I had to laugh about “Dune Part 2”...
Part 2 of a remake of a remake....
Hollywood is a joke.
Hollywoods expiration date is past due. very few films are watchable anymore which is why I stick to TCM.
It’s a remake of a first-time release, and to be fair, Lynch’s Dune was difficult to follow if you didn’t already know the story. It had some great visuals, since they “borrowed” a lot of Giger’s ideas from Jodorowski’s failed attempt at the story. And Villeneuve seems to have done a good job so far of taking advantage of advances in cinematography to better bring the universe of Dune to life.
Some of the characters are a little weak (Liet should be a man, because he’s supposed to secretly be a Fremen Sietch leader, as well as Chani’s father, Momoa as Idaho is basically just being Momoa, and Lady Jessica is poorly cast), but the characters that are strong more than compensate.
Isaac I think did a better job as Duke Leto than Prochnow did, and Josh Brolin does an excellent job as the “ugly lump of a man” that Gurney Halleck is supposed to be.
Dune and Dune 2 are/were for the immature, who always fall for style over substance.