[DannyTN]

Not enough spice?

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Dune is a great novel. I have trouble seeing how it can ever be a great movie. Some stories are best read, not watched.

[mrsmith]

“

This sprawling story first hit the silver screen in 1984. It was a mind-numbingly bad adaptation. “

Nah, had it’s faults but can’t accept the judgment of someone who gores this far.

[Nateman]

Many years after reading Dune I figured out the religion of the natives was loosely based on Islam. Good thing I did not because I would never have read it and missed out!

I had a friend who really liked the movie version. Given the detail crammed into that film I figured it would be too confusing, but he replayed it may times to get to know it better.

[31R1O]

Dennis Villnueve is a good director and I’ll probably give the movie the benefit of the doubt unless it gets embargoed for review until release.

[KC Burke]

Not cinema material. Plenty of other stories would have been better fodder.

[ConservativeInPA]

The latter was largely inaccessible to those who had not already read the books.

I venture to say that if you didn't read the first book before seeing the original Dune movie you would be lost. I did, and I enjoyed the movie. Others that have watched the movie with me did like it so much, but they didn't read the book and were lost among the sea of characters.

[faucetman]

I generally don’t like remakes, but then there is Titanic.

I LOVE DUNE! The longer the version, the better.

GREAT MOVIE! I don’t care what anybody says. If you like Syfy you have to like Dune.

[tbw2]

Everyone forgets the SyFy movies that were actually pretty good.

Another Dune Remake?
https://libertyislandmag.com/2019/03/08/another-dune-remake/

[sauropod]

They could do it through the mental and Paul himself.

[fieldmarshaldj]

"This sprawling story first hit the silver screen in 1984. It was a mind-numbingly bad adaptation."

It was a masterpiece.

[Empire_of_Liberty]

Because we’ll know that the stylish, Italian clothes are actually made by Chinese?

[yesthatjallen]

Dune is destined to be another crashing bore, because the actual characters in the story are not very relatable or likable.

Two articles about Dune. I assume you like Dune.

I read Dune. For the life of me I can't remember why. I was into SciFi at the time so I guess it was holy canon and simply expected.

I only remember a few scenes I read; like the awkward moment when the male lead asks the female to hold on to his rings. Drugs timed to body metabolism. Glowing blue eyes. Some other stuff.

I can understand why film makers want to tackle the 'epic' nature of the work; the worms plowing through the sand is a spectacular image to bring to the screen.

I didn't find it memorable.

If it gives you joy, that's fine with me but because it's such a large work and everyone has their own individual vision from their own imagination (which is why people keep remaking the film) it's almost un-filmable.

[Viking2002]

Aw, c'mon, where's the love for the pre-Picard Sir Pat Stewart sporting a mullet and plucking a ginormous electric space sitar? And Brad Dourif channeling his Inner Weirdo while doing his hearing-impaired hand jive routine? What about a homoerotic Sting, sporting a spiky Billy Idol 'do and Buck Rogers thong, emerging from a sauna? That movie screams for a cult following.........

[ThunderSleeps]

I'll admit I never read the book. I did think the movie was decent enough. There's obviously a good story under there even if the movie itself is a little choppy and uneven. I liked it enough to remember a few good lines from it. "You did seem finally to get in the mood" and "bring in that floating fat man, the Baron" or "...my plan ... MY PLAN! ... the plan..."

What I'm concerned about is yet another leftist remake that'll turn it into pure garbage. Paul will be formerly Paulette, a tranny. The fremen will be obvious surrogates for illegal aliens. The navigator guild will be portrayed with obvious parallels to big oil or big pharma or some such as the bad guys. The heroic saviors will be orphans and illegals and muslim stand-ins who reluctantly take up arms, then shun them immediately and proclaim Arrakis a peaceful and disarmed planet open to all... They'll water it down and slather so much PC BS on it that it will be almost unrecognizable.

[KarlInOhio]

Books based on action are easy to film. Dune has way too much pondering and internal monologues to be easily filmable. It will be very, very tough. Lynch didn't quite pull it off.

I would love to have seen what Alejandro Jodorowsky had in mind. Salvador Dali as the Emperor? That would be a quick path into madness.

[Rockingham]

The larger value of Dune comes from placing human characters in a strange environment. Sometimes, that offers useful, even compelling lessons for its readers.

On a radio show in the 1980s, a woman caller described for Herbert how Dune saved her life. She was abducted, raped, tortured, stabbed, and left for dead in a rural cabin. In spite of great pain and fear of death or the return of her attacker, the woman crawled to search for and find a telephone hidden in the cabin to call for and direct the help that saved her life. As the woman was doing so, she found essential calmness and resolution in repeating Herbert's saying from Dune that "fear is the mind-killer."

[C19fan]

Considering Herbert was quoted as saying his inspiration for “Dune” was to show the world someone with superpowers was a bad thing, the movie might only appeal to fans of the Duneverse.

[a fool in paradise]

>>Time will tell if it’s the next Star Wars (1977)

even the Star Wars franchise didn’t live up to the promise of those first 2 films that were made

[mad_as_he$$]

The book sucked and any movie will too.