My only annoyance on Denis Villeneuve’s version is the incompleteness in introduction of the Dune universe, the politics, the guilds and the history. We might see this in the next movies, however.
Its simply impossible to cover everything in two 2 and a half hours movies. As I said before, proper approach would be high-budget mini series but considering everything, I think that Villeneueve did a good job, certaiiny better than Lynch (I like his version too by the way).
Paul is trained, however, he was not a soldier. In the book, it was also revealed to him that he was meant to be a mentat. Paul was also only 15 years old when they went to live in planet Arrakis.
Exactly this. I don't understand complaints about Chalamet coming from people that (probably) think MacLachlan was a better choice. People often keep forgetting that Paul is only 15 years old and to me Chalamet looks closer to that age, even though he is only 1 year younger than Kyle was when he made Dune. On top of that, Chalamet is generally much better actor now than MacLachlan ever was.
It has gotten so bad that whenever I hear that a movie is acclaimed by the critics instead of this being a sign of a good movie it is a sign of which movie I should avoid, which is why despite increasing the number of movies I have been watching lately I have not watched a single one of those that are nominated to win the best picture award.
Well, if you avoid movies just because they are nominated in Best Picture award, you are doing the same mistake as those who think that nomination=good movie. It's true that Oscars had questionable winners/nominations over the years but that doesn't mean that there are no good movies among nominated ones.