I admit I'm a bit optimistic in assuming that anyone where has watched it.
I enjoyed the first part (admittedly as a captive audience on a plane), but I did notice how they made the Fremen, who speak Arabic, half-black and half-Arab. Apparently, the Fremen are yuge racists who don't interbreed with the blacks among them, or if they had, all of them would be a mix of the two. But there was a clear dividing line between them, as if there's been segregation for centuries.
Look, I know you're looking for a movie rec here, but seriously: Dune is considered to be one of the greatest sci-fi novels of all time.
OF ALL TIME.
Seriously do yourself a favor and read it! There's a reason it's sold eleventy-gazillion copies!
I honestly can't understand how anyone who read the novel can like Dunc and say it is a good adaptation.
Just to add something.
Dunc 1 isn't exactly a bad movie. At least not compared to what Hollywood produces nowadays. Personally I found it quite boring. Had some nice visuals or impressive visuals might be the better description. But fuck me was it devoid of any creativity.
Lynchs Dune is the far better movie and adaptation, yes even the cinema version, as it is at least creative in its visuals and doesn't go for the sterile concrete look so many modern Sci-Fi movies go for. It feels epic and otherworldly, it looks otherworldly, it is creative, it is weird as any Dune adaptation should be, the characters have actual character, the soundtrack is great and memorable unlike Duncs Hans Zimmer crap and the costume design and casting are infinitely better.
In the end it is also a bad adaption (the fan cut improves it massively) but it at the very least feels like Dune and feels like it has respect for the source material even if they failed at adapting it. And most importantly it isn't boring.
it feels like the new movies are perfect for taking screenshot and making them illustrated inserts for the book but can't stand on their own as storytelling medium
Some scenes. Mostly the landscapes. But everything else is far too bland considering Dune is supposed to be set in a 10000 year old feudal society with millennia old noble houses.
I highly suggest the audiobooks. I listened to them as I was going to sleep. The ones with Simon Vance, he's a great reader.
I can't stand listening to books where they do a bunch of voices for each character. Is it like that?
The first book has different voice actors for different characters, but for many of the books after that it's just Simon Vance and like 1 other and he doesn't put on much of a voice between characters I think.