Absolutely STUNNING. 10/10 must see. I read the book a few months prior to seeing the movie and the story was enthralling, filled with tons of world building. When I sat down in theaters, I was nervous that it wouldn’t live up to the expectations I’d set in my head.
And let me tell you, what I saw absolutely SMASHED everything I could’ve imagined. It was INCREDIBLE, I really want to stress that. This is the reason we go to the theater, to see cinema such as this. The scope of it, the sheer size and sound of everything you’re watching…
I have school midterms in a few days, and I haven’t been able to get my mind of it until I sat down and saw this. When you watch this movie, you simply can’t think of anything else. It takes up every space of your mind and it fills it with action, political intrigue, drama, religion, government and an entire world that’s so far different from our own that you feel as though you’re a million miles away on Arakkis itself.
The one thing I’ll say- I understood the vocabulary and the subtle references to things because I’d read the book. It might be a bit confusing for those who haven’t.