Dune: Part Two (2024) First Time Watching!!!

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This movie was incredible from beginning to end! The acting, cinematography, story was so captivating and I can't wait to see the next movie! I hope you enjoyed my reaction and if you did, make sure to leave a like, comment and subscribe! If you would like to support my channel further leave a super thanks donation :)

[@snaz388]

oh btw the black and white gladiator scene was because their sun on the Harkonnen world is black, making everything infrared

[@freakylildoodoo9979]

Im honestly frustrated by how many reactors completely miss this. It’s plastered on the screen in bold letters. Is that too critical? 🤷‍♂️

[@magicbrownie1357]

As a big Dune fan of the books, so glad that this version turned out so great.

[@anathardayaldar]

Brian: I'm NOT the messiah! Crowd: Only the true messiah denies his divinity. Brian: All right, I AM the messiah. Crowd: HE IS THE MESSIAH!!!

[@shanenolan5625]

I should no iv followed a few inmy time

[@PasserMontanus]

43:35 They couldn't use the worms before, because Arrakeen (the capital city) was protected by the Shield Wall. Paul used nukes to blow up a section of the Shield Wall allowing the sandriders to move the worms in.

[@madraven3346]

I get that people don't like the change of Chani's attitude towards Paul at the end but I understand what Villeneuve was going for. He put her in the role of audience surrogate to reinforce Herbert's underlying message that messiahs, especially false ones as even Paul fears he is, are intrinsically dangerous.

[@leonardofacchin1452]

I don't mind the change all that much, but it definitely shifts the focus of the story somewhat. I mean, Paul just took the path of the Jihad, unleashing a religious war that will claim the lives of tens of billions of people in the universe and started a chain of events where the evolution of the homo sapiens species is at stake. The stakes of the story in the books are order of magnitudes bigger than those of the personal relationship between a man and a woman, between Paul and Chani. By changing the story Villeneuve decided to focus on a more intimate relationship, emphasizing the personal price Paul paid for his choice (we will still don't know which implications this decisions will have in the next movie). While that's likely more relatable for the audience, that's not excatly what the Dune saga excels at and maybe that's why the end, to an extent, feels watered down to people that have read the book.

[@pseudonymousbeing987]

But here's the thing, is Paul false? Is he a bad person? His power is real. His heart is just. It is the momentum of his followers that creates the whirlwind, not him.

[@Tman001100]

@@pseudonymousbeing987 Right, that's what makes him a TRAGIC hero more so if not an anti-hero but he's definitely not a villain, in the traditional definition of that word.

[@Dularr]

But it does setup Chani as the Fremen wanting the old ways of the desert.

[@manoz6194]

@@Dularr Then she is lost

[@guybenson3528]

For context - When they mention the year 10,191, they are referring to 10,191 AG (After Guild). The events at the beginning of Dune are happening 10,191 years after the Spacing Guild was founded. In our time line, it is 23,352 AD.

[@nazimelmardi]

You were one of the few who understood why they use the tools on the worms. Yes. Keeps them open so they can’t go down into the sand. It irritates them. Great observations all over the movie. And people say this can’t be interpreted correctly. Yes it can. It only needs attention. 👏

[@anathardayaldar]

9:50 Mom: I'll be given centuries of pain and suffering. Paul: Is it dangerous? Mom: Did I stutter?

[@nur418777]

It's actually 300.000+ years of pain and suffering.

[@quoniam426]

Jessica's baby is still a human baby, but saturated with Spice and havinf access to her ancestors' memories, so even before birth she has access to all of the Bene Gesserit knowledge and more on the men's side as well. The Water of Life doesn't alter your blood, at least not genetically speaking. It just deprives you from certain chemicals that lead to a lack of it and give you the blue eyes. Also, what it changes is your brain chemistry, making you see visions. And you don't need the Water of Life for your eyes to become blue, having lots of Spice in your life is enough and the Fremen have it in all aspects of their life, in their clothing, their meals, their drinks, their furniture, carpets... They basically live in Spice-made things. Bene Gesserit daughters concieved the same way Lady Margot saved Feyd-Rautha's bloodline are never told who their real parents are. Given than most noble families are very much linked to eachother, it's not very surprising. Baron Harkonnen and Duke Leto were already distant cousins. The Fremen, prior to Paul's arrival didn't have any common strategy and the Harkonnen were more of a nuisance than a real threat before their return. The Baron put Rabban in charge on purpose for him to fail and bring Feyd Rautha as a "savior", using his own family against eachother to advance his agenda. Princess Irulan still serves the Bene Gesserit more than the Empire itself, so despite her decency... There will be third movie retracing the second book: Dune Messiah which depicts Paul and his family ruling over the Empire about 15 years later...

[@davidpax]

Villeneuve will do the third movie in a couple of years based on the book Dune Messiah. It has lots of plans within plans and betrayal and not much action scenes. Paul is realizing all the deaths his holy war has caused and he is not really a hero anymore. I don't think the audience will like the film. But of course we have to see how Paul's story ends.

[@Timmayytoo]

I just re-read Dune Messiah about a month ago and I agree that adapting it will be a challenge... even Villeneuve has admitted that, but I can see where he might focus a lot more on the people around Paul and make it more of a slow-burn thriller.

[@nazimelmardi]

But first he makes a more interesting book adaptation and it’s in the making… Arthur C. Clarke’s Rendezvous with Rama.

[@Tman001100]

It will involve more political intrigue and the pace will probably be slower again like in Part One, but they can maybe add some action to it, as well but either way, not going to please everyone. The main theme is to fully drive the message across of what Frank Herbert warned about which is the despotism of entire civilizations becoming too dependent on leaders and then acting completely lost without them to the point of the civilization crumbling into ruin.

[@jimbruton9482]

@@nazimelmardi I would like to see Villeneuve do the same as the TV adaptation, combine Messiah with Children of Dune. On Rendezvous With Rama, it's my my 2nd favorite sci-fi novel after the Dune books. Can't wait, can't wait, can't wait.........

[@nazimelmardi]

@@jimbruton9482 he won’t. It’s stated as a fact: it’s messiah and that’s it. He is finished.

[@rexmundi2986]

19:28 Its so awesome you figured out everything about how riding a sandworm works. A lot of reactors have to a of questions, but you sussed it out very quickly. Good observation!

[@jennadawson7949]

The Barons home planet has a black sun. Outside is black and white. You see color when they go indoors

[@tigqc]

Every time Christopher Walken is on the screen: Feah, is tha mynd killa!

[@pablom-f8762]

"... so I carried this uncomfortable watch, up my ass, for two years."

[@herbertkeithmiller]

I think of him dancing in Fatboy Slim's weapons of choice. Which coincidentally contains the line walk without rhythm or you'll attract the worm attract the worm

[@RN1441]

@31:00 when you asked 'I wonder if the second Kiss was scripted'. The answer is 'no, that was Austin Butler being a mad lad and Stellan being down for it'.

[@anathardayaldar]

Fremen didn't use the worms to attack the capitol earlier because they didn't have the atomics.

[@Musabre]

Bruh shout out to the 10/10 editing on this one. It cracked me up in places 😆, but it really was like watching an abridged version of the movie, really well done. This is what attracts people to reactions (at least for me), getting a vibe of watching your fave movie with friends on the quick-like :P . Alot of reactors let their editors chop out too many key scenes that the reaction video itself feels full of holes. This was top notch! 👌 And shout out to Hanz Zimmer, his score for this movie took over my life for months after the movie came out lol. AMAZING.

[@SpaceMonkeyTCT]

A nice detail that was wasted on me the first time I saw this was how they treat those killed in battle. At the start the Fremen take the water of the killed Harkonnen but at the end, after Paul said they win by being Harkonnen, they just burn the bodies. No doubt there are other things like this that I've missed, what little touches did you notice?

[@KennyThisIsTheWay2024]

Hi Ylva , So happy I got to watch your reaction to Dune 2 !!! You were right every celebrities actor that was in here's acting was really amazing like Florence, zendaya, Austin, David ,Josh. Even the best part was when SILENCE 😮😂 Can't wait to see the third movie someday. But can't wait to see your reaction again soon.❤

[@guybenson3528]

Muad'Dib the desert mouse is a type of jerboa or kangaroo mouse. He makes his own water (as shown in Dune Part One) because his large ears act like wind traps making the very limited moisture condense and trickle down where he can collect it and drink it.

[@snaz388]

6:34 i get it bro, my sleep schedule is practically non-existent. But I caution you to try taking naps, or maybe going on a run or walk to force yourself to get tired.

[@LoBelly]

Awesome reaction - so joyful and enthusiastic - glad I found your channel and happy to revisit this film with you :)

[@bradencarson1572]

the hero’s tale that warns us against believing in a hero’s tale

[@SutekhDaSteemroller]

Watching the worm riding scene in Imax was such an incredible visceral experience tears started coming out my eyes

[@kil-md7on]

30:59 You're right. The second kiss was improvised by Austin Butler. 43:32 Worms aren 't enough. Sand makes shields weak or useless, this is why Paul and the freemen waited for the big storm and also fired 3 nuclear warhead into the mountain on top of Arrakeen. In a previous scene, someone tell the emperor the shield will protect them from the storm, but it's not poweful enough to handle a giant storm + a whole mountain of rocks and dush falling on Arrakeen. Tons of sand = The Harkonnens and the Sardaukars have way less power.

[@x_warhog_x8701]

The one gripe I have is the change to Alia in the books she's born years before the battle as a full Reverend Mother so basically an adult in an infants body and she's actually the one who kills the Baron not Paul with a Gom Jabbar at like 4 yrs old and in the book its described, "Mature far beyond her four years, Alia escapes during the final battle of Arrakeen, but not before poisoning her grandfather, Baron Harkonnen, with a deadly gom jabbar. Afterwards, she wanders the battlefield of Arrakeen killing fallen Sardaukar and Harkonnen soldiers with a crysknife, earning her the holy epithet "St. Alia of the Knife."

[@Tman001100]

Yes but it would be damn near impossible to have a 4-5 year old pull off the adult behavior and nuances. They were close in the 1984 Dune movie but I think the child playing Alia there was older than her character in the book like 7-8 years old, I think. Also, they may not have had time to include it as the movie was long enough as it was.

[@x_warhog_x8701]

@@Tman001100 Not really with what they can do with CGI now it could be done look at Rouge One and Tarkin while not great very passable.

[@Tman001100]

@@x_warhog_x8701 Yeah maybe but it looks like Anya Taylor-Joy is gonna be playing Alia as a teen/young adult in Dune: Messiah.

[@x_warhog_x8701]

@@Tman001100 Yeah she's going to be trying to play a 15yr old since in Dune Messiah thats the age she is at the start of it.

[@Tman001100]

@@x_warhog_x8701 ...She could probably pull that off lol but I wouldn't be surprised if they age up her character as that's quite common.

[@dudermcdudeface3674]

The quote at the beginning is supposed to be "He who controls the Spice controls the universe." But fair enough.

[@RICHARDGILLIGAN-wd3tn]

Hey! Ylva Wishing U Amazing Day! What awesome reaction Watch long really enjoyed Dune movies are so cool😎! as are u Ylva!

[@shakawhenthewallsfell8570]

30:28 "Put your hand in the box." [A few minutes later...] "There's another box..."

[@SamHunt-o7d]

Genie and jinn are different. So no its not different in there - jinns are mentioned in medieval eastern lore

[@LucieOne]

My better half just bought this movie... guess I should watch it.

[@YlvatheViqueen]

haha it's a good movie! thanks for leaving a comment :)

[@williambranch4283]

Rabban is a bad boss. Stilgar is my favorite.

[@joesoq]

i love the editing!

[@osamabinlaggin3281]

Paul: If I go south I may lose you. Chani: You will never- Paul: *DID I STUTTER?*

[@herbertkeithmiller]

2:00 and the emperor said... It needs more cowbells. 😅

[@ralphar]

There is soooo much in the book not covered in the film - so much more of Feyd-Rautha, Paul and Chani, Paul's sister Alia is bon in the book and is two years old when she kills the Baron Harkonen. But this movie does a good job of following Paul's sense of being trapped by this destiny that his mother and the Bene Gesserit have placed him on (SO different from his father's wishes for him). Paul is about to become Emperor of the known universe at the cost of a holy war in his name in which many millions will die. Are there more movies? Not yet. But the initial book (these first two movies) became a trilogy that became six I think.

[@ПлатонУченик]

My Viqueen Amazonian Goddess finally watches this....I can now die in peace.

[@JeffreyBernabe]

8:22 "we are people from Mizr" - Dune Mizr arabic name of Egypt

[@mr.ripley3846]

Like how Paul is revealing everyones browser history and turning everyone into submission, like I believe you're the Lisan Al Gaib, just don't go further, don't tell them the weird stuff bro..

[@persephonebasilissa5109]

consistently asking the relevant questions

[@markgleahy21399]

You're amazing 🤩🤩🤩🤩😍😻

[@jpjh8844]

The fetus is born with all of the knowledge of past reverend mothers. Think a newborn with an adult brain

[@Tman001100]

Alia also gains access to male ancestor's memories, as well...which is something even Reverend Mothers cannot do.

[@shanenolan5625]

Thank you iv Ben looking forward to it , highly recommend the book ( audio book version is marvellous) lots of differences and things they just didn't have time for , most of the characters are better and more detailed,

[@WhyteNoize859]

Awesome movie and really enjoyed your reaction to this. Big thumbs up. 👍👈

[@havedrill1]

Frank Herbert intentionally made Paul into a likable character. Villeneuve did a great job tricking people into cheering for Paul. Both the writer and the director convinces the audience that Paul is someone who should be followed. Chani was the moral compass in the movie. Believing their savior should be from one of her people. Frank Herbert wrote the story as a warning about following charismatic leaders. This was in the early 60s. Yet even today we still willingly follow people who tell us what we want to hear. Paul was trained by his father to lead and his mother on how to manipulate people. He is part of a colonizing family. And as a former African American slave once said: it doesn’t matter if your master is a good master or a bad master, you are still a slave. Interesting some reaction videos I’ve seen people got it immediately. Which didn’t take away from them enjoying the movie, they were just aware what the larger meaning of the movie was about.

[@JavierSantoyoF]

The movie is great, fut as fan of the saga, I like it more the books story where his sister is who kills the Baron and is like 5-6 years when it happens, the non-born-yet option is very weird hahaha, the creepy sister in the old movie rocks.

[@MrDredd1966]

The only gripe l have with dune part 2 was the last battle scene was so short..

[@sonosoloio]

as in the first film, everything seems more than good, except for one "detail": the protagonist, who continues to appear insignificant, insipid and without any charisma, the complete opposite of what the Kwisatz Haderach should be. to the problem of Paul's non-existent sister and, even worse, the death of the Baron, things that can also be ignored, unfortunately, what should have been one of the main characters of this second film, Chani, turned out to have been developed in a completely wrong way, so much so that it seems to go against not only Paul but the entire struggle supported by his people.

[@Randomizer939]

48:27 Third coming, then shit hits the fan.

[@ilikeknives1000]

visually stunning but i just can't get over the character changes (chani) (dr kynes ) it wasn't necessary i'd say watch the scifi channel original series and the follow up children of dune they are more accurate but also lack the big budget

[@Tman001100]

Right but I think the Chani change makes more sense because otherwise, audiences may overlook the fact that Paul becoming a messiah is something to be FEARED and cautioned against, rather than just blindly embraced and she embodies that warning and seems to be the ONLY character who does. Realistically, there would be more and probably is but it's just offscreen.

[@nazimelmardi]

@@Tman001100yes. And now we see in this reaction that the message is perfectly understandable via this format. The 1:1 adaptations won’t make it better necessarily. Lord of the Rings was anything but 1:1 yet it’s one of the best movies ever made and adaptations too. The goal is making a great movie too, not just copy a book to the screen. That’s what some people fail to understand.

[@Tman001100]

@@nazimelmardi Right, both Dune parts are already considered great movies, though. The naysayers tend to be the most hardcore book literalists which it's not always great to be that, though. I LOVE the books. God Emperor of Dune is my favorite one but again, books are fundamentally different in HOW you tell a story compared to movies and multiple episode series. It's just not possible to tell them all in the same exact way for different formats/adaptations. So much of it is just subjective.

[@steelnation5110]

As someone who has read all 6 of Frank Herbert’s Dune books, I really didn’t mind the change at all in fact i thoroughly enjoyed Chani’s character in the movie (since she’s actually a character lol in the novels she’s bland as hell). If anything I felt such a change was necessary since she communicated the message Frank wanted to convey and that many people miss when they read/watch Dune before reaching Messiah where the message is much more explicit, that Paul’s ascension and subsequent Jihad are not good in any way especially for the Fremen and that the prophesy is a lie meant to control them.

[@steelnation5110]

@@Tman001100yeah I find it so weird that some book readers complain so much about this change, especially since it’s in service to the main theme of the novels. But I guess some people just really want Chani to be nothing more than Paul’s willing and loyal concubine lol.

[@shanenolan5625]

No the baron doesn't know ,

[@Elios0000]

Pual is not the hero...

[@cboscari]

I don't like the change at the end with Chani from the novels. She was always Paul's wife, just not in name. Irulan was left sitting around documenting everything and being the scholar and book nerd she was at heart. Chani is (later) even the mother of his children, and the heir of the throne Leto II.. She's not thrilled, but she knows Paul loves her, not Irulan. It does a disservice to the books to not emphasize the bond those two have for each other. Anyway, otherwise a good adaptation for a story difficult to adapt to visual media.

[@MrTjonke]

Good thing: there are 31 more books to make movies from in the Dune series. =)

[@rexmundi2986]

No, there aren't. There are six books, that's it. Brian Herbert's fan fiction doesn't count.

[@feudist]

"She's your pet?" "Don't you touch her man..." Oh, by all means TOUCH Chani...and draw back a nub.

[@rnkelly36]

The movie honestly does a bad job of telling the story. However it does a great job and showing the story if that makes sense. You have missed out on so much of the story in the book that you really don't know what things are important and at the same time terrifying. The changes visually help you have certain feelings like the Harkonnen are made to look evil where they are not so in the book as much as in the movie. You also don't have any of the story of the spacing guild or the political story behind what is going on. You also get very little if any backstory of the different houses and how they fit in. Chani is about the best change from the book because it gives you a view of Paul that the book hides. Chani is actually completely different in the book mostly because many of the Sci Fi writers of the 50s did a horrible job writing female characters. Chani is meant to give you the perspective that Paul is not the hero of this story. It is strange but the Bene Gesserit are not the villains of the story but they sort of are the villains. Dune is a story about warnings of the charismatic leader. Paul is a very problematic character and the character just gets more difficult in the future. The end of this movie is the beginning of the slaughter. Worlds will die and burn under the name Paul Atreides and he is not the worst to come.

[@Tman001100]

Adapting books to film or even series will always be a trade-off. Just not going to please everyone anyhow.

[@rnkelly36]

@@Tman001100 Movies have to stand on their own. Its like LOTR and Dune movies are great in their own rights. The stories they are adapted from paint different pictures of the characters but it fits for visual media. Dune is a great amount of legend and reasons that have to be explained and Denis Villeneuve is not a director that likes exposition. Denis said a movie should tell its story in its visuals and music while doing press for Dune. He did a great job at doing that which is why most of the political intrigue and history is left out of the picture. The core message is the same "Beware of charismatic leaders". The Chani character in the movie tries to give us that perspective. Herbert had a problem conveying this message which is why we got 2 more books anyway. The other 3 books Herbert added were probably because his drug trip was still going. This movie was a great way to depict the first book and lead into doing more movies if the will to do them is good enough.

[@ZtnarfMeri]

You commentate way too much.