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This movie is the most spectacular, gorgeous and coherent aesthetic experience made available to movie-goers in a long time; it deserves to be seen in Imax. The acting is flawless, of course.

The story telling is faithful to the book and it serves the purpose of setting up a universe that is hard to setup, that said it is flawed as some rare moments fall short of what I have come to expect from Villeneuve.

This movie needs a director's cut release if it is to transcend these shortcomings and become a classic, and I do hope to see more of the profound themes of the Dune universe in the next movie.

This movie is big. It's meant to be on the big screen. The visuals are captivating, the music is mesmerizing and the actors are convincing.

This is an adaptation of the Dune novel from 1965, and it covers about half the book. I have read the novel long ago, but I'm mostly familiar with the Dune universe from the Command & Conquer game Emperor: Battle for Dune. It's a vast universe with politics, religion, tribes and houses. The movie does an excellent job of placing you in this grand setting without over-explaining everything, but also without feeling completely lost. For someone new to the Dune universe you can easily recognize who the "good" and "bad" guys are and follow the plot, without knowing who all the different names refer to. But it's not dumbed down so that those who will recognize the names feel patronized. This is very hard to pull off, but I think this movie did so masterfully.

I would describe it as a mixture between Lord of the Rings and Star Wars. You follow individuals in a grand and complex world. The majority of the movie takes place on a desert planet, so it really needed an amazing soundtrack to elevate the experience - and it has. Hans Zimmer turned down Tenet to work on Dune, and I think he made the right choice.

However, this is only "Part 1", as it says in the beginning of the movie, so you know it won't be a complete story. I was ready to watch Part 2 as soon as it ended, but will have to wait. LOTR The fellowship of the Ring would be an insignificant movie without The two towers and The return of a king to complete the story. Together they are great, individually they are not enough. So it is with Dune - It is a great introduction, but it desperately needs a part 2 to conclude the story. And there better be a Part 2!

Denis Villeneuve's DUNE has Campbell's monomythical framework storytelling structure. In fact, George Lucas used this model to build the stories. It has been redesigned to have the simplicity of the Story Circle. That's why almost everyone has the impression that they watched "DUNE: A Star Wars Story". For this reason, Greig Fraser as Cinematographer was deliberately chosen. If I had never read the book and I new nothing of Dune I could miss the opening credits and watch this film thinking it was a new Star Wars movie and I would be completely none the wiser.

The story is so adapted and simplified visually that a wide range of people can follow it, and further spreads the impression by words of mouth and camp in the front of the cinema.

This is a global phenomenon. It's incredibly viral. It affects.

The result is not to impress us who know the book by heart. Than to become a very viral film for a wide audience. It was made with the intention in advance of breaking the Box Office. But they didn't count on a pandemic and a be shown on HBO. This is the visual bible of Dune's book. And let's say the first 300 pages literally. Denis explains more with pictures than with words. This is the experimental exercise of cinematography. There are many parallels with George Lucas' way of expression, but Ridley Scott influence on "world-building" is also clear.

The film can literally be watched on MUTE and get to know the plot. Like a silent film literally. A similar feeling as with Odyssey in the Kubrick universe. The film is dead serious in the same way. Too serious for my taste. There are no jokes in it at all. There is no slang and bad language either. It's not a movie to watch with popcorn. You don't have to blink here to be able to absorb all the visual information. The disadvantage is that those who are not concentrated and rested can fall asleep in the cinema because they cannot process all the densely compressed information they receive.

I love the David Lynch movie and did see it a lot of time, because of the atmosphere and the epic story. The intro with the female voice gave me goosebumps. The new adaption by Villeneuve takes the visual impressing part a bit further and makes you "feel" the scale of the unsiverse, the political connections and the story itself.

This movie visually is a masterpiece and you can sit, watch and be amazed, how they made it feel so incredibly real - even for the 155 minutes it runs. I only missed a bit of the "darkness" i felt in the Lynch-movie and they seemingly moved away from explicitly showing violence and gore overly. Baron Harkonnen e. G. feels more like a greedy, intelligent gangster boss then the schizophrenic sadist i remebered from the first movie. Anyways - the movie is actually the most interesting sci-fi flick i've seen in the last few years. With an incredible score, an immersive story, most impressive views of landscapes, mass battles and not to forget: the Shai-Hulud.

If you get the time: Go, see it - and share your own impressions. I'm definitely up to see the second movie, if it comes. Plus i will finally buy the original books to dive deeper into the dune universe.

Have fun!

The cinematography and Hans Zimmer music. An experience that should be obtained by all. Those spaceships accompanied with the music will remain for long time in my mind.

Yes books are read but this movie gives a good impression of the worlds created in our minds.