OP didn't complain about it not feeling "weighty and powerful", but feeling less real: > digital post-processing seems to have ruined Villeuneve’s more realist

OP didn't complain about it not feeling "weighty and powerful", but feeling less real: > digital post-processing seems to have ruined Villeuneve’s more realistic vision > the complex colors of the world have been bleached out And I agree – Dune definitely feels less real, less believable. Dreamy, in fact. And I think it plays into that, they use the blandness as a strength, creating a feeling of bleak otherness.