The hype was all real. Dune: Part Two, Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi sequel spectacular, finally hit theaters last weekend after a multi-month delay due to entertainment industry labor disputes, and audiences stormed to the theaters like an army of holy warriors. The film brought in over $82 million in its opening weekend, putting it right on par with last summer’s Oppenheimer, a truly astonishing feat for a movie releasing in the typically-dead period of early March.
This deeply bizarre and captivating movie seems to have resonated with American audiences and those fans immediately ran to social media to do what all great Americans do when we’re deeply moved by a piece of art: turn it into little jokes for our friends.
Check out some of the very best posts to come out of America’s new favorite movie about giant worms that eat sand and poop out drugs!
You, Dune that thing you 2, pic.twitter.com/m6QYenzr2g
— Ashtyn Butuso (@lil_buts) March 4, 2024
Yeah I’m interested in Dune 2… Dune 2 others as I would have others do unto me
— caitie delaney (@caitiedelaney) March 3, 2024
just saw a teenager riding atop the J train like shai-hulud with a pair of garden rakes as maker hooks
— respectful huff (@alexqarbuckle) March 2, 2024
Convincing my non movie going friends to go see Dune Part 2 multiple times will not be easy but is necessary. We need to convince them one by one. We will start with the weak ones. The ones that fear us. We will make them all believe. pic.twitter.com/hOGonxlE8O
— Cam Walsh (@CamWalsh27) March 1, 2024
[Elton John voice] Buh-buh-buh Bene Gesserit
— adam (@adamjmoussa) March 4, 2024
dune 2 is about the dangers of dapping up the wrong white boy
— zach silberberg (@zachsilberberg) March 4, 2024
Loved Dune 2 pic.twitter.com/d1q4NP2PGM
— Jan Ochoa (@_janjerome) March 4, 2024
the elvis voice calling to austin butler on the set of dune part 2 pic.twitter.com/hMPnB62T9V
— jive miguel (@darkfruitsstan) March 2, 2024
Paul ATREIDES needs to be spending less time as the lisan al gaib and more time lisaning to women
— holden m. accountable (@noahpasaran) March 4, 2024
"Lisan al Gaib!"
The most-copied meme format to come out of Dune Part 2 so far centers on Javier Bardem’s character Stilgar, a religious zealot who believes Timothee Chalamet’s character Paul is in fact a prophesied messiah figure known as the Lisan al Gaib. Clever fans were quick to use Bardem’s astonished reaction shot in a variety of fun ways.
Javier Bardem constantly shouting “Lisan al Gaib” so quickly anytime Timmy did anything cracked me tf up. I swear, he could blow his nose and he’d be like, “as it was written.” Stilgar is the greatest hypeman in history. #Dune2 pic.twitter.com/i7C8a4Wcdd
— Sally (@HarryDMedSally) March 2, 2024
My grandparents when I change HDMI1 to HDMI2 pic.twitter.com/5mbeQPqrHM
— BLURAYANGEL 🦇 (@blurayangel) March 3, 2024
— Dune Sietchposting (@Sietchposting) March 4, 2024
Paul Atreides: *sneezes*
Stilgar: “that’s exactly how the Lisan Al Gaib would sneeze”#Dune2 pic.twitter.com/8J9jdzbH9r
— Chris (PS Rewind) (@ChrisCPeralta) March 3, 2024
