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To be fair on the two part movies, Dune was designed to be two parts (and it kinda fits the story). Across the spider-verse is more of a empire strikes back type of situation of setting everything up for the next film.
Across the Spider-Verse Part 1 is one of the year's best movies, but I think it could have benefited by cutting about 15 minutes. The pacing felt very deliberate. Scenes took their time to play out, which taken individually were all fine and justifiable, but cumulatively took their toll. In particular I felt that most of the action set pieces could have been trimmed a little here, a little there. That way, that huge action sequence towards the end, where Miles Morales goes up against the combined forces of spider-men, spider-women and other spider-beings (and which I do NOT think should be cut), would have had more of an impact.
Dune, I'm really pleased to hear, is now a three-part movie, with Part 3 adapting Dune Messiah.
I didn’t know they were doing a part 3 with messiah, that’s awesome! I’m excited to hear
Hmm... I may have jumped the gun a little. Villeneuve has said he wants to make a third movie based on Messiah, but WB hasn't officially confirmed it yet. (I thought I'd seen something issued by the studio which referred to Part 2 as the middle installment of a trilogy but I may have been mistaken.) They're probably waiting for the box office results before formally greenlighting Part 3, just as they waited to confirm Part 2 even though Villeneuve put "Part 1" in the title of the movie. :-D
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