In preparation for seeing Dune 2 tonight, I finally watched Dune. Now, for the record I tried to watch it once before but got sidetracked (shame on me.) But I am so late to the party I almost feel early now. I can’t believe it came out three years ago, and while some of you had to wait three years for the Sequel, I only have to wait a mere three hours. Genius if you ask me, some people are saying I am showing signs of being “The One” (that’s a little Dune joke for those unfamiliar.
Now, I have never read the books, or see the original movie from the 80’s, so I went in completely blind. I only knew of Dune from what I heard from the frequencies of the internet (like a sandworm, another little Dune joke there.) But if you need a refresher before the 2nd film tonight, or you’re just watching the second movie without watching the first, which would be dumber than Dr. Yueh trusting the Harkonnen’s, (my final dune joke before we get started,) then here are my main takeaways from the first movie.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- The movie is incredible. It is a great first film to highlight a trilogy. Going in knowing nothing, I could not wait to see what happens in the second movie.
- My girlfriend said the start of the movie was too slow, she was wrong of course. While it is slightly slower paced, you need to have that build up. You need to get the information and learn the history before we can jump directly into fight.
- I personally did not think Thanos (Josh Brolin ((Gurney Halleck)) was dead after the Harkonnen/Sardaukar invasion. My girlfriend did, which as we found out from watching the trailers for part 2 after the movie, she was wrong again. I am for one pumped Thanos is back.
- I was super pissed that House Atreides dies that quickly. You build a connection with these characters even after a short period of time. I considered myself part of the family, it felt like they took me in, like they were my cousins even. And sadly, they all perished. Fucking bullshit if you ask me.
- To piggyback off that last point, I may be super pissed because I am a big Oscar Isaac and Jason Mimoa fan. They are both incredibly cool with great beards and great hair and I was not happy to see them go.
- Duncan Idaho is up there for coolest name of all time. Reminds me of Johnny Utah from point break. Can you imagine just walking up to people at a bar and being like yeah, my name is Duncan Idaho. That guy would have a friend for life in me I’ll tell you that.
- It is kind of stupid that house Atreides has guys with great names like Duncan Idaho, and Leto, and then Timothee Chamalat’s character is just called “Paul.” Like come on, if youre going to be the new Duke, and lead people into war we need a better name than Paul. No offense to all the Paul’s out there.
- I don’t trust Paul’s mom, she seems fishy. Even when at the end of the movie she wanted to take him off world instead of letting him fulfill his destiny.
- Timothee Chamalat has great hair.
- Dr. Yueh is a fucking idiot. Literal moron. How can you be a doctor and be so stupid. Thinking the Harkonnen’s would actually give him his wife back? Come on dude be better. Obviously not. It was so clear that they were going to kill him, and just used him to destroy house Atreides. Absolute jackass.
- I can’t believe Baron Harkonnen survived the poison, that pissed me the fuck off too.
- Why can Baron fly? That creeps me out a little.
- I would like to see more Batista in the second movie.
- I would also like to see more Zendaya.
- It’s kind of cool now that if I get a little too high and get scared from hearing voices in my head, I can just say I am like Timothee Chamalot in Dune when he gets too high off the Spice and has visions.
- It’s kind of crazy how all of these types of movies kind of have a Star Wars feel. Like people are saying the second movie is going to be this director’s Empire Strikes Back. Even having an Emperor, and having imperial soldiers, just kind of crazy how much influence Star Wars has really had on society as a whole.
- If Timothee Chamalot is “The One” and he can bridge space and time, past, present and future, does this mean that he can actually bring House Atreides back and that’s why we were seeing Duncan in visions with the Fremen even after he died? That would be fucking sick if that happened.
I will recap Dune 2 for you all tomorrow. Or maybe I’ll be able to bridge the space and time gap and actually do it today. Either way you should definitely watch Dune if you haven’t already. And if I were you I’d go get some tickets, because I wouldn’t miss out on the highest rated IMDB movie of all time. (If we’re being honest Dune is kind of a dumb name though, it’s basically like calling the movie “Sand Hill.” Either way it’s sick go see it.)