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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Clint_L" data-source="post: 9355993" data-attributes="member: 7035894">I really enjoyed Dune 1. Just saw Dune 2 on IMax and found it kind of exhausting. It looks great. There are stunning vistas and some legitimately awesome effects. The sound design was...well, I found it punishing and relentless, for the most part.But my biggest problem was with the characters. The psychic fetus dialogue is just silly, and all of the Atreides went from being sympathetic to sort of incomprehensible. Chamalet is horribly miscast; he has none of the gravitas the character and situation demand. Zendaya, likewise. They felt like they wandered in off the set of a YA film.The BBEG is paper thin, only existing to fight and lose to Paul in the finale. Javier Bardem is great but when is he not?It just felt like bombast to me. And, yeah, the cultural aspects of it are problematic. I've read the books and it's problematic there, too.</blockquote>