Absolutely terrifying how silent they are. These are the most elite of the Harkonnen hunters. Who knows how many countless Fremen they have hunted and killed over the decades??
@@costco_pizza The "elite" for Harkonnen's are still chaff. They are all about using numbers over quality soldiers. Even with them ambushing the Atreides in Part 1, they were losing until the Sardaukar stepped in.
@@costco_pizza How many Fremen? Somewhere between 0 and 0. But Fremen aren't the only people in Arrakis. They've probably dispatched many smugglers and insurrectionists in the cities. Fremen warriors are on another level. They brought that point home more towards the middle of the film.
This man remembers what so many directors have forgotten. Great cinematography. Too many modern directors seem to think if you fill the screen with colorful chaos you are creating art. Sometimes less is more. This movie succeeds because of the subtlety. The battles, even when they are massive, are always shot with a restraint that makes them much more genuine. I loved the final battle in Avengers Endgame, but that movie is pure escapism. My suspension of disbelief is turned up to 11 when I watch that kind of movie. In contrast to the Dune films which are an imersive experience. You walk out of the theatre feeling you visited a world hundreds of light years away, a few thousand years in the future.
Amen! If a less talented director like say Michael Bay had directed this, the entire scene would be frantic shaky cam with a cut every second and big explosions and screaming and there'd be a billion things happening at once on screen to overwhelm the viewer's brain.
Spot on! Directors have gotten lost in the CGI maze. Villeneuve's use of cinematography is brilliant. Perfect example is one the Harkonnen troops take flight up the sietch. Simple; visually stunning; brilliant. 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻
The reason why Harkonnen soldiers were ordered not to have shields is that laser hitting shields can create small nuclear explosions, which will be enough to kill the entire unit
@@Ares-pn5igit drives them into a frenzy. That's why the thopter with the shield during the ambush scene was a headscratcher. Also, the Fremen only have projectile weapons. If they had lasguns it would've been rare.
i just realized the Fremen placed the thumper knowing the Harkonnen would react by using their suspensor suits to climb to the top of the rock escarpment, making them easy targets AND opening the distance between the Fremen and the Harkonnens.
Wow! That’s pretty clever? I would have thought the Harkonnen would have stayed on the ground when they saw the thumper. For the Fremen to know they would go higher is only something they would know.
Actually, it should have given the Harkonnen a higher ground, better visibility and they should been able to avoid the Fremen fire by simply being prone. At least in the real world.
@@netfan7117 Going prone would hide them, in teh middle of the desert, in hostile territory, surrounded by a hidden opponent when you are in shiny black uniforms contrasting with the red rocks. Sure, go prone, and then?
About the shields subject: Shields induce a frenzied state in worms, and a laser striking the shield triggers a nuclear explosion. This explosion occurs at the point of collision between the laser and the shield, either within the lasgun itself or in both versions simultaneously. A nuclear explosion on Arrakis has the potential to irreversibly alter the atmosphere, landscape, and significantly damage the ecosystem, spice mining could be impossible after such catastrophe. If my memory serves me right, Duncan Idaho was the only individual who deliberately fired a laser at the shield as a final resort.
Seems like quite a precarious state of affairs. That sounds like the fate of the whole interstellar civilisation hinges on individuals having enough restrain to refrain from using them in battle on this planet.
@@Nia-zq5jlit’s not always a nuclear detonation. Usually it’s only an explosion that kills either the shield user or the lasgun wielder. Or sometimes both will detonate.
@@agravemisunderstanding9668 i mean depending on how hot the beam is, especially considering Arrakis has 0% humidity, it's feasible to think the oxygen is just being burned and highlighted. and like sand particles in the air and whatnot.
They are ANTS look when they flight the montain Literally one behind the other 1:41 Plus i think they are billions thats why Barón Feyd and Rabban kill one per day 😂😂
I catch something new every time I watch this movie. The Harkonen trooper giving the orders has a white stripe on his helmet, indicating his rank as the platoon leader. The attention to detail in this movie was incredible. They didn't have to do that, but they did.
@@AfroMan187 it certainly is, my friend! I have nothing against you (especially since your avatar is from Starship Troopers, which is a favorite of mine - both the movie and the book!) but you realize of course that ranks appear in most movies where soldiers are shown, right? I just didn’t like this Dune film so much (and it’s as close to the book as can be, unlike Starship Troopers, btw).. Peace! ✌️
This scene is very important because in the last film, the Harkonnen were eclipsed by the Sardaukar and were even comically cowardly, as when they fled from Duncan. They had to quickly establish the Harkonnen as a threat to be feared, and they accomplish this with their size, deadly weapons and professional, disciplined soldiers.
@@Brad-zv4sv Sure, I was speaking about their faction, which remains a threat even after these individual Harkonnen soldiers are killed. Note also that the Fremen use ambush and superior knowledge of the terrain to their advantage and avoiding direct confrontation when possible.
These were the most elite of the Harkonnen hunters armed with the most sophisticated technology. Who knows how many Fremen they have hunted and killed for fun over the decades? It must have been tens of thousands!?
@@Brad-zv4sv The effect of that though is that the Fremen seem even more competent (which is the point), based on how menacing and efficient the Harkonnen troops appear. It's not that the Harkonnen troops suck, it's that the Fremen are even more dangerous (in the book the baron is perplexed by reports that Fremen killed Sardaukar during the earlier invasion, and dismisses it, saying they must have been disguised Atreides troops, and later we hear about how Fremen women and children in the sietches are almost as dangerous as the warriors).
The Harkonnen design is so great. It's like Combine mixed with Grineer. It's also such a small detail, but I like that the Harkonnen who snipes the thumper waits until it's together again to shoot it.
Yeah, he's definitely one of my favorite directors that really nails it with his visual sci-fi aesthetics and world building in Dune alongside with his previous works in Blade Runner 2049 and Arrival that will stand out in the foreseeable future. Sicario also had good realism aesthetics and rawness to it too. Can't wait to see more projects from Denis Villeneuve in future films.
First time seeing this in the theater, it was packed. This scene was so tense, and then the fight starts to engage and when the Harks used their anti-gravity devices to climb to the top of the rock -- it was such silky smooth sci-fi you could see people grinning in the theater. Fantastic opening scene.
I like that Harkonnens aren't portrayed as complete nubs. Here they are shown to be at least conventionally disciplined but they are continually outsmarted by the planet's natives.
They're plenty deadly as soldiers, but the Fremen are smart enough to fight in ways that don't play to their strengths, and the Harkonnens as a house don't understand the Fremen as a people or the planet itself.
1:24 was really captivating for me on the big screen. It's not even that consequential of a moment, but visually it just looks so weird to see them floating up the side of the cliff like that. The black armor against the reddish tint of the sand and rock is so cool. The film is full of these kinds of moments. Honestly things like this often struck me more than major plot moments.
Perfect example of an action scene that rides entirely on subtle and grounded camerawork, simple stunts, and little to NO noticable CG. This scene has so much weight to it becuase the imagery is so subtle but purposeful. I bet no one will ever forget that shot of the troops floating off the rock, becuase it's so simple and grounded yet visually striking.
If someone is asking how did Jessica mannaged to get there so quickly, is the Weirding Way, instead of wasting time training strength they train for speed, they become so fast that some people believe is a form of teleportation.
Can't wait for that MAX dune to show the prophesy of dune (wish they would have kept it as the sisterhood of dune like the book) about the harkonnen sisters founding the bene gesserit. I would love to see all they're abilities. In the books everyone's powers mentioned internally it's hard to know what's actually happening sometimes (except when he shouts at the reverend mother) I like how they included that in both versions.
@@bhaalgorn Surely you can't mean the "Supreme Bashar Miles Teg zooming through a building with Mach 3 and killing Honored Matres left and right, straight after ingesting the yearly food intake of a mid-sized US city" part from Heretics of Dune.
@balazsfonnyadt1903 I was more so thinking of Leto II running through the desert past the speed of sound, jumping hundreds of feet in the air, and just running through towns to blow them up. but Teg works too
I love the opening scene of this film. As soon as I was watching this I had a feeling this was going to be an otherwordly film. Just the visuals, the camera angles close to the ground looking above as if you're lying down with them, the sounds of the Harkonnen soldiers over the sand hill, the silence of the Fremen flanking around... And then my favourite part, "The rats are calling a worm. Unit, climb. Now!" Love it.
The movement in the zero-g suits was a marvelous touch with the fx. The soldiers were propelled in part by their own bodies' movements and the energy tapered as if gravity was gently resisting propulsion. This was an immense improvement from Part 1 where the Harkonnen/Sardukar forces looked like they were lowered to the surface of the planet on wires.
Practically all honestly, Star wars took hella inspiration, and then theres those TRASH ass rebel moon movies, the second of which just came out. It's like Zack Snyder saw dune and wanted to do it so he tried and that's what we got, but he says it's inspired by Star wars 🤮 pure 🗑️🔥🔥
I love the details on how they do the water extraction from their kills. Nothing is wasted and everything is processed for survival. The desert takes what remains and leaves no evidence.
every single dune video's comments i watch reminds me of how stupid i was not insisting for imax with my friends, when is saw this scene in the theatre i was already like "what a fucking waste"
The scene of those guys levitating, it is simple and magestic! We know what these guys can do, how lethal and rutheless they can be, and seeing them fly like that in silence was scary as hell.
Those laser rifles sound so fkin cool. The attention for details is incredible. For instance at 02:07 you can hear the rifle capacitor(s) loading and also see the status of the loading - those LED's lighting up. I love this movie and can't wait for the next one!
@@kamranhussain2204Correct, that wouldn't have just summoned a worm, it would have summoned a very furious and uncontrollable worm. Could have been a big problem for the Fremen wanting to take the Harkonen's water...
At the beginning, it's as if the Harkonnen are 'swimming' up a vertical wall, as one would in an ocean. The Fremen later dream of a desert full of water. Elegant imagery
When the eclipse happened in 2017 i saw that the coronahad form double helixes coming out both poles. And there was also a strange buzzing sound as well. Closet thing I've ever had to a spiritual experience.
The first 3 minutes are simply some of the most impressive scenes I've seen in my entire life. It was already fascinating the first time I saw it and now I've probably seen it 20 times on TH-cam. It's simply a piece of film history. THANK YOU! 😊
I love how unique and crazy the tech in dune is, no thrusters, no nothing, flying with antigravity is like swimming, the ships don't need thrusters, etc
The Harkonen anti great part is one of the most amazing thesis statements I've seen in film. So strange and unexpected, yet completely understandable and visually stunning. I put it on par with the star wars cantina scene as a perfect framework for the masterpiece to come
@@genxerfool9797 I'm just having fun, and as for the lasers, in the scenes that follow you can see that they are being shot with lasers. If the Fremen have them, why wouldn't they use them agiainst all the unit?
i like to think that the harkonnens are really cheap, and that these bulky black suits are basically dollar tree stillsuits that work much less efficiently and maybe even require electricity to run.
Harkonnens are the richest House in the known universe, another option is that those bulky suits are the best mass-produced military hardware out there but Fremen suits are hand-crafted, artisanal, even better.
This gravity suit could be so use full in our today’s world. So many applications. Life savers. Firefighters can use it. Window cleaners,construction workers and also can use for actual rock climbing.
This was a major departure from the book. In the book, Jessica never physically fought anyone. An exception being with Gurney Halleck but that was a different kind of fight. But I think it is an important scene in the movie as it is another way to show she is dangerous.
Lovely wirework scene. Probably the best shot in the movie. I like that the flying is restricted, feels significantly more real. Story is not that great though, but this is true of the book too. The book shines though because it feels like a real alien world, and I suspect that's why everything is as grounded as possible.
This movie is so immersive that I was so entranced by the awesome cinematography that I didn’t even realize floating like that was a special effect. Thought they were real Harkonnen soldiers who just Did That.
As soon as I can afford the blu ray I'm buying this! Hopefully when Messiah comes out I can complete the trilogy! Batman, matrix, lotr, so many good trilogies out there. Then there's bad boys 🤮
I like how Jessica didn't kill a fully armored soldier in one blow like in videogames. The first strike with the rock knocked him on his back and then Jessica smashed his helmet faceplate in, and it still required several smacks to kill him.
in IMAX this becomes a spiritual experience i now have the 4k to watch at home but cant watch it, feels like blasphemy to not watch this in cinema. I have an amazing home cinema but doesnt come close to IMAX experience. i was literally BLOWN AWAY!
What's really cool aboutbthe harkonnen troopers is that theyre based off the sardaukar from the david lynch dune. This is probably because dune part 2 is 10 times shorter chronologically compared to the book, meaning the sardaukar who were to return to the planet to police it in the second half of dune were now replaced by the harkonnens.
So fascinating to hear that Harkonnen soldier call Paul a rat before his mother kills him. It further cements how he’s truly assimilating to the ways of Fremen as well as Arrakis. Also, its ironic that they get so easily eradicated in this scene like rats are exterminated, yet Harkonnen condescendingly look down on Fremen.
In s1 it said that the shields create vibrations that can attract the sandstorms which is why the fremen don’t collect them from the harkenons if they wanted to, cause the fremen spend most of their time migrating and walking through worm territory or ambushing spice fields. At least that’s the theory as well and not just the explosion part
Yes, it seems so. The Harkonnens are grotesque-yet ultimately still human. Since he calls out only specific names instead of his entire unit, they are likely his closest comrades.
2:33 Please, someone explain why the one soldier says "no shields" Some say it agitates the worms but that doesn't make sense when you are on top of a mountain
LOL same i was thinking about it too maybe it’s bc they knew they would be stuck there if they used shields they would’ve been stuck in the Fremens line of fire unable to go anywhere due to worms if they had activated shields, maybe they idea was for them to descend back down and regroup? possible launch a breakout attack but with that small of a group and a well conducted ambush that wouldn’t have worked out either 😭
@williamlam1415 I thought the shields would disrupt their suits' ability to fly Or block their circulation systems, which keep the suits cooler on the inside
They're being shot at by lasgun, a laser gun that if shot to an active shield will trigger violent explosion for both shooter and target. Sure they can sacrifice one soldier with a shield pawn, but being that close mean they will all die too. No shield is just a way to give a chance for a survivor to come out safe rather than a full team wipe out.
I don't get why they didn't activate shields. They're far above the sand, unless a big worm shows up, they're safe. And unless the Fremen want to risk blowing themselves up to take out this assault group, they don't have to worry about laser's being used against them (and the Fremen are using projectile weaponry against them anyway). They should have turned on shields and then started counter sniping.
@RandomInternetUser-yi5cc it blows up both parties. If it only blew up the shield user there is literally no downside to some sniper taking a potshot at the Baron while he's at a public gathering in his capital.
They are trained/habituated to follow doctrine and didn't have time to think about changing tactics in the heat of the moment. If one of the Harkonnens had that moment of epiphany that the threat from lasguns or worms was minimal, all their shields would go up, the Fremen lose, and the movie is 7 minutes long.
If Michael Bay had directed this, he would have somehow magically transported the US military to Arrakis, this scene would involve a dozen explosions, several 360 pan shots, Paul would be whooping and screaming half the time, and there would be 50 different things happening on screen at the same time, overwhelming the viewers' ability to digest what the hell is going on.
Saw this movie in theaters not knowing much about it and I was fucking in right away..Best movie out of the sewer Hollywood has produced worth seeing in theaters in YEARS
The anti gravity devices are such an awesome yet simple effect in this movie. The silent sardaukar ambush and now this.
Absolutely terrifying how silent they are. These are the most elite of the Harkonnen hunters. Who knows how many countless Fremen they have hunted and killed over the decades??
@@costco_pizza probably none considering they clearly dont know fremen tactics at all and get easily bodied here
@@costco_pizza The "elite" for Harkonnen's are still chaff. They are all about using numbers over quality soldiers. Even with them ambushing the Atreides in Part 1, they were losing until the Sardaukar stepped in.
I would LOVE to get my hands on one of those anti grav devices!!!
@@costco_pizza How many Fremen? Somewhere between 0 and 0.
But Fremen aren't the only people in Arrakis. They've probably dispatched many smugglers and insurrectionists in the cities.
Fremen warriors are on another level. They brought that point home more towards the middle of the film.
This man remembers what so many directors have forgotten. Great cinematography. Too many modern directors seem to think if you fill the screen with colorful chaos you are creating art. Sometimes less is more. This movie succeeds because of the subtlety. The battles, even when they are massive, are always shot with a restraint that makes them much more genuine. I loved the final battle in Avengers Endgame, but that movie is pure escapism. My suspension of disbelief is turned up to 11 when I watch that kind of movie. In contrast to the Dune films which are an imersive experience. You walk out of the theatre feeling you visited a world hundreds of light years away, a few thousand years in the future.
Amen! If a less talented director like say Michael Bay had directed this, the entire scene would be frantic shaky cam with a cut every second and big explosions and screaming and there'd be a billion things happening at once on screen to overwhelm the viewer's brain.
He really tells the story visually. It captures the magnitude of the story. It also gives a sense of otherworldliness.
Dude, this scene was weak. Power rangers had better choreography and was more believable than whatever this was trying to achieve.
Spot on! Directors have gotten lost in the CGI maze. Villeneuve's use of cinematography is brilliant.
Perfect example is one the Harkonnen troops take flight up the sietch.
Simple; visually stunning; brilliant. 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻
@killer3000ad If Bay had directed this scene, there would have been:
1) unnecessary explosions.
2) unnecessary usage of CGI.
3) more explosions.
1:23 gave me life. It was an immense privilege to watch this in the theaters.
You got that right
it was so good in imax
I was like, “They are screwed!😂
… wait WHAT? They can FLY???😳
The moment I saw this I knew visually it's going to be great
It was at this moment I knew Part Two was going to slap hard af
The fan on the back of his helmet might be my favourite movie detail of all time
there are more details like this i the movies but this one is really good
I'm a scuba diver and the scene when the troopers take flight is so spot on it takes my breath away. The physics is perfect.
I thought the same thing as did my brother. We both scuba dive.
Are you joking? Diving into water is nothing like take off from the ground and start flying like a kite.
@@commanderiosifstalin4938probably the other direction, pushing off while underneath, not diving into.
Had the same thought. The whole floating action and being unable to affect your trajectory without pushing or pulling on something.
Say scuba, Brock!
The reason why Harkonnen soldiers were ordered not to have shields is that laser hitting shields can create small nuclear explosions, which will be enough to kill the entire unit
Thanks, I was wondering about that.
I thought it was cause the shields would attract the worms to them?
@@Ares-pn5ig Nah, they're on top of a big rock outcropping specifically to avoid that.
@@Ares-pn5igit drives them into a frenzy. That's why the thopter with the shield during the ambush scene was a headscratcher.
Also, the Fremen only have projectile weapons. If they had lasguns it would've been rare.
@@Ares-pn5ig Both are true in the books.
i just realized the Fremen placed the thumper knowing the Harkonnen would react by using their suspensor suits to climb to the top of the rock escarpment, making them easy targets AND opening the distance between the Fremen and the Harkonnens.
chess, not checkers
Wow! That’s pretty clever? I would have thought the Harkonnen would have stayed on the ground when they saw the thumper. For the Fremen to know they would go higher is only something they would know.
Actually, it should have given the Harkonnen a higher ground, better visibility and they should been able to avoid the Fremen fire by simply being prone. At least in the real world.
@@netfan7117 Going prone would hide them, in teh middle of the desert, in hostile territory, surrounded by a hidden opponent when you are in shiny black uniforms contrasting with the red rocks. Sure, go prone, and then?
@@woodysmith2681Call in the air support obviously.
1:23 idk man, why does it look *sooo goooooood*
For real, it complements that sardukar ambush in part one very nicely, silent and completely unnatural.
Because its so unnatural, the sky shouldnt be orange with sand. Humans shouldnt look like insects, and humans shouldnt float silently into the air
The contrast of heavy and light
I agree.
About the shields subject:
Shields induce a frenzied state in worms, and a laser striking the shield triggers a nuclear explosion. This explosion occurs at the point of collision between the laser and the shield, either within the lasgun itself or in both versions simultaneously.
A nuclear explosion on Arrakis has the potential to irreversibly alter the atmosphere, landscape, and significantly damage the ecosystem, spice mining could be impossible after such catastrophe.
If my memory serves me right, Duncan Idaho was the only individual who deliberately fired a laser at the shield as a final resort.
I think Duncan had left an activated shield in one of the hideouts that the Harkonnens were just blasting away with lasguns.
Seems like quite a precarious state of affairs. That sounds like the fate of the whole interstellar civilisation hinges on individuals having enough restrain to refrain from using them in battle on this planet.
@@Nia-zq5jlHonestly not that different from real life
@@jessevos3986 True that. I guess any magnitude difference depends how often the technology can be used
@@Nia-zq5jlit’s not always a nuclear detonation. Usually it’s only an explosion that kills either the shield user or the lasgun wielder. Or sometimes both will detonate.
The only film that I watched twice in IMAX, expensive as hell, but definitely worth it, this is cinema.
How much?
@@haldir3120 Twice in IMAX is around 30 dollars here.
How much bro, in my country its like 4$
IMAX tickets here are around 15 dollars, I watched it twice so it's about 30 dollars, it's very expensive, I think.
@@nguyentiensu3825 Imax is only 4 USD in your country? Where are you from?
That lasgun beams looks so sick...
Its awesome how they destroy the target an instant before you see the beam, referencing real life lasers.
@@nigeltan676 a real lazer you would see no beam and the guy would just die.
Reminds me of the beam rifle from Halo.
@@agravemisunderstanding9668 i mean depending on how hot the beam is, especially considering Arrakis has 0% humidity, it's feasible to think the oxygen is just being burned and highlighted. and like sand particles in the air and whatnot.
@@nigeltan676why do the weapons in the modern dune films look better and more diverse than the 1984 version
Anyone else notice the Harkonnen helmets look like the compound eyes of insects?
Yeah they do haha and on their home planet with the black sun, it makes them look insectoid or reptilian haha
They are ANTS look when they flight the montain
Literally one behind the other 1:41
Plus i think they are billions thats why Barón Feyd and Rabban kill one per day 😂😂
yep and their ships kinda look like flies imo.
Most likely linked to other such technologies like the ornithopter, which resembles a dragonfly.
Wonder if they had large insects on Geydi Prime before the world industrialized
I catch something new every time I watch this movie. The Harkonen trooper giving the orders has a white stripe on his helmet, indicating his rank as the platoon leader. The attention to detail in this movie was incredible. They didn't have to do that, but they did.
That’s why they took him out first.
Wow this is the first movie to show ranks in the military, I wish more movies would follow suit..
@@deebugger can't tell if this is sarcasm
@@AfroMan187 it certainly is, my friend! I have nothing against you (especially since your avatar is from Starship Troopers, which is a favorite of mine - both the movie and the book!) but you realize of course that ranks appear in most movies where soldiers are shown, right? I just didn’t like this Dune film so much (and it’s as close to the book as can be, unlike Starship Troopers, btw).. Peace! ✌️
@@deebuggerawkward…
This scene is very important because in the last film, the Harkonnen were eclipsed by the Sardaukar and were even comically cowardly, as when they fled from Duncan. They had to quickly establish the Harkonnen as a threat to be feared, and they accomplish this with their size, deadly weapons and professional, disciplined soldiers.
to be fair anything not a sardaukar would flee from a tenth level swordmaster like Duncan Idaho
They all get bodied here, threat neutralized for the rest of the movie…
@@Brad-zv4sv Sure, I was speaking about their faction, which remains a threat even after these individual Harkonnen soldiers are killed. Note also that the Fremen use ambush and superior knowledge of the terrain to their advantage and avoiding direct confrontation when possible.
These were the most elite of the Harkonnen hunters armed with the most sophisticated technology. Who knows how many Fremen they have hunted and killed for fun over the decades? It must have been tens of thousands!?
@@Brad-zv4sv The effect of that though is that the Fremen seem even more competent (which is the point), based on how menacing and efficient the Harkonnen troops appear. It's not that the Harkonnen troops suck, it's that the Fremen are even more dangerous (in the book the baron is perplexed by reports that Fremen killed Sardaukar during the earlier invasion, and dismisses it, saying they must have been disguised Atreides troops, and later we hear about how Fremen women and children in the sietches are almost as dangerous as the warriors).
1:40 the ants in my garbage can sensing the my great blessing upon them (leftover breadcrumbs)
Its a parallel when Baron's body is in the desert getting eaten by ants
Ants in his face
Bro, after reading your comment my table has been coated with a thin skin of water (directly out of my nose)
You made my day!!! ❤❤
Bless the Maker and all His Bread Crumb. Bless the coming and going of Him, May His passing cleanse the world. May He keep the world for his people.
The Harkonnen design is so great. It's like Combine mixed with Grineer.
It's also such a small detail, but I like that the Harkonnen who snipes the thumper waits until it's together again to shoot it.
Overwatch says stop shooting it
@@jakeg3733 "He stopped shooting it".
Warframe rocks!
Denis Villeneuve is amazing
Yeah, he's definitely one of my favorite directors that really nails it with his visual sci-fi aesthetics and world building in Dune alongside with his previous works in Blade Runner 2049 and Arrival that will stand out in the foreseeable future. Sicario also had good realism aesthetics and rawness to it too. Can't wait to see more projects from Denis Villeneuve in future films.
First time seeing this in the theater, it was packed. This scene was so tense, and then the fight starts to engage and when the Harks used their anti-gravity devices to climb to the top of the rock -- it was such silky smooth sci-fi you could see people grinning in the theater. Fantastic opening scene.
I like that Harkonnens aren't portrayed as complete nubs. Here they are shown to be at least conventionally disciplined but they are continually outsmarted by the planet's natives.
They're plenty deadly as soldiers, but the Fremen are smart enough to fight in ways that don't play to their strengths, and the Harkonnens as a house don't understand the Fremen as a people or the planet itself.
Retired USN (TF 17 Riverine veteran) saying that you respect tough fighters on both sides, makes for a harder fight. "To absent friends."
1:24 was really captivating for me on the big screen. It's not even that consequential of a moment, but visually it just looks so weird to see them floating up the side of the cliff like that. The black armor against the reddish tint of the sand and rock is so cool. The film is full of these kinds of moments. Honestly things like this often struck me more than major plot moments.
Expressed exactly how I felt whilst watching this scene. It's a pretty class feeling
Resemble a line of ants climbing on the wall
Perfect example of an action scene that rides entirely on subtle and grounded camerawork, simple stunts, and little to NO noticable CG. This scene has so much weight to it becuase the imagery is so subtle but purposeful. I bet no one will ever forget that shot of the troops floating off the rock, becuase it's so simple and grounded yet visually striking.
Yes bro imaginary is amazing visual storytelling
If someone is asking how did Jessica mannaged to get there so quickly, is the Weirding Way, instead of wasting time training strength they train for speed, they become so fast that some people believe is a form of teleportation.
Can't wait for that MAX dune to show the prophesy of dune (wish they would have kept it as the sisterhood of dune like the book) about the harkonnen sisters founding the bene gesserit. I would love to see all they're abilities. In the books everyone's powers mentioned internally it's hard to know what's actually happening sometimes (except when he shouts at the reverend mother) I like how they included that in both versions.
Yeah a lot of fighting/movement scenes in the later novels is akin to dragon ball z fight scenes
@@bhaalgorn Surely you can't mean the "Supreme Bashar Miles Teg zooming through a building with Mach 3 and killing Honored Matres left and right, straight after ingesting the yearly food intake of a mid-sized US city" part from Heretics of Dune.
@balazsfonnyadt1903 I was more so thinking of Leto II running through the desert past the speed of sound, jumping hundreds of feet in the air, and just running through towns to blow them up. but Teg works too
@@balazsfonnyadt1903 yeah but it sure takes a lot of cheezeburgers to keep that speed up, Randy-man
1:23 cartoon characters when they smell something good
I love the opening scene of this film. As soon as I was watching this I had a feeling this was going to be an otherwordly film. Just the visuals, the camera angles close to the ground looking above as if you're lying down with them, the sounds of the Harkonnen soldiers over the sand hill, the silence of the Fremen flanking around... And then my favourite part, "The rats are calling a worm. Unit, climb. Now!" Love it.
Otherworldly enough to awe us and yet not to give a full LSD dose.
It’s undeniable that the shot at 1:23 is yet, simply put, cinema history.
Rodger deakins worthy 🥹
Exactly.
The movement in the zero-g suits was a marvelous touch with the fx. The soldiers were propelled in part by their own bodies' movements and the energy tapered as if gravity was gently resisting propulsion. This was an immense improvement from Part 1 where the Harkonnen/Sardukar forces looked like they were lowered to the surface of the planet on wires.
This scene was amazing in capturing the bleakness of the deserts of Arrakis and the mechanised nature of the Harkonnen soldiers.
"never stand with your back to the open."
Jessic said, while standing with her back to the open
The Harkonnen soldiers look and sound like Grineer from Warframe. I love it
Makes you wonder just how many sci-fi works are inspired by Dune
FREMEN SKOOM!
Would that make Fremen = Tenno?
Practically all honestly, Star wars took hella inspiration, and then theres those TRASH ass rebel moon movies, the second of which just came out. It's like Zack Snyder saw dune and wanted to do it so he tried and that's what we got, but he says it's inspired by Star wars 🤮 pure 🗑️🔥🔥
@@forest8779 Don't forget 40K which cribbed more or less everything from Dune.
To me, they are just as useless as Stormtroopers.
That thump at 2:39 was insanely loud in IMAX
true lmao
This entire sequence looks like the cover art of the dune books come to life and I love it. 👌
I love the details on how they do the water extraction from their kills. Nothing is wasted and everything is processed for survival. The desert takes what remains and leaves no evidence.
I love the Harkonnen armor! Also the fact that they are very precise shooters.
The Harkonnen soldiers look like Among Us characters.
Well they're all imposters on Arrakis 😂
1:24 WEEEEEEEEE!!!!
Omg you saw honest trailers too ?! Lol I cannot ever not un -hear that ever ..
That looks fun af ngl
This is worthy only to be watched in IMAX. The soundtracks hit different there ❤❤❤. Anywhere else is inferior
every single dune video's comments i watch reminds me of how stupid i was not insisting for imax with my friends, when is saw this scene in the theatre i was already like "what a fucking waste"
@@pippobaudo9925 u definitely missed the imax experiences. I went 3 times 👀👀👀
@@pippobaudo9925 it's the aspect ratio primarily, it's waaay more spectacular on square screen as there is just much more to the scene.
1:21 this was such a beautiful sight while watching it in cinema
Pt 2 looks even better than Pt 1. Definitely Cinema for this one.
4:38 What are those, grenades? What they injecting the Harkonnen men with...oh. Ooooh~
It’s a device that extracts the precious water from the bodies of the dead.
The scene of those guys levitating, it is simple and magestic! We know what these guys can do, how lethal and rutheless they can be, and seeing them fly like that in silence was scary as hell.
i watch this 4 times in cinema and still enjoying it
6x cinema here
This is how you open a movie to let the audience know they are about to experience a cinematic masterpiece.
Those laser rifles sound so fkin cool. The attention for details is incredible. For instance at 02:07 you can hear the rifle capacitor(s) loading and also see the status of the loading - those LED's lighting up. I love this movie and can't wait for the next one!
1:23 this gave me the same feeling when I was watching blade runner 2049
This movie should sweep the Oscars. It's a masterpiece.
2:00 Imagine if the thumper was shielded.
nuclear to the max
That would make it not expendable
Bro worms would go crazy if that thumper was shielded
@@kamranhussain2204Correct, that wouldn't have just summoned a worm, it would have summoned a very furious and uncontrollable worm. Could have been a big problem for the Fremen wanting to take the Harkonen's water...
Oh wow, they would've been toast 🔥
At the beginning, it's as if the Harkonnen are 'swimming' up a vertical wall, as one would in an ocean. The Fremen later dream of a desert full of water. Elegant imagery
The eerie floating combined with the soundtrack makes their ascent look so otherworldly. I love it.
The eclipse lighting is so excellent no words can really describe it for me. I was so visually stunned by it
When the eclipse happened in 2017 i saw that the coronahad form double helixes coming out both poles. And there was also a strange buzzing sound as well. Closet thing I've ever had to a spiritual experience.
7:46 Gurney forgot to teach Paul the most important lesson of all: Cool guys don't look at explosions.
The first 3 minutes are simply some of the most impressive scenes I've seen in my entire life. It was already fascinating the first time I saw it and now I've probably seen it 20 times on TH-cam. It's simply a piece of film history. THANK YOU! 😊
Seeing the eclipse happen in total silence was an experience. No other film like this.
Пересматривая Дюну уже десятый раз за этот год в очередной раз убеждаюсь что это величайший шедевр. Это то, что мы оставим нашим детям
I like how the Harkonnen Soldiers are mostly portrayed as quite competent and professional in this movie.
I love how unique and crazy the tech in dune is, no thrusters, no nothing, flying with antigravity is like swimming, the ships don't need thrusters, etc
The Harkonen anti great part is one of the most amazing thesis statements I've seen in film. So strange and unexpected, yet completely understandable and visually stunning. I put it on par with the star wars cantina scene as a perfect framework for the masterpiece to come
The sound design and mix in this scene is extraordinarily good.
I love the Harkonnen language. "Garacha dusa."
* receives a laser shot *
@Nobody.55 Actually, it was a projectile (pushes glasses up)
@@genxerfool9797 Don't fuck with me, you see lasers in the following scenes that sound exactly the same
@Nobody.55 no they don't. Plus, no green laser beam. Also, you might be taking this stuff a little too seriously.
@@genxerfool9797 I'm just having fun, and as for the lasers, in the scenes that follow you can see that they are being shot with lasers. If the Fremen have them, why wouldn't they use them agiainst all the unit?
The cinematography in this movie is so sick. It's just a masterpiece in general.
i like to think that the harkonnens are really cheap, and that these bulky black suits are basically dollar tree stillsuits that work much less efficiently and maybe even require electricity to run.
Harkonnens are the richest House in the known universe, another option is that those bulky suits are the best mass-produced military hardware out there but Fremen suits are hand-crafted, artisanal, even better.
@@Blashmack that’s also a cool idea!
This gravity suit could be so use full in our today’s world. So many applications. Life savers. Firefighters can use it. Window cleaners,construction workers and also can use for actual rock climbing.
This was a major departure from the book. In the book, Jessica never physically fought anyone. An exception being with Gurney Halleck but that was a different kind of fight. But I think it is an important scene in the movie as it is another way to show she is dangerous.
Not true. She does use the weirding way to teleport behind stilgar before they're accepted into sietch
Lovely wirework scene. Probably the best shot in the movie. I like that the flying is restricted, feels significantly more real. Story is not that great though, but this is true of the book too. The book shines though because it feels like a real alien world, and I suspect that's why everything is as grounded as possible.
0:55 i love this sound so much, with headphones
2:44 It's raining men hallelujah!
are those lasguns? it looks cool the straight line of trajectory
I like the ASMR of DIRTY water
SKLURPPPPPPPPP
This movie is so immersive that I was so entranced by the awesome cinematography that I didn’t even realize floating like that was a special effect. Thought they were real Harkonnen soldiers who just Did That.
Not a single drop of water is wasted. These men turned into jerky.
Timothée Chalamet is NOT John Dark Souls 3:15
1:21 Awesome visual. Had to watch it half a dozen times before moving on.
1:23 so good in theaters.
This comment section is like an npc convention.
what part of it?
Best Picture of 2024
As soon as I can afford the rental I will watch this, looks amazing!😮
As soon as I can afford the blu ray I'm buying this! Hopefully when Messiah comes out I can complete the trilogy! Batman, matrix, lotr, so many good trilogies out there. Then there's bad boys 🤮
I like how Jessica didn't kill a fully armored soldier in one blow like in videogames. The first strike with the rock knocked him on his back and then Jessica smashed his helmet faceplate in, and it still required several smacks to kill him.
in IMAX this becomes a spiritual experience
i now have the 4k to watch at home but cant watch it, feels like blasphemy to not watch this in cinema. I have an amazing home cinema but doesnt come close to IMAX experience. i was literally BLOWN AWAY!
What's really cool aboutbthe harkonnen troopers is that theyre based off the sardaukar from the david lynch dune. This is probably because dune part 2 is 10 times shorter chronologically compared to the book, meaning the sardaukar who were to return to the planet to police it in the second half of dune were now replaced by the harkonnens.
Guerrilla warfare. Good stuff.
That counter parry timmothe chalamet deliveres in 3.19 is awesome.
So fascinating to hear that Harkonnen soldier call Paul a rat before his mother kills him. It further cements how he’s truly assimilating to the ways of Fremen as well as Arrakis. Also, its ironic that they get so easily eradicated in this scene like rats are exterminated, yet Harkonnen condescendingly look down on Fremen.
I just can’t get over how incredible this scene is. Seeing it in IMAX was an unforgettable experience.
“No shield!” If I remember it’s because the shield could accidentally explode like a nuke turning most of the area into glass
And also shields could attract worms
The attention to detail on this movie: The moon transiting past the sun as Jessica is standing in front of it. Wow!
This is what you call cinema magic. Absolutely beautiful ❤
In s1 it said that the shields create vibrations that can attract the sandstorms which is why the fremen don’t collect them from the harkenons if they wanted to, cause the fremen spend most of their time migrating and walking through worm territory or ambushing spice fields. At least that’s the theory as well and not just the explosion part
Grav belts and combat armor. TL12. wonderful scene.
They're draining the water from the bodies. There's something I'd never have thought of to be a thing.
2:54 is the guy calling out names of his mates?
Yes, it seems so. The Harkonnens are grotesque-yet ultimately still human. Since he calls out only specific names instead of his entire unit, they are likely his closest comrades.
2:33 Please, someone explain why the one soldier says "no shields"
Some say it agitates the worms but that doesn't make sense when you are on top of a mountain
LOL same i was thinking about it too maybe it’s bc they knew they would be stuck there if they used shields they would’ve been stuck in the Fremens line of fire unable to go anywhere due to worms if they had activated shields, maybe they idea was for them to descend back down and regroup? possible launch a breakout attack but with that small of a group and a well conducted ambush that wouldn’t have worked out either 😭
@williamlam1415 I thought the shields would disrupt their suits' ability to fly
Or block their circulation systems, which keep the suits cooler on the inside
In the Duniverse, the shields they use will cause a nuclear explosion if hit by a laser gun. Hence, the “no shields” command by the leader.
They're being shot at by lasgun, a laser gun that if shot to an active shield will trigger violent explosion for both shooter and target.
Sure they can sacrifice one soldier with a shield pawn, but being that close mean they will all die too. No shield is just a way to give a chance for a survivor to come out safe rather than a full team wipe out.
@@AhmadIzzJ ok, that clarifies it.
Thank you
Have a good weekend
I don't get why they didn't activate shields. They're far above the sand, unless a big worm shows up, they're safe. And unless the Fremen want to risk blowing themselves up to take out this assault group, they don't have to worry about laser's being used against them (and the Fremen are using projectile weaponry against them anyway).
They should have turned on shields and then started counter sniping.
@RandomInternetUser-yi5cc it blows up both parties. If it only blew up the shield user there is literally no downside to some sniper taking a potshot at the Baron while he's at a public gathering in his capital.
They are trained/habituated to follow doctrine and didn't have time to think about changing tactics in the heat of the moment. If one of the Harkonnens had that moment of epiphany that the threat from lasguns or worms was minimal, all their shields would go up, the Fremen lose, and the movie is 7 minutes long.
2:35 narrator: he did, in fact, need shields
If Michael Bay had directed this, he would have somehow magically transported the US military to Arrakis, this scene would involve a dozen explosions, several 360 pan shots, Paul would be whooping and screaming half the time, and there would be 50 different things happening on screen at the same time, overwhelming the viewers' ability to digest what the hell is going on.
2:42 this shot scared the shit out of me in the theater
Their look and sound remind me of the Uruk Hai
Saw this movie in theaters not knowing much about it and I was fucking in right away..Best movie out of the sewer Hollywood has produced worth seeing in theaters in YEARS
1:23…Astronauts will be doing this on the moon.
Harkonnen armor looks like mass effect Krogen.
It's interesting that they give his mom the 'open door' line.
Mom tells Paul "NEVER stand with your back to the desert" after just standing with her back to the desert.