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Originally Posted by fleury
I haven't read the books, and watched the movie last night. There were moments where I thought the scenes were cool and well set and well created, but overall the story lacked originality. It's everything we've seen with superhero movies, plot wise, where the "evil" guy wants power at any cost, and they play that character visibly. Casting wise, Jason Mamoa seemed like he was reading lines and played a character you know was going to die in the way he did, because again, we've seen this before 100 times over. Anyway, aside from the set and visuals, I wasn't impressed with the story or the characters.
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The originality comment is interesting as Dune was original in the 60s but has been copied to the point where the chosen one and superhero tropes and everything in much of sci fi (like Star Wars) we see were actually inspired in a large part by Dune.
As far as the villain, it's really more of Game of Thrones political grab by the Imperium and one House to play off the others. The Baron and Harkonens are actually incredibly sanitized and tame in this adaptation. They are truly vile in the books.
What the movie's fault was all this runtime devoted to visuals but failed to build up the characters and relationships. Duncan and Gurney are both just warriors and you barely see their relationship and duty to the Duke and his son. You don't see Gurney as the Bard. You barely see any interaction with Thufir, mentats and Paul's upbringing as one is deleted completely.