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This by Denis Villeneuve. One of my favorite scifi books and series. Hope they do a good job with this.
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The series were the stepping stone for Alec Newman and James McAvoy to a great acting career.The only thing I found really annoying was to see sting starring in that movie.
Not that he did a particularly bad job but still...
Liked the movie a lot. Didn't even know there was a TV series.
Actually, I found the Lynch one pretty okay until the second half unfolded. It was simply a rushed mess after the desert marooning. But yeah, only the illiterate can watch this without comparing it to the book every second.I liked the David Lynch version okay. Just seemed too miss somehow being good. The scifi channel mini series wasn't bad either. Still neither comes close to doing the books justice.
Except that it's good.Dune is Game of Thrones before Game of Thrones.
This by Denis Villeneuve. One of my favorite scifi books and series. Hope they do a good job with this.
I agree that this would be better served with an HBO or Netflix series approach. Perhaps if the new movie does well it may make a business case for such an undertaking. The books were so very good. I remember reading them after the LOTR series, including reading the Silmarillion. I read a fairly off the wall series but still very good going by memory, not sure of my spelling being correct but I believe it was titled The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever.
At the time most Sci-fi books were brief; pages wise. The prose was terse, lacking the padding of modern writing. The better authors transported you via your imagination, not with overblown description. Dune was a long book but it hooked you in and its scope was enormous; I have read it more than 10 times. I loved that book. One of the books that I loved most was a short book by Roger Zelanzny called "Lord of Light" . I recommend it if you ever come across it.
btw you want to torture yourself as did Thomas Covenant himself then read about the "White Gold Wielder"
The greatest movie never made. If anyone is familiar with Jodorowsky's work you know what they mean.