Before reading this review of Dune: Part Two, I urge you to look at my previous one. It simply saves us some time. The issues of Dune: Part One carry over—as does much of the praise. As is ideal for the second part of a two-parter, this feels like the natural continuation. The long play simply had an intermission. Dune: Part Two assumes you recently watched the previous film and explains little to nothing.
Dune: Part 1 is a long movie covering only part of an even longer book, with a ton of history behind it, and I am writing this without having read the book. In 2025. And, frankly, there’s so much baggage here that I am not equipped to talk about. You can tell it’s not a story written in the modern day.
Dune (1984) from Dino De Laurentis Productions The Fast Facts: Who: Directed by David Lynch (Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Eraserhead), Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks) debuts as the singular Paul Atreides, while actors like Patrick Stewart, Max von Sydow, and Brad Dourif play secondary characters (!). What: Paul Atreides, the son of Duke Leto Atreides and…
Out of the vast science fiction library, every once in a while a book will come along that becomes an instant classic. A novel that captures the imagination, evokes emotion, and stirs thought in the reader about what could be. For me, these are the novels that do just that – novels that define science…
