This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
The kind of grandiose, epic, and intelligent big-budget filmmaking that only comes along once in a great while. In terms of directorial style, I probably prefer the audacity and poetry of what, say, Jackson brought to the LotR trilogy to Villeneuve's more grounded approach, and I miss some of the willingness to be strange and inscrutable that we see in Lynch's Dune, but I was nonetheless swept away. It's interesting to see a big mainstream film like this that seems…