I recently watched The Prestige for the first time. Was a good film but could have done with being pared back just a touch IMO. There were moments (especially the Tesla-related) ones, where I was just thinking “WTF is going on now?”.
Memento
No, it was deceptively simple – once you “got” it. And that was the beauty of it.
Dune
I have no idea what was going on -but I also didn’t care!
Wasn’t complicated enough IMO.
As a newcomer to the story, it seemed very broad and lacking in exposition or plot/character development for its length.
Maybe that was why Dune was unengaging though, that Villeneuve prioritised perfume advert aesthetics over exposition? Anyway, bit emperor’s new clothes, I thought.