Lawrence Of Arabia IN SPICE SPACE!

Sure, you can see the influence on dozens and dozens of sci-fi epics to come after it, and the worldbuilding is fantastic. At the same time, though, Herbert never found a simple plot he couldn't make complicated and a complicated one he couldn't skip by in a "three months later"..., his prose is overloaded with both thesauri and dictionaries, and Paul Atreides is an enigmatic asshole guided more by prophecy than any actual personality.

Looking forward to rewatching the Lynch version and watching the Villeneuve version, but I'm glad I didn't buy the big box set of books.