Yeah, I'd rather watch the Lynch version anytime, the new ones are like 6 hours of bland, boring choices and wooden performances.

I will say, the first one is the most to-the-letter book adaptations i have ever seen.

ive told my friend that its a brutalist screensaver, and he got so mad.

I've only watched the first one. Visually it was great, but the scenes over shadowed the plot to such a degree that, even having read the source, it was still hard to follow.

I would not call it a bad movie, but I'd file it with Avatar and the fountain as being more about the experience than the story.

I watched the first one in the theater and thought it was dry but okay. I tried rewarding it when the second one was coming out and I turned it off like 1/3 of the way through. I watched the second one but it couldn't hold my attention at all.

I agree with the Dune movies and in particular I think I don't like Denis Villeneuve; He takes a cute sci fi short story like "stories of your life" and turns it into a very self important dull thing. Then he takes a Novel about flying through space with drugs and doing guerriilla warfare while riding sand worms and it all feels so somber and rigid. Man has no fun in him.

Damn this one hard for me. I absolutely hated the casting and screenplay. But it really redefined how i see the universe in my head when i read the books.