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I agree with both of you. It really is impossible to take such a complicated story and do justice to it in a 2.5 hour movie. A miniseries would have been much better. I suppose I was comparing Dune 2021 to Dune 1984. I felt that the 1984 story was a better story than the 2021 version, especially the long version, mainly because of too many key omissions when compared against 1984 and too many changes - some as I pointed out made zero sense.
Keeping hands clean was a serious issue because truthsayers would be able to root out any lies, which is why not doing the deed yourself was so important. They mentioned this in the thropter taking Jessica and Paul to the desert to dispose of them, so this is also cannon in the 2021 version although poorly explained.
The problem with 2021 story's is that the original plot in 1965 and 1984 was that it was simply a Corrino plot that involved the Harkonnen because they were the currrent stewards of Arakis and hated the Atreides. The Bene Gesserit and Guild were silent partners of the Emperor, not the Harkonnen. They each saw themselves above the other. The Corrinos and by extension the Sardukaur looked down their noses at the Harkonens as inferiors. Fenring basically told the Baron what would be done at the Emperor's orders and the Baron would comply or else. The Guild got involved in the plot because of a problem their seeing eye told them would occur. The real plot therefore was between the Emperor and the Harkonnen only. The Guild wanted Paul killed which the Harkonens were not involved in directly, so after the 3rd stage Navigator meeding, Eldrick I think the Navigator's name was, there was a secondary agreement between the Guild and the Emperor that Paul would die. Nothing more was mentioned because the Baron clearly was going to eliminate all of House Atreides - the Guild just wanted to make sure the Emperor got the job done correctly. There was of course mistrust everywhere. The 2021 plot as I mentioned above is something completely different from 1965 and the 1984 movie's plot and would not have occurred.
I would recommend watching it as a movie. The characters, music and props were all good. Very Grand Scale. Good action scenes.
As a Dune fan, the story really sucked. Too many omissions and changes.