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I don't think she improves any property she's in. It was fourth-wall breaking to see her show up in the first new Dune film, and the second one revolved around her unnecessarily to its detriment.
If she could at least act. Wouldn't have improved the Dunc films as they are unbelievable atrocious Dune adaptions and boring ass movies on top of it but oh well.
I agree with the Zendaya bit. The rest of your opinion might be the worst take on the internet lol. Even if you don't like some aspects of the movie, it was as faithful as an adaptation as you can get and it was a million times better than the trash Dune movies that came before
The Dune adaptation where the Spacing Guild gets basically ignored is a faithful adaption? Where Fremen are downgraded to some shitty ass freedom fighters? Where Paul is turned into faggoty whiny emo kid and Chani into some retarded fucking yass slay queen power bitch? And Baron Harkonnen is just some floaty bald fat guy who bathes in mud? Liet-Kyne is a black women and not even the related to Chani? And don't even get me started on Piter de Vries. Or Lasguns are used indiscriminately despite the fact that it is even stated in the movie that if a lasgun hits a shield we get a nuclear explosion?
I could go on and on and on. Dunc is the worst fucking adaption by far. Not even Lynches version is as dogshit as Dunc. The mini series still remains the absolute best Dune adaption by miles we've gotten so far despite being 25 years old and its effects having aged horribly.
Read the books. If you have, read them again. I honestly don't understand how anyone who likes the books can pretend that Dunc is a faithful adaptation.
I enjoyed the first one (knowing that it was only slightly more faithful than the theatrical cut of the Lynch version.) But they just removed so much from the second that I'm not enthused for the upcoming ones.
And yeah, the miniseries is the best adaptation we're ever likely to get.
The cinematography is fantastic, but everything else about it is shit.
You sound a bit like that really fun guy everyone loves who smugly states "the book was better" every single time a movie based on a book you've read comes out lol. I could go on for hours about how Lord of the Rings changed and removed a lot of stuff from the books (significantly more than Dune), and yet it was one of the greatest trilogies ever filmed. As a result I can appreciate both the book and the movie as separate entities.
Dune was a great book. Unfortunately the series was fucking wiiiild, but I digress. Dune the movie is objectively beautifully filmed and scored, well acted, and highly engaging. And yeah, it sticks to the meat and potatoes of the story of the book without losing anything of serious value. It's still a much better adaptation than Eragon (though the book wasn't super great anyway, iRobot, the Dark Tower, World War Z, and dozens of others I just can't think of at the moment. If you watched Dune before reading it, I have a feeling you would feel differently. Unfortunately, no movie can live up to a good imagination.
With that said, I don't want to sound like one of the woketards that defended The Last Jedi. Your criticisms are valid, I just think you're putting too much weight into them and not looking at the overall picture. It's by no means a perfect film, but Dune is pretty damn good
The SciFi channel miniseries is still my favorite, but the new ones are great with the glaring exception of Chani's behavior near the end.
They removed the explicitly Islamic aspects and made Paul a true believer instead of being forced to use the faith. All done to avoid offending Muslims
I fell asleep in the first one after about thirty minutes.
Maybe someday someone will make a "chud-ector's cut" version that replaces some of the uggofied female cast (including Pugh here because they intentionally made her unattractive)