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I really liked the first movie, but I'm conflicted about this one. I really liked the first half, how Paul was defiant of the whole Messiah thing and seemed to genuinely want to help the Fremen in their struggle against the empire for freedom. I was genuinely surprised because I didn't expect that from the story.

Then he takes the baby worm juice, and now he's fully embracing the whole religious figure thing, is taking center stage in the Fremen struggle and is even using his family/house colonialist crest as a flag.

I thought it was gonna deconstruct the whole white savior trope, but then it ends reinforcing it? That's weird.

To be fair tho, he's being pragmatic since he can now see whole timelines of possible futures and is doing what he needs to assure it reaches the timeline where they are successful.

Well, at least I'm interested to see where it goes. Showing them resisting against the Harkonnen colonizer fucks was great tho lol.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I remember a friend told me how she thought it was so interesting how Paul used his Messiah status to accomplish his goals without believing it, which confused me because I fully assumed that Paul ended up believing that he was the Messiah.

I think overall I liked Dune 2 a lot, but the new Harkonnen villain who's name I forget ended up just aura farming, bombing one place and then got killed by Paul. Also the worms were a lot less intimidating

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