I actually despise how it’s been treated this year. Dune Part Two has constantly been considered among the best of 2024 and it’s a second thought at the Oscars.
The acting wouldn’t get nominations, it has a few technical considerations, but if they could give it one damn thing then at least nominate Denis. His vision is brilliant on the screen and his passion is so clear.
Better than A Complete Unknown? Now that’s a hot take. Dylan is his best role and his best performance by far, nothing memorable enough about his performance in Dune. He’s good, but it really isn’t memorable.
No way, Dune 2 is an instant classic. When it’s all said and done, his performance in Dune 2 will go down as one of his most memorable performances in his entire career. Complete Unknown is good, but forgettable.
Sure Dune is more memorable because it’s a popular blockbuster franchise. He will be remembered for his role as Paul, but he’s way way better in a complete unknown.
Can someone explain the praise for Austin Butler in Dune 2? His character shows up and beats up 3 (more like 2.5?) drugged prisoners in an arena. He gets the job over Bautista and makes him kiss his boot. Then he loses a duel vs Timmy.
His performance wasn’t noteworthy. In fact I’d argue the only noteworthy scene including him was his he black and white post arena scene. But that was just him walking through corridors.
Agreed. I don’t get it. It’s like he impressed in Elvis and suddenly everything he does is treated like pure gold. It really was just fine and nothing earth shatteringly mindblowing like people are making it out to be.
Its always actor puts on makeup and becomes unrecognizable = auto phenomenal acting performance somehow.
Totally agree. I see random hype articles saying it's the best performance of villain in a long time... And it basically was an impression of stellans voice and nothing else. But dune 2 was awesome!
You're describing plot points and nothing about his performance while portraying them..he made a solid impression people people. It's a supporting role.
I’m aware I typed out all almost-a-handful of his scenes. My inquiry was -how- was it to be considered a solid performance, much less Oscar worthy?
He was on screen doing something for a total of 4 minutes. Brooding in the background during Walken’s scene? Doing one fight scene that Timmy also did? Him walking dark halls waiting to impregnate a chick off screen?
I’m not saying it’s his fault, it’s the script. But damn is the bar set low if that warrants an Oscar nom.
Yes, but I think it escapes people that campaigning plays a big part in this. An actor can only be considered for one role and Chalamet chose to put his chips in "A Complete Unknown." So the face of your series is campaigning for something else.
It's painfully obvious that they're doing a Lord Of The Rings and waiting to shower Part Three.
Problem is that most people don't know anything beyond the first book, so there's a real risk that Part Three won't grab people in the same way the first two did and they end up giving all the awards to possibly the weakest of the trilogy.
Return of the King did so well at the Oscars because by that point the franchise had accumulated a large amount of Oscar voters. The productions were huge and many of those people were added to the Academy. The first film added several voters with its nominations. The second film added more voters with its nominations. By the time the 3rd film was out, they had a solid little island of people ready to vote for it, hence the wins. People weren’t “waiting” to reward the franchise, they just had more voters associated with the production than the other films.
This doesn’t really make sense to me. Didn’t the production mostly happened before the first movie? The post production would be mostly concerning the CGI.
Yea, wasn’t the whole thing with them is they were filmed simultaneously? I don’t know how getting added to the academy works, but wouldn’t they have all been added at the same time?
The copium for a "third film wins all" is crazy. Dune is good, but it's nowhere near the levels of LOTR. I'm sure everyone working on it is happy they're even nominated.
It should help it. blockbusters who are beautifully made, directed and acted should be showcased in the biggest award show of the year. not movies that wont be remembered 3 years from now that many people cant even watch on the big screen
They made all the money they were gonna make at the box office, back in the spring, and most that they'd make on VOD and streaming after that.
Spending a bunch of additional money, to hopefully gain awards nominations and/or wins, would be pointless because they wouldn't generate more views of the film by that point.
They figured it wouldn't get acting nominations anyway, being Sci-Fi, so why waste the time and cash?
No wonder Christopher Nolan left these fuckers for Universal. His movie made $900 million over a summer and had lasting power mostly because it's thousands of times better than Dune Part 2, but also because Universal campaigned for it.
It was the best theater experience I've had in many years. That alone makes it worthy of consideration for Best Picture (and absolutely deserves the Oscars for Visual Effects and Sound).
Which categories was it snubbed for? It got into Best Picture and Timothee was nominated for best actor in another film (where IMO he gave a better performance than the one he gave in Dune 2).
Zendaya’s performance in Dune was also weaker than her performance in Challengers.
Should’ve got a best director nom, but otherwise it’s probably nominated correctly. Wish it was in the conversation to actually win best picture because I think it’s astounding filmmaking but that’s how it goes.
I have no idea what people are on about this time of year.
It feels like we're at the point where people just want to push their favorite movies, which, fine.
But yeah no clue what more they think Dune 2 should have gotten. Director? Does anyone believe that? Or like you said what performance do they want nominated from that film when Chalamet is already nominated for another movie?
I guess I’m alone in thinking this movie wasn’t that great. It was a solid 6/10. Better than most franchise stuff that comes out but not one of the best movies of the year.
Yeah, I agree. I thought the film was just all right. Maybe Best Director was snubbed but overall, I think it’s correct where it stands. It was fine but not as strong as other films this year.
You're not alone. I feel there's this angry desperation from some Dune fans to "prove" how memorable this film is, when it's far more like Avatar than LOTR. World building is fine, but it's had zero impact on popular culture. No memes, no quotable dialogue, no memorable characters. It has scope, but no depth. It's... fine? But the idea that Chalamet should have been nominated for this - dear me, what nonsense.
I hope it changes in the future but for now, this is also going to be controversial. I've never found the appeal of it. It has a sequel already and is full of likeable & good actors but I've never understood the hype and never found the courage to watch it. It's like they have headphones speakers on their nostrils. Why do they wear suffocating clothes like that in the desert. Sorry
It’s weird to me because it does seem like if you release the movie at the beginning of the year it’ll be forgotten about, so I don’t get why all the production studios don’t release later in the year? Honestly Timothee should have been nominated for Paul.
I really enjoyed Dune Part 1, but I didn’t think it was anything revolutionary. Dune Part 2 instantly became my first sci-fi movie ever, surpassing Empire Strikes Back. I honestly believe it’s one of, if not the best, sci-fi movies of the century, if not all time.
I remember when box office movies like titanic and gladiator would clean house.
Timmy should have been nominated for best actor for this role.
This movie deserves best director, cinematography, and actor.
What the hell is this nothing burger of a headline and article? You could literally replace “Dune 2” with any other film and chances are there would be an anonymous voter that says the same. Please stop with the trash posting.
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u/Adequate_Images Feb 19 '25
‘Anonymous’ we all know it’s Brolin. lol