Decidedly mediocre. The tiresome double-meets-self trope. The superficial moralizing.
A fine piece of mass entertainment, that is.
The parody around eating recalls for me Peter Greenaway’s The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, only the villain there is much more colored than the simpleton that is Kenneth Marshall.
Second watch. I suspect most viewers will find Dune: Part Two a thrilling spectacle. But I struggled to get through my first watch, and I now stand by my position after my second: Part One is the superior film.
Perhaps I’m naturally drawn to world-building, atmosphere, ambience, and a good mystery left for the imagination. That’s why I loved Part One, despite its many flaws. [Perhaps that’s also why 2001: A Space Odyssey is one of my favorites, even though…
