Watching Dune: Part Two in IMAX was a religious experience - like I now understand how a 17th century peasant walking into St Peter’s Basilica or the Blue Mosque for the first time must’ve felt. This is the holiest of shit.
The production design, the cinematography, the special effects - nobody is doing it like Denis (yes it was soooo long but honestly I left wanting more - release the deleted scenes Denis!!)
*Philomena Cunk voice* At its heart, Dune is a Shakespearean/Greek tragedy, only with worms. A warning call against the dangers of colonialism, organised religion and the cult of personality - absolute power corrupts absolutely. But in all honesty I was there for the view & the vibes over the plot.

And what a cast!! Timothée as Paul Atreides (aka Oedipus aka Hamlet aka Mr Perfectly Fine) carried this epic story so well on his bony little shoulders, he really is a true movie star. 
Shout out to Javier for delivering the few laughs to be found here with his religious zealot “pfft of course the Lisan al Gaib would totally deny being the messiah, he’s so humble!!!” schtick.
But worship must be paid to the true MVPs, the Women of Dune:

- Zendaya (“he’s NOT the messiah he’s a very naughty boy!!”), owned it, what an absolute queen; I know she would’ve been blasting Death by a Thousand Cuts while riding away on that sandworm at the end if she could’ve 
- Jessica Ferguson at her creeptastic Mothering best slinking about muttering to her baby bump, so easy to see how she could convince an entire population to follow her son into jihad
- Florence Pugh - not much to do here but commanded the screen regardless, also her Joan of Arc chainmail getup at the end absolutely slayed 
- Anya - also managed to slay both in and out of the womb 
- Léa Seydoux - again extremely easy to see how even a supreme psychopath like Feyd-Rautha would’ve immediately folded at the prospect of getting with her, tbh the Voice was probably totally unnecessary 

And speaking of Austin Butler (insert “why is he kinda…” 👀), even when the Elvis voice peeked out a little there he was still a total scene stealer. The eroticism of that final battle between Feyd-Rautha and Paul - can’t wait to go searching on AO3 later for the insane fanfic I know has already been posted 😭

Going home to channel Baron Harkonnen chilling in his bath smoking his little shisha pipe, and plan when I’m going to watch this again.

(PS. I already know watching Furiosa in IMAX will alter my brain chemistry, oh my god that trailer 🤯)