Spoiler Discussion: Dune: Part Two Was Worth the Wait
/Film Weekly
SlashFilm.com
4.4 • 942 Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
On the March 1, 2024 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editor and chief film critic Chris Evangelista to have a spoiler-filled conversation about Dune: Part Two.
Opening Banter:
In Our Feature Presentation: Dune: Part Two Review: A Bleak Blockbuster About Religion, Revenge, And Really Big Worms
- General thoughts compared to the previous film
- What the movie did well
- Religion as a means of control
- Humor
- Action
- Scope
- What it did not do so well
- Pacing
- Clarifying who the holy war will be fought against
- Performances
- Chalamet
- Zendaya
- Dune: Part Two’s Biggest Weapon Isn’t a Sandworm – It’s Christopher Walken
- Highlights
- The opening Harkonnen attack where they’re getting picked off and fall off that mountain
- The inkspot fireworks on the Harkonnen home planet
- The reveal that Lady Jessica is Baron Harkonnen’s daughter
- Paul riding the sandworm for the first time
- The whole third act
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to slash film daily. |
| 0:01.6 | Today is Friday, March 1st, 2024. |
| 0:04.3 | On today's episode of the show, we're going to have a spoiler-filled conversation |
| 0:07.4 | about Denisov's new movie, Dune Part 2. |
| 0:10.4 | My name is Ben Pearson. |
| 0:11.4 | I am an editor at slash film.com and I'm joined on today's episode by slash film editor and chief film critic Chris Evangelista. |
| 0:17.0 | Hello, Ben, how you doon. |
| 0:21.0 | Oh God, we're off on a great foot, Chris. I love it. Okay, so let's dive right in here. |
| 0:27.5 | Give me your general thoughts on this movie, specifically compared to the previous film and then we'll get into some more detailed stuff in a little bit. |
| 0:34.0 | You know I like I gave it a positive review on slashfilm.com I think I like the first film more but I appreciate this one more if that makes sense. I think the first film is more |
| 0:50.8 | entertaining I guess for lack of a better word and this film is more challenging it's |
| 0:57.8 | really dark it's really bleak for a block like for a big expensive Hollywood blockbuster. This movie is really unpleasant. |
| 1:07.0 | Did you already say we're going to get to spoilers because we are going to get the spoilers? |
| 1:13.5 | Yes, oh yeah, yeah. Yeah, like the ending especially is really like, like I am not well versed in the lore of Dune. I've never read the book I've seen the David |
| 1:24.4 | Lynch movie so I know what happens basically but you know the end of this |
| 1:30.8 | movie basically says like everything you thought you knew about this main character this you know Paul Trady's Timothy Shami's character is kind of wrong he's kind of an asshole. You know he's kind of been corrupted by becoming this Messiah |
| 1:45.9 | and he's willing to launch a holy war |
| 1:48.7 | that kills millions of people just so he can get what he wants and that's a really like |
| 1:54.8 | nasty thing to end your big Hollywood blockbuster with so I'm kind of impressed that |
| 2:00.6 | this movie can get away with doing that and I also wonder if that's going to like |
| 2:05.7 | fly over the heads of people because like I tweeted like I don't know I don't like make it sound like everyone's an idiot and only I am the smart person but like I tweeted out that like after I saw the movie I was like well I'm I'm surprised at how bleak this ending is and some jackoff |
| 2:21.4 | Immediately came into my mansion. |
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