This looks so great. I love that they are focusing on the prophecy and all that entails.

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    Yes!! The Dune movies are the only big movies I’ve been excited about in a loooong time. Between the crappy nostalgia remakes (which never live up to the originals) and the endless superhero franchise churn, the theatre experience has been quite dire for far too long.

    I love that Villeneuve is bringing the craft of movie-making back to blockbuster movies, and doubly so that he’s done it with the Dune stories. And he’s done them justice so far, both the material and with the beauty of the cinematography.

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    I might need to rewatch the first movie before seeing this. I watched the movie before I read the book and I feel like it made little sense and they barely explained anything. I can’t recall them even mentioning why anybody wants spice in the movie. Which leads me to believe that the movie is really for people who have already read the book and know the details of why anything is happening.

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      I definitely remember them trying to explain it at the beginning of the movie, saying it’s necessary for space travel. The movie is just so information dense it’s easy to miss the details. I read the book years before watching the movie and I feel like I caught the large plot points.

      I will definitely watch it again myself before watching the second.

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      You can watch the Alan Smithee movie from 1984, maybe even the extended cut with the butlerian jihad panels. That movie explains everything in all details.

      Btw I quite like Lynch’s adaptation and I like this one too.

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      I read the book recently for the first time and then watched the movie. The entire time I thought this is awesome to see these scenes from the book but I would have absolutely o idea what’s going on if I didn’t just read it

    • I didn’t think the first Dune movie in this series was that good and the reason why was probably as you explained it. I knew there was this rich universe lore behind the series but as someone who hasn’t read the books it didn’t really gel that well or make much sense.

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    I’m upvoting this, but I also won’t watch the trailer since I already know I’m going to see this movie.

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      Same here. Part one was enough of a trailer for me to decide to see part two. Well that and knowing the story from the books.

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      It’s been years since I’ve stopped spoiling movies for myself and I no longer watch trailers. I do like to jump into discussions about the trailers to get the general vibe.

      But it’s so satisfying to discover the whole look and every beat of the movie for the first time when actually watching the movie. Yeah, I’ve read the book, and seen Lynch’s adaptation and even the TV series but I’d rather wait.

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        Yeah it’s funny- the trailer “spoils” the plot but only if you already know the whole plot from the books and can pick out the major plot points during the fast-moving trailer. If you don’t know the story, you will probably only see some cool action sequences and character shots with some impactful dialog.

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    This looks glorious. Can’t wait to watch this at an odd time at the cinemas so it’s empty

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    They slipped in a quick glimpse of the Paul and Gurney reunion in this trailer. One of my favorite scenes from the book.

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      The man seems to have some Broadway musical background.
      Shaddam Corrino IV, The Padisha Song And Dance Emperor!

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    Definitely looking forward to part 2. Part one just looked so beautiful, so picturesque.

    They hit on all the plot points and it felt like they didn’t leave out any of the details (from what I remember from reading the book).

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      I only watched the movie once, but IIRC they missed a fairly substantial subplot about Gurney Halleck strongly believing that Jessica had betrayed the Atreides. Other than that, I was pretty happy with what they did and didn’t decide to cut for time.

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        There was a few things like that or the dinner I thought they could add in only at the cost of removing some scenes of Xendaya in the desert, but I have a feeling there was a requirement to have a certain amount of her for press materials lol.

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    "Who rules here? I rule here! I rule on every square inch of Arrakis! This is my ducal fief whether the Emperor says yea or nay! "

    Looks like a really good delivery of this line.

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      I don’t think I have been this excited for a movie in years. I loved part one, and now think I might go re read the books again.

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        I loved Part 1 so much that as soon as I returned from the cinema I torrented it, so I could hear the dialogue

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        There was an interview where he said he wanted to adapt Messiah as a third film

        https://nerdist.com/article/dune-movie-trilogy-messiah-denis-villeneuve/

        Villeneuve revealed that he has envisioned not just a two-part adaptation of Dune, but its sequel novel Dune Messiah as well. In response to question by Screen Rant‘s Ash Crossan, Villeneuve said, “The thing I envision, the adaptation of two books, Dune and Dune Messiah. We decided to split the first novel in two, so now we are at three movies. Those movies are very long to make. For my mental sanity, I decided to just dream about three movies.”

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              Yea, it’s pretty weird but also perfectly inline. Granted it jumps forward like 3400 years or something, and Leto Atreides is a freaking worm…

              I know some people don’t like the books that Frank Herbert’s son wrote, but I like all the lore that was in the Legends of Dune series and explanations why the Atreides and Harkonens are rivals.

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        Messiah is the sequel novel to Dune so Messiah movie would probably not be part 3… more like Dune 2 Part 1.

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    I loved part 1, it was such a refreshing movie in terms of storytelling, writing, cinematography. Super excited for part 2

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      Part one was the most cliche movie I’ve seen. Bad guys are bad, good guys are good, kid is the chosen one, parents get killed. Hopefully part 2 will be better.