Comments on: Dune: Part 2

By: MannyJV

MannyJV — Thu, 30 May 2024 00:29:47 +0000

In reply to Me.

I enjoy some banter. Continuous CGI and explosions are boring to the mildly intellectual individual. I’m sick of extraneous action, frequent scene changes, and hollow characters wasting my time and money.

By: Ktuff_morning

Ktuff_morning — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 05:41:38 +0000

In reply to Bunny With A Keyboard.

Let me rephrase; Baron Harkonnen is a hero to us.

By: Bunny With A Keyboard

Bunny With A Keyboard — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 17:04:08 +0000

In reply to Ktuff_morning.

If it was woke, they’d have heroes do stuff like that. Having villains do horrific stuff is completely standard.

By: Ktuff_morning

Ktuff_morning — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 05:21:45 +0000

Worth it or Woke approves that the film retained Baron Harkonnen’s character trait as a homosexual necro-pedophile with the young naked male corpses strewn about his chamber.

By: Mark Jay

Mark Jay — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 08:51:51 +0000

I haven’t read the books and from reading your review I think this really helped me not let the woke elements spoil the movie, because it sounds like it tended to be whenever it wasn’t faithful to the books that they introduced woke ideas. I didn’t really take Chani’s petulant attitude as being woke as I thought it was supposed to be a negative for her character.
I was surprised you didn’t mention that the bad guys (harkonnen) all being white was a woke element, I’d call it circumstantial woke though as it made sense aesthetically.
I also noticed a few anti woke moments and this is the first movie I’ve watched that made me think you may need to have a counter woke\based summary section for some movies. Such as showing so much of the unborn foetus I was genuinely taken aback seeing those images from Hollywood, and the fact she was talking to Jessica while unborn, kind of smashes the debate that ‘it’s not a human it’s just a collection of cells’. A couple of other minor but notable anti woke messages: Baron Harkonnen is grotesquely fat which is the opposite of woke where we’re supposed to think obesity isn’t a barrier to beauty. Secondly the fact the main hero screwed over his girl by declaring he’ll marry another in front of her then looks at Chani as if to say, ‘don’t worry you’ll still be my side piece’. I’m so used to seeing a woman choosing between 2 male lovers i can’t remember the last time I saw this.

By: Austin

Austin — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 16:41:27 +0000

In reply to Nita.

Yeah, putting aside the book (which I know os a big statement), I didn’t feel like Chani’s character seemed unnatural or idealogical. I thought she was an overall wholesome force in Paul’s life and was trying to keep him from corruption and herself from losing her beloved. I certainly felt for her.

I didn’t know about the gender-swapping of Kynes. Revolting, but the actress did a fine job.

What I think is so cool about Austin Butler’s career is that he already has such a wide variety of aesthetics under his belt. Any tribute video to him would be really exciting visually — he’s Elvis, then he’s a pilot, then he’s this hairless, pale psychopath. Definitely living an actor’s dream!

By: Nita

Nita — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 11:26:46 +0000

I really don´t understand all that hatred of Chani. She is a teenager/young adult, of course she is rebellious and emotional. She reacts in a way a young woman would react if her boyfriend was forced into a role of a messiah and nearly died because of that.
Is she supposed to cheer for Paul nearly dying from poison and losing himself to transform into an inhuman being Kwisatz Haderach?
The woke elements are almost non-existent in Villeneuve´s movies. The pointless -swap of Kynes in the first movie was the most annoying, and that was forced by the studio.
The Fremen are a culture of desert-dwelling survivalists, they are based on Middle Easterners, so it makes sense they are mostly brown or tanned. I don´t consider it forced diversity.
There were some “look how badass she is!” moments of Chani killing the enemies in the battle, and when the Haarkonnens captured the other female Fremen they said “she killed 9 of our men”, but these were the only moments which felt like grrrlpower agenda.
Both Dune 1 and 2 are amazing movies, the cinematography is so well-thought, the CGI/VFX looks realistic, the music is unique and fits the scenes perfectly, the INFRARED SCENES on Giedi Prime are brilliant. The actors do great job, especially Austin Butler as Feyd, a psychotic creep , and Timothee Chalamet as Paul. That boy has an acting range many older and more exprienced actors can envy him.

By: Bobby B

Bobby B — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 11:20:58 +0000

I felt they really went out of their way to put down religion. Paul is the kwisatz haderach unless they’re just holding pack half the book for part 3. I don’t think they will do this its standard Hollywood to put down religion.

By: basedsigmagrindset8129-418946124

basedsigmagrindset8129-418946124 — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 21:56:19 +0000

I agree. I HATE WOMAN.

By: Austin

Austin — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 15:56:32 +0000

As someone who hasn’t read the books, the only thing that came off as woke to me was the “men and women are equal here” line. I didn’t think the characters were super-woke in-and-of themselves. I was really impressed that Chalamet was able to (IMO) pull off “commanding”, and Chani seemed justified in her rebellion against the fervor around her.

Also, I actively thought while watching the film that the detailed shots of the growing baby inside Paul’s mom had very pro-life energy. You see how early on in pregnancy she is contrasted with how developed the baby is. Some pro-choice people might think, “Are babies really that formed so early on?”