Nerd Cookies vs. Villeneuve

As you'll see in the video below, Nerd Cookies has fully come around to the idea that Denis Villeneuve has, in many ways, fundamentally misinterpreted the main ideas, characters, and themes of the Dune novels. Villeneuve undoubtedly approaches the intellectual property with a mature artistic eye, but I'd have to agree that his two-movie adaptation, which I generally liked (see here and here), does make some major missteps in terms of plot and characterization, and this is likely going to carry over into the planned third film. In the end, Villeneuve is little different from Lynch or Jodorowsky, finding his own way of being faithful-yet-unfaithful to the canon, putting his own spin on a franchise that needs no spin.