every single person I've talked to that's only seen the movies and not read the books fucking loves Paul and would 100% support him.
all that did was further incentiveize Paul and the audience to go wage galactic jihad with the fellas.
this is why I fucking loved dune 2, I don't care that paul is meant to be le bad and le tyrannical I am 100% on board with joining the space jihad now. I also think dune 2 with it's explicit, albeit directorially unintentional glamorisation/glorification of a white, charismatic male leader fighting for his birthright may have provided a lot of cultural impetus for the rightwards shift we're seeing in young men in the west.
Zendaya ALMOST ruins the movie with her bullshit but I honestly don't care because everything else is so good. iirc wasn't chani totally fine with paul's plans in the books or am I misremembering?
dads are the best