Skip to content A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry A look at history and popular culture .site-branding Menu .menu-toggle .inner #masthead Home Resources for Teachers Resources for World-Builders Book Recommendation List Guest Posts Contact About the Pedant .main-navigation .entry-header Bret Devereaux Miscellanea .cat-links November 5, 2021 November 5, 2021 12 Minutes .entry-meta Since I finally got out to see Dune (2021), I wanted to take a chance to share some of my reflections on it and this week was a good time because I had nowhere near enough time otherwise to get the next Fortifications post ready. So first I want to give my own reaction to the film and then I want to talk in a bit more depth about some of the creative decisions it made. So first: what did I think about the film . Well: Saw Dune. God created Arrakis to train the fai...