I preferred Part 1--it took fewer liberties with the plot. In Part 2 I missed Alia, I didn't like the contraction of time the pregnancy forced on the story, and didn't like the different religious factions within the Fremen. I felt the scale of the sietches was not invoked. For me, there were just too many alterations. Having said that, these films leave every other interpretation of _Dune_ in the dust.
Paul didn't choose to start the holy war. In fact, he couldn't stop it. That was the irony of him having all this power and still being unable to stop it. The only way for him to stop it would have been his own death. This leads to him being the tragic hero in that it was a natural consequence of him embracing the power and leadership. Leto II tried to improve upon Paul's work by going down the path that Paul refused with the long term goal of carrying humanity indefinitely into the future.
The opening with all The Atreides being burnt just felt so emotional, no funerals, no graves, no family told just murdered and burnt light years from home but then you see The Fremen burn The Harkonnen at the end and had "you got what you deserved vibes" pretty much a full turn around and then realised it was such a "Dune" move for Denis to do it like that. Paul is not the hero, hes another genocidal revenge driven villian. Why didnt he just take Chani as his new Empress, it wouldnt have made any difference in the film in the book theres a lot more to it than a political move.
Hey nice video, but about 2:26 Dune messiah is a great book, but it’s only like 200 pages and it’s really just a connecting book to transition from Paul to Leto so I wouldn’t consider this the a trilogy but more like a larger quadroligy or hexailogy if they get to all the books
LOTR is the standard of how trilogies should take notes but you should do a original Star Wars trilogy vs LOTR trilogy video and do a descript breakdown on which trilogy takes the victory
I'll say it. With Warhammer coming around some time. I really hope it has the look of the earlier version, in terms of the detail, the color, the weird. I feel like 40k gets far too often forced into some grey, cleaner, newer version. Look at the old 40k art, it was goofy, like a medieval tapestry. Oddly the word I would use to describe the visuals now is, tactical. Tactically visual art. As if the whole world is trying to become Call of Duty, albeit in their theme. Give me back goofball metal, once in a while.
First of all, Villeneuve's Dune is a masterpiece, outstanding in almost every aspect. But if I have to say something in favor of Lynch, it's the unsettling, almost uncomfortable atmosphere he achieved. It's almost like a fever dream, and it does feel like a prophetic tale. And Toto's soundtrack is simply fantastic.
Dune 1 and 2 really are masterpieces of cinema. I know my appreciation and enjoyment for a well written script and visuals over just full on action is different as I've gotten older as I was engaged 100% through each film, a bunch of teenagers infront of me during during were saying mid-film they were bored. I think the directing and acting as well as the visuals for both films were 10/10 and I thoroughly put it up there with some of the best films I've watched.
About 99% of this happened in his head. He is a paranoid schizophrenic. He is the dog killer. The owl woman is imaginary and symbolizes suicide. He only saw her at his absolute lowest when he made it back to his apartment and she never touched him because she wasn’t real, he even peaked in his fucking sock drawer to look for her. The three women adoring over a millionaire in a bunker is a twisted version of the movie he watched earlier. He smells bad not due to a skunk but because his schizophrenic and very common problem for them is they smell absolutely awful and do not remember to bathe. The homeless king at the end was a cop questioning him, see the star on his chest and his tone asking about the biscuits. Everything that he “figures out” about this giant conspiracy theory is solved by shit he already has lying around his apartment. The bird at the end is saying “not a friend. Not a friend. Not a friend”. He also has red paint laying in his apartment.This is way out of order I know but there is a lot of shit like this in the movie.
Paul is NOT an Anti-Hero. An anti hero does not give an F about if what he does is good or bad. he just does things because he can. if that happens to be some heroic sht, than well, thats that. But Paul still has his morals, his ideals. he fought becoming the messiah until the very end. when he was out of options. He realised that the great uprising would happen even without him. So he decided that the Fremen would fare better with him leading them than without his guidance. So he seized control from the fremen council. He knew there was no way to stop them when they were running. He was neither hero nor anti hero. he was just a "normal" guy playing with the shtty hand he was dealt.
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dune part 2 was a major disappointment. there are some serious plot holes. the characters only exist to advance the storyline and their achievements and status feel unearned and uncompelling. comparing this to all time greats is an insult. it had nice visuals.. that's about it
This is possibly why people love A24 so much as well. All of their films have a distinct color palette, or are at least distinctly colored in some way that makes you go, "Ah, A24." Except for The Lighthouse but I will hear nothing on that topic. It's a different beast.
Austin Butler as Feyd Rautha stole every scene he was in. What an incredible addition to the story. The Casting on this couldn't have been any better. Timothée Chalamet Absolutely Incredible in this as well. The Acting is as good as its going to get, the story telling, atmosphere, scale, depth and breadth of the world building is all 100/100.. Edit: Archer is RIGHT OVER THE TARGET @2:33
While Lynch was definetly hurt by the studios and whatnot, the movie had poor acting, poor choice of style and tone. Sure, technology at the time also holds him back a little bit, but the same poor acting, style and tone would exist. Another good thing, the new movies don't try to fully follow the books line by line, they merge some things, take some out, etc. Both new movies are masterpieces. That being said, the books get very crazy, so I hope Villeneuve knows when to stop, because Frank Herbert sure did not, and not all Dune books deserve to become movies.
The only similarity between the movie's "Dune Pt 1 & 2" and the book is the title. The movies steal the names of the characters and sand. This is where the similarity to the book and movies end. Dune 2 violated and deviated further from the book than Dune 1, but indeed they both deviated greatly. I suspect I am not alone in someone who read the book, then watched the movies, hated the movies. It should be criminal for what these people did and someone should go to jail to prevent a catastrophe like this from being repeated. The movies should never have been allowed to have "Dune" in the title. A more appropriate title for the movies would have been "Sand" and "More Sand".
He’s not resisting primal urges (of power ), he is only trying to survive and allow his loved ones to survive. You could call those primal urges, but it’s not about his lust for power, it’s just the trolley problem with him and his loved ones on one side and 60B+ people on the other.
Me seeing another video praising Dune 2: This inspires joy. Me seeing the video implying that The Last Jedi is a functionally good sequel: This also inspires joy. Me seeing the video imply the planned Dune trilogy is comparable to the LOTR films: This inspires great joy. Also, I definitely preferred this film to the first. The first, while still pretty good cinema, didn't quite capture that feeling of being a great scifi epic that this film gets perfectly. There are certain shots in this movie that feel straight out of a fantasy novel: the hazy vision of the massive southern army running from over the dunes, the sandworm cresting behind Paul in the background, left blurry and out of focus, the very concept of having the hero NUKE A MOUNTAIN ON-SCREEN and harnessing the very gods of Arrakis for his conquest, the on-screen transition to the monochromatic arena on Geidi Prime. But I understand that the first film is more contemplative, and rightly so. It's Paul before his mind turns to bloodshed, able to observe the minute details of Arrakis and the mystical nature of the planet that the spice affords him, and it's telling that he looses that capacity after killing a man.
I've just watched the movie, while I love the movie because it's relatable, I also noticed a lot deeper thought on each frame. This video explained it. Splendid video.
