It just doesn’t show or say what’s particularly cool about them.
I'm having a hard time visualizing how you tell the first third of the story w/o getting into Yueh's conditioning and how De Vries breaks it. De Vries also becomes a boring character if you've taken mentats out of the universe.
Also how the fuck do you take mentats out of a universe that's banned computers. Lame
Piter is literally a non-character in the movie. He just hangs out around Baron and has like two lines in the whole movie to facilitate Baron's monologues.
Yueh is just a traitor. The whole "we have a traitor but who can it be" mystery subplot is omitted.
It's curious that the banned computers thing that's supposed to be a big deal for the setting is never brought up and it seems like people for whom this movie is their fist interaction with Dune don't really care.
I'm having a hard time visualizing how you tell the first third of the story w/o getting into Yueh's conditioning and how De Vries breaks it. De Vries also becomes a boring character if you've taken mentats out of the universe.
Also how the fuck do you take mentats out of a universe that's banned computers. Lame
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Piter is literally a non-character in the movie. He just hangs out around Baron and has like two lines in the whole movie to facilitate Baron's monologues.
Yueh is just a traitor. The whole "we have a traitor but who can it be" mystery subplot is omitted.
It's curious that the banned computers thing that's supposed to be a big deal for the setting is never brought up and it seems like people for whom this movie is their fist interaction with Dune don't really care.