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  1. I read soemwhere that Dune book was originally Dune + Messiah (then not called Messiah cause it was part of Dune) but the publisher was so sacred of the size of the book, it insisted the Messiah part to be removed. But when Dune became a massive success, they published Messiah as Messiah aka sequel. hence why that book is much shorter than Dune and feels more like an ending than the end of Dune book.
  2. Not great? How? It's exceeding the first one by leaps and bounds.
  3. Good. Alia never made sense and her arc in Messiah and CoD works without her killing Baron cause the point is something else anyway. Because Paul has always been a hero on a villain journey something he wanted to stop but couldn't (ex. he saw himself choose the name Mua'Dib in the future that led to unprecedented bloodshed so in the present he tried to change that by choosing the name Paul Mua'dib and it didn't work cause future cannot be changed one can only see it if prescient).
  4. Since I always thought that Paul or Jessica should have killed the Baron and not the character who appeared late in the book, who kills him?
  5. Based. They know Butler is geenrating buzz as the villain to beat so they are hyping that. Also, I really like this expansion of Irulan character cause it sets up her arc in the next movie.
  6. I don't want to jinx it so I'm cautiously predicting 700M but will be thrilled when it goes higher. My awards prediction is part of my manifesting exercise.
  7. You have an axe to grind for this movie while I stan so we won't agree. But IMO 700M is not unrealistic given that the first one made 400M during pandemic and with hybrid domestic release. I expect similar boxoffice to Spiderverse with reverse dom/OS (Dune will be stronger OS while Spiderverse was stronger dom). So 700M give or take.
  8. Many won before ROTK. And then the trend stopped. Titanic won in 1998. ROTK in 2003. That's 5 years between winners that grossed over 300M dom and over 1B WW (or in Oppenheiemr case over 900M WW). In between was Gladiator win in 2001. The movie made 187M dom and 465M WW which was huge for an R rated movie in pre-3D era. And then 20 years between ROTK and Oppenheimer. So Oppenheimer could open the floodgates again. Fingers crossed.
  9. Blowup awards-wise not boxoffice-wise. Nobody expects 900M+. I think people settled with 700M ceiling.
  10. Sci fi is a different kind of movie than a historical drama as big as both might be at the boxoffice. Also, time of the year doesn't mean anything if a movie has the momentum.
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