Dune 2 is a Wake-Up Call for Hollywood

Dune Part 2 looks incredible, sounds incredible and is an unlike most blockbusters in theaters. In this video I talk about why the industry needs to embrace making films this way.

[captainmidnight]

What did you think of Dune Part 2?
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[brandonl.garcia]

I'll admit while watching Dune i started wondering how expensive this movie was compared to recent super hero movies. I was blown away by the fact that it has a smaller budget.

[TruffleShuffle_]

Finding a director that loves the source material I think is the key to future. Not just getting big names

[yunwang]

When I first saw Dune 1, it is soooo magnetic that I went to read the books immediately.

For Dune2, it is the only film so far in my life that I want to watch it a second time directly.

[thibaud]

Dude, this video came out the exact second I left the cinema.

Are you the Lisan Al Gaib?

[JuvyThaKid]

Dune has some of the best CGI I've ever seen. None of it feels cartoony or triggers that part of the brain where you go, "Well that's obviously fake." Absolutely loved both parts!

[udkline]

Honestly, his films remind me SO MUCH of cinema from the 60s and 70s. Naturally, they didn't have ornithopters and CG sandworms, but the attention to visual detail feels like a callback to the masters of the past. And you're right, a lot of "blockbuster" filmmakers just don't shoot for that these days.

[trueblueedits]

There's almost an old Hollywood epic feel to Dune. The way it only has dialogue when it needs but has so much non verbal spectacle to build the world and give it that scale and lived in feeling is amazing.

[aaaalexandredo]

I actually felt like a kid again watching this film. Just felt like something spectacular, immersive and exciting, which I haven’t seen in a very long time

[cradio]

I absolutely cannot wait until this comes out on 4K and I can watch both parts together, as one film. It’s gonna be insane.

[davinci]

Everyone says it’s a cgi v practical debate but more of a pre-production v post production. Too many current blockbusters have been rushed to get shot so little sets, costumes and script edits have been made and it’s all pushed to post prediction for the vfx to carry everything

[sterling]

What I said elsewhere is that it's the first movie I'd seen in a while where it felt like the CGI effects were in service of an artistic vision, rather than like shiny keys being jangled trying to entertain a baby. Just being able to sit in a movie theater and feel a movie wash over you rather than feel your mind picking restlessly at the creators' choices feels incredibly luxurious. I enjoyed it a lot.

[prettyaverage]

Dune and Dune Part Two completely blew me away. It has the scale, love and care that EVERY blockbuster movie should have, and having a director that knows how to approach the project is key to that. I am so thrilled by these movies and can only hope they mean a change in the way Hollywood makes these big budget movies

[tjrawesome]

As someone who regularly invites friends over for "watch all 3 extended editions of LotR in a day, everyone bring snacks". I'm excited in a few months to add a Dune part 1&2 watch straight through w/ friends.

[Jawunleashed]

My favorite part about Dune is that it feels like a cinematic VISION... It doesn't feel formulaic or as if it's trying to meet a certain studio's quota.
Everyone who worked on Dune seems to understand what makes the project so special, and as I was sitting in the theater, I could FEEL that.

I know so many people in the audience are hungry for stories and projects that feel like they were handled with love and care. And Dune IS that film.

[Liftinglinguist]

Several scenes in this movie left me watching in open-mouthed amazement, it's such a well-crafted movie. And the music and sound design is absolutely brilliant along with it.

[corpuzs]

I actually shed tears while watching Dune part 2. My girlfriend asked if I was okay and was worried at why I was crying. I had a hard time explaining to her that it wasn't the plot or the events of the movie... But it was that someone took a book/story that is very important to me and treated it with enthusiasm and respect. So many marvel movies, Star wars movies, hell even just remakes in general have let me down with the lack of detail and passion, and to see this treatment gave me hope for the future of movies.

I felt engaged, enchanted, enveloped while watching this movie and I haven't felt that in a while.

[TheAzureFae]

When the screen began to fade to black, I nearly cried out because, even after 3 hours, I wanted it to continue.

[tfpphrj]

I saw this movie, and I have kept having flashbacks from certain scenes. I think that you made me understand why my subconscious is still trying to tell me what a beautiful experience it was and I should cherish it more

[MRMcNUGGET]

Dune 1&2 are the perfect examples of what happens when a great director with a clear vision is given creative control over a project they are truly passionate about/understand. Villeneuve has quite literally waited his whole life to make these movies, as he drew out an entire storyboard for Dune when he was a kid!