All these people complaining about the aesthetics of Villeneuve's Dune—if you want Lynch's Dune then watch Lynch's Dune! Ditto for Jodorowsky's, which is likely better for having *never* been made because of the wild imagination it engenders.

But we live in very different times.

All the things people are complaining about with the new Dune is exactly why I'm excited about it—clinical, cold, antiseptic, fascistic...

He's making a movie for this decade.

We live in a militarized society with a bunch of entrenched, alien blue-bloods playing at politics

Yeah I'd love a movie with the warmth of the Bismarckian Atreides or the psychedelics of Mœbius, but that would be a nostalgic film and not one that's reflective of the times we're living in right now. For most people this is a time of isolation, loneliness, and despair.

2049 was about that, about the pain of being surrounded by people and yet being completely alone. About not even getting to be the protagonist of your own story.

It's not sexy, like Blade Runner was. Is.

2049 leaves you raw, unsettled at the end.

I think Villeneuve's Dune is going to have a much grimmer view of House Atreides, and be all the better for it. One does not achieve or maintain that kind of power without burying bodies.

But whatever he's doing with the film, Villeneuve has more than earned our trust.