new movie Dune: Part 2Directed by Denis Villeneuve, adapted from the second half of Frank Herbert’s classic novel dune. Science fiction author Matthew Kressel was blown away by the film’s stunning visuals.
“I was on edge the whole movie,” Kreisel said in episode 563 of the film. Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast. “This is one of the best movies I’ve ever seen.”
TV screenwriter Andrea Kyle,lifetime dune fans, calls Dune: Part 2 A perfect movie. “It was like a religious experience,” she said. “Let’s be honest. It’s that awesome feeling you get in church if you’re very religious.”
Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Host David Barr Cotley loved it Dune: Part 2but warns dune Purists may need to adjust their expectations. “The movie looks like basically a rewrite of the book,” he said. “A lot of scenes that I don’t think are in the book – I don’t remember them. A lot of things have changed dramatically. They’re basically 99-100% good changes in my opinion, but compared to the first movie , they seemed to make pretty dramatic changes to the material.”
Science fiction writer Rajan Khanna has mixed feelings about this Dune: Part 2but glad it helps create more dune fan. “It was exciting to have something in modern language that had been in my head for a long time, like spices, sandworms, that kind of thing,” he said. “I’m happy to see something like this succeed. It’s always great when something we love finally finds an audience and does well.”
Listen to the full interview with Matthew Kressel, Andrea Kail and Rajan Khanna in Episode 563 Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy (more than). And check out some of the key points from the discussion below.
Rajan Khanna is dune and Dune: Part 2:
The first movie has to be set in a lot of language, especially if you’re not used to it dune, How the World Works, How Technology Works, Shields and more. They were very careful in the first movie to show how the shield worked, with red meaning something was getting through. So I think in this movie they have to say, “You saw the first movie, you know how it works, now we can offload it to you,” and I think that’s certainly going to be to its advantage.
Andrea Kail on Paul Atreides and Chani:
In the book, it’s more like “oh, he dreamed about her, it’s fate,” but we don’t see them actually falling in love. I don’t feel it. Here we see a love story, we see why they fall in love, it’s sweet, it’s quiet, it’s real. I understand why they love each other. This was one of the parts that made me cry, during the dune scene where he tells her about the oceans of Caladan and how to swim in the water, and the scene where she teaches him how to walk on the sand. It’s like watching two kids dance. It’s so beautiful. I was literally in tears.
Matthew Kressel on sandworms:
The early adaptations, the Lynch version and the Syfy version, when they were riding the worm, I thought, “Okay, this looks hard. It’s like a rock wall in the gym. It looks really hard, but I might be able to Make it.” In this movie, I thought, “No way.” Just the speed of it and the enormity of it. How do they know where they are going? There was a lot of sand blowing around. I just thought it was so cool, the fight scene at the end, where they’re riding worms into battle and they’re flying the Atreides flag, you’re like, “Oh my God.” I got chills from that.
David Barr Kirtley on moviegoers:
The fact that this seems to have been so well received by a broad audience is, to me, an encouraging sign that you can make a big-budget, serious sci-fi movie without having to dumb it down or having to make it A “crowd pleaser.” So I think people maybe don’t give audiences enough credit, people will go see this type of movie, even if it’s three hours long, has a depressing ending and so on, if it’s good. That’s another reason why I love this movie and this movie phenomenon.
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