Dune Half Two
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Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Half Two has many saying it’s among the best science fiction films in historical past, and after seeing it, it’s arduous to say that’s hyperbole. To this point, the numbers seem like bearing that out.
Whereas its extraordinarily excessive Rotten Tomatoes viewers and critic scores are nice, the extra spectacular quantity is what it’s at the moment doing on IMDB, the place present figures have it at a 9.0/10 after 63,000 opinions have already been counted. That’s a full 52% of all scores at a ten/10.
Within the context of IMDB, it’s a reasonably astonishing quantity. Because it stands, that places Dune: Half Two in the top 10 of all time. Not simply sci-fi films, all films. It’s truly tied with a bunch at that 9.0, however these others have many, many extra opinions in, which is makes the quantity tougher to keep up. So I’m counting it at eighth. The listing is:
- The Shawshank Redemption – 9.3
- The Godfather – 9.2
- The Darkish Knight – 9.0
- The Godfather Half 2 – 9.0
- 12 Indignant Males – 9.0
- Schindler’s Listing – 9.0
- The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King – 9.0
- Dune: Half Two – 9.0
- Pulp Fiction – 8.9
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings – 8.9
Once more, it’s doable this drops over time, as essentially the most enthusiastic viewers have in all probability watched first. IMDB additionally skews a bit extra geek culture-focused. Like is The Darkish Knight the third greatest film ever made? Most likely not. However nonetheless, Dune Half Two being the place it’s is extraordinarily spectacular, and is being rewarded critically and commercially, trying to double the primary movie’s hauls throughout many classes.
It stands to motive that we’re Villeneuve with the ability to get Dune: Messiah made, which he desires to be the third a part of the trilogy, even when the e-book supply materials is…considerably extra questionable. However the “holy battle” has begun on the finish of Dune Half 2, and I’ve little question that now everybody desires to see the conclusion realized. I’ve seen some examine the nearly-finished Dune trilogy as one thing to akin to the unique Star Wars trilogy as a pressure of nature. I’m not 100% positive we’re fairly there but (the primary movie actually didn’t spark devotion fairly like this), however I can’t rule it out, and sure, with out query it’s among the best sci-fi films ever made, regardless of the way you need to shuffle the order round.
As for the IMDB listing, we’ll see the way it does over time, however at the same time as a place to begin this can be very spectacular, and well-deserved.
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