Watched it with the fam this time. Movie is still a slapper. Everyone except for my mum liked it more than Lord of the Rings (which we watched as a fam). My mum thought that the desert setting made her feel arid and dusty. She also likes the elves in lord of the rings lmao.
TL;DR the fam liked dune :)
Dune feels like a defining film in cinematic history. A Sci-fi film that lays the foundation for future Sci-fi films to follow, a bench-mark in cinema that people look back on. Everything about Dune epitomises epic cinema.
Dune was one of the best viewing experiences I've had in a theatre. I was lucky to catch it in IMAX, which this movie was made for.
I honestly don't know what's stopping this from a 5. It was really, really good. It…
"Did America make you soft?" - Iconic.
I nearly cried 3 times in the opening scene alone.
Am I biased? Yes. I don't care; I liked it a lot, it's probably more like a 4/5 than a 5/5, but this movie just made me feel so damn happy. Let me have my moment with this movie. It'll probably drop to a 4.5 after a couple of months after the euphoria wears off. Still, right now, this is my favourite movie of 2021, and nobody can change my mind.
