Dune Part 2 is a Monumental Achievement

Hopefully most of you watching this video have already come out and supported the incredible work of Deni Ville newv and his team in creating Dune

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two, but for those of you who are still on the fence about watching it, don't necessarily They didn't care how slow it was. The pacing of the first movie or maybe you're just not sure Den can really deliver again. Let me summarize this entire review in this introductory section before getting into the details. Dune, the second

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, stands head to head and possibly even surpasses the best. All-time science fiction sequels that in many ways make mincemeat of films like Terminator 2 Empire Strikes Back or even Denise Odin Blade Runner 2049 through a visceral and visual combination of an impressive kinetic rhythm of scenery that will make your pacemaker does not work correctly. a score composed by Hans with mad, masculine ferocity and a host of aess actors who convert the energy level of an indie film into their performances.

Deni has created the definitive science fiction film. It's more of a buzz phrase or buzzword these days to say that a movie has something for everyone and I've already seen a few people say that about the second part, whether as a casual reviewer on IMDb or as a reviewer. professional, and I completely disagree with that statement, since I think it is much more of a film. tastier than the first, as Deni mentioned in an interview that he was sitting down with Christopher Nolan on the IMAX YouTube channel and mentioned that he wanted this to feel like a film that was a direct continuation of what came before, but simultaneously, also a movie where someone could skip the first one but still feel like they got something out of this one without missing too much.

I don't necessarily know if I'd say it totally nailed it but the fact that I feel like I can show The Second Part for someone who hasn't seen the first

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and would still enjoy it really speaks volumes like I said it's a lot more enjoyable but it does without sacrificing the great strangeness, philosophical meanings, and Rockus action that fueled the franchise in the first place. Dune Part 2 isn't more of the same, it's a completely different kind of pacing and delivery, but it didn't sacrifice Denise's vision and, frankly, there were no amount of trailer rewatches or YouTube video essays like this one.

It will do justice to what the movie theater experience is really like. If you thought the endgame had energy. If you thought The Force Awakens had a powerful tension in the room. You haven't experienced anything. This movie lasted practically 2 and a half hours of the entire movie. The audience in a packed IMAX theater is almost silent and holding their breath as the film simply bombards you with sensory moment after sensory moment and if that didn't convince you, maybe in the next section we gave them something to look forward to, that doesn't help. your knife splinters and shatters, so the second part of Dune begins literally, almost directly after the first movie, with maybe a few minutes here and there with Paul and his mother, Mrs.

Jessica, traveling through Aras' sand

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s along with Sgar and Chie as they go to find the Fman strongholds are soon ambushed by Harken and forces who are still hunting down the last remnants of resistance they can find in an effort to regain control of the fields. of spices after the events of the first film after Paul Jessica and fman dispatch the heinens and a dizzying visual spectacle, the man passes to the SI and thus begins Paul's next steps to become the Fable leis son alib, but Do you really believe in the prophecy or is it all just an elaborate plan put together by much older and much older people? smarter than him, and while gar may still be quick to believe that chny and the other fman aren't as quick to accept, paul and his mother will have a lot more decision-making power than he could have ever imagined.

But growing fanaticism also means an increase. In tension and rumors of survival are beginning to circulate among the Harkins and news slowly reaches the royal family of Emperor Shadam and his daughter, Princess Iron, so the hinin will continue to play their cards effectively and recover the immense wealth. by oracus Will the Emperor become so infatuated with the idea of ​​control and dynasty that mere rumors from Paul are enough to displace his throne? These are all questions raised by the second part of Dune, but I don't really want to spoil how any of them play out, since I know a lot of people have read the books, but a lot of people are also new to this world, but I am.

I also just want to mention how effectively Deni expands on characters that had minimal screen time in the first film while also being confident enough to take some screen time away from others and never making it feel like He sacrificed something to make those decisions. Start with sgar because Javier Bardam owns this role and I felt incredibly sad and pleased with the time Deni gave him to develop this idea. See that Sgar believes Lis Alib's prophecy, but is not immediately convinced that Paul is that messianic figure now over the course of the next two and a half hours, although we watch as Stillar slowly transitions from a tired, hopeless man to Battle this enthusiastic teacher who has this new student under his wing to become a fervent Paul Fanatic who will wage a holy war for him in the blink of an eye or with a simple phrase.

Shulu decides today whether you become fman or die. Sar's infectious personality isn't just due to Bardem's charisma even though he pours out But because of how human he feels as a character, it's easy to point the finger at him and yell Zealot at him, but he sums it up beautifully in perhaps the most powerful quote from the movie. For me, I don't care if I think I think at the end of the day, who cares if Lisan AL is real or if it's even Paul if he's real, what matters is what Paul represents and what he does for Fran, but see how that power will be used.

Through the Eyes of the Star's Enthusiasm is tragic and heartbreaking as the credits roll, and speaking of Freman, Chie gets many more opportunities to shine; She's actually in over 10 minutes of the movie and this might be the first time since Euphoria that I really enjoyed a Zena performance, even though I don't like Euphoria that much. Zena is a shining star on that show. In this movie, she brings to the screen a very nuanced performance of CH, you know, they're both captivated by Paul as a personality, but incredibly so. tired of anyone who seems to want to use fman instead of freeing him see chie in this movie paul is not a savior but she desperately wishes he could also be the one to start a rebellion to bring ar rockus back to what was.

She once was, but when her emotions begin to cloud her logic and she falls in love with Paul during the months and months he trains with Stillar, the true tragedy of this entire story really begins to come into focus. Can she let go of that love and effort? to see AR rockus free of control and if so, what caveats will there be instead? Ultimately, she'll just see one ruler for another and if he's not meant to be Paul, then what was the point of her also serving as an excellent J? She also wants to stay still, since she doesn't see the oral Alay as anything more than a plot by Ben Jeser to maintain control over the people who have been subjected to them for a long time, but the real horror of it is that she doesn't really want to.

Has doubts. because he sees through Ben azeret's lies per se, but rather because he sees no immediate proof that the opposite is true, it's almost as if, in a really sad way, he almost wants to believe, but he just can't because Ben Jeser will never free Oracus, so why would Lisa Alib talk about Ben Jeser, although Rebecca Ferguson gives a sinister and chilling performance as Lady Jessica's evolution begins to come full circle? I can't really expand on that much, but see the degradation. from his loving and caring nature in the first film to this more lurking in the shadows style of personality, he's actually really scary at times.

I had my doubts that Ferguson would deliver knowing how Jessica evolves from the books. She pleasantly surprised me with how well she possessed it. owning this role and before we talk about some of the supporting characters, in terms of owning roles, if I had any doubts about the fact that Timothy Shalom was going to step completely into Paul's shoes and live up to what people expected of the character , leave it. Me, a massage, a massage, let me calm her doubts right now during the first hour of this movie. Timothy Shalamay continues that kind of Nuance portrayal of a young man who's actually a little overwhelmed by everything that's going on in his life.

I mean, he lost. his father, his father, lost everything that would have come with it, you know, almost all of his friends, his strength, everything has been decimated, all he has left is himself and his mother, and already there's a gap every time. between the two, because whether it is Jessica's continued development into becoming a reverend mother to Ben, Jeser or whether that is because Paul's Visions become increasingly entangled within their own logic and begin to mix and match. combining these different realities, there is this overwhelming feeling that I have said this before. but the tragedy with Paul's character and again for anyone who has read the books will probably fill you with a lot of hope about where this story is going and only for the first hour or so will you really feel a little sad about it. because Timothy Shalam does a very good job of playing this character who desperately wants to be liked despite everything that has happened, at the same time he wants to do right by his father and even if there is this belief that his father doesn't knew.

I want I wouldn't want him to seek revenge he just can't let things go he still has to find some way to hit back at the Harkin and some way to hit back at what was taken from him and whether or not that involves fman and his mother in this point he's not entirely sure he cares, but then you introduce the sgar characters and even more so Chie and he's starting to see this kind of more nuanced idea of ​​what he can actually do through stillar and he sees an opportunity. learn a new type of war and a new way of thinking and for him he can see it as an opportunity to grow as a leader, to grow as a warrior and to use his combined knowledge of listening tactics to convince the man to come with him in a kind campaign to get oracus back from them and it's all based on this idea of ​​you know the logic and the tactics and the planning of things through sgar, he sees an opportunity to do that and all that time it's because he doesn't believe either. in this prophecy that he will be the perhapsat hak or even you know Ira's prophecy that he will be the lisan alib, he just sees these opportunities as something more real, something more rooted in reality, but then through Chie, he also has to deal with this incredibly unexpected thing. in his life where despite having these visions and being confused about who this mysterious woman is in his dreams, then he meets this person that he wants to fall in love with and over the course of months and months he does and it becomes something that tears it apart.

Away from these different ideas, CU is now conflicted and being pulled in essentially four different directions. He's being dragged into One Direction by a star who desperately wants to believe he's Lis, but he doesn't believe he is, but he believes that star is still posing. a valuable tactical set of knowledge, then they are taking him in another direction, which is his love for Chie and he just wants you to know a normal life or at least a regular relationship despite all the complexities and problems that it means to live on a rock. would bring with it, then he is also being pushed in a third direction by his mother, who wants him to not only use what he is learning, but also include it in these prophecies and these lies spread by Ben Azire in an effort to really, really, boost. a campaign that you know at this point in the movie and the story he just doesn't believe, he just doesn't see a reasoning for it and in fact he quotes in the movie that he is heartbroken by what Ben to Jeser has done to him. fman and rockus as a whole, but you also have a fourth direction that's being pulled, which is these Visions that encompass him, where in the first movie they just scared him and in this movie you're starting to see where he's starting to get a you're a little more comfortable with this notion, but now you're also getting more and more confused because you're seeing visions of realities that aren't going to happen or realities that you're not entirely sure are going to happen, okay, I'm here, I am here.

It's been a while since you had one of those nightmares, tell me what it was, sometimes they're horrible, sometimes they're reassuring, but the further we go into the movie and the more involved he becomes with his mother, Ben Jerit. Stoar and Chie, the visions and their meanings begin tomix with each other and you start to wonder how many of these Visions are really Paul's and how many of them are being kidnapped by people of greater power who just know how to manipulate him and this. idea being pulled in these four different directions and with so many of those directions encompassing different parts of his personality and what he wants to achieve, you just get this tremendous sense of weight from Shalom, who is just encompassing all of these different ideas and all of these directions. different. and he's doing it so confidently and so convincingly that you just absorb it in such a natural way as a photosynthetic way that you don't even necessarily realize it, but then when those big heavy chapter-closing moments happen, you just feel like it.

You sit there and think about the last 20 minutes of the movie that happened and you become holy. I didn't think that was really going to happen. This all makes a lot of sense and I think you really can't see it any better than how Deni takes a lot of the visions you saw in the first movie and bastardizes them and then shows the kind of person Paul is becoming and the director he's becoming. you will end up choosing. I won't spoil it, but there is a point where I would say about an hour 45 into this movie, maybe a little more, maybe a little less depending.

I can't really remember Paul's character transcending The Next Step. You'll know exactly what I'm talking about when it happens and it's terrifying and it's incredible, and the change that Timothy Shalamay makes in the way he acts. he brings to the character just Paul's imposing physical nature and just the emotional dominance he then displays is a big tonal difference, but not a tonal Whiplash. You see it coming, he who can destroy a thing has real control over it, you hope it is. He doesn't come and when he does you are horrified. I can't praise Timothy Shalom enough for this role and I hope this movie does well enough to have a final chapter about the Dune Messiah kids, which Deni has said he wants to do because he's holy.

I need more of Timothy Shalom as PA exchanges, he's amazing in this movie and should be a favorite for awards season. The nun at the bar moves on, she leaves Paul and that huge, shiny amount she just gave to Timothy Shalom. Butler and Skarsgard give excellent performances as Rabon fed Raa and Vladimir respectively. I mean, the three of them are like different styles of psychopaths, as Rabon is vocally violent and similar to a human battering ram, it's effective in its own right, you know, but woefully inadequate. to a multitude of tasks that require more than just pure strength and yet he can't see anything but the breakable door in front of him and it really shouldn't surprise anyone who has kept up with his career, but Batista owns this paper. and his cruel physical presence makes every scene with him so exciting as you wonder how well he will react to anything.

I loved seeing Batista embrace his Arc villain and felt like he was definitely making fun of us a lot in the first one. movie about how he was going to encompass his character in the sequel and let me tell you, he embraced it. Rabon is scary and I loved him, but if he was scary, he fades away, Rotha is downright scary. Austin Butler, I mean, he's quickly making a name for himself, you know, I don't need to tell you that and while I'm not going to lie to you, I'm still a little unconvinced by the hype, he's unrecognizable as Fade Roa and not just because of the makeup in the locker room as if he lives up to Iron's summary of him as psychotic and whether it's the incredible Arena fight on Gady Prime, his outburst on Rabon or his final confrontation with Paul, he just exudes the energy of the Minister that permeates every frame in the who's on screen, he may not really be on the Austin Butler hype train, I'm not here to pick on him or anything, but I gotta admit, man, uh, he sold me on fade rotha 110%.

I mean, Skarsgard is still great as the baron that he really doesn't need. To expand, he doesn't actually get as much screen time as he did in the first movie, but he gets some very satisfying story beats and still gets some opportunities to shine and is still just as intimidating as he was in the first movie. is the scar guard, of course it is, and if you were hoping that screen time wouldn't really be an issue for Florence Pew or Christopher Walkin like it was for Javier Bardam and Zena in the first film, you'll be disappointed because they both They turn out excellent. performances, but they're not really in the movie much, I mean seeing how naturally Deni transitioned from those first two, those second two people, Javier and Zena, from the first movie to having much bigger roles in the second part.

I don't really see Iron. and Saddam's ABS general absences are indicative that there is not enough runtime, but Deni simply understands that his audience and his intelligence follow that this is not the last time we have seen them in part three, I have no doubt that the iron will take center stage and Den knows it really speaks to how much the cast and crew trust him that Den manages to convince these massive names in the talent business to appear in about 10 minutes of a three-hour movie and have less than 100 lines because "It's worth it like it's an outrageous amount of confidence that results in no one feeling like they're upstaging the other and that confidence also creates a very good cast of characters that are feel really believable despite the sci-fi setting, this world is beyond cruelty." I have been fighting the hinin for decades, my family has been fighting them for centuries and what a sacred scene.

Greg Frasier is no stranger to incredible shots and although everyone, including myself, has sung his praises, and rightly so, for his films like Rogue One, The Batman. Like the first part of Mandalorian Dune in Creator, this is his best work yet and I wouldn't be surprised if the Dune franchise wins back-to-back Oscars for best cinematography and this is coming from someone who thinks the cinematography in Batman was like the best thing I've seen in the last 5-10 years, but the second part of Dune just takes a lot from that movie. Fraser's abilities to perform even mundane movements, like tracking vertically like Harkin in soldiers, like floating over a cliff, transitioning from black. and white in the best gay moment or the emergence of a huge arena war in a Sardar crowd, it all seems epic and I hate that word, but the scale of it all is imposing and a downright intimidating time they lived in and the physical sensation of the first.

The CGI film has been beautifully translated into a much larger world and a film that feels more alive than ever and Frasier's incredible shot composition will keep your eyes glued to every delightful frame. I quickly had to go back and expand a little. sequence Prime gay I don't want to, I don't want to say too much because I honestly think you just need to experience it because I really can't, I can't, I can't do it justice, there was a part of me. I was a little worried that the gay sequence in Prime, because it was shot in black and white, I was a little worried that it would take on this tone of, you know, trying to jump on this trend of, you know, big-name directors and like kind of a transition back to this idea of ​​marrying black and white with color film, and while I knew that probably wasn't the case, there was just a part of me that was worried that it just wasn't going to translate. alright um I was totally wrong, it's not even so much that these sections are filmed in black and white because they're not, but it's like the way GD Prime's son looks. creates these different combinations of colors and contrasts is amazing, I was amazed at how they were editing these things together and how they showed different types of liquids, fabrics and textiles and so they looked a certain way because of the way The Sun Shines on GD Prime in the one who was sitting, they were mesmerized by the whole thing, like how did they do this.

I just need a 2 hour behind the scenes breakdown of how they edited the Gaty Prime sequence because I need to know. I need to know how they made this because it looks so cool and so believable and so sci-fi and epic and so weird. It's so good that there's one shot in particular, it's the simplest shot and it's my favorite of all. In the movie, there's Ben a Jzer, who's in these black Stark robes walking down a hallway that's not bathed in sunlight, so it's like colored and then, you know, it transitions into sunlight. in the sand and you see like you know the color like it bleeds out of the frame you say oh yeah that's cool it goes like black and white but then because of the way the G Prime Sun works it turns the black into white for certain fabrics, so they then go into sunlight. and you go from color to no color to almost thermal color where the robes change from black to white like in one shot, it's the coolest thing I've ever seen in the movie and when you see the movie you'll be like Dude, you were right, like I said , arrest is the best way to say it, but it won't just be your eyes that will be arrested and paralyzed, but also your ears.

What if the treaties were still alive? Many people love to mention it. How crazy the sound design has been for Dune and it's so good in this movie it's just as amazing as the first movie and there's a lot more use of similar things that I think a lot of people expected from the first movie, but understandably we don't like it. I'll like a lot of the battles, you know, they're like swords and grunts and choreography. This movie has, you know, physical weapons, it has L weapons and swords, variations on the soundscape and the soundtracks and I like the way it all works.

The sounds and just the kineticism and the punch of it all is very well done, everything has this weight like the whole world, everything has this physical feeling, like when you pick up a gun, you feel like when you're lifting the damn thing that you like it, you feel your biceps flex when a character throws a gun when a Las shot is fired, you feel your heart skip a beat and you think I didn't expect it to sound like it did when there was an explosion. It shakes the entire movie theater, you sit there clutching your seat like it's holy.

I felt that through the screen that's how good the soundscape editing is in this movie and God, the soundtrack is like a constant gas in the ears like Han Zimmer's music, obviously it's no surprise that it's high quality , but it could be like their most unhinged-sounding soundtrack yet, whether it's these truly haunting melodies like those heard on Arena, the hauntingly soft notes of songs like Beginnings or such delicate times, or the bombastic epic of lisan aib, Everything about this The soundtrack is stellar and, once again, I wouldn't be surprised if it wins Hans another Oscar for his title piece.

If you're tired of me just glazing over Denise's artistic prowess, there are a couple of things I think they should have gotten, maybe just a little more attention and one character in particular I wish had more screen time instead from being relegated to just a minor plot point. Now, firstly, there are some pretty egregious bits of ADR that don't sync properly with the scene, as in particular there are a couple of scenes with several human characters sitting on the side of a dune while Paul wanders off to try and ride a worm of sand and some similar background conversations and immediate delivery of lines are simply not at all indicative of what the characters are doing and how. their mouths move.

Another time I noticed it was when Chie is sitting on a hill with Paul and there are two wide shots where she has some lines and Zena's mouth isn't moving at all or isn't in sync with her lines now in general. Those are minor complaints for a three hour movie and I'm sure there are probably similar instances present in the first movie. I just think it was worth mentioning here second. I really wish we had seen more of Leo Sidu's Marar Fenre. You know most people, you know that his role is more than enough for most people who are going to see this movie and it concludes pretty well and sets the stage for part three, but if you know the books, then you know that Margo has a much bigger role at least in the beginning and it would have been nice to have at least gotten some of that, whether in a vision, a flashback or some dialogue between her and Ben, a jeser, maybe like I mean, Give it knows better than me.

So if he really thought there was a way to include that naturally into the story he's already telling, I'm sure he would have done it, so it's a personal complaint rather than a genuine storytelling concern. Just wanted to mention it anyway. I just thought it was a little strange. I mean, overall, the second half of Dune is electrifying. I can comfortably say that you are not prepared for the level of physical, mental and creative exhaustion that this film simply drains out of you, it is so kinetically exhaustive in pace.exciting, tremendously well acted, impeccably scored and shot that you will never notice, almost three hours have passed by the end of the third act, you will be salivating for more and when you take it all in and think about how much this movie made you feel at times without anything else What images and spectacle, you will be surprised that human beings are even capable of making these types of films.

Den used a budget to such perfection that it blows my mind like the scale of this. production and these sets that most filmmakers would object to and he makes everything come out so fluid and effortless that you would be forgiven for thinking that virtually everything was filmed when you finish this movie and say, yeah, no, there's probably a worm of sand. and like Sara Desert, who Den just picked up off the ground, that's how real this all feels, like he understands this process so naturally and effectively that it makes all his filmmakers look bad in comparison, while Nolan has mastered the art of high thinking.

Blockbuster with films like Oppenheimer and Inception Deni has mastered the art of high sentiment. Blockbuster won't leave you confused as a tenant but it will leave you exhausted as The second part of Oppenheimer Dune is not only The Empire Strikes Back of our generation, but it is now the barometer by which all sci-fi sequels should be judged, I mean, such Just like all sci-fi blockbusters in general, it's crazy what this team and their cast do. I'm still trying to come down from the peak of seeing it for the first time. I really don't know if I ever will and I can't wait to get back to theaters and watch it all again.