Looking forward to it fer sure..
I just read Dune Messiah. I personally enjoyed that theme throughout the book. Cult of personality is a powerful thing and people will do amazingly horrible things for that cult leader.
Planning to see it. SF sometimes is tough to move to the screen.
I didn’t care for the guy they cast as Paul Atriedes in the first one. He seemed too soy-boyish to me.
Perhaps it was just the hair cut. I expect if it were cut differently, shorter, he might not have come across to me the way he did.
I didn’t much like his love interest, either, but I know they were trying to make the character more ethnic or indigenous, so I won’t come down that hard there.
been a sci fi fan my whole life.
except for dune. yes i read it, didnt care for it.
smacks of islam.
Herbert was really good friends with Jack Vance and Poul Anderson, who were definitely not leftists. He really struck gold with Dune, and rightly so. The best writer of the three was Vance.
FReegards
I know, there are many, many more that could be mentioned, but those are the first few that come to mind.
Story becomes book which becomes movie which becomes franchise which becomes crap that the best Rick can do is fifty bucks.
1) I am a big Sci-Fi fan
2) I read the DUNE books in their 80’s reprint.
3) DUNE in no way can be cast “Covservative”
4) In fact, you would call it more leftist, nationalist, and socialist than anything.
5) It purports a “religion” bearing MUCH similarity to Islam to be the the “way”
6) The Bene Gessert (sisterhood) are essentially Catholism
7) The “Planet” or “House” Atreides that adopts “Islam like religion” becomes the true government.
Also, in DUNE, you can view it as a re-telling of the Laurence of Arabia epic.
Or a modern tale about oil (spice) which one uses to make travel (space) possible.
Horribly cast movie. No gravitas. The female lead is an overbearing know-it-all girl boss. I read Dune twice. It’s a 1960s love song to mind-altering drugs (the spice).
Whatever the merits of the “film” used (digital or actual 35mm film)...for sure it will cost more than it needs to...with “on location” shots, constructed sets, union workers, police protection, costumes, post production costs, licensing, city permits, irascible “stars”, catering, cgi rendering farms....then who knows what types of subtle “wokeness” will be worked into the production. Read a book and let your mind imagine the scenes based on the authors words...just as immersive if done correctly...
IMHO...
Wish Jodorowsky would have been able to make his version.
I’ve always thought Keith Laumer’s comic Retief stories would be fun as movies.
Other SF Saturday matinee serial possibilities would be the Dorsai, Berserker and Bolo stories.
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I read Dune in my youth. Sometimes in a small plane flying above the desert. This latest movie version is the best by far. You really get the sense of a religious figure here. It really does transport you to another world even if the science behind it is non existent.
Went and saw this movie a few days ago. Not sure why all the hate, it was fantastically done. And anyone saying earlier movies were better or more accurate either haven’t read the book or need to read it again.
Love or hate the actors, but they played their parts well. I only had 2 criticisms. First was Christopher Walken as emperor of House Corrino. I kept waiting for him to ask for more cowbell. His voice did not fit his role. That is one where I preferred the actors in previous movies. The other was the portrayal of Channi. Zendaya played the role very well, I just didn’t like the role. Channi’s character had her opinions in the book but she wasn’t a religion hating, disrespectful, brat. They went a bit far with all that. But in terms of making her too strong for a woman, they didn’t. The fremen were supposed to be strong. The female fremen were being overpowered by male harkonnen when odds weren’t in their favor. The fighting capabilities of the characters were done fairly. No movie is going to translate perfectly from a book, but this is the best version of Dune so far.