Have you seen Dune Part 2 yet ? My nephew keeps texting me. It's on HBO Max now he says.

My daughter doesn't want me to watch it without her, so I wait.

Funny how it seems like just a few weeks ago I was in first grade and my father and I went to see Lynch's Dune, and now I have a grown up daughter and almost grown up nephew.

Turn your head a few times, and 40 years floats by.

My thoughts on the movie. iI looks like they carefully scrutinized the Lynch film looking at it's weak points and really sharpened things.

a) the line deliveries. Sting's line about Chani being a pet for example, and is she worth special attention ? More precisely delivered this time. The Feyd character is more ominous and intimidating.

b) I can Patrick Stewart shouting ATOMICS in the Lynch one, there's more context given for his character now knowing where the missles are, and the prospect of mass scale weaponry is given a lot of weight.

c) Chani is developed more. Her refusal to bend the knee, and her constant questioning of power, ego, I think makes her a fuller person, and makes one desire her all the more.

d) the worm riding stuff was pretty laughable in the original, obscuring the worms with lots of dust and sand makes it less ridiculously phallic, still a bit sexual these creatures, but more mysterious.

one quibble I have - I still don't like Charlotte Rampling hidden behind a veil. It's a bit of a nasty misogynist move historically to cover women's faces, and for a woman authority figure, it really bugs me. And she's a great actress, why do that to her.

No ref to this veil I think in the book, far as I know: "Her face peered out of the hood like a witch caricature—sunken cheeks and eyes, an overlong nose, skin mottled and with protruding veins."