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I don’t really care about Star Wars

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[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I look at it more that Denis made a lot of choices to remove a lot of the more esoteric elements to fit that it was a movie and a sequel made years later. A lot was removed from the book, but it still feels well paced for two movies.

And if you're going to make significant cuts, you might as well cut out the really weird shit.

He kept all the magic thingies and even added an element that was not present in the books with the random female voice/voices "speaking prophecies" to Paul. But more importantly, he ruined a main character, transforming her into basically a contemporary American. It might be well paced, it might be pretty, but it's not Dune and it doesn't make as much sense as it should have had they not messed with it for the sake of larger audiences.