I was a Dune virgin heading into this film. I knew nothing about the universe or its characters. That said, I still loved everything about this film. I've seen it twice now, and I'm still hungry for more. Now I want to read the books, and watch the 1984 version just for fun. Great review, fellas.

The Barron and emperor has access to the most advanced shield penetrating bombs. extremely expensive and precious but it was worth using to destroy the atredies. Plus it was an ambush. In the book howat says he grossly underestimated how much money the Barron was willing to spend

The moment James says “these ships are way better than Star Wars ships”, and Riley gets a viscerally defensive face, I love it! Haha

I've seen a few posts of folks being pissy about Paul "learning up" on spice in beginning, and making the argument that he would know those details, he would have no reason to be looking at that, etc. But how many times have you gone to learn more about something and have to wade through the basics you already know? It just served to show he took his family's business seriously, was studying up on Arrakis, and was a good moment for some natural exposition to the viewer.

From 15:50 onward: it was a SURPRISE attack, guys! With a saboteur inside that turned down the city wide shield. So those were stationary, non-alert, ships without any cover.

Lazguns aren't "illegal", it's just that when they hit a shield, it creates a nuclear explosion randomly, either at the gun / at the shield.

12:30 they explain that there are no satellites on Arrakis so I guess they can't see the invasion force coming, which gave them a massive advantage cause literally none could get on a ship

Why do they have shields when they have anti shield weapons: The special weapons are very expensive compared to standard weapons used. It's not economical but they want to completely overwhelm them to allow no escape so the rich Harkonnen over spent to completely crush the Atreides.

I just heard linus on wan show said a one of TJM about Dune part two is coming. I so want this podcast to return fulltime. So hoping that other like me felt the same way and commented here to get this beautiful bouqet of dudes rambling on and on about passion! Please Linus bring back "Carpool Critics"!

as someone who has not read dune or seen the other movie, i was blown away. The only reason i even knew wtf dune was, was that id hear you guys bring it up often. id watch a 4 hour cut of this EASILY. insanely excited for the other part. and im excited to watch this again and catch all the things i missed initially. I'm amped to watch this episode of the podcast!!

The voice is weaponized psychology. Through training the Bene Gesserit are able to analyze the psychological weaknesses of people they are interacting with. Also through training, they are able to exploit those weaknesses. A voice command that works on one person will not necessarily work on the next person. They weren’t really able to explore that in the movie.

The Spacing Guild members consider navigator the ultimate role within the guild. The spice melange mutates them over millenia, which is also addictive, you cannot quit once you start or you die. The navigators are never seen in the book but they are rumoured to look fish like.

1:05:00 The bagpipes... as far as I can recall the only moment the score actually had visuals was the Atreides fleet landing on Arrakis. The bagpipe player stepping into the sand really drove home the feeling that these people are way out of their element....

Bruh that wasnt Dune. That was Du

I would have really loved to see the book as a trilogy. The book itself is written as a 3 parts each of which has its 3 part structure. Would have definitely helped with the pacing. The Book 1( Dune) has a perfect amount of dread, politics and action to rope any new viewer in. It ends just after the Atreides fall with all of Paul's abilities kicking together in the tent and his vision of the Jihad. All that dread, inner conflict, helplessness of the Atreides knowing their fall is coming and still unable to do basically anything to stop it. That being said, I'll take a 2 part over a single movie.