Just Watched DUNE PART 2!! Instant Reaction & Review
what is going on there citizens of the reject Nation we are here right now at IMAX headquarters as we just had our real reject private exclusive Dune part two event this was something that uh we were so excited to be a part of I’m not like a shill for Studios but if there’s one thing I would be a shill for IMX probably the IMAX experience oh 100% I I saw like The Dark Knight and iMac like 10 times this was before the channel ever exist existed on IMAX the way I would explain why it’s important
to see this movie on IMAX is because there are films that are converted to be able to be screened on IMAX and then there’s the other Camp there are movies that are specifically shot with IMAX cameras Dune part two is one of those films meaning this is the version it was meant to be seen in definitive they shot this whole movie with IMAX camera so you get that expanded aspect ratio you get the best quality the best sound this is not me just doing the hype train this is literally the version that our director our
director captain my captain V I still not pronounce his last name he intended for us to see it in this format and for a movie like this which is
it guys so yeah it picks up immediately I would say like two and a half minutes after there’s a counter after the first movie leaves off where you have Paula trates Timothy shalamay and Rebecca Ferguson they’re venturing off to learn the ways of the fman people and then you got the heart conin or Harin I’ve hear two different pronunciations right G what is it is it hard conin I think harinen is what people agree upon we’re on a limited amount of time we got to getkin final answer so we got the they want to continue
spice production but they also want to wipe out the F there’s a whole lot of political Warfare and all these things happening right now I don’t know where to begin because the movie is so like overwhelming so let’s just get the most obvious thing out of the way the visual experience here the visuals here they’re carrying over from what we got from Dune part one whatever you saw from there they are expanding upon it and you get to see some other parts of the Galaxy I just want to talk about the sand the the writing
the sand worm scene could like this sequence I think is going to be talked about for such a long time the way I would liking it and it’s strange to say but you know whenever you see Tom Cruz doing these like crazy stunts and you’re like wow they got the camera there you get to really feel like you’re with really feel the perspective of this death defying act right now yeah yeah yeah it evokes that exact same visceral response as an audience member yet it’s not real but it feels real you know yeah absolutely like
that it speaks to just that level of immersion and the way that the movie does take its time to really live in these events and things like that so that you can feel the struggle the growth of the character in a physical form because it’s not you know the talkest of movies necessarily especially when it comes to the content and that’s what partly is so great is you do have these breathtaking scopic moments of action that also you know are rousing in a character sense in the sandworm sequence is movie Magic it’s movie Magic and
there’s more movie Magic to be had there’s a little bit more action than the last movie and there’s a variety of different kinds of action set pieces but they’re always grounded in the emotionality of the characters everything is so much about the emotion first and foremost and that’s what makes for the most rewarding action scene so while you’re getting these like beautiful visuals laced around with this impeccable sound design I don’t know who the cinematographer is I I always think every wants Roger deacons when it looks good but I know it’s not Roger deak I
almost I I wanted to commit his name to memory because he shot I believe in this get the first dune so like there’s such a a beautiful pet of colors and visuals across this frames obviously as augmented by the scope of IMAX but really like the composition and the way it brings you into the world is impeccable I haven’t read the book you’ve read the book or you’ve read most of the book I’ve read the book but I mean there are people who know the book much better than I do I’ve shotgunned it The Once
and did my best to hold on you know well when the credits were rolling you said something John is the best at putting into words what I’m trying to say that’s what usually happens in these discussions I ramble John says it efficiently following after my ramble you you give me everything to work with and then I spit out a cube that’s how we work together the first movie this is how he was saying I’m just trying to say what you’re saying there we go is that the first movie has like a lot of political angles
and there’s a lot of political commentary while you have like the benesty and a little bit more of the magical stuff secondary or third and this movie is a bit of an inverse now the political stuff is all still there the magical side and the the mysticism is way more at the Forefront and at the same time it surprised me because it’s so much of a deconstruction of Prophecy and relig religion deals so much with power uh how religion can manipulate take control of people that it deals with fanaticism so much on its mind that
is not in a black and white context it even though there’s some great black and white scenes in here but it’s not true it’s not it’s not all orange there’s so much on its mind that it’s kind of crazy to see a blockbuster that follows up the first one while doing themes that can be like controversial to touch on uh because you know religion is a very sensitive thing but this is a madeup religion so maybe there’s a way they can do it but you metaphor all right seen thise someone read the book like this
is chosen one this is Timothy he’s going to rise to be the special and you know lead some new age of salvation for these people or whatever reset the balance of life in this galaxy Den villo has talked a lot about how he wanted to honor the original intention of Frank Herbert which was to make it a cautionary tale to to make this more of a tragedy to deconstruct that myth rather than just give you a direct translation of it you know and weirdly being prepped for that before watching it I thought actually made the
film more effective the movie is long in the first hour of this film is so much with really showing Paul at trades earning his way with learning the culture of the fman when occasionally you cut back to the har conans on their Planet you could really see like Light Side Dark Side you see you know literally but there’s so much Beauty with the fman that you’re like oh wait but Denny keeps saying it’s a tragedy so you kind of just like worry and and the way it does come upon you it’s an Insidious way it
creeps up on you it is tragic and it is unsettling like this is one of those movies that I’m like wow for a blockbuster as beautiful as it is it does leave you with a feeling of not like cheering it leaves you with like a almost Disturbed feeling even though the it’s not disturbing visually without spoiling the movie yeah yeah you’re you’re like what is the achievement you know like are we truly ascending or is this turning into something more twisted or is this turning into something that could could be treacherous you know and and
they let you Teeter at times on that you know question especially through Paul because he is the center figure of so many of the circumstances that are happening I think with that in mind Timothy shalam is an actor who can often go a little bit back and forth for me this is one of my favorite performances uh he’s ever done I really liked him as Paul tradies in in Dune part one but specifically here he goes through a very distinct transformation needless to say I thought he was powerful in a lot of scenes I think
for the most part he’s a very powerful actor there’s a lot he has to kind of sell you on with a certain level but especially in the last half of this movie and for me it really worked it works again so much in terms of the story the characters the themes he’s aware of the programming that he has had his whole life and and so much of this is about can you fight against your programming can you fight against quote unquote manipulated Destiny what happens if you try to go against that and you could feel
this like internal struggle and what happens if you try to surrender is it should you surrender and I think he carries the weight of this film so much on his shoulders that it was the most impressive one of the most impressive performances I’ve seen him do I liked him more here than they did in Wonka that’s usually what people will say when they walk out of this movie is is po traes or won which one there very two different sides of sham right there I but I agree no I think the transformation he goes through
is is is really strong and as somebody who you know saw the first movie was like yeah he’s fine I like him he’s he’s fine was one of our disagreements I remember yeah like I I thought he gripped me more here and like the position his character is in it makes sense why the character is the way that he is and I thought that the Transformations here and the questions that he’s grappling with were pretty compelling and made that character grow in a way that felt very tangible to me and yeah just watching somebody try
and figure out like where am I in this whole system of things can I take control of it can I impact it in a way that takes some weight off of my conscience and maybe creates a better path forward and I think that’s a very compelling question to ask while also watching someone physically transform in a way that might be counter to that there’s a lot of Shades he has to play and I think he’s well cast here Zena gets like five minutes more screen time than the last no she’s way more in this film
that was something I was a little bit I don’t know if the right word was apprehensive but I was that was a little apprehensive yeah the first movie yeah you have such mysticism surrounding her so like what’s it going to be like when you’re just actually with her as a character and is it going to feel perfunctory is it going to feel forced because there’s so much like Destiny love between the two of them I think they have really good chemistry and some of my favorite scenes are actually with them because so much of what
this movie builds upon without going into spoilers is their relationship specifically Zinda brings a very naturalistic quality to the performance she works off Timothy shalam really well their romance is so important and integral to the overarching themes and she also represents a different side of the fman because they make it really distinctly clear that there’s two sides to the fman here the ones who really believe in in in the one what’s the word the one to save us I forget all the fancy D made so smart she’s not one of the people who believes in
that so while there’s the the romance with Paul trates she’s not drawn to the the mythological things he’s just a man to her then you got Javier bardam’s character coming back here who does believe in those things who is of the more fundamentalist sect yeah and Javier bardam is he was like funny in the first one man he is surprisingly hilarious at time a lot of jokes in a way that doesn’t pull you out of the movie though it it actually works oh yeah yeah yeah he he is an interesting presence because obviously he has
his Stern Javier Bardem quality but he does equate to one of the most welcoming and warming presences throughout the entire two movies I think what people really want to hear about too Austin Butler my man I I mean I thought he was pretty terrific I mean he doesn’t spend a heck of a lot of time on screen but he is a a feral creature of a character most certainly he’s Matt Smith meet Stell and scarg guard what he’s doing in this movie yes he is there was a detail I thought was nice that they add
to he’s like well this is Guy directly related to stellen scars guard so we better have that accent and the the trailers do tease a fight between between him and Paul he has it quite a few times I would say the emotion to that fight was like gripping as hell yeah absolutely what’s going happen this is a movie where where the action sequences very much have like that emotional weight and that’s a lot of what drives them they might not be as extensive maybe as you would expect at certain points some some of them are
certainly but yeah there’s always that heft of the circumstance and Rebecca Ferguson to me is a very underrated actress uh still there’s a line I remember in the first movie where they say someone says to her I think it’s Oscar as like you know you’re I know you’ve been working things through the Shadows but you don’t see that in the first movie oh my goodness and then here you really get to they pull the curtain back on that and you get to see what they mean by the power of the Ben andester who work in
the shadows CU you’re cutting between three camps here the fman Paul dealing with like Paul’s the center of it all the freman the har conin and then you got the benesty Rebecca Ferguson’s role here commands the screen she may be my favorite performer across both these movies is cuz again the way she embodies the character the struggle of the character the weird mantle she has to occupy in being a conduit for these various prophecies and whatnot and that’s the thing about the the shifting tone of the political nature of the movie is you see that
like the politics are almost like short-term circumstances and then the mysticism the stuff that Benny jesser the stuff that she is directly involved with is like The Guiding hand of all those politics across Generations in a in a really wild way and she’s able to carry all of that in a way that feels quite believable but also very emotionally resonant all right John we got two minutes and we got to get here so we got to speed through the criticisms that we probably have about this movie or like M criticism about it uh Dave Bautista
to me was one of the little disappointing parts of the film to me I felt like they really set him up in the first movie and here he just kind of felt like yelling angry Drax and you want more yeah yeah and we’ve seen Dave Bautista do a variety of roles at this point for that story he’s been telling about Den Vu was one of the first people who came to me on set and was like you are such a you know expressive performer lean into that you know to not really have that utilized here
is a bit of a bummer I know the character of Austin Butler’s comes in in the book but if I didn’t know there was a book I would feel like oh they just like they should have given this screen time to day Bautista it does feel like they trim him down for that to give him because I think this movie even though it is a long movie it doesn’t feel its length at the same time there’s this other version where I feel like it probably could have used like an extra 10 more minutes to like
flesh out a few more choices the movie makes sure yeah especially there’s like a plot twist that comes inett I mean not plot just for book readers but like there’s a big reveal of sorts that I didn’t see coming and when it happened I was like oh for the journey here for the time we were here in the film maybe I’ll get more from it on the second viewing I didn’t quite understand the the the point to incorporate it in this like at the time it happens I’m like oh but in the by the time
I like I don’t really understand why that’s here in this film yeah there’s certain things that that carry context that’s worthwhile but that might not exactly hit narratively the same way you would expect my other last thing that I probably had a a little bit of a a gripe with was that in the first movie I felt like the har conens were posing and scary like truly villainous you felt their presence throughout and this movie has a bit of a different structure in terms of how they spend their time cutting between stories and maybe that
had something to do with it maybe because Paul’s also this like snowball effect of always upgrading throughout this entire experience I didn’t really feel like they were as scary while there’s a lot of tension in this film while there’s a lot of suspense a lot of gripping things that have a different kind of horror that was a missing quality for me it’s easy to forget a little bit about just how Treacher and evil they are meant to be or or portrayed as being when you have mostly just their foot soldiers to deal with throughout a
lot of the early parts and mid parts of the movie until kind of later on one thing I would say is like I’m very excited to see how this unfolds for me on a second viewing it is a middle chapter to something so you do have that sort of interesting effect of like okay this is kind of finishing the one book but it’s clear that this is going to continue this is at least going to be the two towers or the Empire Strikes Back or whatever or the best DC movie since the dark yes and
uh and so like I could see like the first movie he just has all this discovery and has all this stuff you’re being introduced to whereas here you are spending a lot a lot a lot of time on araus you’re going even deeper into some of the more sort of theoretical aspects of the story and so I could just imagine maybe not having the same level of like Sheen in terms of like oh my God this imposs everyone Hypes up how impossible this book is and now that we know it’s not impossible there’s just a
different impact upon you know going in again so not to say that even if you have high expectations they won’t be met but you know it is there’s like a layer that doesn’t apply anymore because we know that this is you know something that we’re capable of doing and doing well I feel like this is definitely a film much like the first one that will unfold on repeat viewing and give you more the more you give to it oh a th% at times I think the PG-13 rating does work against all his throat slicing minor
criticism and then for a movie that feels like it’s rated R yeah and uh Christopher Walkin is good but I always felt like I was watching Christopher Watkin those are like minor things everyone’s good and this is still like it’s not just a repeat of visuals from the last experience this is totally no they build on it this is one of those movies that you have to go to theaters to watch it yeah there are some visual flares that are beautiful that aren’t what you’re expecting to they find a way to give this film its
own visual tone and language with some more subjective other kinds of imagery that are really breathtaking and if you can see it on IMAX again this is do yourself a favor do yourself a favor go get lost in this world anyway reject Nation are you excited for the Dune part 3 I know I am um because it it has to come it just has to at this point leave your thoughts down below uh thank you to IMAX again for having us and we’ll talk with you all soon
