"May thy knife chip and shatter."

Woefully late to the game on this one, but believe me when I tell you that I almost literally have no time to do anything.

These last several weeks I've been consumed with work...

To me, it seems like I do NOTHING else anymore.

Obviously, there's sleeping and eating thrown in there at odd angles, but the spare time I used to have to write reviews has diminished greatly.

Honestly, the time I have to WATCH movies has diminished greatly, and this wrinkle in my day-to-day strikes at my very core.

I don't like it.

I mean, I went to go see this movie opening weekend and am just getting the quiet time to think about it now.

...and what's more, I'm not gonna have much to add to the conversation.

uggh.

So to the surprise of actually no one, Dune: Part Two is fucking amazing...

Villeneuve has outdone himself.

From the opening scene with Paul and Jessica, desperately evading a Harkonnen death squad, to the closing credits, I was spellbound.

The world building here is so subtle and complete that my mind utterly left the theater.

I say subtle because while Villenueve CLEARLY went out of his way to give us a world so epic it rivals anything we've seen in Sci-Fi—probably ever—but also feels so lived in, that (at least for me) I was able to step right into the screen and sit my ass in the sand.

I was there with these far-flung spacemen...

This is no small feat.

As you know, I abhore Hollywood, and view most modern movies with a hatred so perfect that I can usually only get 10 minutes in before a blackhole swallows my brain and I start to think about violence.

Not here...

Not with the first entry, and certainly not now.

Sure, I came at the first with a little bit more of an analytical, and maybe judgemental mind that it kept me from full immersion, but I guess that's to be expected when Hollywood takes a second stab a set of beloved books that I once considered unadaptable.

No...I was in this mutherfucker up to the elbow.

One could make the case that the changes made to this entry (if done for the wrong reasons...which of course, wouldn't surprise me) could have disasterous consequences to the final act, but I don't forsee this happening.

DON'T FUCK WITH ME VILLENUEVE

My brother called this The Empire Strikes Back of the modern age the other day...

And while I was slightly stunned that a die hard Star Wars fan like him would make such a comparison, I had no problem agreeing that these movies WILL likely be Star Wars to a whole lotta young people...

No pressure.