I’ve been reading sci fi for 40 years and Ender’s Game is by
far the best story I’ve come across. Dune is a good story but gets lost is so much detail which is why the movie sucked so bad.
I read a story about the making of Dune and the Director, Lean, I believe, left and had his name taken off the film credits as he didn’t like what they were cutting and adding to what he wanted to give us, and that was something very close to the book script. Most believe that that is why it sucked.
The movie sucked so bad because the screenplay and director literally threw away every good idea Herbert wrote, and tried to replace them with nonsensical flash. If you haven’t seen the mini-series the Sci-Fi channel made, you missed a much better treatment.