Saw Dune Part 2.

- Visually it was beyond stunning.

- The sound design was unlike anything I have ever heard before.

- Someone finally got the sand worms right.

I have now seen 3 attempts at Dune and no one can do it. The human mind can construct such things that have no analog of replication in the real. So many things have to be dumped from the book to even have a prayer to bring Dune onto the screen.

Ecology? forget it.

Origin of the spice? Nah.

The trifecta conspiracy between CHOAM, the Guild Navigators, and the Emperor against House Atreides? Pffft! That's just to name a few.

I think that the only real way to do this movie is going to have to be a movie in 12 parts, 2 hours each over the span of 2 - 3 years to fit everything in; and that's just from one single book. Imagine doing all six books. Doing movies like this may revive the theater ecosystem (could kill it just as easily I suppose).

I'm not dissing the movie as much as I am celebrating what the human mind can construct when it is free of physicalities.

Still, Dune is a must see event and it has to be in a theater with Dolby Atmos if you can. I presume true iMax would be the penultimate. Damn thing was beautiful.

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fully agreed

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This is to say nothing of the suspicoously absent Fremen orgies

It should have been a long-length tv series. Hour long episodes, 8-12 per season, 5 season committment.

I've never read the books. Watched Dune 1 (7.5/10) the day before Dune 2 (8.5/10) which I think helped the overall experience a lot since it was all fresh. Pretty much agree with all your points: visual marvels, amazing sound/music, engaging story, but felt like I was missing a lot of context for the world overall. Didn't understand why some things were happening (maybe that's just me being an idiot tho). Overall super fun theater experience

Dune is a super read. You certainly don't have to read the other 5 books to get the context but there is A LOT of context.

Would be nice if they released extended director’s cuts of both parts to get more of the nuances, omitted storylines and characters.

This. Apparently they filmed the dinner scene in part 1? Would love to see that.

It’s such a complex book. - hard to turn it into a movie

What do you think of the SciFi Channel version of Dune?

It was ok but I was more impressed that they went all the way through Children of Dune.

Fun experience, but of all the Dunes, the newest adaptation may have omitted the most.