‘Dune: Part Two’ First Reactions: Rave Reviews Topped By Critic Who Claims, “It’s The Definitive Sci-Fi Epic Of A Generation”

I've read all six of Frank Herbert's Dune novels and nine more by Brian Herbert and Keith Anderson and I'm planning to continue. I'll happily wish for as many movies as they could possibly make. Prelude to Dune in particular was an amazing series of novels. Probably among the more difficult to adapt into movies, but they've apparently done an amazing job with the two they've done so far.

I haven't met or talked to many who have read any of Brian and Keith's novels, but from my small sample size (and from my own personal experience), I get the impression not that they're not bad, but polarizing. People either love them or hate them. The most hard-core Dune fan I know says he likes the Brian and Keith books better than Frank's and he wishes they'd made the movies in chronological order -- starting with Legends of Dune set 10,000 years before the first Frank Herbert novel and detailing the start of the Butlerian Jihad -- rather than starting with the first Dune novel published. He also recommemds reading Dune in chronological not publication order.

Who wrote the one that's thousands of years after, about when the god emperor dies?

That would be wild to see.

Sure, plot-wise there’s nothing else to spoil for me as a book reader. It was the casting that was a spoiler. I know there have been rumors for a while, but I brushed it off because it was impossible for that actor to be cast in that role if the book was followed. Then I read a coment on social media today of how they worked it in to fit the casting. It also means one important event will play out differently compared to the book. So that’s a spoiler.

Real context-

That dess/suit was made by the designer (Mugler) she has been wearing for a small series of outfits she has been wearing. This particular one was brought out of a museum just for this premiere and she even had to change out of it after doing the carpet walk. It was made in 1995, inspired by and modeled after the robot from Metropolis.

I know it is odd to have a bunch of nerds try and read about fashion, but it is interesting. It wasn't some "look at me not be a disney kid" thing.

https://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/zendaya-mugler-robot-suit-dune-two-london-premiere

Wait, who’s the coked out one? I need the name for…prayer over the addiction.

This, as near as I can tell, not from the movie, she wore it to the opening.

Hopefully better than it looks?

The shoulders, elbows, and knees actually look like decent armor joints; overlapping plates with decent bend room and interior cloth covers. I'm really hoping it's some kind of stiff fabric because the entire hip/thigh region would be something awful in metal.