Dune Part II, directed by Denis Villenenvenuve, is a film on the cusp of excellence but at the precipice of brilliance it was turned into a complete waste, like a fremen pissing into the sands of Arrakis. A diamond turned into trash, hot garbage boiling at the temperature of the planet Dune’s equator. It was not, believe it or not, ruined by the extraordinarily fugly visage of Zendaya—those electrons that rendered her on my LED screen now permanently cursed until the heat death of the universe simply for participating in such a horror show—no, it was the self-insert HR lady of Chani dialogue “um, actually, this is bad, you know” as she frivolously undermined her twink-messiah husband in contradiction to the overwhelming zealous support by his tribe, and basically everyone else on the planet.
Excellent post, I had very similar conversations with right leaning people when it came out, opinions were pretty much unanimous, it was very transparent. They took elements from the second book, Dune Messiah, forward into Dune, which really ruins the story, especially when it's ham fistedly communicated through ugly woke zoomer mulatto Zendaya while simultaneously ruining the character of Chani. White people bad, religion bad, colonialism bad, insecure libs/eftists can never tell a story without excruciatingly explicitly saying stuff like that. The right is not so conflicted, we can criticize for instance, issues with big corporations without saying "But capitalism is still good guys!" Or whatever. Btw everyone should check out Conundrum Cluster here on Substack, a podcast by Mystery Grove. It's absolutely excellent in every way and he has a few episodes about, or touching on Dune 2.
I hate to be so cringe but the books were better.
Seriously though, what were we expecting?
At least some people might get interested in the books.
Everything indicates that Dune 3, the adaptation of Dune Messiah, will be even worse.
Excellent post, I had very similar conversations with right leaning people when it came out, opinions were pretty much unanimous, it was very transparent. They took elements from the second book, Dune Messiah, forward into Dune, which really ruins the story, especially when it's ham fistedly communicated through ugly woke zoomer mulatto Zendaya while simultaneously ruining the character of Chani. White people bad, religion bad, colonialism bad, insecure libs/eftists can never tell a story without excruciatingly explicitly saying stuff like that. The right is not so conflicted, we can criticize for instance, issues with big corporations without saying "But capitalism is still good guys!" Or whatever. Btw everyone should check out Conundrum Cluster here on Substack, a podcast by Mystery Grove. It's absolutely excellent in every way and he has a few episodes about, or touching on Dune 2.