Excellent movie. Highly recommend. Slow but beautiful. Great performances, music, cinematography. Gonna go read the book now. I had no problem following the movie but someone I went with got lost so ymmv.
Excellent movie. Highly recommend. Slow but beautiful. Great performances, music, cinematography. Gonna go read the book now. I had no problem following the movie but someone I went with got lost so ymmv.
It was a spectacle, but all of the futuristic engineering felt functional and natural. Shit like Blade Runner looks cool, but it felt like buildings were big and covered in lights because, hey, it's the future. Dune had big buildings and ridiculously massive vehicles and machinery, but you really felt like they were that big because they had to be, because of the sheer scale of the spice-mining operation. And that Imperium egg-shaped ship at the start was ridiculously ginormous, but it was obviously such to show that, hey, you're getting an important email from the goddamn emperor of the universe.
Felt the same about the Guild ship. Absolutely massive, but you're transporting planets worth of goods so it makes sense. Fits the book, Duke Leto says the entire Atreides fleet is just a small part of a Guild Ships manifest.
The Guild also holds a monopoly on interstellar travel so there's a degree of flaunting going on.