Top 3 Sci-Fi Picks For Those Who Have Already Seen Dune: Part 2
Recalling other remarkable movies which were also inspired by Frank Herbert’s science fiction.
The second chapter of Deni Villeneuve’s epic saga is already out in theaters, shocking the viewers with a breathtakingly high level of cinematography and careful adaptation of the original.
If you’re among the first fans who have already enjoyed Dune 2, here are 3 of the greatest science fiction movies, which represent the genre with dignity.
Arrival (2016) by Denis Villeneuve
To start with, here is quite a forgotten sci-fi drama directed by the same Villeneuve, with touching Amy Adams’ and Jeemy Renner’s performances playing a linguist and an astrophysicist trying to solve the mystery of the language of an alien civilization, meanwhile the mystery of their own relationship is also unfolding in time.
Arrival features Villeneuve’s large-scale approach to presenting the rules of the fictional world, where misunderstanding between human and alien races could potentially lead to war, which will soon develop more in Blade Runner 2049 (2017), as well as in Dune 2.
Ex Machina (2015) by Alex Garland
Our third pick is somewhat different from the Dune’s majestic grandeur and scale, but it can also attract sci-fi fans’ attention by dealing with the subjects of human-like machines and their potential ability to outperform real people. A24 hit movie tells a story about an IT creator Caleb (portrayed by Domhnall Gleeson), who is developing a robot who can pass a Turing test and his advances in it are getting out of hand.
Ex Machina’s serious tone and the growing level of suspense in the movie’s atmosphere can be considered as a bold statement on the dissemination of artificial intelligence and people’s naive and irresponsible attention to it in today’s realities.
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) by George Miller
This reboot of the Mad Max franchise presents us a groovy and literally furious action set in the post-apocalyptic desert, where people are gathering to fight for their freedom from the relentless dictator.
Tom Hardy ’s character Max becomes the center of both the onscreen team and viewers’ attention, as his car is moving forward through the sands. It is kind of comparable to the Dune franchise in the sense of similar near-desert film locations and detailed building of the totalitarian world in the invented future.
All three movies are available online: you can stream Arrival, Ex Machina and Mad Max: Fury Road on Prime Video.