Biz “Biz” Coburn

What a god AWFUL adaption of a beautiful story. The casting director should be drawn and quartered.

The beautiful filming doesn’t save the completely abysmal writing—Disappointing. The studio managed to destroy the entirety of what was an incredible start to reimagining one of the most beloved sci-fi novels ever written. Dune Part I had some acceptable deviations from the original text that still communicated the spirit of the novel. The virtues of Part I were nowhere to be found here. It felt like the writers were told the story verbally by an executive then instructed to make up filler if they can’t remember something. The studio managed to mischaracterize Chani AND Paul—Chani is acted as a warrior and was no where close to her personality in the book, thereby robbing us of certain intricacies of Fremen culture that observing her in the book provides. The studio absolutely ignored Paul’s character and the steady progression of power in the book. Instead, they chose one aspect of him to harp on because they felt they would get more positive press. Judging by many other positive reviews, I’d say it worked. They stretched a canvas of 1 dimensional boring character writing over a skeleton of a poorly executed action film story outline. A bad story filmed beautifully is still a bad story. The studio’s rewriting of a story that was beautiful, intricate and beloved already was not only unnecessary but unskilled. The pacing, detail, and beauty of the books was not anywhere in this film. Even without the knowledge of the book, I would have seen this and left the theater wanting my money back. I am embarrassed for the writers.