'dune: part two' is INSANE 

DDDDDUUUUUNNNNNEEEE

Genuinely shocked at how much Denis got away with in Part II. Deeply rooted in religion and overall bleak by its end. They have to let Denis make Messiah

so from what i am hearing, Dune 2 might be the best sequel since Shrek 2?!!

The rock crawled so Dave Bautista could sprint

Paul spends the first act as the protagonist that we're cheering for-- and we can't understand why he is trying to avoid being 'the man". He just keeps muttering about how his destiny is horrible. And as the 3rd act finishes, the audience has emotionally switched places with Paul. He's embraced his role as the blood-soaked messiah and we're wondering why we feel so wary of Paul's ascendancy. It's the ultimate feeling from the reading the book-- why doesn't 'winning' feel like the happy ending that inhabits other Disney-style stories? I saw the film over the weekend in iMax with dozens of other Dune fans... as the lights came up, there was silence as people had to process what they'd just witnessed. Magnificent.

This is a director that is a healthy fanboy we need more directors like villnueve who aren’t up their own ass

Giedi Prime and its Sun were the coolest things I've ever seen in a Sci-Fi movie ever. This is the blockbuster EPIC that audiences have needed for years.

Dune part 1: The Fall of House Atreides, Part 2: The Rise of Paul Muad' dib....plain and simple for such a complex work. LOTR was so good because Peter Jackson loved the source material, same as Denis with Dune.

you can tell Javier Bardem had so much fun shooting this movie

i can't believe that we are living in the same time as a film like this. that this is coming out in my lifetime. i'm seeing it this weekend and i am so so excited

To me Villeneuse have the potential to have an impact on pop culture as big as Star Wars or Lord of the rings, those 2 films were so good and if he deliver a 3rd to conclude this epic run, oh man!

this movie is amazing. i saw it with my dad. he has mild dyslexia so he’s never been a reader but dune is one of the only books he’s ever read on his own. At the end of the movie he was teary and told me he was just so happy bc he’s been waiting 45 years for someone to make this movie. Truly a gift.

Saw dune part two like 15 minutes ago, and came here to say that THIS IS MY FAVOURITE MOVIE AAAHHH!!!!

"I am starting to think he is one of the finest directors working today"... mate, he's reached that status back in 2010 with Incendies. After that, it is his him showing Hollywood how to make timeless classics onwards.

i didn't think madame web could possibly be referenced in this video but here we are

What really got me about this one (and to some degree, the first film) was that I kept wanting to see and learn more about the world and characters, and the pacing is set up to make me a bit anxious that the film is soon going to be over, but then it keeps hitting you with sick new plot details that somehow don't feel rushed. I don't know any other films that have managed to make 3 hours seem like 5, but in a good way.

It's just a cinematic phenomenon, the visuals are insanely astonishing, the acting is fierce. It's a great film, it has all the qualities to awake within you feelings and emotions that are lately rare to experience through film, it's outstanding, it's deep. I'm sure we can all agree that it will imprint itself in cinema's history, in all its mesmerizing fashion, wonderful production- all so beautifully presented. It's so good that keeps you hungry for more, Part Two just came out and here I am yearning for the next.

It only just came out, I've already seen it twice in IMAX and the second time was even better. This is probably the most immense film (literally) I've seen, just because of the size of the desert, machinery, architecture and how every frame is built to emphasise that. But the story is sooo powerful - deliberately didn't read the book so it doesn't spoil the impression. It delivers on every level, literally our age's 'Star Wars'

literally JUST came home from watching dune... i'm absolutely floored by this film. as someone who gave part 1 "only" 4 stars i can say that dune part two might be the best sequel i have ever seen in any franchise. like i don't even know what to say. immaculate. giving a movie 5 stars has never been so easy. (btw, some loser was outside the cinema complaining to his mates that the movie was "boring and the action was super lame" and i was staring him down so bad lmao)

"[Watching Dune: Part Two in theaters] is the kind of thing I'm going to tell my grandchildren about." That sums it up perfectly.

Dune (both parts) is a masterclass in how to adapt a novel for the silver screen. It is as faithful to the spirit and scope of the books as Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings, and in some ways is an even greater achievement. Lord of the Rings is a far more straightforward narrative. Villeneuve had to make strategic changes in order to make the films understandable and digestible in movie form, and when the lights came up after part 2, with many people applauding around me, I was stunned at how well he nailed it. Villeneuve is one of the best directors working today. What a treasure.

With one of the first shots with the anti-gravity suits that look like they're underwater... I was like yeah, this is going to be great.

Seen Dune: Part 2 last Sunday for the prerelease screening. All I Gotta say is… THERE BETTER BE DUNE MESSIAH

Haven't been this excited for a film since ... I don't know ... maybe EVER😅😅🤯🤯 Can't way to see this!

I love your talk about living through an event. I'm 23, and I certainly grew up watching LOTR, but I never saw them as they came out, so I never got to experience them the same way, many others did. I didn't live through that event. This is my turn to do so and I couldn't be happier. I read Dune, Dune Messiah and Children of Dune before Part 1 came out, and I'm a massive fan. I actually shed a tear during the sandworm ride. I have never had such a good time in a theater. I saw Part Two on the 27th of Feb through a double IMAX screening of Part One and Two and it was honestly one of the happiest 6 hours of my life.

You know it’s a good day when Dune does it good day when

My favourite thing about this version, apart from the visual of the Emperors shiny shiny ball on fire, was the time they took developing the romance between Paul and Chani, and the resulting changes they made to Chani's character. When Paul was on a journey of becoming unlikeable and unsympathetic, it was so important to spend extra time learning to like and respect Chani seeing as she's a leader in her own right. She had an actual character with conflicting emotions and she did what she thought was right. That's role model shit!!!! Compared to the David Lynch version where we see Paul and Chani kiss before we see them exchange twelve words of dialogue. That always maddened me. The second half of 1984 Dune felt like a montage, but Part II 2024 felt like a truly epic masterpiece

You know a movie is a masterpiece when it compels you to dig into the original source material. A movie that will be remembered in ages to come

I went to an early fan screening of Dune 2 on the 25th... and goddamn! I agree with everything he said in this video. And coming from a Central Asian/Muslim background, the Arab/Islamic influences in this movie were so cool to witness and it was done just right where it didn't feel like your usual "Muslim man bad" scenario. Timothee Chalamet was amazing! His onscreen presence was incredible! and so was Zendaya's! I'm excited for everyone else to see this!!

This is what it was like to see Blade Runner 2049 on the big screen

I just saw it. You're so right. You explained my feeling so succinctly. I got to live through Star Wars and LOTR and as a movie fan, I never thought I'd feel that feeling again either. This feels like that.

We joke about Rick McCallum saying "it's so dense, every single frame" but this actually is that

I think you’re going to love Rendezvous with Rama, Denis’ next book-to-film adaptation.

Arrival is one of my all-time favorite movies. I didn’t entirely love his Bladerunner, but I left it thinking, “My God. I think this guy actually could do Dune right.” I’m so excited for this. I’m seeing it Saturday.

I love the passion in this review. Absolutely stoked to see this movie

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Was already very excited for this but seeing your glowing review of it makes me even more excited!

I also agree with your casting takes, but was shocked to see you leave out Javier Bardem. That man is an industry legend who really seemed like he put his all into this character. The genuine devotion in his eyes to Paul is haunting and I think he perfectly depicts the transition from somewhat skeptical follower to a completely enraptured zealot. Aside from that, I agree with your sentence at the end. I left that theater thinking that I had just watched the new generation's version of Peter Jackson's LOTR trilogy.

Florence Pugh was the PERFECT Princess Irulan, something about her voice and the accent she does is just 😘🤌 and Austin Butler was so FREAKY its crazy the way he can transform, i kept hearing his voice thinking he was doing a perfect impression of Stellan Skarsgards voice as the Baron, you coukd really feel that they were the same family and the same level of threat

Welp… absolutely fucking stoked, as if I wasn’t already

My only complaint about the film is that it needed to be 3.5 hours long instead of 2.75 hours. So many significant narrative developments were crammed into the last 45 minutes. The audience had absolutely no room to breathe or digest what was happening. If you just move from one impactful scene to the next with little in between it inherently makes those scenes seem LESS impactful. Im pretty sure Paul drank the Shai-Halud poison then resurrected himself then rallied all the Fremen at the tribal meeting then took down the Harkonnen forces all in 30 minutes. The final battle itself (not the duel but the battle to capture the Emperor) was only 5 minutes long. Pacing was a big issue with this movie

EMBRACE THE DUNE AGENDA

Seeing "Incendies" years ago, I was impressed but I could never have guessed that Denis Villeneuve would pull such a tour de force for Dune thus far... But also I've never drunk the Waters of Life.

I feel this. When I left the cinema, a friend asked "are you ok?". I was just walking ahead, looking into the ground - completely oversaturated by "movie".

Lord of the rings was three films that were basically all made (some reshoots etc) at once. When people compare Dune to that achievement it makes me feel like they are dismissing a lot more of Jackson’s talent to spearhead a 10+ hour journey based on nothing but pure gumption. Dune 2 was great! And an achievement of itself. But it doesn’t manage to pull off the long gambit in the same way. He was able to see the response for the first and create FROM that. Hell the script for part 2 isn’t even the same writing team. So there’s changes beneath the hood

Awesome, so happy to hear this is as good as I was hoping for. Been a Dunehead for years and I love the books immensely. I knew the movies could never recreate the same sense of depth and wonder as the books just because of the difference in mediums, but it just feels so good to see an adaptation of Dune on this scale with the right tone and atmosphere. I liked Part One despite being only half the story and missing some important scenes, but I was really hoping for Part Two to hit it out of the park, and it sounds like it did just that. Can't wait to see it.

Saw it last night and I agree with all of what you said. It is incredibly well done! The arena scene along, dear god! The scale, the sounddesign, the choreography! This movie doesn't have set design, but set ARCHITECTURE.

“I’m starting to think, he’s one of our finest directors working today” well yeah, you’re about 5 years late on that take but we accept you fully into the Denis Den regardless.

“That was a big and strange event that I just went to” 😂😂

I just got home from the theater and oh my God you are right on point. It felt like a historic entertainment event, like seeing Star Wars in theaters for the first time or the release date of the last Harry Potter book. Can’t wait for part three

love your vids kasten thx for making me see film differently

Had the honor of watching Dune: part 2 yesterday and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It is most definitely one of the ages. That being said, the ending didn't quite satisfy me in the way I expected it to. Unlike Karsten, I feel like Dune: Messiah is very integral part to this theoretical franchise. Anyhow, a 9/10 as a first impression, and I say that because I am rewatching this movie as soon as possible.

Since it’s coming out so early in the year, I wonder if this will get a lot of attention at next year’s Oscars, like I just wonder if it had come out when it was originally, if it would’ve gone more Oscar nominations… I guess we’ll find out

Beyond the technical achievements, there's so many layers to the film! I just can't stop thinking about each characters' choices and what really drive each of them.

What a wonderful review, Karsten. I'm not even crazy about sci fi and did'nt even have much interest in seeing it and now I feel like I have to. I resonated hard with the 2nd half of this video

We appreciate your insights. You’ll always have our support.

Long live the fighters! Long live cinema!

It’s funny, I didn’t click with Denis’ previous movies much emotionally though I thought they were absolutely stunning, but the second I saw he was going to direct Dune I got excited because I knew that above all else he understands *scale*. The ship rising out of the water on Caladan, the sheer size of the worms, the way humans looked like ants next to spice crawlers, all these things had me excited in part one and eager to see part two. Part two’s Giedi Prime scenes might just be the best thing I’ve seen on the big screen since I first saw Rivendell in the Lord of the Rings.

literally agree with everything you said. especially the last bit about being apart of the theatre expierence as it’s coming out, our generations star wars for sure

The seen where he addresses the fremen in the south after hes fully awakened gave me actual chills, if he doesnt get an oscar I'll he amazed

100% agree with what you said about "living", "experiencing" such a series of movies as it unfolfs!

It's great when a Karsten review gets you more excited for a film that's already out in the US but your British ass has to wait another week

Excellent review. Thank you!

Had to watch it twice , it is so damn good

The cinematography is INSANE. Even the most insignificant scenes are breathtaking. The way they make a desert look full of life is breathtaking. The way they play with dust, fire, light and wind add such a texture to the scenes. and the COSTUME DESIGN!! wow

"airy and grounded" lol made me chuckle. great review, love your attention to detail

I feel as if we are so lucky Dennis was a fan of the book previously, not because I believe that a director has to be a fan of the source material previously to do it justice but because you’d have to be a fan of the book to even attempt the challenge of adapting it. I actually read the first book as the first trailers for Dune 1 were coming out and I instantly knew they had the right director. Have since read the other 5 Frank Herbert novels and I have full confidence he can nail Messiah! I cannot wait!!!!!

Good god I loved seeing it in theaters, I remember seeing the storm approaching as the emperors ship was about t make landfall and was like: ''oh my god are we getting THAT SCENE?'' and then we did, and I loved it.

Great review, thanks for sharing!

gonna watch it this weekend with my younger brother. so damn excited!!!!

Damn hearing that part about never growing up with lotr or star wars but getting to live through this hit hard

saw dune p2 on sunday and i have not been able to think about anything since…. so goooooood 😭

This was one of the most fun theater experiences I’ve ever had

WHAT'D THEY DO TO MY BOY THUFIR???😭

As someone whose favorite book has been Dune before Denis (one of my favorite directors since Blade Runner 2049) even began working on Dune Part I, I loved it. I was a little worried about Part II, but I shouldn’t have been. 10/10. I couldn’t stop geeking after getting out. Planning to watch it in IMAX again next week.

When Timmy whispered “Dune!” In the movie. Ik we had aging classics in our hands 🥹

I'm so glad you compared it to LOTR. I saw fellowship 13 times in theaters. It was all I wanted to do when it came out. Nothing has felt like that since for me except this.

I find myself fortunate being born in 1984. I got to see Star Wars Remastered, LoTR, and Dune in theaters. I never really thought about that till you mentioned feeling about Dune like that.

i fr haven’t been this excited abt a movie since The Way of Water or Endgame, and those two have a big nostalgia factor to them. Can’t wait to watch this movie 5 more times in dolby

I'm glad you got to expierience that feeling in Dune. I felt like I was in 2002 watching LOTR

it's crazy how much is going on in this film, yet it's never hard to follow. truly a masterpiece

I feel the same way! Loved this review

Going to see it tomorrow at BFI cinema in London on 70mm.

I was one of the people who didn't connect with Dune 1, but man Dune 2 had everything! I took my kids to see it today, we all loved it. I'm going with my bf to see it again tomorrow. I hope a lot of people go and watch it because it is epic and I desperately want another one. I need a conclusion!

Bought tickets for IMAX next week, I am very much looking forward to it :)

I’m itching! I’m about to start reading the books! I NEED THAT SPICE!!

Shoutout to the few ‘incendies’ shots, my fav movie 🔥

One of my favorite scenes of Austin butler as Faye was after the massive battle between the freemen and the empire because when Paul stepped in the room he was the only one not terrified of him. That made his presence more felt as a villain.

Dude I agree completely about Denis being one the finest directors working today. Incendies had been enough for me to prove that. Ever since then I’d been hooked on this director. Also on your comment about Zendaya being able to take on a role complex, gritty role. As surprising as this sounds ever since her last Disney show I always wanted to see her take a huge role and I’m glad she’s gotten her opportunity here. I can’t wait to watch this movie and how this whole story is brought to life

❤❤❤ Thank you for expressing my exact feelings in your video. By this I mean - I absolutely share your point on how Denis Villeneuves Dune-Adaptations are this major moment in cinema! I didn't have the opportunity to see those big culturally-influential adaptations like LOTR (etc) in the cinema. So seeing Dune Part 2 in a IMAX-Theatre yesterday was definetly a lifetime-dream come true regarding the point of being part of such a major-cinematic cultural event!

im seeing this in 70mm on sunday. i am unbelievably hyped for this. i loved the first one. sosososososo excited.

Haven't gotten this feeling from a film since seing LOTR for the first time. Being able to see this in an Imax theater was truly lncredible

An absolute masterpiece. I'll be rewatching this at least another time before it leaves cinemas.

Saw it today for the second time! I was contemplating whether or not I should see it again after I saw it yesterday, and I also had that feeling that I could not imagine going through the rest of my life never having experienced it on the big screen again. You are 100% that this is something we will tell our children about one day. Finally a brilliant epic in our generation, and we are living it. Go see it one the big screen!!

Just watched it as a double feature (the first and second one) It was great. The characters were interesting and I hope we see more. It was also pretty funny.

Shoutout to Greig Fraser most impressive DOP performances in the last 3 years

among the greatest science fiction films ever made. I experienced several goosebumps when watching this film.

Going saturday midnight screening. I’m so hyped.

Your video thumbnail is exactly how I've been feeling since the 25th when I got to see it in Imax. Good fucking lord. I feel the same sense of "cultural event" that you describe, too, except I also got to experience it with Harry Potter. Dune feels like the grown-up version of that. What really blows me away is just how much respect the films have for the source material. Every change is carefully considered and engineered to be as faithful to the overall themes of the source material as possible. The changes with Alia, for example, are tough at first if you're a diehard book nerd, but never is the strangeness of her character undermined. She's possibly even creepier than in the book, and she even becomes tied into Paul's revelation regarding the Baron. Even though she's different, nothing will have to be changed about her character to make her work in Dune Messiah. An extreme amount of thought, care, love, and sweat (of course recycled) went into these two films. It feels too good to be true.

Amazing film, I love all the cutaways to Paul walking in the winds of dune