I don't think that's accurate. There is plenty of art and soul in Villeneuve's Dune. Villeneuve creates atmosphere in his movies, and this one has a sort of "bleak, decaying but not weak, constant unrelenting danger" thing going on... the weight of it is palpable on the viewer in a similar way to BR2049. I totally understand the view that that's the wrong atmosphere to be shooting for - that he aimed for and achieved the wrong thing. But to call it soulless or artless doesn't make any sense.
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