Was the lesson fade into obscurity because this is the first time I’m hearing about her in like 20 years.

Actually, the biggest gotcha of the first one is that it made me fall asleep. (This review, by the way, is damn-near generic. I’m glad the actors are good-looking anyway.)

They literally talk in the book about being denied the Hajj

‘”Ah so we’ve gone from ad-free subscription services being the big thing, to FAST being the big thing, to getting rid of FAST and focusing on Paid ad-supported services (PAST, if you will).”’

Herbert made it pretty clear that they were originally (ultra-distant past) from Egypt / North Africa. Two characters in Children of Men even speak Egyptian to each other.

I confess I think Villeneuve is a visually great (if cold) director who’s best films got real boosts from their leads (Amy Adams for Arrival and Emily Blunt for Sicario respectively) and kinda overhyped, and I’ll confess, after Villeneuve’s non-handling of the period Asian futurism/Orientalism of the first Blade Runner…

Themes are for eight-grade book reports.

It just ... looks weird. It’s a movie about colonization of the Middle East and uses Middle Eastern languages and they just could not find a single actor to read some lines? When it’s already hard enough for them to find work?

Gal Gadot?

They sure lifted a lot of arabic and middle eastern culture for something that’s supposed to be a distant memory.

The consistent failure to hyphenate Feyd-Rautha bothers me more than it probably should.

‘”That leaves the movie’s two stars stranded with nothing much to do except to pose and make intense eye contact at each other. At that, they are both fabulous and fulfill the promise of the first movie. Sometimes all a movie needs is just two good looking movie stars filling the frame with their presence.”’

...finally gets to show off how he mastered riding the sand...

maybe 15 years ago.

i’m pretty sure, at least in the initial release, it actually ENDED with the part one drop.

The epic sci-fi sequel from director Denis Villeneuve might be even better than the first

And the fremen were the original colonizers!

…do they?

This whole review, sentence fragments and all, reads like hastily scrawled first impressions. 

Love the books. Lynch & Sci Fi Channel movies are at least fun to watch. I’m also a fan of this director, Euro Sci Fi / comics, etc. That being stated - I found part one boring. Wanted to like it but it just didn’t really work for me.