Dune: What Did You Think?

It’s lastly right here! Right this moment, Denis Villeneuve’s wildly formidable characteristic model of Frank Herbert’s Dune lastly hits theatres (and HBO Max). So whereas we’ve been hyping it up for months now, audiences throughout North America will lastly get to see it for themselves, and also you, expensive reader, can tell us what you assume. Have been we proper to be so excited?

To recap, JimmyO sport it a uncommon 10/10, whereas I used to be barely extra reserved with a nonetheless very robust 9/10. Over on Rotten Tomatoes, the movie has scored a strong 83%, however the viewers rating is approach greater – 93%. I suppose some critics had been a contact exhausting to please on the numerous movie festivals, however audiences appear to like it.

For the file, right here at JoBlo, we nonetheless love David Lynch’s model of Dune, and Villeneuve himself instructed me in an interview that he personally likes the movie too (extra on that subsequent week as we proceed our Dune protection). One in every of our hottest WTF episodes ever was about David Lynch’s Dune – test it out under!

So the query stays, what did you all consider Dune? Did it stay as much as your expectations? How was Timothee Chalamet as Paul Atreides? Was I proper in my evaluate after I mentioned Jason Momoa virtually steals the movie? Did you dig Hans Zimmer’s loopy rating? And the way pumped are you for the thought of Dune Half 2? It has to occur, proper? The oldsters at WB seem keen on it.

Within the meantime, try among the interviews we did for the movie under!