Historically, february is the time of the year where studios tend to offload the films they think are going to flop. Maybe that has changed.
Good one!
Yeah, I have to concur with that take. When I read Dune, I just didn't find it that interesting.
It rarely felt like the characters had agency--a lot of plot tokens were collected and redeemed to move the story forward (whoops, story needs to move--time for a new, previously unmentioned superpower). And quite often the characters were just cartoonishly dumb or smart or good or evil.
As you said, it's certainly not for everyone. I suspect it's more a "product of its time".