subtle in E.T.