Martin (John Amplas), a young man who looks around 20-years-old, boards a train in Indianapolis, Indiana for New York. At night, he breaks into a sleeping car and sedates a woman with a syringe full of narcotics. She struggles, but he tells her not to struggle or be upset because she wont feel pain. After a few minutes, the woman falls asleep, and Martin has sex with the unconscious woman. Afterwards, he slices her wrists with a razor blade so he can drink her blood. The woman bleeds to death in her sleep.
In the morning, the train stops in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where Martin disembarks. He is met by Tata Cuda (Lincoln Maazel) an elderly and hostile old man who claims to be his cousin from the Old World. Together, they travel by another train to the town of Braddock, a dying industrial suburb. They walk to Cuda's large house where he shows Martin his living quarters. Cuda then accuses Martin of being an 84-year-old vampire from his old country. He has taken in Martin because he is family, but tells him, "First I will save your soul. Then I shall destroy you." Martin denies being a vampire and implies that Cuda is merely his uncle rather than his cousin. Cuda then puts up strings of garlic on the doors to his and his granddaughter's room, and then holds up a small cross when Martin approaches him. Martin takes away the cross, and even takes a bite of the garlic mocking these attempts by saying bitterly, "There's no real magic... ever". Cuda tells Martin that he can come and go as he pleases. But he also warns Martin that he will kill him if he kills anyone in Braddock. He also tells Martin to stay away from his granddaughter Christine (Christine Forrest), whom arrives home from her job that evening.
Cuda introduces Christine to Martin, but also warns her to stay away from him. But Christine instead strikes up a friendship with Martin who confides in her about his vampire heritage. When Cuda later confirms Martin's claims to be a vampire, Christine, not surprisingly, refuses to believe either one. She thinks that Cuda and the other members of her family have driven Martin to insanity by making him think that he is a vampire. It is never revealed if Martin really is a vampire, or just a shy and lonely youth with troubled issues. Christine is the only person that Martin gets the courage to talk to. When Christine's boyfriend Arthur (Tom Savini) arrives at the house for dinner, Martin stops talking and backs away despite Arthur's attempt at a conversation. Christine later confides in Martin that she hopes to leave Braddock someday with Arthur, even though Martin points out that Arthur treats her badly and is both verbally and physically abusive towards her.
When Christine sees that Martin won't talk to anyone else, she buys him a phone which he installs in his room. Martin begins to repeatingly call a radio talk show where he describes what it's like to be a vampire. He becomes known on the radio as "the Count" to all the listeners. But the patronizing host (Michael Gornick) thinks he's just crazy.
Martin gets a job at Cuda's grocery store of stocking shelves, hauling boxes around, and even gets to be a delivery boy for some of the customers. One of his customers is a certain Abby Santini (Elyane Nadeau), who becomes taken in with Martin. She is a very friendly young woman who is depressed when she tells Martin that her husband is unfaithful. But Martin still does not have the nerve to talk with her, so she is happy to have someone to confide in with her life problems. Martin phones the radio show host to describe his infatuation with the housewife and senses that she wants to have sex with him. When the radio show host asks Martin if it is a sexual problem that he has involving women criticizing him during sex, Martin replies that he has never had sex with a woman who was awake.
One day, Martin travels by train to outside Braddock to look for victims. At a supermarket, he follows a young woman (Sarah Venable) home to her posh suburban house. He sees the woman's husband (Richard Rubenstein) leave for a long business trip, and Martin decides this would be the right time for more feeding. Martin returns to the house after dark and breaks in through the garage door. But it is Martin who gets the surprise when he bursts into her bedroom to find her in bed with her adulterous lover Lewis (Al Levitsky). After a vicious struggle, Martin jabs both of them with hyprodermic needles with narcotics, and waits for the drugs to take affect. He drags the unconscious body of Lewis from the house to a clump of trees across the street where he kills him by shoving a broken tree branch into his neck and drinks his blood. Martin returns to the house where he has sex with the unconscious woman. But out of compassion and pity, he decides to let her live.
Martin begins to have romantic monochrome visions of his vampire past (real or imagined), where he drained blood from a young woman and was chased through the streets of a nameless European town by a torch-lit mob.
During one Sunday at church, Cuda brings home Father Howard (George A. Romero) who asks him about the possibility of exorcism and demon possession. Father Howard calls upon the elderly Father Zulemans (Clifford Forrest, Jr.) over at Cuda's request. Together, Cuda and Zulemans confront Martin his bedroom and attempt to perform an exorcism on him. At this point, Martin remembers (another real or imaginary flashback), in the Old Country of people trying to perform an exorcism on him, and he flees them. Martin then flees from Cuda and Zuelmas as well. A little later that night, Martin terrorizes Cuda in a children's playground when he puts on a Dracula cape and puts false fangs into his mouth to pretend that he really is a vampire.
One day, Martin finally musters the courage to talk with Mrs. Santini during a routine delivery to her house where he tells her that he's aware of her attempts to seduce him and wants now to have sex with her. After having sex for the first time, Mrs. Santini becomes more depressed for she tells Martin that her husband just left her because she discovered that she cannot bear children, and that her desires towards him are based on sex and nothing else. But Martin wants to stay with her and help her move on with her life. Martin tells the radio show host about his affair with the housewife and that he no longer has the urge to attack other women.
Meanwhile, Arthur meets with Cuda and tells him that he wants Christine to leave town with him so they can get married and start a family. But Christine becomes angry at Cuda when he tells Arthur that insanity runs in their family and he shouldn't consider having children with her. Shortly afterwards, Christine packs up and leaves Braddock for New York with Arthur despite Martin telling her that Arthur is abusive towards her. But her mind is made up. Before leaving, Christine tells Martin that she really has no ill feelings towards him and just wants to make a fresh start with her life. She says goodbye to him and promises to write. But Martin knows that with an abusive and possessive man in Christine's life, she probably won't.
Depressed over losing his one true friend, Martin phones the radio show host and tells him that he's getting "shaky" and wants to go out looking for more victims. That night, Martin travels to a rough crime-ridden area of Pittsburgh and attacks two derelicts in a alley, injecting them with narcotics. He kills one of them by silting the bum's wrist and drinking his blood. Martin is about to kill the second one when a police car shows up and gives chase. Martin narrowly escapes during a long chase on foot which leads from the garbage strew streets and through a local store. Martin runs into an old warehouse where a drug deal is going down. A shootout between the two cops and the three thugs begins where all of them are killed, leaving Martin as the sole survivor who casually walks away from the carnage.
One day, Martin finds Mrs. Santini dead in her bathtub, after she had slit her writs with a razor blade. Martin anonymously calls the police to report the body and leaves. He phones the radio show host one final time to say that he really doesn't need friends or people to talk to for he is his own person. But when Cuda learns about Mrs. Santini's suicide, is mistakenly thinks Martin killed her and made it look like a suicide as he's done before. Cuda walks into Martin's room while he is asleep and kills him by hammering a wooden stake through Martin's heart.
Cuda buries Martin's body in his back garden, while over the closing credits various voices from people are heard talking to the radio show host asking the whereabouts of "the Count".
维伦纽瓦的影像节奏和类型小说的叙事节奏明显不同频，加上这只是宏大系列故事的第一篇章，经典情节本身在当下看来也显得套路，导致几乎所有文戏（尤其第一个小时）都很难熬，很多时候只能靠导演依旧神乎奇技的视觉创造力撑下去。当然有新一个星战系列的影子，但星战本身……也不是我的菜。
汉斯季末不绝于耳的宏大叙事型配乐简直是大毒瘤，全程轰得人疲惫；视效偶有亮点，全被弱智的故事和台词架空。
喜欢飞行器、哥尼、军装，和某些宏大画面，不喜欢一直闪回出现的赞达亚，音乐无感，故事也无感，不过多年以后，如果依然是冷兵器的时代的战斗场面，其实让人觉得，所谓高科技和远古时代，说不定就是交叠在一起的，明天重复昨天的事，倒也没啥。
电影发明以后，人的生命延长了三倍；手机发明以后，电影的生命缩短了三倍。影博的视听体验无与伦比，同时祝所有在影院玩手机的人原地爆炸。【中国电影博物馆GT IMAX 2D巨幕】
懂了，我活在杨紫琼多元宇宙里她在当女明星的那个宇宙
零起点观影，结果却意外惊喜。1、电影终究还是视听的艺术，《沙丘》在这方面可算是一场盛宴。2、科幻的外壳下，竟然包裹的是古典悲剧的内核：家族仇杀、宫廷阴谋、英雄成长、背叛与出卖，还有恋母情结。维伦纽瓦导演似乎很喜欢这样的主题，很多年前的那部《焦土之城》也是希腊悲剧的模式。3、设计了很多仪式场面，比如厄崔迪家族的受封式、入城式，萨督卡军的誓师会，不得不说，仪式这种东西是真能产生神性，起到规训人心的作用。4、很多场景有舞台剧的效果，凝重、肃穆，如雷托公爵之死，有油画般的质感。可能是对场景的铺陈过于执着了，导致情节推进有些缓慢，但形式本身也是内容的一部分。5、动作设计走徒手格斗的路线，和星战相比，更冷峻、不花哨，最后决斗的一幕，让人联想到哈姆雷特那一段。父亲之死是第一步，匕首沾满鲜血，是又前进了一步。
故事体量太过庞大，一个多小时的影片只能算是背景介绍和序章。导演延续了《降临》和《银翼杀手2049》中的简洁风格，创造出一个神秘令人敬畏的太空帝国。服装可以看到中世纪的影子，长袍，铠甲，低调的奢华中透出庄严气息，近身搏斗的战斗方式更加重了影片的古典庄重感。美术和音乐好评，是场享受的视听盛宴。
室外比室内要好，散步比打斗要好。尽管已经将原作繁复的情节大刀阔斧的砍掉，变成了直接的幕间切换，依旧拖累了具体的、可信的星球风貌。
我想看这部电影 2021-10-27
四星评价:牛蛙用摒弃主流商业节奏的顶级视听呈现了一出宇宙中世纪王子成人礼，期待新皇全宇加冕的戏码赶紧到来。
二刷归来，在此之前重温了一遍《沙丘》，完美的改编。注意电影出片名时底下一行小字：part1。《沙丘》分为三个篇章，本片再现了第一章和第二章的大部。
视觉奇观拉满，但叙事节奏和人物刻画都不算出色，和同为慢节奏的Arrival、Blade Runner 2049相比也逊色一个档位。考虑到小说的改编难度，这样的完成度已属不易。期望能看到完整的三部曲。
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影院我后排坐的社会大哥和他的小迷妹们还有豆瓣2星短评让我感觉，影响口碑最大两个因素一个是商业一个是原著本身。银翼杀手2049本身赛博朋克的高冷科技感让普通观众就算看不出来啥也感觉他很牛很高冷，但沙丘就不同，原著设定不管是故事还是内核还是细节在现代看来就非常落后，比如我自己完全读不下去原著，这就给普通观众很大落差。再加上维导个人的叙事风格，可能除了视效，对沙丘ip完全不了解的爆米花观众对这片的大部分元素完全不买账，配乐也会被骂成鬼叫。电脑手机屏幕二倍速观影更会放大失落感。不过在我看，除了后一小时会有些许跳脱感以外，别的没毛病，都是我的菜
拍的很美，演员非常棒，但是最大问题是，故事太陈旧了，即使时间设定到10000年后也改不了阿拉伯战争和殖民故事的底色，而这都是小说书写时时代和社会决定的。能理解半世纪前大师们想要把其搬上银幕的兴奋，但其中的寓意和东方想象在今天看真的已经过时了。
看的IMAX2d。观感近似把《阿拉伯的劳伦斯》+《权力的游戏》放到《降临》的气质下，通篇充满巨大的沉默或者不沉默的物体，视听层面绝对今年最强，也是维导作品里最牛X的，我被震得走出影院一小时耳朵还嗡嗡的…把古代和科幻两种观感合二为一到没什么违和感，独特而厚重的史诗感，或许这就是《沙丘》的气质吧。但若要论电影的深度…那是比导演之前的那几部神作都要弱得多啊，几个阵营的地球对应也很明显。但不管怎样，能刷尽量刷起来，希望顺利把Part 2拍出来。
美术太乱了，看得人心累。不能给我们杨紫琼画个干干净净的妆吗？说是反传统，亚裔的刻板印象还是洗衣店。女儿搞个女同就值得大书特书了？在我根本不是个事儿。宇宙的尽头是报税。
故事都讲不好，没有看过原著的表示挺不友好的，还有其中的设定，汉语系医生是叛徒还被砍，作为说汉语的我看得有些不适，原著是50年前，现在都1202了，不能改改？说到底就是不想。还有，乔什布洛林扮演的护卫军官开始那么的热衷护驾，结果敌军真的来了，却不管统帅了？之后也没个交代，人哪去了？这个电影啊，大牌云集，剧情稀烂，可惜大牌们了
这个厄垂斯是我想的那个阿特柔斯吗？哪里科幻了，这不是古希腊神话么？爸爸裸体横陈那一幕绝对剪辑素材，尤其给了牛头镜头，荷马描述阿伽门农被害就是“有如杀牛于棚厩”，还有“在宴席饮酒的调缸和丰盛的餐桌之间，我们横陈在堂上，鲜血把地面浸漫”，给对面剪个女王就齐活儿啦！而且阿特柔斯家好多次屠杀都跟餐桌脱不了干系，可以随便剪！ps 这个科技、文明和衣着、作战方式感觉不太协调……第一部看不出啥，接着往下看看吧…… pps 厄垂斯他们家管理有一点好：下属不用给领导打伞耶！
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