Dune, part two. It's here. That which we did not know if we were going to get after part one has happened. Prayers were sent out. Prayers were received, prayers answered.
Review embargoes lifted. So now let's talk about Dune, part two.
So Dune, part two is. Well, it's exactly what it sounds like. To be honest, I feel like I don't need to explain minute, but I guess I will. It's part two of Dune, picking up right where part one left off. Essentially, this is the coming of age chapter for Paulatrade is he and his mother, Lady Jessica, they're hanging out with the Fremen.
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And he will become Fremen. He'll become Muadib. Everything we've heard about and seen in other media. All the while, the Harkonnens are like, this muadib character is causing problems. We need to wipe out some fremen.
And I will say, the first hour of this movie, I was kind of worried about it as I was going into know because it was a love story. Nothing wrong with that. In fact, I think Hollywood has this weird phobia of love stories. But when I was seeing the trailers and the tv spots, I was like, oh, is this gonna feel like some ya novel, young adult novel bullshit? Are we bringing that back?
Oh, God. Ballad of songbirds and snakes just came out. Oh, my. It needs to stay dead. I was pleasantly surprised that the first hour of this movie is my favorite hour of the movie.
I was rooting for them with their young love growing. I was cheering Paul Atreides on as he went through his trials. You're proud with him and his accomplishments. This coming of age story really clicked with me. The story of this young man whose entire world was just burned to the ground, threw his soul down to his bones, which were thrown down onto this desert planet in which he will rebuild himself.
Better to fulfill his destiny. I was behind all of it. Man, this movie gripped me. This does benefit from the fact that this is part two. Introduction was done in part one.
Now we're seeing where they go from there. So I'll answer the very obvious question. If it somehow crosses anyone's mind. Yes, you need to watch part one before you watch part two. However, you do have new characters.
That would be Austin Butler as Sade. No surprise that he was cast in this movie. When this movie was being cast, there was a lot of chatter about him in the. It's kind of. Yeah, he's kind of a shoe in.
We need someone to play a psychopath. You already got the smolder as we saw in the Elvis movie. How about this? Don't look all charming and shit while you're doing the smolder. Yeah, stone face smolder.
There you go. True Harkonnen, psychopath. I still say Harkonnen. I know they say Harkonnen in here. I will always say Harkonnen.
It's my programming at this point. Sting in the 1984 dune was having more fun being a psychopath. Austin Butler Thade was like, yeah, that guy will kill you if he's just bored. But I thought he was great as Thade. Even though sometimes it sounded like he was doing a Stellan Skarsgard impersonation.
What do you want me to do about Iraq is my baron? I was like, oh, that's not the baron talking. That was weird. Christopher Walken was shocking casting. Unlike Austin Butler.
I was like, what was the conversation that got him the movie? There was no conversation. It was a casting that I feel like Denis Villeneuve was like, that's so crazy. It just might work. He doesn't have a large role.
This movie is so enormous. There's so much going on that a lot of characters don't have a lot of screen time. I mean, to be honest, it's Timothy Chalamet and Zendaya have the most screen time. I mean, it should be that way. The entire story does revolve around them, but it's not even close.
This is Timothy Chalamet, Zendaya, other folks. So Christopher Walken doesn't even have a lot of screen time. I feel like even stellan as Vladimir Harkonnen got pushed to the back. It's kind of a bummer. I like his character.
It was sad to see less of him. But, you know, you just want to hear the emperor be like, who is this muadib, may I ask? It's worth it just for that. And I appreciate that you feel the scope and scale. Most of the movie takes place on Arrakis.
It'd be easy to lose the galactic scope of things. But it is still there. You feel the scope of the scheming that has led us to this point. The Bene Gesserit scheming, the Harkonnen scheming. We're not just dealing with spatial scope.
We are dealing with time. Because this is all a long time coming. A lot of planning. It's also felt in these surprising religious tones in here. Deals with religion, spirituality, belief.
The differences in those concepts, how they can be used to control people. There's some solid, heavy themes they're dealing with here. And Javier Bardem is the main vessel bringing that to the forefront. He's the believer, and he is unexpectedly funny about it. Not in that forced humor kind of way you see a lot in movies.
No, just in a very real way. The funny thing comes from just how real he's being about it. I just monologued about certain examples. I feel like we're bordering on spoilers, so they're gone now. Power of editing.
I will say there were certain scenes in this movie that felt fast tracked or cut short. You feel like, yeah, that's something that's probably on the cutting room floor, which is an interesting way of just saying, yeah, this two hour, 45 minutes movie probably could have been 3 hours, 15 minutes, but here we are. It felt that way. I don't know what to say. There are some more moments, and we'll say the final act definitely dealing with spoilers there.
So just going to say, yeah, they're in the final act, but some moments that I felt should have been more impactful just kind of happened. Timothy Chalamet and Zendaya, I thought were great together. I will say Timothy Chalamet gets to a point in this movie where I have to buy him as more of a leader than I did before. And at that point, that's when I'm like, I don't see that as much. He's great as this boy royalty, Paul Atreides.
He's great in this coming of age arc with him and the Fremen. But there comes a point, as you saw in the trailer, where he's all silent. He's more. He's become a man, a leader now. And I was like, but has he?
If you're a book, Pierce, this movie might irritate you. I just know when I got out of the theater, a bunch of critics talking to each other as we're all walking to our cars, all the conversations around me wrapped into the ambience of the parking lot was, well, in the book they did. Why did they do this in the movie? Movie did this, but the book. So if you're a book purist, you might have some problems with the movie.
Shocker. I know it's not the case in every adaptation ever said no one ever, folks, just like this. If you liked or loved Dune part one, you will like or love Dune, part two. There's even a part of me that's like, if you didn't like part one, like, if your gripe about part one was, yeah, it feels like half a movie. I would argue that you can check out part two because now you have the whole story.
I mean, granted, it's in 5 hours, but you do have it. But if you didn't like part one because you don't like the world or the lore, you're probably not going to like part two. It's very Dune world oriented and lore heavy. But I enjoyed that. I was surprised that I enjoyed learning about the culture of the Fremen as much as I did.
And same epic, gorgeous visuals. Wanted to save this for last. Wanted to leave on this note. Cinematographer Greg Frazier is so good at the job. Cinematographer for Dune part one, Dune part two, the Batman, the creator.
His movies just look so gorgeous. And all of them, when people are like, hey, what'd you like most about the movie? I'm like, that's hard to pinpoint, but the visuals just speak to me. They draw me into the world. It's its own language.
Don't know how else to explain it. He's so good at the job. I feel like he should be a big, bold name on the poster or the know when it's really trying to sell you. It's like, oh, from this person who directed this movie, I legit feel like from cinematographer Greg Frazier should be a thing. It should be.
His name should be a selling point. All that is to say the movie looks beautiful. I love Dune part one. I love Dune part two. Dune part two is worth watching and worth buying on Blu ray.
It'll sit on my shelf next to Dune part one because my fellow hard copy purists, you know what that's all about. I'm curious to see how Dune part two is watching it as intended, as part two coming right off of part one. Dune part one. It ends, you pop in Dune part two, you watch that, have the whole five hour plus experience. I watched Dune part one recently enough, a couple of weeks ago, but that's still a bit removed.
I imagine that would be a pretty epic cinematic experience. But for my money, for right now, I thought Dune part two was great. All right, so Dune part two, have you seen it? What did you think about it? Or what's your favorite iteration, your favorite version of Dune on screen?
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Dune Season 2 release date is February 25, 2024.
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