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This isn't a treat at all. It's by a wide margin the worst big budget movie Hollywood ever crapped out. David Lynch is the only person I've ever seen manage to get a poor acting performance out of Patrick Stewart. That's an accomplishment. This movie was trash in every aspect except Toto's awesome soundtrack. It completely misses the point of Dune and it fails on its own merits as a movie. Even David Lynch was embarrassed by it and that man was a talentless, pretentious hack whose incompetence at filmmaking was only matched by his utter inability to paint or create music.

And Dune really isn't that hard to adapt. The Jorodowsky adaptation failed because he was an idiot who thought he could get away with filming a 9 hour movie for the highest price tag in history. The Arthur P. Jacobs adaptation failed simply because Jacobs died before production could start, and the Ridley Scott adaptation failed also because his brother died and he wanted to take on a smaller project while he grieved (that project became Blade Runner).

John Harrison adapted Dune for television and it was wildly successful. It won multiple Emmys, it set records for ratings on Sci-Fi channel, and it got a successful sequel adapting Dune Messiah and Children of Dune which also won an Emmy and set ratings records. The success of the Dune miniseries is directly why Sci-Fi tried the same thing with their acclaimed Battlestar Galactica reboot.

Then Denis Villeneuve adapted Dune and made dumptrucks full of money, won 6 Oscars, and is now about to shoot his Dune Messiah adaptation.

So of the three adaptations of Dune that actually began shooting, two were massive critical and commercial successes while only one was a failure. Because David Lynch had no idea what he was doing.