I recently watched the movie on HBOMax and those quotes are indeed in the movie. Still, the movie is missing something. When I was growing up, I was a book nerd and the Dune series was/is one of my all-time favorites. The books describe the world largely from the POV of Paul Atreides, but in the movie, he is just one character of many (until the end), and a wooden one at that. I just didn't feel any connection with the character the way I did with the books. The one character that resonated with me was Jason Mamoa as Duncan Idaho, but he is a secondary character and dies halfway through the movie.
This movie is definitely better than the one made in the 1980s. They really put their work in on the CGI and scenes of desert landscapes and wormsign felt realistic and drew me in, but wasn't enough to overcome the lack of compelling characters. Also, unlike the original Star Wars trilogy, or the Lord of the Rings, I think one needs to have read the source material to appreciate this movie.
Overall, I think it is a good movie (if you have read the books), but not a great movie..
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