Just saw Dune yesterday.
Pros: It's honestly not nearly as woke as the race swapped characters would suggest. The cinematography is great, and I think the cast was well selected (unnecessary race swapping aside). They did a great job of designing the costumes and the spaceships too.
I haven't seen anything in the way of woke pandering and politics thrown in your face, but Zendaya doesn't really do anything in this movie so who knows about the next one.
Cons: It's a bit confusing who/what everyone/everything is if you haven't read the book.
You will have to use the bathroom after watching it.
It falls victim to about all blockbuster movies in the past few years. Hollywood prioritizes the "international market" [China], when making movies. Which means the cinematography will be top notch and everything else will be dumbed down. The plot will be dumbed down, the dialogue will be dumbed down, the acting will be dumbed down, everything.
The plot was already set for this movie but there are two meat head actors in it who cant act, and it cuts out Pauls internal dialogue where you learn he is extremely conflicted. There was the pain box incident and the seeker incident which had Pauls inner dialogue from the 1984 movie cut in the 2021 version. Also there were a few scenes where Paul is staring pensively as the camera slowly zooms in on his face, almost like he was thinking something, perfect for some internal dialogue but it doesnt happen.
Honestly they have to dumb things down as audiences are pretty thick anymore.