Saw Dune (2021) (the secret part one of this new film franchise) it was really good! It's too bad I saw it on my dinky little TV screen because it's a very grand film, full of epic megastructures and shots of nature's mighty beauty and epic, wailing music. It's appropriate for this epic story of interstellar political intrigue and maybe-religious drama.
The film has that modern realistic sci-fi look that's so popular now. There's a lot of austere, blank structures in earth-tones with tiny little humans to give a sense of scale. It's a sort of brutalism for sci-fi. As is fitting for the source material, everything is done in a slow, deliberate, almost ceremonial way. It reminded me of Drawing Restraint 9 in that way. (Thankfully, this film is a bit more briskly paced than that one though.)
One last thought: the spaceships clearly resemble dragonflies which are aquatic creatures in their first stage of life. As adults, they fly, so in order to transition from water-breathing to air-breathing, dragonflies must pull their adult body out of their juvenile body, tearing out their aquatic lungs. This is likely unrelated but ties in well with the story's theme of rebirth and cataclysmic growth.
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