I found the first film to be a bit on the boring side. A lot of dialogue and a whole lot of nothing going on. Perhaps the Dune films are just not my type of movies but I am willing to give this near 3 hour movie a shot if it is worth watching. So is Dune: Part II as good as most say it is or is it overrated like Inception?
shareI liked it but then I liked the first one too.
Honestly I don't think anyone who doesn't like part one will like part two, it's more of the same and I personally find them to be equal movies so the fact part two is 0.5 higher on IMDb puzzles me.
On a side note, my favorite movies of 2024 were Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot, Transformers One, and Furiosa. I missed out on two high rated movies which are The Wild Robot, and Flow. Definitely want to watch those.
shareIf you didn't like the first one, you should avoid this one. I loved part one, but thought part 2 was just OK at best.
shareIt's just three hours of people staring at sand.
shareNo. It was mostly ground battles and very little substance. Villeneuve also messed up the Fremen really badly in the way they were portrayed, inserting modern-day politics into the dialogue.
He had the northern Fremen doubting the prophecy and calling everything into question, he wrote the Fremen in the southern hemisphere of Arakkis as being fanatical and violent, and everyone kept questioning Stilgar's decisions on everything.
Chani was about as charming as a pile of dung in the desert. There was almost zero chemistry between her and Paul. It took me a few minutes in one scene to even figure out they were having sex, because it was about as romantic as hiding in a bunker in WWII.
They didn't allow Alia to be born, and sped up the timeline of the movie to 8 months, and Alia is reduced to talking through Lady Jessica while she's still pregnant. So instead of toddler Alia being a badass and taking out the Baron near the climax of the movie, they let Paul do it instead.
The scenes on Kaitane were really cheap and boring, and they picked a very plain, boring actress to play Princess Irulan, and put her in the most severe, ugly, armor-themed costumes you could imagine. And they totally wasted Christopher Walken's potential to be an interesting Emperor, and made him dull and boring as a ruler.
One of the dumbest scenes in the second film was the arena scene on Geidi Prime, where the planet supposedly orbits a "black sun," which for no scientifically logical explanation that can be given, bleaches out all colors on Geidi Prime so the world looks black and white to everyone on the surface (impossible, by the way).
Honestly, I was not impressed at all, and angry at the story choices made in this movie. It's worth seeing once and never again.
The first film was really quite good - I was totally on board.
Part Two was "fair/average", with far too many departures from the original story.
Unless someone convinces me otherwise, I probably won't see the third film.