re: Dune Part 2 does not live up to the hype.

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I saw someone in another thread calling it on par with Star Wars/Empire Strikes Back

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The guy that said this is Christopher Nolan. I'd imagine he knows a thing or two about making a movie.

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I don't care what Nolan's credentials are, this is just hyperbole
These do NOT compare to Star Wars, as far as impact.

I'm old enough to have seen Star Wars in the theater in 1977. You need to keep perspective on things;

Star Wars was fricking incredible. It completely outclassed any other SF production, movie or TV, exponentially. Nothing else came ANYWHERE near it. The original Star Trek series was probably the previous top, and people were still watching Flash Gordon serials with Buster Keaton, because nothing made in the 50's or 60's was significantly better from a technical standpoint.

Star Wars ranks up there with the original King Kong in terms of elevating what you can do.

The next ones I would put in that class are LOTR (elevating fantasy to the same tier, and by accomplishing a planned trilogy), and the MCU run from Iron Man to Endgame (for succeeding with a comic book superhero story that ran about 20 movies without a reboot).

The current Dune is "merely" a well-made SF with great production values; it's not redefining the genre.