It's the little things for me like how the Fremen have a home advantage whenever their homeworld is going through an eclipse by the two moons, the Hand of God and the Muad'dib. They represent themes, they represent Paul but they also have a practical purpose because Leto mentioned in Part 1 that they jam satellite signals so for those short moments of twilight the enemies of the Fremen are cut off and don't know who is attacking them. It's also the times when Paul's "nightmares" are the strongest whenever he's resting.

I think it's one of those things you will enjoy rewatching the movies because of how knowing this rexontextualizes the scenes, the lighting and the way it will be dark one moment and then bright another and how the fortunes of the Fremen shift with the moon cycles, it's not a coincidence. I think Villeneuve is trying to convey that their fate is in the hands of the stars. This was Villeneuve's idea, even though Herbert mentioned moonlight, he never ever mentioned a single eclipse yet it fits so intuitively into this world that we accept it as canon and Villeneuve has shown with infrared Giedi Prime and rainy eerie Salusa Secundus that he really shines at this type of world building.

Let myself sit with this a couple days after seeing it. I’ll just briefly mention some things I didn’t like to get it out the way. Don’t like that Thufir Hawat was cut from the movie. Also I’m on the fence with the Spacing Guild being cut from the movie as well. I think the later has much bigger implications. Especially if he is indeed doing Messiah and hopefully Children of Dune.

I feel like cutting the Spacing Guild out simplifies part of the story a lil too much. It makes it seem like Paul’s enemies will be the other Great Houses as opposed to the Bene Gesserrit n Spacing Guild who were the other 2 major powers at the time. Makes me worried that we may not get the Bene Tlielax in Messiah. But I do have faith in Denis’ vision.

Also I parrot all the aesthetic criticisms as far as Fremen attire n their siech is concerned. It’s way too bland and dull. I was hoping for there to be some visual differences as far as attire between certain siechs but we ain’t go that deep.

Wilken as the emperor was an odd choice. I wasn’t mad at his performance, it didn’t particularly stand out either. He wouldn’t have been my pick as the Padisha Emperor.

Would’ve liked to have seen the actual Count Fenring too, maybe we’ll get him in Messiah. Since the Bene Gesserit alluded to more than once in the film that they had other prospects.

That’s mostly all criticisms of the movie, majority of it is just nitpicks tbh, only the lack of the Spacing Guild I feel like has far wider reaching consequences.

I’ll post about everything I loved later. I gotta work n it’s probably gonna be very long

lmao

very interesting

I felt like if Rey would have stabbed Palpatine in that moment we would have gotten the same water of life sequence Paul had seeing all the ancestors. Ben/Kylo understood that there was a narrow path where they could both rule and defy both sides and what an intriguing timeline that could have been because of the massive war that would have broken out. But, Disney decided to insult everybody's intelligence instead and play it safe.

don't get me started on the sequels again

but yes i agree jj is unoriginal and bland

so many cool things they could have tried but they just gave everyone what they thought they wanted

these dolby series things they do (for mostly WB releases lol) are super insightful man, could watch hours of this stuff

Fraiser really gave us Bats + 2 monumental sci-fi films, A1 cinematographer imo

Had those exact thoughts after seeing it too. I read the first book again recently & had those expectations fresh in my mind before going into pt. 2, esp with Fenring/Thufir’s characters. some of the palace intrigue on Geidi Prime could’ve been padded out had those two been involved, wouldn’t have even minded if the runtime was longer for it

Frfr he came in that room and told all them niggas YALL P**** AND CANT NONE OF YALL DO S*** TO ME! The goosebumps was rising in me

we really been on the internet too long. Cause I thought about this exact scene being clipped and meme’d. Soon as he kissed the Baron back, and gave that look I was like “he serving c***” i felt so ashamed

Paul has already foreseen that Chani will ultimately come back to his side. So her leaving imo doesn’t mean much. I think she’ll already be pregnant at the start of Dune Messiah tbfh. They was f***ing pretty regularly from how much time they spent together to me at least.

I’m willing to bed Denis will take that part of the books The Baron haunting Alia and transfer that plot point to Paul as a way to show him going down the evil/wrong path.

These meme can never die

Just realized that Dune is almost a billion dollar franchise. They only need to make like $50 million more until Part 1 and 2 box office will surpass a billion

Spoiled myself on how Paul's journey ends.

The entire storykind fo sucks after this

We need a dune video game so bad

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I don't think he ever wants to even touch Children of Dune

has said his Trilogy would be Dune Part 1, Dune Part 2, Dune Messiah Part 3

said he'd be a producer and even laughed about how Children and later books would be harder to adapt

One of the best movies this whole decade, no exaggeration

Someone has to be working on it.
Money money money

bruhhh