Dune

I can understand the omission of the guild. Villeneuve would have had to either invent a guild character or have some exposition about them. They're heavily discussed in the book but there's no guild character. the story works without them, but I'd have loved a little bit about them using spice to plot a course through space, would have been cool.

I have to say, the absolute balls of the movie to basically end on a cliffhanger when there's no guarantee at all that he'd be allowed to make part three/Messiah. Of course now the film is a huge success - almost certainly it'll take over $500m - so I think he'll be getting on with more Dune in short order, but still.

The book, although relatively open-ended, still felt like a complete work to me, whereas as this definitely feels like the middle of a trilogy.

Wasn't the biggest fan unfortunately. The second half of the first movie already had some issues* and Part 2 did feel often feel like just another rendition of a movie I have seen many times before. It still often has a lot of style and can be really impressive at times, but the love story was rather run-of-the-mill, the ideological conflict didn't really add much and the Fremen are essentially still noble savages that are being used as supermen and ultimately as a deus ex machina. The latter is consistent with the book though.

A bit too much use of the "Voice". Those moments seem to mostly be there to portray Paul's mother as a sinister figure and to simply spice up things for the movie-goers occasionally. The music was just brute force from beginning to end. It kind of works, but a lot of the time I felt it only really was there to batter the viewer into submission.

*the unnecessary Boromir moment, the extremely long overdone Ornithopter crash sequence etc.

Finally saw it, very good. Only criticisms would be that Paul's visions were a bit tame and Austin Butler's ridiculous voice.

I seem to remember the same thing about the other Harkonnen from the book, it spent ages building him up and then he didn’t really do much. Maybe the Bene Gesserit securing his bloodline will be significant later but I never felt compelled to read any more.
His voice stood out as not really matching him somehow, I’m not familiar with the actor so wasn’t sure if that’s just how he is?

I thought his voice was fantastic, it really matched Skarsgaard's

By cutting to a different scene where they're off the sandworms.

The Life of Brian, “only the messiah would say he isn’t the messiah” bit at the start was my biggest chuckle.

Phew that was a lot to take in. I need to watch it again, but in private, with no one coughing in the back row.

I absolutely hate people eating in the cinema. If it was up to me I'd ban all food during screenings, but at the very least they should only sell soft, quiet foodstuffs that don't disturb everyone within earshot.

Took one of the kids to see Godzilla Minus One before Christmas and a guy in front of us ate a seemingly endless box of really smelly nachos in the loudest, most obnoxious way imaginable for at least half of the film.

Blood pressure's gone up just thinking about it

I’m halfway through the book now and I’m struck by how many differences there are. Very much enjoying it though.

And how do they get more than one person on them? Does the brave Fremen who managed to anchor themselves do a U-turn then parallel park next to their mates?

"spice heavy diet"

they eat sand, my friend, they eat spice-heavy sand. And muad'dib fritters.

To get off you also wait until the worm is tired enough to not give a shit about eating you once you climb down. The Fremen measure distance in the number of worms it’ll take to cross it.