I really liked the first movie, but I'm conflicted about this one. I really liked the first half, how Paul was defiant of the whole Messiah thing and seemed to genuinely want to help the Fremen in their struggle against the empire for freedom. I was genuinely surprised because I didn't expect that from the story.
Then he takes the baby worm juice, and now he's fully embracing the whole religious figure thing, is taking center stage in the Fremen struggle and is even using his family/house colonialist crest as a flag.
I thought it was gonna deconstruct the whole white savior trope, but then it ends reinforcing it? That's weird.
To be fair tho, he's being pragmatic since he can now see whole timelines of possible futures and is doing what he needs to assure it reaches the timeline where they are successful.
Well, at least I'm interested to see where it goes. Showing them resisting against the Harkonnen colonizer fucks was great tho lol.
Oh that makes sense. It makes me want to read the books to see how it goes.
you really should, they're awesome!
While there's still tons to criticize because it was the 60s/70s the depictions of women in (most) of Herbert's original books is so much better than in other science fiction at the time.
Which makes the books much easier to read because you're not choking constantly on a bunch of casual sexism.
The books are a lot different from the movies. Way more about the space politics.