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 really liked that the first film was like 30% plot and 70% worldbuilding and exploring. I don't read Dune because of the plot, I read it because it's so interesting with society and technology and cool concepts. The first film really did that for me. The one big action fight where they were betrayed was fantastic. When I read the book, it seems like basically one family and a few of their guards gets killed. The film showed the scale of a city-wide invasion and slaughter and it was really grand.
Second film though, that felt like it was mostly just fighting. Got kinda boring after a while. It's not what I look for in a Dune story. If I wanted that, I'd go back to Marvel.
So yeah, that's how I felt. But tbh, almost anything would be disappointing after how amazing I thought the first film was.