1/10
Four Losers in a Row for Villaneuve
2 March 2024
Another director who shouldn't be allowed near Science Fiction. His attempts at adapting or directing science fiction have all been failures. And now he's quoted as saying, I hate dialogue. That's for theater and TV. So no movie ever has had a memorable line? Where did this guy learn the art of movies? From the Keystone Cops? Hates Dialogue? Well it shows in this miscast and poor adaptation (I hated the boring Part 1 as well), where there's too much emptiness and silence, along with parts he doesn't make clear (the audience laughed at how the terribly miscast Chalamet is being taught how to walk across the desert by the equally miscast Zendeyah so they don't attract worms. The worm itself, along with the technology and costumes were horrible looking. Did they pay off all the reviewers? I can imagine Den of Geeks giving it a great review, since they are the modern equivalent of Starlog, and kiss butt on everything popular. They rarely have any reviews, just like the positive ones for this movie, that say anything. Paul and his mother never encounter Sardaukar while in the care of Stilgar. There are so many other errors in this "faithful" (obviously Villaneuve and I have different definitions of that word) adaptation of one of the great books of SF.

Wait for it to stream or, if you are a fan of Dune, find the Sci-Fi channel adaptation and watch that. You know, from when the Science Fiction channel was good.
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