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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Storm Raven" data-source="post: 3973698" data-attributes="member: 307">Of course, opening a film with a long, talky sequence is always a good idea. The sequence also made Shaddam little more than a comic villain of no substance, which makes most of the rest of the movie silly.The added material, while annoying, isn't even the worst of the weaknesses of the movie. The only real problem with the added material is that it consumed time that could have been used to advance the story in some way - and when dealing with a complicated, lenghty story, you need all the screen time you can get. Adding useless material that isn't even from the book is just ridiculous.The true weaknesses are the changes made that make it just like other science fiction movies. The wierding way of battle was transformed into a ray gun. The ruthless Sardaukar were transformed into boring cut rate storm troopers with laser guns and uniforms that looked like raincoats and welder's masks. Ornithopters became hovercraft. The Bene Gesserit were changed from skilled masters of the human body to bald nuns wearing godawful robes. The navigators were no longer mysterious and unknown, but rather a bunch of guys in leather fetish gear towing what looked like giant mutated talking genitalia.</blockquote>