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When I watched this movie, I had just read the novel a couple months before. So it didn't bother me that it was incomplete, it was more like just visualizing parts of the novel. And it does a great job of that.
the thing with this movie is that it is for the lack of the better word is misshapen. It was supposed to be a two part adaptation, then it wasnt, then it was supposed to be a three hour long movie, then it wasnt, then the studio decided to pull a Snyder Cut except there was never a director's cut to begin with so they scrambled something out of unused footage even though it required more work.
Have you seen the fan edit?
Yeah, I remember reading something about that. No, I haven't seen the fan edit. tbh I think Dune as a story is pretty good, but there's a lot better SF out there. Even the novel I only read once, and I don't remember anything about the sequels.
The fan edit is very good. It imitates Lynch's editing style and leans harder into dwelling and sinking into the shots. it feels slower and more deliberate.
Dune is great series mostly because it was written very well - there's a lot of straight up poetry weaved into wacky space fantasy and Herbert is very good at conveying reasonably realistic psychology of the characters - that's what made the series appealing from the get go.