Dune Part Two

Futura!!!

Whatsisname!

And that guy!

And the wrestler!

The weird thing, when this movie was released, I was all “oh, I hated the first Dune movie, so I’m never gonna watch this one”, but then I checked my blog post about that movie — and I totally misremembered. I loved it! Why didn’t I remember that? So weird.

Anyway, that just goes to show: You should always blog what movies you’re watching. And now I’m watching Part Two.

Futura!

It’s Zimmerman!

I respect that there’s no recap — “as you know, Paul, you’re the son of a king who was killed by the eeevil Harkonnen in the previous movie” — but I have to admit I’m slightly confused. I don’t remember these people! But still, I’m enjoying this a lot! So far.

Hang on… that apostrophe isn’t a Futura apostrophe! What’s going on!

See?

TSK TSK VILLENEUVE! YOU ARE DISSAPOINT

Aww.

Oh right — I’ve seen this shot before.

Somebody was tweeting comparisons between the bluray version and the Max version, and I thought it looked kinda fake, but indeed, the bluray version is very horizontal.

You gotta admit that it’s a bit confusing that they cast a woman 12 years older than Timothee to play Timothee’s mother.

That’s not Sting!

Are we black and white now!?

Wow, that’s a cosy hotel room. Kinda like the one I stayed at in London last week — it had black rubber floors.

OK, I’m a bit bored now. It’s, I guess, kinda brave to have a movie start with 90 minutes without much plot, and basically being a training sequence. And it’s been entertaining mostly, but now it’s kinda sagging.

Hopefully the movie is going to start now — there’s a bit more than an hour to go.

It’s a bit amusing that the Eeevil Sting Guy’s Evil Genius plan is just to actually bomb the Fremen instead of, like, running around and being shot at by them. That’s so… genius. And evil!

Man, these Arabs have excellent sound systems… Paul was ranting in the middle there, but all these hundreds of thousands of people could hear him.

Hey, it’s Post Atreides.

I think I have that headpiece.

These algorithmically generated crowds just look silly. And why didn’t the worms eat all the soldiers anyway?

I liked this… but I have to admit to being bored a bit, too. It’s not that the movie is overlong (at almost three hours) really — there’s nothing that feel superfluous, exactly. In many ways it feels like it’s recapping a story? I.e., perhaps it could have been longer?

I think the parts that were most boring were when we had to go through plot points. Like, when Paul drank the Secret Potion — that felt like we were going through the motions. While the more offhand, less plot-driven scenes were more entertaining?

But I did like it, anyway. And it was fun watching Stellan have so much fun playing the eeeevilest guy.

It also felt like the middle part of a trilogy, but I guess it’s unsure whether there’ll be any further Dune movies?

Dune Part Two. Denis Villeneuve. 2024. ⚃