Dune answered an age old question for me tonight

I doubt they green light the sequels.
And I loved this new Dune

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I doubt they green light the sequels.

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WarnerMedia Studios CEO Ann Sarnoff on #Dune Part Two: “Will we have a sequel to #DuneMovie? If you watch the movie you see how it ends. I think you pretty much know the answer to that.”

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Villeneuve built a solid reality by mixing real world tech and jargon with the Herbert alien magic and mysticism. He dialed back the weirdness to the perfect level. Most directors would overdo it.

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great point. Watching this, having seen Lynch's movie recently (and several times), ... I could follow the plot. I could practically recite lines of script. There's really nothing NEW;
but it's just SO much better.

I would say effects, but only a couple of times, honestly. It's just made so much more... professionally, I guess is the term.

I just got finished watching it and thought it was really well done. Now it’s going to be hard to wait for the next one.

Wife and I went into it knowing nothing except that it had big worms and was based around Spice. That was it.



We actually thought the second half trumped the first half by a good bit. For the casual movie fan, there’s just soooo much to take in for the first half. There’s a lot to take in that by the time you get your bearings, half the movie is over. Granted, we both liked it, but I didn’t really get immersed in the world until the first worm attack. After that, I was in.

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but I felt lost on so much of the backstory.

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Completely agreed. You don’t get a good sense about why House Atreides is feared (are they popular among other houses? Do they have the biggest or best trained military? So much of this you’re just asked to assume and accept.) I also left with questions about who initiated the attack, the Emperor or the Harkonens? Just important info, with there being so much exposition, that felt important that wasn’t given. Ditto for why everyone thinks Paul is the one. Is it because he’s a male truthsayer? And why do two different sets of cultures believe he’s the One? What is the One’s purpose? There’s just a lot that you’re asked to just accept with minimal explanation.

Granted, DV had a lot of work to do just to dumb it down enough for it to be enjoyable, which it was. And there was only so much he could fit in and explain. But I feel like that will alienate some casuals

House Atriedes is one of the most popular and one of the better armies. The emperor by far has the biggest and best army.

The emperor and the Harkonen brokered an agreement because the emperors knows no one would folllw the harkonen in anything and they were efficient.

I don’t think the movie quite pushed hard enough that everyone knew the atriedes were absolutely fricked including the atriedes.

I loved the movie but I did think it was pretty obnoxiously clumsy in certain areas. Movie would have been like 20 minutes shorter if they cut all the visions which I don’t think are necessary yet. I do think in the book we know why Paul is afraid but I couldn’t even here Paul when he starts talking about the crusade

Man, that was so good. Possibly the most visually stunning movie I have ever seen. I knew nothing about Dune going in but I didnt have any trouble following the story, other than certain parts that were hard to understand what was being said. A rewatch on HBOmax with subtitles will help that out. Excellent movie, cant wait to watch it again.

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Dune is like an 11 on the nerd-scale. It's not for everyone.

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the first book is weird I agree but at least coherent.
the rest of the books are batshit insane and dare I say it, too weird for me. I’m fine if (as is likely) this Dune is just two movies

once the endgame with Paul in this book one storyline is done, I doubt there will be a clamor to see any of the rest on film