Villeneuve was so focused on creating this ambience of a grounded, bleak political landscape that it feels like he neglected the immersion of a super heated desert.
I'll credit Lynch for many of the weird choices in style and how it never stoops to even be accessible for a mass audience, despite having characters explicitly narrate their schemes and motivations out in the open by scene one, the power play that took up 90 minutes of Dune 2021 is awkwardly explained in full.
And when it has gone past.
If Dune doesn't do well enough, we'll forever be left with a movie that feels designed to only be a teaser.
I attempted to read Frank Herbert's novel Dune when I was in the seventh grade.
Spain has been relying on administering booster shots and mandatory face mask use indoors for the past months.