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Science Fiction, Adventure 155 min PG-13
Rotten Tomatoes83%Metacritic74IMDb
It begins.
Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence - a commodity capable of unlocking humanity's greatest potential - only those who can conquer their fear will survive.
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Epic, richly built, meticulous and plot-driven.
20 profiled raters. Loved most by The Cartographers; disliked most by The Provocateurs.
We read them all: the case for is cartographer_cy's, the case against is yuki.reads's. Marked below.
The book, not the film: the film is a very expensive trailer for it. Herbert's politics are a mess and the mess is the point. Read the appendices.
The film's Arrakis is the first one that felt like a planet and not a set. Villeneuve shoots scale the way Herbert wrote it: slowly, and then all at once.
Solid, and in places better than solid. The sheer scope of it is breathtaking. Straight-faced throughout, and all the stronger for it.
The book is a machine for thinking about ecology and religion at once. Villeneuve's film understood the scale; the book understood the cost.
A few lines from each review; the whole review is on the critic's site. Not part of Taste Buds's numbers.
Denis Villeneuve’s slow-burn space opera fuses the arthouse and the multiplex to create an epic of otherworldly brilliance
Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation is an equally sweeping and intimate take on Frank Herbert’s future-shock epic.
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Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Taste Buds. Other media included when they land close.
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If you loved this film, the television, the book, the music, the game.
