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Title: Far less interesting than the original
Review: My hopes were extremely high for this adaptation, as I am a fan of the books and of the 1984 film version, and I was very, very disappointed. The acting is terrible... Duke Leto has no personality, Paul is a whiny baby during the first couple of hours, and the supporting cast has nobody even remotely interesting. They managed to use nearly the same dialogue as the 1984 version, and add in long periods of looking at the desert, apparently to kill time.The producers of this fiasco would have been better served to have tried to do a sequel to the 1984 version, than rather to copy it using worse actors and worse effects. The Dune series of books deserves far better treatment than this. My advice is to get the 1984 version and read the entire series in paperback!
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