johnslegers
Joined Apr 2004
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Dune is a great start of a multi-part story. But in my opinion, it fails to impress as a standalone movie. After an early climax, the movie's pacing slows down to a point where I started losing interest, only for the movie to end just when it was starting to get interesting again... which IMO was a missed opportunity.
I also think the movie would have been better had less screentime been spent on the rather repetitive vision / dream sequences of Paul and more screentime been spent on exploring the motivations, strategy & "culture" of the Harkonnen. Those vision / dream sequences add little of value to the story, really, and just drag out the pacing. Meanwhile, the Harkonnen haven't been nearly fleshed out enough to be convincing as the evil, depraved, hyperrich "supervillains" they're supposed to be.
I also think the movie would have been better had less screentime been spent on the rather repetitive vision / dream sequences of Paul and more screentime been spent on exploring the motivations, strategy & "culture" of the Harkonnen. Those vision / dream sequences add little of value to the story, really, and just drag out the pacing. Meanwhile, the Harkonnen haven't been nearly fleshed out enough to be convincing as the evil, depraved, hyperrich "supervillains" they're supposed to be.
