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> Fear is the mind killer?

"Fear is the mind-killer," whispers Paul Atreides. "So is this movie," groaned the critics.

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/03/th...

There are some fan edits that improve the movie dramatically. My preference is "Alternative Edition Redux". It used to be available archive.org, though I'm sure it's still floating around the net somewhere.

That was the version that combined the original theatrical release version, the director's cut, and a bunch of other scenes that were cut out.

There's one scene that they put back in, toward the end, where Thufir Hawat pulls out his own heart plug; very emotional scene that IMO they should've kept in the original.

Maybe this is a case of false memory, but I am sure I have seen this scene before in a TV cut of the movie.

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