Well, "Dune" is a "fantasy fiction" movie.
FFS, Mina. Dune is science fiction. Fiction, as in made-up stuff. It doesn’t claim to be a documentary.
I gave it a small amount of acclaim. I preferred the original. Didn't like the characters in the new one as much as the original.
My god … it’s a sci-fi novel. Next tell us how the Force is not real.
SciFi has never really been, ‘My Thing’ but I did enjoy reading ‘Dune’ back in High School, and all the LOTRs novels, as well. (Oh, Gandalf! Take me away from these IDIOTS I share space with in High School, LOL!)
A few years ago I finally got my Issac Asimov groove on and am now a total fan.
And don’t even get me started on my Ray Bradbury years. SciFi for The Everywo/man.
Really? You don’t think that, ‘The Illustrated Man’ was SciFi? Fight Me! ;)
Currently? I’ve ADORED every book written by Blake Crouch. Treat yourself!
OK. Yeah. I’m now owning that I’m a Geek. ;)
Well, "Dune" is a "fantasy fiction" movie.
I don’t because I never read it or saw any adaptations.
I’ve been thinking lately of just how bad the whole science fiction genre has been.
The problem with futuristic science fiction is that future tech cannot be explained because we don’t know about it “yet”. Historically, predictions of what the future looks like are almost always wildly incorrect, because there is no way to know what advancements will occur. If we did, it wouldn’t be science fiction, would it? But as Arthur C Clark famously put it, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”. So science fiction writers just come up with magic, and give it a science-sounding explanation.
Talk about overthinking it.
I hope this chick is trapped on a snowed in Greyhound bus with only a copy of Dhalgren by Samuel Delaney to read.
It’s a good book. It’s a good movie. It’s entertainment. Just chill.
If you can fold space, that speaks to the ability to create infinite power.
If you can produce infinite power, there should be no shortages of anything, least of all water, in the entire universe.
"Childhood's End" is more what I was looking for.
Dune has way more problems than not jibing with reality. It’s the parallel of the Islamic religion. That is the thing I most object to. Th at and the girl at the end of part two riding off on a worm. Only men ride worms in the world of Dune. Plus it’s that girl who is named Zendaya who is in everything. I didn’t really like her as Mary Jane Watson.
In contrast, soft science fiction takes a more speculative leap to stories with technology, science, and life forms that are beyond or contradict contemporary science. The result is a tendency toward wilder and more inventive story-telling that is nevertheless constrained and animated by the terms of an imagined world with scientific and technological constraints of its own.
"Dune" is unusual in combining diplomatic, political, tribal, and military conflicts involving a dry, sandy planet that is barely hospitable to human life. The narrative structure combines first person monologues within a third person narrative. The result in both written and movie forms is a high demand on the understanding of readers and audiences. The reward is an exploration of human nature in extreme and imaginative circumstances.
I once heard a radio interview with Frank Herbert, the author of Dune. A caller described how the book had saved her life after a criminal attack had left her badly wounded, bleeding, in extreme pain, and dying. In distress, the caller recalled the saying from Dune that "fear is the mind killer," put aside her fear of death, and thought through and carried out a plan that got help and saved her life.
In the end, the point of hard and soft science fiction is always to illuminate human nature and inspire us in some fashion. Genre fiction it may be, but it sometimes tells us a great deal about ourselves.
I have always enjoyed SF, but i consider both stories of Dune to be, what’s the word?, stupid!
Should have used the force.
Being Sci-Fi fiction aside, I was totally triggered that a civilization that had figured out how to use anti-gravity technology for their ore haulers would decide to use the massively clumsy and inefficient ornithopters for personal transportation. Dumb ...
I too preferred the first version.
Um, it’s science FICTION. LOL
That said Star Trek communicators and phasers were science fiction. Now look at your smart phone and phase arrayed radars.
What I find more interesting is a discussion of the political side and analogies to the Middle East.
Incidentally just saw the original Dune last night. While it has its flaws - a lot of them - still prefer it over the remake.
