Dune: Part Two is incredible - Spoiler Review 

I love Paul Atreides I can’t wait to see all the billions of people he will save

I appreciate that Florence Pugh’s Princess Irulan pulled a Queen Amidala by changing from one elaborate costume to another while being held hostage

Cant wait for the inevitable happy ending of the Dune franchise

Tommy Lee Jones could've played the Emperor, in a reunion with Brolin and Bardem. Call it No Desert for Old Fremen.

It was so wholesome how the movie ended with the Fremen going to say hi to everyone in the galaxy. Perhaps they’ll even say hi to 60 billion people!

"The Atreides are the good guys, and the Harkonnen are the bad guys" Oh boy, Paul Atreides is my favorite scifi hero of all time! I love how he uses the power of truth and justice to inspire the Fremen to be better people, and saves billions of lives all across the universe!

Fun fact - at one point they were going to give these films titles other than Part 1 and Part 2. The original Dune was just going to be Dune, but Part 2 had several names under consideration. Some include Dune: Prophet and Dune: Muab’dib. However, since Paul’s transformation occurs around consuming the azure water of life taken from the juvenile sand worm, it was nearly called Dune: Blue Harvest. Coincidentally that’s the working title of the original Star Wars and to avoid confusion, they just stuck with Part 2. (Also considered: Deuxne, 2UNE, and Dune 2: Dune it Again)

As I recall, the book explained pretty well how to get on the worm. The hook separates scales and exposes fleshy bits underneath, then the worm rotates itself so as to keep the exposed part on top. It actually makes perfect sense and I always loved that. But what I’ve always wondered… ever since reading the book 40 years ago… is *how the hell do you get off?*

Those inky fireworks made me think of the alien language in Arrival.

Stilgars constant “he’s the messiah!” bit reminded me of Life of Brian. Best movie of the year only complaint is James and Mason didn’t talk longer about it

Giedi Prime was shot all in Infrared, that's why actual fireworks looked like that.

The song "Arrival" that thumps in the background while Paul marches to the War Council with Shai Hulud thrashing behind him is just sublime in IMAX or Dolby. The most perfect version of Anakin going to the dark side that we never got. I fucking love Denis Villenueve.

Paul: *blinks* Stilgar: LISAN AL-GAIB! FUUUYOHHHH!!!!!

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Bloody Mr Monday Movies, am I right?

I went in with 'middling' expectations (I expected a well-crafted film by a talented director). I was not prepared for every single shot to be so perfect and iconic. I felt like I was in a trance the whole time, a very impressive movie.

Yeah, from now on all references to the battle of Arrakeen will be the “Fracas on Arrakis”

That final "Lead them to Paradise" was just heartbreaking, everything could have worked out but the Great Houses wanted to be greedy. Instead, billions will die now.

So its the benne gesserit that are in such precise control of their bodies that can decide on the kid's gender, and it was lady Jessica who decided to give Leto a son, selfishly and out of love, thus going against the order

I was crying laughing when Christopher Walken appeared on screen and said "Muad'dib" in his accent/cadence. completely zapped me out of the movie, but i still loved it.

The issue with Alia killing the Baron isn't that it is a bad scene, in fact its an amazing scene in the book - really shocking and sinister. The issue is how well can you ever translate a fully aware and articulate toddler to film. Lynch's Dune tried it and it was very odd, real uncanny valley stuff. I think Villeneuve simply wanted to avoid it. Another commenter suggested Jessica killing the Baron on Alia's behalf and, while logistically, it might of been weird to have Jessica so close to a still ongoing battle, the spirit of the original kill may have been better fulfilled.

I think casting Jared Leto as a giant dried out worm-man would be a bit on the nose.

I love at the end when someone says “what’s your name?” and timmy turns says “Paul……Sandworm.”

I sure love Paul's rise to power. Seems like a very cool guy who would never do a genocide or two

Austin Butler was a pleasant surprise and he completely transformed himself for this role. Once Upon a Time…, Elvis, Dune. The guy is truly a master of disguises. Walken didn’t work when Batista did because we are used to seeing Batista in Guardians.

That scene during the meeting of leaders was so powerful.

I'm furious the movie didn't end with Timothee Chamalet looking directly into the camera and saying: "I am Emperor Paul Atrides, Emperor Paul Atreides nutz!"

Be-Be-Benny and the Jeseret

The baby killing the Baron was one of my favourite things in the book actually haha The Fremen kids are all insane fighters just like the adults so I love that they kidnap the sister who they think is just a baby and then she stabs him with a poison dart and watches him die

From what I’ve seen, I can’t wait to see Paul Atreides stay a humble man who lives a happy peaceful life with the Fremen!

The Giedi Prime (Harkonnen planet) aesthetic is inspired by H. R. Ginger (Famous artist and creator of the Alien design in Alien). He was originally contracted to design the Harkonnen planet designs for the first attempted Dune adaptation made by Jodorowsky. I imagine they stuck to that aesthetic as a homage - which works absolutely beautifully. Absolutely stunning visuals in an already visually stunning film.

I actually loved Walken as the emperor, just an odd old man twisted around the fingers of the bene. I get that some people can’t separate some actors from their roles, but to me it was actually perfect.

Bautista said in an interview that he felt very lucky to get this role because big WWE guys like him usually get type-casted with bland action roles. So everyone out there wondering, it wasn't just the women who got to spread their wings a bit with this movie.

Someone like Charles Dance would've brought a lot more presence to the role of The Emperor. Wish a few more blockbusters were as tactile & grounded as both Dune movies! The visuals are obviously incredible but dialogue's still important, both go hand-in-hand to make a truly great movie!

That was the most thrilling battle charge since Charge of the Rohirrim. I would have paid a second ticket to make it lasted a bit longer.

4:38 since you brought up Rebel Moon, I feel like Denis Villeneuve is what Zack Snyder feels like he is, in his mind.

Surely you recall pre-existing the Christopher Walken Dune connection with the "Weapon of Choice" music video. He deserved this role.

I remember years ago in 2017 I would download your videos and bring them out to sea on me on my navy ship and they would bring me smiles in sometimes a gloom environment. Your humor is a notch above the rest thank y’all. Don’t ever lose ur spice

Nerd power go Pilots in Dune are humanoids floating in a vat of spice. By foreseeing the future they can warp without achieving one if the futures where they smash into a rock

I liked the first one, but didnt think it was great... By the time it finished, this film was quite possibly the best sci-fi film I've ever seen, I was blown away. Every bit if this film is visually incredible, the sound deaign is some of the best I've ever heard, the acting is top notch from everyone, it is just soooo good!

16:35 the reason we use green screen now primarily is that CMOS digital sensors have twice as many green photosites as they do blue or red. It makes for a finer end result when you’re doing compositing work. Filmmakers still use blue screens tho because green is a far more luminous color and has the negative effect of spilling a ton on the foreground when it’s lit which is not ideal.

The spice not only allows guild navigation and mind expansion but it also increases lifespan by 3 to 4x and you dont get sick. These movies didnt really make that clear

Hear me out : Jeremy Irons as emperor

Very much looking forward to watching this review of Spider Man (you forgot to update your tags)

My favorite line is when the white guy complains about the spice in the food

I really liked Christopher walken as the emperor. He was this passive, pathetic old man just holding on to power for the sake of it. I think it worked

I feel so bad for Walken, because he is a good actor and he was well cast for the role. But he did so well as an SNL host, that he can't be taken seriously anymore!

there is probably an in book explanation, but i dont understand why anybody lets those scheming witches hang around and doesnt go full order 66 on them.

I went out of my way to see this in IMAX, and it was absolutely worth it. The scene where Paul rides a Shai-Hulud, and I know it sounds cliche, genuinely felt like I was there. The score, the visuals, the sound design - just perfect. Probably my favourite scene of both parts.

Matt Berry would have been an amazing emperor.

The ending of the movie was heart-breaking. Chani coming to realise that the man she loved is gone, and all that's left is a manipulative, corrupted monster was just gut-wrenching to watch. Zendaya did such a great job.

I can confirm that the reviewers Mason mentioned are incorrect. Somehow I made it this far without seeing the first Dune. I meant to then decided to wait till just before seeing part 2. However a friend wanted to go and I just didn't have time before the day we went. I read a quick recap of the important names I needed to know but otherwise I went in almost cold. Took me a minute but it wasn't all that difficult to follow. I think it is because Denis knows how to tell a visual story. There was never a point I felt lost and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm going to watch part 1 then go back and see part 2 again and see if it makes a difference actually seeing the first one.

Mason discrediting Timothèe’s acting credits when he doesn’t even know his credits is hilarious.

Just FYI, it was detailed exactly how one rides a worm in the books. You have to hook a scale, exposing it to the sand so the worm rotates and you ride it to the top. This also prevents the worm from submerging under the sand and allows you to guide the direction it travels.

About to board my flight, and need to watch this first. We love you guys!!

Visually stunning but where was the Spacing Guild??? You can’t travel to other planets without!!

I also saw it in D-Box but I didn't plan for it. Booked the double feature for me and my mates and didn't even see that I booked the D-Box row. I gotta say, I kept that shit on max level throughout both movies and I fucking loved it. Dune is already such a physical experience and the added impacts and shocks made the action scenes (especially that first worm riding scene) incredibly intense. The weed helped, too.

Just got back from the theater, I’m going back tomorrow.. lmao. And probably another few times.. rarely do I watch movies multiple times on the big screen, only when they are truly spectacular do I feel that need of seeing it again and again. This was an 11/10 for me. I’m so happy you all got to feel and experience the same thing I did. The whole movie I was in awe and many scenes made my jaw drop. Can’t wait for tomorrow! 😭

I think walken as the emperor works fine, he is supposed to be a really weak emperor, to the point of being afraid of a single house beeing too strong at the landsraad, the atreides

Can’t wait for the peace and prosperity Paul will bring to billions of people.

16:28 maso it’s because green is the furthest thing from a person where we have typically reddish skin so it would mess with how you look

I am just sad they didn't have Paul do the chest/ground splitting yell at the end of the duel with Faid. I was so amped up for that. Everything else was brilliant.

The i got two guns bit (one for you now and one in the future) is genuinely a great line for Paul to say 😂 love hearing Tombstone get praise

Watching this on mute to listen to the podcast later but still give the engagement to the notification

Okay it might have been in the appendices but the method of mounting and riding a worm is very well covered in the book.

22:32 “I’m not sheddin tears so I fuckin’ dry up in the desert”

As someone that was also put off by Christopher Walken, after thinking about it I've begun to suspect that we're meant to not take the Emperor seriously as he's shown to be an unwitting pawn of the machinations of the Bene Gesserit sisterhood. Not sure if that's the actual motivation, but it helps me accept it more.

“It was implied by all the kisses we did.” 😂😂😂

I'm guessing Christopher Walken was stunt-cast because of the Fatboy Slim "Weapon of Choice" music video. The song lyrics are about Dune.

Big book fan, and I still loved the movie. Part 1 stayed mostly true to the book, while part 2 definitely ventured off more. The changes are more intriguing to me to see how he’s going to wrap this up, since they definitely have future ramifications and he’s only doing 1 more movie. Most of the changes, other than the ending, revolved around not having the small time jump so I can understand why they were made with that in mind. Cant wait for part 3!

Giancarlo Esposito woulda been great as the emperor. I didn’t mind Christopher Walken tho

Timothy chalomet is the perfect Terry McGinnis for Batman beyond

Christopher Walken was perfect, that scene with him and Skarsgård together was great

Been waiting for this one

19:32 Austin Butler was the only main actor who fainted. The arena was like 110° and he had an all-black costume

I'm happy to wait the 5 or 6 years till Part 3. It will be the Best Trilogy Ever!

"I haven't seen anything as visually arresting since Argyll" should probably go on all the posters and physical media.

I'm so excited to see where this series goes, I cant wait to see what Chaney does and how they portray Paul

We're getting a "Rendezvous with Rama" movie? Excellent!

The first time I saw it, I was like yeah this is great. The 2nd time, omg I couldn’t believe how amazing it was. Almost flawless. Definitely one of the pillars of Sci-Fi from now on.

Should’ve had Brian cox as Emperor

16:15 The shift to green-screens is mostly because digital cameras tend to have twice as many photosensors for green as they do for blue (Bayer patterns) so green screen is less "noisy" and error prone than blue-screens. Green is also closer to the centre of the human perceptual range so it tends to have more balanced lighting (particularly under lighting with black-body profiles where red is overlit, blue is underlit and green is just right).

Can't believe I watched Dune part 2 and didn't say it's Dunen time even once

40 years of watching movies and i’ll honestly say I just watched one of the best movies ive ever seen. Its hard to express but I feel like I watched a masterpiece and I haven’t felt like that in…a long…long time

Brilliant film. Technically spectacular, amazing performances. One question: What the fuck happened to thufir hawat

I loved part 1, and I am so excited to see part two!

Oh and about Christopher Walken, his old music video dance Dune reference connection put to the side, you make good points that he could have all these different concepts to work with, but within the context of this film it sort of fits, if you take into account the implication the benne gesserit control the emperor, with the whole implication it was them who ordered the destruction of house Atreides through the emperor, right, so for him to be this silly old guy, it fits more than it should. But I've nothing but love for Walken and I'm totally biased, xoxo

Can't watch this review yet, haven't seen it but very excited!! Just wanted to say hi. Hi everyone 👋

Should've been called "The Fracas on Arrakis". Total missed opportunity

Denis villeneuve : "I don't remember movies by their dialogue Movie: "I am your father"

The Emperor is not an old man in the books. I would have liked to see Benecio Del Toro get back together with Villeneuve in a crazy throne room on Kaitain.

I think James needs to understand that Walken was destined for this role since he starred in the music video for Fat Boy Slim's Weapon of Choice and the lyrics are literally about Dune.

Star Wars is literally based on Dune.

12:39 That's funny because apparently the name _Harkonnen_ was inspired by the Finnish surname _Härkönen_ (which is also a verification that the way it's pronounced in Villeneuve's movies is the correct way)

After seeing Reckless Kelly for the first time a few days ago, this was easily the second best movie I’ve seen in months, if not longer.

Walken took me out of it unfortunately and my question is how do they get off the worm especially when you got lots of old people and those baskets. How do they get all them off without being brutally hurt. Jump and roll I guess lol

Saw it in 1570 imax. was absolutely killer, cant wait to do a pt 1 and 2 double feature

In an ideal world (if he hadn’t died years ago) I think David Bowie would have made the perfect emperor in Dune

I actually love Christoper W in this. Although i kept thinking of “RING A DING DING” from hairspray hahaha. BUT its good to see him back into something serious

I think the problem with dialogue isn't dialogue as a tool itself but some writers using it as a crutch. It can't be the only point of interaction between the film and the audience. And thats why awful movies usually have awful dialogue. They just use dialogue to deliver exposition and shitty lore dumps. "THIS IS KATANA, SHE'S GOT MY BACK. I WOULD ADVISE NOT GETTING KILLED BY HER. HER SWORD TRAPS THE SOULS OF ITS VICTIMS" Like come on, Rebel Moon and Netlfix The Last Airbender. Stop giving the audience wikipedia articles for dialogue. It should be used in conjunction with film language to deliver ideas and emotions. Case in point: Literally any Tarantino movie but ima single out the opening scene of Inglourious Basterds for a masterful display of tension, blocking, and character in whats literally just a 10 min conversation. The push and pull between the Farmer and Hans is just pure kino. I'd take 10 minutes of that any day over Rebel Moon expousing how great a leader General Titus is every 5 minutes then never showing it.