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.

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Pretty much exactly. Leto is the noble reasonable ruler and gets his shit kicked in because the hegemon feels threatened by him. All his courtesy and decorum amounts to exactly dick, the Harkonnens win a complete victory and go back to brutalizing the population. The term "Slave pens of geidi prime" gets used a lot. Then Paul spends some time in the desert with Ibn Wahhab and things get real Jihadi.