It seems like we’ve been waiting for this to come and save the cinema forever.

I know, talking to a couple of theater managers I visit on the regular, that THEY feel it’s been forever.

But delaying “Dune Part 2” to February should do our movie houses a world of good in a year where the pickings will be lean because of Hollywood labor issues in 2023.

I am looking forward to this as much as you — not enough to go see the first film again, during its re-release, but enough.

The book was a very fresh memory when the first finished version of “Dune” came to us from David Lynch, a film that might very well have precluded ever needing a “Dune” SyFy mini series, or a remake had he been allowed to make two movies out of it.

I recall looking at my watch and thinking “Ol’Dave is running out of time and has a WHOLE lot of story to tell” at about the two-thirds mark in “Dune” by Lynch. And that’s the prevailing gripe from that epic — rushed and truncated second and third acts.

But vive Villenueve and Chalamet, and viva Bardem and Josh and Zendaya and Stellan and Oscar Isaac and the whole crew for getting the screen time, and the screens, to tell this epic.

My review will post on Wed. at noon.

Curiously, two movies have their review embargoes on Wed. One is “Dune 2,” which doesn’t open until NEXT week, the other is “Drive Away Dolls,” which opens a day after the embargo.

Guess which one is likelier to suck?