Paul: "I'm not a messiah, I'm just a normal guy" *later* Stilgar: "He's so humble, he has to be the messiah"

Anyone else notice that the un-drugged prisoner was an atreides officer that got a LOT of screen time in the first film? He's at almost every military/royal meeting scene. Excellent touch

The scene after Jessica takes the water of life, where it hard cuts to Stilgar and his friends saying “of course the messiah would be to humble to say he’s the messiah” killed me

Lady Jessica using the voice on a Fremen soldier, despite the fact he would follow her commands even without the voice, shows how ruthless she is. She is not giving any chance for mistakes.

My favorite performance from the film has to be Javier Bardem's Stilgar. He starts off funny and charismatic but over the course of the film you realize the horror and tragedy of his character as he slowly transforms from Paul's friend and mentor to little more than a fanatical follower, consumed by the prophecy. "Lead them to paradise," followed by Stilgar, without question or hesitation, leading the Fedaykin legions to begin their holy war across the stars. Serious chills. The whole ending sequence, and especially that line - "Lead them to paradise" - will be burned into my mind for a long time.

They almost squeezed a Monty Python bit in verbatim lmao. "I am not the Messiah, don't you understand? Honestly!" "...Only the TRUE messiah denies his divinity!" "What!? What sort of chance does that give me? Alright I AM the messiah!" "HE IS!!! HE IS THE MESSIAH!!!"

I think the unborn Alia makes more sense in the movie, it means that you don't have to try and show a 2 year old that can walk and talk like a regular adult. Means that by movie 3 we can have a more grown up Alia who's still young but very sharp.

Paul says "this one died like an animal" when he kills the Baron, and he stabs him through the neck, so it's clearly still a Gom Jabbar reference

This needs the 4hour director's cut treatment. I feel like there's just so much more to it than what we were given.

That moment he tells the reverend mother "Silence!" and she gets knocked back was a nice touch since he was pissed she used the voice on him in part 1 and he flaunted his new power level on her. Quick moment but loved it.

Paul: *does nothing* Stilgar: LISAN AL GAIB

The cinematography was beautiful. Remember the scene after Paul wakes up from drinking the water of life? The room is full of people and it focuses in on Jessica, and the lights go dim, and it swings around to Paul in an empty room. It was like a play. I love that

The juxtaposition of the Harkon burning the Atreides body with the Fremen burning the Sadukar and Harkon bodies at the end was perfect.

It reminded me of Monty Python's Life of Brian. "I'm not the messiah!" ..."He's so humble. He must be the messiah!" Lol, it was the exact same scene.

When jesscia takes the water of life. I loved that you see the old reverend mother just look in shock and say "what have we done. She's pregnant " and just gets sent to the shadow relam lol. Although you saw how scared she was when she realized that and how badly she fucked up. But Jessica was EVIL in this. Like the whole monolog about them starting with the south because they were more likely to fall in line and in order to praise Paul and then the strong would be next. That was haunting like basically what a cult leader would sound like. Fear is a a strong weapon and jesscia used it so damn well

The only unbelieveable part of the movie is that Lea Seydoux needed to use the voice to get someones seed.

Upon reflection, the Bene Gesserit claiming to have manipulated the Emperor into the conspiracy against the Atreides serves 2 things: 1. It explains my question with the book that the emperor couldn't have done it without at least the BG's tacit approval, and 2. It justifies spending so little screentime on the Emperor since he is just another chesspiece in the BG's game.

I think Austin butler performance was incredible as well. Obviously he looked very creepy but the way he seemed to emulate Stellan skargard voice was very cool.

Paul: "lead them to paradise" The Fremen: "OH BOY, HERE I GO KILLING AGAIN!"

that scene of lady jessica talking with alia and the shot spanning to her eerie face and how she said that "she must start with the weak" literally gave me chills

I loved the addition of the black sun on Geidi Prime, and the possibility that the effects of that sun is what changed the Harkonnens so much.

People keep saying Timothee’s performance improved since the last movie … but it seems they’re not understanding he’s portraying a different Paul in the first movie.

Paul: I’m not the messiah. Fremen: He is the messiah!!!

The Baron’s ear closeup with the ants has to be a David Lynch Blue Velvet homage

Stillgar & all the “He’s too humble” had the whole theater laughing everytime at the premier I was at 😂

When Paul and Gurney meet again was awesome . “I recognized your footsteps old man.”

The princess was perfect casting, her wardrobe was insane.

I love the Feyd-Rautha and Lady Fenring scene. Making him an intelligent calculating sadistic psychopath made for a more dimensional character. Someone asked how he could pass the gom jabbar, and the point should be that he’s in control enough to be human and not an animal (ie a product of Bene Gesserit genetics), but he’s still able to be manipulated.

I find it interesting that Feyd Rautha passed the Gom Jabbar test not through self control, but the fact that he was so far on the other extreme of crazy, that he passed it that way. Definately different from the book version of Feyd, but I really like it.

Paul addressing the Fremen war council was maybe the best part for me.

The way the energy flips after he takes the worm piss, the way he goes from holding back and trying to be a really good guy to full Alexander genghis khan is crazy it’s crazy. This movie is f nuts.

When Paul walks in to kill the Baron reminds me of when Stilgar first meets Leto I. Walking straight through with no regard for non-Fremen authority. Felt so full circle

I interpreted reverend mother calling Irulan her best student as her stroking the ego of the emperor.

Anyone notice when Chani hears Paul propose to Irulan, she does this asynchronous, uncontrollable eye blinking? Like she was making a conscious effort to not let Paul let her valuable tears fall like she did when they fell in love.

The scene where Paul gives the speech at the fremen council is so legendary. I'm generally not a big fan of Tim Chalamet as Paul but for those 2 minutes he dropped one of my favourite performances of all time, PERFECTLY complimented by Javier Bardems zeal. That scene is EVERYTHING. Javier Bardem honest to god deserves best supporting actor of the decade for this movie. Stilgar is such a complex character and he embodies the role as perfectly as Charles Dance does to Tywin

I’ve waited 45 years to see a successful Dune adaptation on the big screen. It’s done, it’s … definitive. A huge fan of the Frank Herbert hexalogy, I realized I’m very comfortable with his changes, though I had doubts about Lady Jessica’s portrayal in Part 1 - much better in Part 2. Ferguson is awesome in both parts, by the way. As a fellow Québécois, I’ve followed Denis’s career climb with awe, amazement and pride since the mid-nineties. Twenty years after LOTR, we have a Duneverse to cherish now. Thanks, Quinn !

"It's not like things are completely peachy between Chani and Irulan in the book Dune Messiah..." Woooah, Quinn, if understatement ever becomes an Olympic discipline, that's your gold medal right there!🤣

My fav part about the Chani changes is that it really gives a clear reason to why Paul loves her so much. There is a line where he says to Ghurney about the Fremen "They used to be friends, now they are followers". Paul is clearly distraught about this but the only person left whom he actually has a genuine human connection with and sees him as human being is Chani. It gives a reason for why his love to her is so deep and why he is willing to make his choice if it means he gets to stay with her. I especially love how Chanis reaction to Paul at the end is of someone who really loves you but is also very dissapointed in you.

I think the decadence of the emperor comes through quite well when he BRINGS HIS OWN TRAVEL PALACE to Arrakis

The nukes into the sandworms coming out of the smoke into the showdown at the Emperors ship is the best action sequence I've ever seen. The film suffers a bit from pacing an abrupt transitions over first hour, but last hour is excellent. 9/10

Best change imo is the difference in opinion between the fremen rather than all of them just believing Paul is the one. Truly reflects the theme of the novels of never falling for blind loyalty along with always questioning your leaders

When the Bene Gesserit go from color (indoors) to infrared (outdoor light) and there Abas go from black to white I was stunned.

My biggest criticism of Dune is that I wish the movie was longer, which is less of a criticism and more of an indication just how much I loved the movie.

The director mentioned in an interview that the focus of this iteration of Dune is on specifically the Bene Gesserit, which is one of the reasons why we don't see Thufir Hawat at all in Dune Part 2. It seems pretty clear that the Bene Gesserit are the villains of this iteration, and with the major twist that Chani doesn't follow Paul at the end of Dune part 2, I'm very excited to see what will happen in the potential sequel, Dune Messiah.

For me the Raban death scene was about him fleeing. He projects the air of a fearless ruthless but really he turns tail in the film a lot. I think the quick non-battle with Gurney just made his arc even richer and more dynamic, he’s sort of tragic in that way.

The best example of how good this film is, is the scene where Paul describes the future after drinking the Worm liquid. A lesser director would have shown visions, but instead we stay on his hand, perfectly describing it. 10/10

The ending of the movie is powerful, “Lead them to paradise” will easily go down as one of the most powerful moments in Deni’s Dune Trilogy. I also like that they portrayed Paul as being very afraid of his own power, because he genuinely cares about the Fremen around him and does not want harm to come to them. One last thing I loved was they gave Paul and Jarvis more time together, learning from other potential realities where Jamis played Stilgar’s role as a mentor.

The moment when Jessica uses the Voice on Chani to fulfill the prophecy was so uncomfortable and violating, I physically squirmed in my seat. Absolutely incredible movie that gets Frank Herbert's message across perfectly.

Thufir Hawat scenes were shot, but unfortunately excluded from the theatrical cut. Stephen McKinley Henderson still gets a Special Thanks credit at the end of the cast. Let’s hope for a director’s cut!

Quinn: the Emperor was underused! The Guild: what about us?

The “SILENCE” moment sent goosebumps and chills over my whole body! They definitely delivered amazing performances.

I am glad that Gurney terminated the bully coward Rabban quickly and unceremoniously, like the Baron: taken out like trash. Neither of these pigs needed to go out like bosses-with any dignity or glory…

When he walked in to the freman council meeting after he woke from drinking the water and challenged everyone there then proved them into kneeling I got so many chills. That performance from Timothy was amazing.

Rebecca Ferguson is incredible in this. She made Jessica my favourite character of the two movies. Fortunately we're sure to get a guild navigator in Messiah.

the fact that there are believers and non believers among the fremen fleshes out their culture but is also a way to remind the audience that Paul should not be followed. I think Herbert was disapointed by the readers who would call Paul the hero of the story, when he is actually dangerous. Villeneuve made sure this was very clear, especially with the reaction of Chani at the end of the movie : "don't follow Paul, be like Chani, stay away from him".

I liked that Chani tries to prevent Paul from succumbing to the mythology that is building up around him.

They really captured how different Paul was before and after the agony transformation. The whole movie hes very pensive and conflicted, trying to figure out how to balance these glimpses of what could and will happen, but after the Agony you can see how different he is. Hes completely sure of himself and what he has to do, he has this terrifying air of menacing intellect and power with all the knowledge he now has access too, that scene where he approaches the sietch with the sandworm behind him was absolutely amazing, I wanted to jump out of my seat and yell. I'm glazing this movie like crazy idc

Paul giving the Baron's body to the desert was a call back to Part 1 when the Baron attempted to give Paul and Jessica's body to the desert.

you just know feyd totally came all over the place when he put his hand in that box

Stilgar just being John Cleese from Life of Brian: "You are the Messiah I ought to know, I've followed a few!"

I am a little sad that Count Fenring isn't in it at all; I thought his relationship with Lady Fenring was interesting and also the encounter between him and Paul and when Paul realizes that Count Fenring was a failed Kwisatz Haderach was an excellent scene.

It was a slow and insidious descent into fanaticism. A well-placed warning of following charismatic leaders. When Paul takes up the mantle and convinces a whole people... chills. I was so scared, right there with Chani. So many incredible moments. What a masterpiece. Villeneuve has made history with these entries. Looking forward to part 3

While I was really looking forward to seeing young Alia in in this version of Dune during the early days, I was shocked how effective (and smart) switching to the eerie and almost alien fetus that Jessica conversed with. It really took their relationship to a while new level and also elevated Alias ethereal presence as a character

The tone of everything was perfect. My favorite scene in P1 was in the tent because that human-alien feel is everything, and that was replicated in the scene with the assembly. When he starts talking about their prayers, making them afraid, saying that they love that fear, and saying he is the fearful answer, it's shiver-inducing superb.

Chani in this movie is literally a mouthpiece for Frank Herbert's entire message, and people still aren't getting it. It's insane.

Feyd-Rautha’s birthday battle and celebration must be one of the best sci-fi scenes ever put to film. Austin Butler portrays him perfectly with his pure psychotic self-interest. Thank you for this summary, Quinn, as always your passion shines strongly.

Having the North Fremen be less superstitious and have slightly different beliefs work great for the movie, also having Chani be from the north just adds to it. 👍

Idk why other videos about this movie appeared higher in the search result than yours. Yours is the one i was looking for and it delivers as always!!

When the Bene Geserit take awaken their past memories, it is of ALL their ancestors to the beginning of humanity, not just other Bene Geserits.

I kinda like that the emperor is just deposed like that. When most empires end, or change dynasties (China, Rome, Byzantium, etc.) the last emperor is just a shell, not an impressive Augustus or Aurelius. The true decadence is in the fact that the supposed great emperor of the universe is some crusty old guy.

Last night at the theater during the movie, the audience was absolutely silent and still during scenes without music, like the final duel scene. It was eery. And we heard collective gasps getting more and more intense towards the end everytime Jessica and Paul pushed towards the Jihad. I never had an experience like this at a theater. It's as if the whole audience was one massive organism, in perfect synchronicity. Best movie ever.

In the book, Paul confronting the Baron was one of the possible futures Paul saw after having spice for the first time.

My favourite part is when Stilgar tells the Baron to "call it" after he flips a coin.

Coming out of the cinema at the end Dune 2 was like when I came out of the cinema after watching the matrix. Absolutely blown away.

I was so disappointed to not see a single space guild navigator, but then I remembered that the navigators were only mentioned in the first book and didn't actually appear until Dune Messiah. So that kind of gives me hope that there will be more Dune movies in the future. Oh and Feyd was METAL as fuck 🤘🤘

Dennis went with the timeline where Paul says "Hello Grandfather" (Dune, page 244) "He had seen two main branchings along the way ahead--in one he confronted an evil old Baron and said: 'Hello, Grandfather.' The thought of that path and what lay along it sickened him. The other path held long patches of gray obscurity except for peaks of violence. He had seen a warrior religion there, a fire spreading across the universe..." Okay while I don't think Denis will make any fundamental changes it's still so cool to see him twist things like this.

Bardem was fucking brilliant. I found his character quite disturbing towards the end because of the chaotic, fanatic energy he brought to the character that slowly built throughout the movie. The last few scenes of the movie were like a pot boiling over with foreboding chaos and madness growing into a fever pitch. Timothee also gave a performance of a lifetime. That innate change in his character after he drank the blue worm jizz from a more mild and reluctant Duke's son to a straight-up clairvoyant warlord was done perfectly. I don't think the people who are comparing this to the Lord of the Rings trilogy are getting a little carried away, but these movies will definitely go down in history as one of the best movie depictions of written science fiction of all time.

The scene when Paul denies he’s the lisan Al-galib and that just further convinces Stilgar that he is reminds me of The Life of Brian when Brian is being swarmed by his devout followers and that similar scene happens 😆 “what kind of chance does THAT give me?”

There was an element of body horror in the Water of Life scene (the fetus opening her eyes and the pupils dilating/becoming aware in sync with the epic soundtrack) that really got me. It was really well done… I hope the director doesn’t let Jessica “off the hook” for what she did to Alia.

Huh. Just realized the duality here with Paul and his mother regarding the "water of life." When Jessica took it, she gained clear insights into the past; memories of previous Reverend Mothers. Yet when Paul did, he gained clear insights into the *future.* Interesting contrast.

The spacing guild was the strongest pillar of the political tripod main reason why the great houses couldn't unify their forces against Paul since the navigators wouldn't transport troops or anything for them from the fear of the death of the worms leading to no spice production was able to take them out one by one the freman where bad ass but couldn't fight all the great houses at once just the same as the sardikar which is why a balance existed between the Great houses and the emperor

"A work of art" ~ Quinn. Indeed. I remember the BG saying Feyd's main "controllers" were "desire and humiliation," rather than "power and humiliation" as you mentioned. A slight difference, but a significant one in weighing the nuances of the characters. A main theme I see in the Dune saga is the boomerang affect of manipulation.

I was in tears at the end of this film. Sure there were changes, but they STILL MAKE SENSE. That final scene, after Gurney tells the room the great houses have denied to accept his ascension to the throne, Stilgar asks what's next, Paul simply says "take them to paradise", and Stilgar's FANATICAL response was the most powerful moment of cinema I've ever witnessed, the cherry on top being Lady Jessica's response to the Alia fetus: "your brother wages war against the great houses". Oof. Pure bliss. It took me through the entirety of the credits and the lights coming back on in the IMAX theater to compose myself enough to walk away.

I haven't read the book so this might not be that accurate, but it felt like when Jessica and Paul drank the water it was like when Bran became the 3 eyed raven - they "die" and are forever changed. In that sense the Baron won as no Atreides survived in the desert.

I remember that the baron, in the first movie, said “the emperor is a jealous man”. If the emperor was convinced in destroying the Atreides, it was probably through the bene gesserit implanting these ideas on his head: jealousy, control they all seem plausible at the same time, of course, that would be the way I see it.

I was 7 when I first saw "Star Wars A New Hope" in 1977, and I still remember the feeling I had when I left the cinema.... I got that same feeling two days a go when I finished watching Dune (together with by boy), we are about to go and see it again tomorrow on IMAX and I can not wait! After reading the 6 books, the first one few times, I was so happy to see a proper interpretation of this amazing book, in an amazing movie!

To me, this movie and its success represents that there is a want and desire out there for this style of movies, settings and the more esoteric storytelling. And that gives me hope that we may indeed get a Warhammer40k movie someday soon.

I just watched the movie today, and as a long time fan and avid reader, that was spectacular. I was completely floored that the changes denis made were not only intelligent and well thought out, but managed to make this film exceed my expectations. 11/10

I loved the striking images of Dune we get in the first act of the film. The direction showing us Chani's words "My planet Arrakis is so beautiful when the Sun is low". I'd kill for a longer cut with even more long shots of the setting

I am a little less focused on the details. I've read the books, but still a film is a different type of medium. What Denis and Hans delivered is a film that carries that spirit, weirdness and the many conflicting parties and warnings about messiah figures well into this medium with its restrictions. Besides that I also think the movie is an audiovisual spectacle. Some scenes like the fireworks hallway scene on geidi prime are very inspired.

I've never quite appreciated the expression "jaw dropping" before since I've never really had that reaction to something myself, even if I thought it was awesome. But the worms at the ending fuckin got me, it was a total unconscious reaction. And while that was the only moment that got a jaw drop out out of me, the entire thing was packed with excelent craftsmanship from top to bottom. Absolute 10/10 for me, which I would give to part 1 as well, but this surpassed even that.

In Dune 1, Chani says to Paul the Crisknife she gives to Paul to battle Jamis was a gift from her great Aunt. I immediately assumed that to be Liet Kynes.

This is a great review in that it acknowledges the choices made in the adaptation but still allows the adaptation to have it's own life and pros and cons. Incredible film. Incredible achievement for Denis. Loved it.

Can't believe nobody said The Spice Must Flow!

To Chani I'd imagine Paul saying I'll love you as long I breath shows Paul isn't really fully fremen to her, he doesn't fully understand because a fremen would believe their body's waters would mingle together forever. She may not believe that anything remains other than literal water, but the idea that all of the fremen dead's water is in one place together represents hope and sentimentally that Paul just doesn't get. He never becomes fully fremen and that is heartbreaking to her because she knows that means he's not fighting for them, he's using them

After watching the 2nd movie I started re-listening to the books again and got to the part where Paul is having the waking dream in the tent with Jessica and one of the possible futures that he experiences has him standing over the Baron and saying "Hello grandfather". What an awesome nod to the book to have the movie basically show one of these possible paths!

It is absolutely explicitly stated in Dune that Lady Fenring conceived and perhaps even gave birth to a daughter by Feyd Rautha, nothing "implied" about it: The thoughts of Reverend Mother Mohiam during the fight between Feyd and Paul - "Two end products of this long and costly program faced each other in a fight to the death that might easily claim both of them. If both died here that would leave only Feyd-Rautha's bastard daughter, still a baby, an unknown, an unmeasured factor, and Alia, an abomination."

I was really surprised that the Spacing Guild wasn't even mentioned in the movie, They are just absent.

I feel like Villeneuve walked a tightrope. He managed to adapt Dune in such a way that even though he made changes, he kept the core messages and feeling of the books. You have to change things typically when adapting from book to movie, particularly a long book like Dune. The choices all make sense but preserve a lot of the underlying messages of the book.

It always stood out to me that Paul chose "Muad'Dib" as his warrior name. The muad'dib, the little kangaroo mouse, is so small and insignificant compared to the wide world of Arrakis, from the fearsome Fremen to the great sandstorms to the mighty sandworms, but it is a tough little critter who survives by finding and making his own water. The same goes for Paul; he brings down the Corrino Dynasty and unites the Great Houses under his rule as the first Emperor of the Atreides Dynasty, but he is only quite a little fellow in a huge galaxy that won't remember either him or his empire when it all goes away in the end. This probably ties into the theme of how ridiculous it is to lust for power so much, from House Corrino using the Sardaukar to terrorize the human race into submission to the Spacing Guild holding a monopoly on spaceflight to the Bene Gesserit seeking to create a godlike superman to serve the Sisterhood. From political power to military power to financial power to scientific power to religious power to even supernatural power, the Universe cares not for the powerplays of men. Men are nothing but mice in the grand scheme of life in the Universe.