[Pontiac]

I liked “Dune”.

Have not read the book(s) but have noticed that the ones who do not like it are the ones who have.

I have read the book.

The movie was the most horrible film adaptation of a book that I have yet seen.

There was a DUNE miniseries (2000) that was much better.

DUNE .

[ADemocratNoMore]

I bought the book when I was but a callow youth and tried to read it several times and never made it past the first page, or chapter. One day I picked it up after a few years of it sitting on the bookshelf and read all the way through. The original Dune movie was supposed to have been seven or eight hours long so a lot of stuff was cut. I think of the 1st Dune movie as a kind of visual Impressionism in the same sense as a Monet painting is not a perfect visual representation of reality but gives one a sense of being in the depiction of the reality none the less. The Si-Fi Dune was much more faithful to the book and well worth a look (would love to see either one in 4K).

I was also fortunate to have read 2001 ASO before it came out on film so I had a pretty good idea as to what was going on. I cut school, took a bus downtown and saw it in CinemaScope. Great movie.

Have not seen Interstellar yet but the soundtrack is pure epicness. Play it on your best audio gear and marvel !