Just wow. One of the few movies that lived up to the hype and visually it is one of the most stunning films I have ever seen. The whole scene on Giedi Prime is otherworldly and sets the Harkonnens up as a malevolent force that is the complete opposite of the Atreides we see in the first film.

Only complaint is that while the first part was 99% faithful to the book, part two drops to about 90% and also cuts out what I think are pivotal scenes in the book. Still it was never going to be easy to choose what to drop without turning it into a 4 hour movie and overall it all works incredibly well.

[–] purrtastic 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Sounds great. The books are some of my all time favourites but for some reason the first movie didn't leave much of an impression. I'll have to watch it again before seeing this.

[–] terraborra 4 points 8 months ago

Yeah I rewatched part one on Saturday because I couldn’t remember where it finished. What surprised me was how early in the story it wrapped up.

I think because I’ve read the book so many times I’d created false memories of scenes that I thought where in part one but weren’t (e.g. Jamis’ water weighing ceremony). Doesn’t help that there’s the flash forward clairvoyance scenes jumbled in there as well. However, where those false memory scenes were included in part 2 they were much better than what I had imagined.

[–] TagMeInSkipIGotThis 3 points 8 months ago

Yeah I'm a massive fan of the books - have even read all of the spinoffs from Brian? Herbert to "finish" reading the universe.* And I enjoyed the movie for sure but wished it was more. But then i'd rather have these two pretty good Dune movies than all the other versions i've seen on screen before.

*Assuming he hasn't written more since the last lot I got.

[–] TagMeInSkipIGotThis 3 points 8 months ago

I have to wait until i'm off on-call to go see it next week, psyched to watch it at the movies, and then at home as soon as I can find some service with a 4K HDR version.