What the corpus says about Dune: Part Two (2024)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Dune: Part Two (2024) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about Dune: Part Two (2024) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:34:43 · unknown (0.30)] Dune: Part Two ↔ Driveaway Dolls · programming · A speaker argues Driveaway Dolls, like Dune 2, is a movie worth seeing in a theater with a crowd. · "often we're like, you must see Dune 2 in theaters, which is true, but I would also probably argue that you should probably see driveway dolls in theaters"
[Blank Check · Dune · 0:20:53 · unknown (0.40)] Dune ↔ Dune: Part Two · contrast · Part Two is built around Feyd-Rautha, who gets a couple of scenes in Lynch's film. · "And especially when part 2 of the Villeneuve is all built around that character."
[Blank Check · Dune · 0:29:11 · unknown (0.40)] Dune ↔ Dune: Part Two · contrast · Lynch compresses all of Part Two's story into a yada-yada summary. · "It has the most insane yada, yada, yada, I have ever seen in a movie"
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:05:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Mickey 17 ↔ Dune: Part Two · industry · Warner Bros. moved Dune 2 to March 2024, so Mickey 17 likely could not share that month. · "they're probably not going to do Dune 2 and Mickey 17 in the same month just from like marketing resources"
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:28:04 · unknown (0.40)] Dune: Part Two ↔ The Lord of the Rings trilogy · industry · The Oscars treated Dune Part 2 the way they treated The Two Towers. · "is what exactly what they did to the two towers."
[The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:22:32 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55)] Challengers ↔ Dune: Part Two · last year's Q1 · Last year's Q1 had Challengers, Dune Part 2, Civil War: three well-received hits. · "we had challengers, we had Dune Part 2, and we had Civil War."
[The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:22:32 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55)] Dune: Part Two ↔ Civil War · last year's Q1 · Same list. · "we had challengers, we had Dune Part 2, and we had Civil War."
[Blank Check · Dune · 0:20:47 · unknown (0.40)] Sting ↔ Dune: Part Two · lineage · Sting's very brief Feyd-Rautha is the character Part Two is built around. · "Sting is great in this movie, but I always forget that he is in this movie for 5 minutes."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:28:53 · unknown (0.40)] Javier Bardem ↔ Dune: Part Two · verdict · Bardem would get their supporting Oscar from the Dune films. · "I would give it to Bardem, who I think really threads the needle of like funny and serious and like, I think, such a clever performance."
[pairs] Dune: Part Two ↔ Dune · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check · Dune · 0:22:17 · John Hodgman (0.85)] Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope ⇒ Dune (the host's read) · programming · Dune was positioned and released as the studio's answer to Star Wars, the next big space epic. · "Uh, this movie is released with the energy of, here you go, here's the new Star Wars."
[Blank Check · Dune · 2:50:47 · unknown (0.40)] Dune ↔ Dune: Prophecy · programming · An HBO Max Dune series is coming, which the hosts are excited for. · "10 hours at the HBO Max series coming?"
[Blank Check · Dune · 3:02:27 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Dune ↔ Blue Velvet · programming · Next week's episode is Blue Velvet with Jamie Loftus. · "Tune in next week for Blue Velvet with Jamie Loftus?"
[Blank Check · Dune · 0:19:09 · unknown (0.50)] Dune ↔ Dune · lineage · The episode cannot be done without comparing Lynch's film to the Villeneuve movies. · "We can't do this episode without comparing this movie to the Villanova films"
[Blank Check · Dune · 0:22:22 · John Hodgman (0.70)] Dune ⇒ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (the host's read) · lineage · The Dune book's messaging is credited as one of the things that inspired Star Wars. · "And not only that, the messaging of this is one of the things that inspired Star Wars."
[Blank Check · Dune · 1:17:01 · David Sims (0.30)] Dune ⇒ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (the host's read) · theme · Dune's Fremen/revolution material is the denser source that Star Wars abstracts; the Force is Dune without the drugs. · "the Force in Star Wars is like doom without the drugs."
[Blank Check · Dune · 1:58:13 · unknown (0.35)] Jupiter Ascending ↔ Dune · theme · Jupiter Ascending shares the palace-intrigue, gilded sci-fi mode. · "I think it's a goofier movie, but Jupiter ascending has the same thing of like palace intrigue."
[Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:25:56 · unknown (0.30)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Dune · craft · The purple sea gets a joke identification as Dune, with the worm floating by. · "The worm floats by. That's the planet Dune."
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with Dune: Part Two (2024); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Dune: Part Two (2024) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

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