AUSTIN BUTLER AND REBECCA FERGUSON OSCAR CAMPAIGN BEGINS NOW!!! 

I know it’s WAY too early for Oscars predications but it wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest (is it too presumptuous to say it’s almost expected??? 🫣) if it gets a nomination for Best Casting*, no doubt getting nominated for numerous other categories too 

(*however that new category is going to play out? apologies if I’m incorrectly understanding it — my point being is it’s a FANTASTIC ensemble cast and everyone really gave such excellent performances!)

LOVED the cinematography - it’s so striking, especially in its use of scale and expansiveness, coupled with a stark but fitting colour palette. I can’t recall another recent movie I’ve seen that uses this sort of scale so impressively. There’s one particular jumping shot that comes on pretty early in the movie and as soon as I saw it, I knew that Denis was not fucking around with the cinematography and that we were really doing this 😤 

Pacing was also really good! The first act is maybe the tiniest bit slower than the second and third, but definitely not a detractor. 

Hans Zimmer’s score was just top notch + the more intricate costuming was stunning — loved Princess Irulan’s costumes in particular 

Many memorable lines, but these two stick out to me personally: 

“Then what hope is there?” 
“Hope [?] We are Bene Gesserit. We don’t hope — we plan.” 

“May thy knife chip and shatter” is a line that goes absolutely SO fucking hard omg

Let me also say I’m not the biggest fan of Dune, compared to other films / franchises, cinematic universes, etc. Like yeah, weirdly, I’m still ittedly not, even after seeing this movie and liking it — but I can definitely appreciate and respect it!!

I’ve tried reading the first book and it’s not quite hitting its stride yet for me, the first movie to me was also fine (I just there being so much … sand lol and not really being as captivated by the first movie). My friends also loved this movie after seeing it, and it seems like quite a few Letterboxd reviewers do too — so going in, I was really hesitant. 

but I’m SO pleased that this movie is just so damn good, and that I feel a lot more appreciative of this second part compared to the first!!! I really felt this sense of “omg what’s gonna happen next” when watching it, which doesn’t always happen with every movie! 

The feeling I get after watching this movie is how I really wish I felt about Oppenheimer, especially in wanting to root for a heavyweight movie come awards season and really understanding the collective feeling that it’s a fantastic film, that sort of click or aha! moment. Film is obviously so subjective, but it’s also nice to watch a new release and engage in the excitement with others too 😊