Dune

I really wanted to like this movie, but instead I fell in LOVE with this film. I’ve seen it five times (Twice in theaters, and three times on HBO Max). The first time I saw it, I was overcome with a nostalgic feeling, as if I were a kid again watching space in wonder getting my mind blown away as to what a movie could do and make you feel. In my adult life I’ve only experienced that two other times: when I had seen Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (2010) at home on Blu-Ray being frustrated with film school, and when I had seen Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar (2014) for the first time in IMAX. However, only with Interstellar before this, had I felt another feeling that I had only ever felt when I was a child watching movies on the big screen: fear. This heavy, fear-of-the-unknown type of fear that I hardly ever experience with movies anymore. Dune (2021) has captured something spiritual that needs to be experienced in theaters at least once. Having said that, I’m not knocking down streaming. It’s only because of streaming that I could see it and relive it so many times. The second, third, and fourth times were at home on HBO Max, trying to show my friends and family what they were missing out on, and for myself to try to understand what I was feeling about, not just the story and characters, but about the world it was creating. I never thought I’d be excited for a a potential franchise, but yet have never been more excited for a franchise in recent memory, save for the lost potential of what could have been, and what was supposed to be, David Fincher’s Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Trilogy. I’m excited, optimistic, and pray I get to live to see this filmmaker’s full vision realized.