just watched dune part two, and i gotta tell ya, after being blown away by the scope and promise of dune part one, part two seemed a rushed and jumbled mess to me.
i know i'm in the vast minority on this, but part two of course, could have, and should have been expanded into at least two or three separate movies to do the story justice. the majesty of the first movie was mashed into a frenetic eye rolling dash to the finish with nothing happening that should have hit me, with the same tingles up my spine, as when i read it all those decades ago. not one scene or event made me feel anything.
but wait a second did them just defeat the entire galactic empire in the span of 90 seconds. boy that was convenient huh. blech,
i did not like it at all. imma rewatch at 2160 when i can, and maybe come back to edit, but i kept waiting for the cool shyt to start, and they blew on past all the cool shyt for 2 hrs and 45 minutes.
the whole thing was nothin but a dust storm.
I haven’t seen the second Dune yet, but the first Dune to me was kind of a waste of a bunch of plot building exposition when it really felt like the movie wanted to be a series of stunning visual and action set pieces that told a story without needing words.
I just kept thinking while I was watching the first Dune that I wished it was made like the recent Mad Max was, because while the subversion and complexity comes into the plot in the second Dune, the first Dune movie’s plot was pretty forgettable especially if you are already tired of the trope Dune is subverting with Duncan as the hero figure (I was bored of superhero movies and YA adult fiction with universe saving wizards a longggg time ago). The universe and environments put up on screen were NOT tired however, and I just wish they showed me more of the world of Dune without attaching exposition and plot to it.