Saw Dune Part Two for the second time today, what a great film! I really want to learn Chakobsa and use it with my friends as a secret language.
7 months ago · 👍 m0xee, gritty, danrl
I agree! I think Chani was very poorly charactarized, but it's a proper *film* adaptation that communicates a lot of the same feeling from the novel. I do like how the Reverend Mother says
There are no sides.
at the end of the film; nobody's a "good guy" in Dune. · 7 months ago
Regardless of flaws in characterisation or so, I thought the cinematography and audio were incredible, among the best I've *ever* seen in a Hollywood film. I don't know how the books do it, but Paul feels more like a historic figure, a "great man", than a protagonist you're meant to identify with. · 7 months ago
It might have failed commercially if it had the same pacing at the first movie, but in terms of pure artistic value, it would have been a better choice IMO 🤷 · 7 months ago
I didn't like it as much as most — far from disappointment and not a bad movie by any means, but it's very different from the first one — which had almost no story, but was important for exposition, and it had great atmosphere. The second one is packed with events, but that atmosphere — it's gone! Chani doesn't feel enigmatic, she doesn't even feel like Chani anymore, she's good old Zendaya, looking for fentanyl — or spice in this case 😅
Again, it's not a bad movie, but they shouldn't have made the pacing so vastly different. There were enough of things to tell about, enough for two movies. · 7 months ago