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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 8436898" data-attributes="member: 177">So, a comment - watching at home, without a super-awesome sound system...This, like many movies, had a an audio balance problem for lower-end speakers - much of the dialog was quiet and intimate, but the explosions were not.  Cranking up the volume to hear the speech led to it being VERY LOUD much of the rest of the time.  Yeah, this is a thing that we can get in books that doesn't translate well into shorter formats, and leads to <a href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheWorfEffect" target="_blank">The Worf Effect</a>.  In shorter forms, we often don't get to establish how badass various people are independently.  [spoiler="examples in the movie"]So, we get Duncan Idaho positioned as a badass, but the main thing he gets used for is to show that, yeah, he's badass, but the Sardaukar, as a unit, are moreso.  Duncan Idaho and Gurney Halleck both have a bit of this problem  - their stints on the show are short enough to question the use of such high-profile actors.[/color][/spoiler]</blockquote>