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‘Dune’ Critics Warn Audiences to Go Big (Screen) or Don’t Bother
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thewrap.comThe Wrap calls “Dune” both “dazzling and frustrating, often spectacular and often slow. It’s huge and loud and impressive but it can also be humorless and bleak,” adding that “it tries valiantly to address the problems of taking on Herbert’s complex epic, which requires a director to spend lots of time setting things up and explaining the world before they can even get the damn thing off the ground.” Indiewire’s David Ehrlich couldn’t resist the punny descriptor of “lifeless spice opera,” writing that “the first and most fundamental problem is a screenplay (credited to the heavyweight trio of Eric Roth, Jon Spaihts, and Villeneuve himself) that drills into Herbert’s novel with all the thunder and calamity of a spice harvester, but mines.
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