The new Dune 2 trailer may very well be the best trailer for a movie I've ever seen

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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Watched the 2nd Dune movie.

Kinda agree with the disappointment. This one was weirder, for sure.

And yeah, the Chani stuff was awfully disappointing. That's....not how it went. They took Paul's reservations and concerns and just had Chani turn into a heavy and voice them. They essentially turned Paul into something of a warmonger and zealot so that Chani could girlboss, I guess.

And Florence Pugh wasn't...I dunno...elegant enough? I thought that was good casting when I first saw it, but she came across far more...ordinary. i always thought of Irulan as almost ephemeral. Lithe and graceful. Pugh was...not that. She seemed like she was playing a character from Game of Thrones. Perhaps my read on the book character is just wrong - I'll consider that possibility. But it wasn't what I expected. Knowing who she is more in Messiah makes that character portrayal make more sense, but that's NOT who she is in Dune, IMO. They took later versions of her character and moved it forward.

MORE GURNEY!!! Hell, more Lady Margot; what is the point of getting Lea Seydoux play that character and then really just not use her at all? And again, man I love Bardem as Stilgar. That is just perfect work, IMO.

But man did they do a nice job making Feyd set your skin crawling. That's a pretty loathsome character and man did they pull that one off well. That's the same actor that plays Buck in "Masters of the Air" and I definitely wouldn't have pegged that.

But yeah, i think my biggest frustration is setting Stilgar and Chani as opposites. They aren't. I just think they couldn't figure out how to get Paul's inner turmoil into the movie so they used Chani as a ham-fisted expository device. Just seemed a bit lazy to me and if they intend to keep the movie going forward into Messiah I feel like they've backed themselves into a corner.

Agree about Irulan. Just disappointing, imo. Not sure 'ephemeral' is the right descriptor, but "lithe and graceful," yeah I thought that too from the book.


Feyd was great. Almost a shame he's offed so quick.

The ending was just messed up. Hope they can make things work in the next one, but not sure how they're going to do it.






I made a mistake. For some reason since the new Dune movie came out, I've been mixing up Irulan and Lady Jessica. No idea why, lol. But my comments above were really about Lady Jessica. I just wasn't happy about how Florence portrayed her character. As for Irulan, I didn't expect her to be portrayed the way she was either, but it didn't bother me as much as how they decided to depict Jessica.