just watched dune part two, and i gotta tell ya, after being blown away by the scope and promise of dune part one, part two seemed a rushed and jumbled mess to me.
i know i'm in the vast minority on this, but part two of course, could have, and should have been expanded into at least two or three separate movies to do the story justice. the majesty of the first movie was mashed into a frenetic eye rolling dash to the finish with nothing happening that should have hit me, with the same tingles up my spine, as when i read it all those decades ago. not one scene or event made me feel anything.
but wait a second did them just defeat the entire galactic empire in the span of 90 seconds. boy that was convenient huh. blech,
i did not like it at all. imma rewatch at 2160 when i can, and maybe come back to edit, but i kept waiting for the cool shyt to start, and they blew on past all the cool shyt for 2 hrs and 45 minutes.
the whole thing was nothin but a dust storm.
I seriously wondered if the release group had messed up the rip, and had scenes missing or in the wrong order. One scene Paul is starting his training, the next that's apparently all done and they're now attacking a harvester. It's not like I wanted a training sequence montage or anything, but movies aren't usually paced like that. There was lots of jumping around in time and space, for quite small scenes (typically of a Harkonian murdering an underling or two).
I'm assuming it'll be like Rogue One, another choppy film that makes sense when you already know where it's going, so I'll re-watch it along with Part One at some point, and hopefully enjoy it more.
That's one of the things I liked about the film. It was pretty jarring at the time but when I'd realised what they'd done I was like "yep, I didn't need to see that. Nice little three or four scenes to show that time has passed and they're becoming integrated with the Fremen." Didn't need to spend any longer on it imo
Now I'm imagining Paul carrying logs on his shoulder through the sand, with Eye of the Tiger playing in the background.