Dune part two.
Petulant Chani, storming off into the desert at the end in a huff was bad. I sense the hand of Brian Herbert or Kevin J Anderson in that. For anyone that doesn't know, they wrote the sequels and the prequels.
No Young Alia freaking out the Fremen and ******* wounded invaders. Margot Fenring without her husband, the royal assassin.
Paul's comment to start off the holy war and turning Stilgar into a raving religious nut job.
The Emperor was to put it plainly a pussy who the Bene Gesserit conned into destroying house Atredies.
The movies ran for a total of 321 minutes, and in that time they only progressed about 8 months instead of the years in the books, I think leaving out a chunk of character, plot development.
Waiting for Paul to ***** the water of life before learning he was half Harkonnen instead of working it out himself, lessens the intended intelligence of the character. He could spot that his ****** was pregnant, but not that she was Harkonnen?
On the plus side, the combat was good and fit with the books.
I was thinking throughout the movie that it was too bad, right until the end. They took one hell of a left turn right at the end.
The people I have talked to about the movie, all had similar thoughts. Good story, ruined by an at best mediocre adaption.