There are four major Freeman characters, Jamis, Stilgar, Chani and Shishakli. Only one can be said to be of European descent, so 3 of 4 are non-European. Not to mention the diversity of the background Freeman, with several others with speaking parts also being non-European descent actors.

Increasing diversity is…

It’s based on a famous book that ends the same way.... what did you think was going to happen...?

to people who didn’t follow the plot perhaps. I find this critique hilarious because you do realize that that’s the conclusion of the book right....?

Part 2 has some comic relief and nods to the 1984 version that are fun. This is a dramatic science fiction epic though so not a barrel of laughs.

Wait until AVC discovers Ethiopian Jews.

A white woman and a white man manipulating desert zealots into being their army for power and revenge is exactly the fucking POINT of Dune, and no it is not portrayed as a “good thing”. The casting is deliberate because of this. Most of the freeman are BROWN. Chani literally asks in the first movie “who will our new…

Saw it. Not to be glib, but it’s what I think many people would expect: extremely impressive technically, but made with a certain dour humorlessness that can’t help but feel a little silly. I also don’t know that I believed Chalamet as the “man” by the film’s end as much as I believed him as the “boy” at the…

Part 1 had zero humour and was a bore-fest. I’m hoping to have a better viewing on rewatch.

Timmy C is a girly-boy with no gravitas. This is one of the worst cast movies that I’ve ever seen advertised. Dune is ruined with him starring.

I long for a time when people did actually analysis of art beyond doing a headcount of how many people of each race were in the movie and then posting that on the internet as rage bait.

Themes are for eight-grade book reports.

Part of the problem is that to some degree this reflects the book. But the book balances the slow burn of the first half with a lot of palace intrigue regarding Jessica possibly being a traitor (which is why Thufir and Gurney miss Dr Yueh being compromised, they are sure it is Jessica), and the dinner party scene…

Gal Gadot?

With the exception of Souheila Yacoub and Zendaya, all of the main characters are played by actors of white European descent...

‘”That being stated - I found part one boring. Wanted to like it but it just didn’t really work for me.

Dune is a story that takes place 10,000 years in the future. Commenting on the presumed improper ancestry of the actors playing the main characters is more than a little silly.

Yeah it’s literally about a colonized planet.

“However there is a jarring disconnect between the words uttered by the film’s characters, many in Arabic or derivations of the Arabic language, and the actors uttering those words.”

Love the books. Lynch & Sci Fi Channel movies are at least fun to watch. I’m also a fan of this director, Euro Sci Fi / comics, etc. That being stated - I found part one boring. Wanted to like it but it just didn’t really work for me.

“when the story is clearly borrowing from myths and folklore from a particular part of the world, perhaps the casting could have been more diverse.”