I liked it much more than the first, it’s still by no means emotionally resonant for me but it got enough of the exposition out of the way that I was able to just get lost in the spectacle. Both Timothee and Paul are better here, he’s still a little one note and he turns on a dime when change does come. Feels like a blockbuster allowed by modern technology in exciting ways, the scale/vision of this simply wasn’t as achievable back during Lynch’s Dune. With that said it could’ve done with a little of Lynch’s strangeness, it takes so much time establishing and normalizing the things we see that the world quickly stops feeling fantastic. One weird mutated fish man is all I ask!