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".
看之前：什么商业片竟然要156分钟是要杀了我吗？？看完后：沙漠好美甜茶好美两个半小时根本不够我看呜呜呜😭算是近几年茶被拍的最好看的一部片子了，沙漠王子归来，那句中文说的真不错。IMAX正中间观影体验绝赞，甚至有沉浸式游戏的感觉。只是个开始，期待成史诗系列。
把一个俗套好莱坞剧本，用强调“尺度对比”的极具压迫的视听及交叉蒙太奇呈现出来，在这方面维导+Fraser+汉斯季默使尽浑身解数完成到极致，在IMAX 2D下也确实爽歪歪，但故事本身的惊喜及内驱力不足。第一部铺陈的设定也有诸多迷惑之处，比如科技发展程度与冷兵器打斗是否兼容的问题。演员方面，张震岳医生没头没尾工具人，甜茶的不断闪前仿佛在一遍遍强调有第二部噢大家一定要买票，然后丽贝卡弗格森好耐看。
求求导演别再拍《银翼杀手2049》姊妹篇了好吗？是不是没有砂子就不能拍电影？10000多年后的故事了，为啥战斗模式还是冷兵器呢？？张震医生这个角色也是很迷，你和一个坐空气轮椅的变态谈交易脑子坏了吧？？？科幻就科幻，文艺就文艺，不好好把故事讲清楚，再也不去影院看你的作品了
预告片这么长吗，场面有的但又是权势争端之类的，乏了。甜茶漂亮的~
7.5分，其中0.5出于对电影原教旨主义的膜拜。《沙丘》是我个人的2021年院线片最佳，这不是故事/文学的胜利，不是艺术的胜利，而是单属于电影自己的胜利，以电影的语法仰望星空，以宇宙的尺度丈量自身的渺小，以当下为中心让历史和未来对称折叠。看了太多假以电影之名的非电影之后，无法不在电影院的黑暗中为维伦纽瓦的电影魔法所打动所震撼，即使它老套陈旧、不合时宜。
导演野心很大，想拍出史诗级巨作的亚子，只希望第二部不掉水准。让观众以主角“梦境先知”的视角观看，两个半小时好像啥都没讲，又好像充满遐想（瞎想）。爸爸的身材不错，果体居然有点像雕塑。希望妈妈的姐妹会的政治野心再昭然若揭一点。以及用赞达亚跟甜茶的亲亲留住观众格局小了点。（大陆片源看开头就怀疑有删减，和裁剪）
漂亮清楚的畫面，把故事講得明明白白。一個惹人疼愛的少年接受來自全宇宙的挑戰，誰又忍心不守護。
未登场的皇帝像中世纪君主制帝国般左右角色命运，摄入香料後主角预见可能现实的能力成为一种自觉，逐渐领悟所有生命体，它们一切所做所为都是生存，而“生态学最高境界就是理解因果关系。”沙丘是群星的救星，因为它是个有良知有意识的行星。行星涌向宇宙，沙丘放着光芒，在银河系中穿梭。
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。
还是古希腊戏剧+中世纪+二战史的杂糅，当代欧美科幻基本如此，没什么新鲜感。如果能跳出来一些呢？
维导拍得挺商业化了，为他的成绩高兴。豆瓣评分有点低，网友对节奏故事乃至世界架构都颇有微词，不过不奇怪，《星球大战》的评分与影响力在国内也不咋地。中国网友审美独立，不装外宾，这是好事。2021年，除了漫威连续剧，灯塔国又有像样的科幻了，替世界科幻迷高兴。
推荐去看杜比全景声版，科幻片需要视觉效果和音效加持；甜茶很甜，我终于get到他的颜了；张震讲中文怎么听怎么怪怎么搞笑；两小时只说了个开头，是的，还有第二部，指不定还有第三部；太空科幻版哈姆雷特。
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】
【IMAX GT 2D 1.43:1版】极精致的史诗大片。维伦纽瓦的风格与电影的世界观相得益彰，延续了导演的一贯风格，很多画面放到《降临》与《银翼杀手2049》里都毫无违和感。宏大叙事与个体结合，将“银河帝国、星球殖民、梦境再现、王子复仇”的标准太空古典戏剧般剧情设定呈现出波澜壮阔、深邃震撼的质感，为观众呈现出一场视觉盛宴。IMAX 2D一代激光巨幕极佳的观影效果非常完美，夜景戏的细节都清晰可辨。两个半小时只叙述了一个开篇序幕章节是它唯一的遗憾。尽管影片多次预言式地跳切到未来的片段，铺垫出续作的冰山一角，但在落幕的一刻，仍感意犹未尽。四星半
然后还是换皮瓦坎达，一群高科技人类还肉搏
那塞子状奖杯一出来我就感觉到了它的用途（不
张艺谋来看一看吧，国际电影装修界最新流行的侘寂风了解一下~
这么多年过去中东依旧是好莱坞叙事中异族奇观的象征。插入的那几句中文什么鬼…………
未来文明外壳下包裹的亘古不变的问题：战争与和平，零和与正和，天选宿命和自由意志。镜头和剧情多有象征意义，古典有质感。人物刻画略单薄，但瑕不掩瑜，多一颗星给这150分钟的脱离现世社会。
经济上是站不住脚的。为了香料。可见现代人包括原著作者不知道古时候为什么有如此庞大的香料贸易。香料当时不仅仅是奢侈品，还是防腐剂，是杀菌剂，是药物。两个家族在抢夺毫无利润的营生，卷宇宙。忽略经济基础，还是可以看看的。
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