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Title: Atrocious! Not Atreides!
Review: This is the worst possible adaptation imaginable. I would have given them credit for changing the story in positive ways -- due to the difficulty of translating such a complex novel. However, this adaptation doesn't even succeed as good space opera.The script, the art direction, the editing -- everything about this movie sucks.I'm not one of those people who thinks that a movie should be faithful to a novel. In fact, a few movies have been definitely better than their books -- notably Jaws, even Silence of the Lambs (book was very good, the movie a masterpiece). However, the point in changing a story is to make something worth watching. Read the book and hope someone makes a better version some day. (I don't recommend the whole of Herbert's series. Dune is excellent. The rest get worse in rapid progression).
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