Dune

fuck me, watching this in that absolutely gigantic theater was some sort of out of body experience. i kid you not, this film is just fully blown intense from start to finish, even when virtually nothing happened, i was still fucking shivering. a lot does contribute to that, from the exquisitely designed set to crisp sound design to the bloody music for christ’s sake. i might be sort of biased because i’m always sensitive to music in film, especially when it comes to Hans Zimmer, but like here, his style combines so perfectly with the way Denis Villeneuve used the soundtrack.  and then of course, if you’ve to talk about Villeneuve, you must say production design is simply brilliant and very characteristic, so even though you’ve to sit through 160 minutes of film, it remains captivating, i was gawking for the whole 2 and a good half hours. but that’s on shape, and in my very humble opinion, you obviously can’t have a perfect film without solid content. so, i’ll firstly say that Dune is the superior space opera, i won’t name names but if you have any, really any, knowledge of space operas, you’ll know what i’m pointing at. but others are not the subject, Dune is. content-wise, it is superbly complex, you have a multilayered story that is thoroughly thoughtful and really well structured. by that, i’m talking mainly of the political dimension of the film, giving a plot that does make sense and isn’t just some excuse for show and epicness. i’m scattering a bit but what i’m trying to say is that what really makes the film stand out is its world-building, it is neither superfluous or lacking, all elements are laid out and concise and unlike others (ahem) you can see there is an end to it and that said world won’t suffer from wonky add-ons. i’ll end this abhorrently long review by saying that Paul Atreides is literally Regulus Black.