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Film: Dune

Packed IMax theater on a Tuesday night -- impressive. Visually stunning, of course. Overall experience satisfying but not exhilarating. The logical comparison are Star Wars and Game of Thrones, each of which surpass Dune by quite a bit...Star Wars by the sheer storytelling propulsion, energy, and landing of character/emotional moments. The world, pace, and tone more resembles Game of Thrones, but GOT earns their narrative twists and patient character revelations whereas those are quite clunky and inorganic in Dune. I mean, Dany's hero transformation with the Dothraki was much better traced that Chalamet's, was it not?

But despite all of that, I quite liked the religiosity elements of the film alongside the trippy visuals and of course, the score.