Kinda blown away by this. Villeneuve is much more ambitious in of imagery and shot composition this time around. The pacing is perfect — one of the slickest three hour chunks of movie you’ll ever see, but with the slick pacing we do lose a sense of time. This segment of the story takes place over the course of years, but here it feels like weeks, which leads to a few moments where a character seems too savvy to “new” information. 

This is a small smaaaall smaaaaaalllll complaint, because there’s barely time to ruminate on such things. Dune: Part Two MOVES, culminating in a breathless, intense, wildly exciting final act that not only preserves the novel’s prescient (and dark) themes, but gives the story a sense of completion that the first film was missing by design. 

To put it simply, I love that something as gigantic and strange as Dune has become a mainstream success. If Dune can now fill my Star Wars hole now that the latter has become boring, I will be a happy boy. 

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