Dune - 7/10
I read the book just for the reason to watch this movie.
Pretty good adaptation of (half of) the book. I liked the visual style and pacing was also decent though a bit too fast at times, but then again the pacing in the book is slow as a snail.
Though I think some things could have been done better, such as the battle scene could have been made a bit more epic somehow. The Sardaukar were portrayed a bit too weak IMO to make the main characters look cool (In the book, the Sardaukar just wreck everything and everybody just run from them because nobody is able to stand up to them). Some moderately important plot points were removed and some interesting (IMO) characters weren't given enough screentime. But then again, the book is chockfull of side storylines that would be impossible to show in the film. Also, I would have liked a better sense of foreboding since all the events are premediated (in the book the Duke and Thufir already suspect that they will come under attack from the Harkonens and they have been searching and killing Harkonen agents all over Arrakis in the days after arriving).
Overall a pretty good adaptation, though (in my very biased opinion) I think some things could have been done better.
