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Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan
I think 30 is too severe. There was lots of important stuff in that first segment, but if you lost 10-15 minutes, It would have been much tighter.
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i think with adaptations, its really tough, as you need to ensure the 'hard core' fans will be satisfied, as they are likely going to be people doing multiple watches...
I've heard some fringe hard core fans dislike the movie because they have left out a lot of information... like the 'Choam' (which, iirc, is essentially the company that stockpiles and distributes the spice to the universe...like The East Indian Trading Company, 10,000 years into the future, and whom the caretakers of Arrakis get to skim money off the top)...
So some hardcore fans are upset because the movie isn't granular enough (did anyone really miss the dinner scene or the conservatory scene?) but the regular movie goer already think its much too long... Its super hard to pass information in a movie... you could do a movie scroll, a la Star Wars to pass on a preface,,,, or you could resort to exposition dumps or internal monologues like Lynch did - skip to 54 second mark
Villeneuve distilled the story to something reasonably close that could be actually be made into a 2hr 40 min movie...but not everyone is going to happy with the result...