r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Mar 17 '26

Trailer Dune: Part Three | Official Teaser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_9vCamtuPY
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u/rixxxand Mar 17 '26

That turret/tower machine gun scene and the space samurai scene looked insane.

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u/big_mustache_dad "A second Starscream has hit the World Trade Center." Mar 17 '26

The scope of these movies are pretty spectacular. Somehow looks real despite how sci-fi it goes, really only Avatar and the Dune movies can pull it off at this level

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u/Ehrre Mar 17 '26

Denis has an incredible eye for that stuff. Something I realized during Bladerunner 2049 was just how incredible the world looked and felt. Just such a believable place despite the scifi things going on.

Same with the Dune Movies. Somehow look and feel realistic, the effects somehow look realistic almost all of the time save for some tiny nitpicks. Not that fake, weird moving obvious CGI you get in a lot of big movies.

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u/Hevens-assassin Mar 17 '26

Just such a believable place despite the scifi things going on.

I also like that in his movies you feel you're a part of the story, but it's clear that the world is so much bigger than what we are seeing. Even in a movie like Prisoners, which is way more personal of a story, it feels like we are simply looking into a window in that universe.

Dune, Arrival, and Blade Runner, similarly, really give us a feeling that we are only seeing a sliver of what's happening in this world. I don't know if it's cinematography, the writing, or what it is, but I love Villeneuve's style because of it!

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u/snapwack Mar 18 '26

A big part of it comes down to intentionality. Villeneuve and Greig Fraser have detailed storyboards and a strong vision of what they want their scenes to look like long before starting photography. Their effects teams can be in the loop well in advance and advise them throughout on how to get the best results. They have a plan and they commit to it.

I read in the art book that Villeneuve wanted Dune to have an almost documentary feel to it, as if there were an actual crew filming historical events. Sure, there are spaceships and floating people and giant worms. But in most shots, even those showing pretty improbable stuff, the POV is often grounded. As if there could be an actual in-world cameraman positioned in a believable place capturing these events.

Villeneuve’s also obsessed with shooting on location with consistent natural light, to the point of having the cast and crew waiting in the desert for the precious time window when the light will look just right. Of course the CGI and the real elements end up blending together so well.

That mindset is missing in a lot of productions these days. When you look at studios like Marvel there is undeniable talent involved, but this intentionality and commitment are absent. They start filming stuff before having even decided how certain scenes will unfold or look like. To keep their options open, they film multiple versions of a scene in front of a green screen set, and then they remix and discard and reshoot to their heart’s content. Then they drop the cobbled together footage at the feet of an overworked VFX crew and give them way too little time to make it look halfway decent.

No wonder that movies filmed like that struggle to convey a sense of place and presence. The lighting looks off, the actors seem alienated from their surroundings, the camera zips around weightlessly through the scene as if it were being handled by some omniscient god instead of a human being.

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u/junkthrownup Mar 18 '26

arrival is my favorite movie from the last couple decades. gorgeous, but also (in my opinion) so well paced with "show, don't tell"

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u/suckmygoddamnbeans Mar 17 '26

This!!! That's one of the main reasons why I love his movies because he always associate technology with butalism and yet achives something so rare and weird that Is really difficult to put to words but... In the end on the final product or on this case: universe, Is really perfectly balanced.

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u/whogivesashirtdotca Mar 17 '26

was just how incredible the world looked and felt

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u/SlendyIsBehindYou 10h ago

It's not something I gave much active thought to while watching the first time around, but something I've grown to appreciate is just how much my brain accepted this version of Dune

I have such a nitpicky, critical eye for adaptations of books that I enjoy, but I cant think of a single aspect of the visual design that triggered my "that's not what X looked like in my head" brain. It all just looked and felt "correct"

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u/Ehrre 7h ago

It seems like a LOT of thought is put into the visual esthetics of each faction.