Dune

[MrZeno]

Bring it on. I’m so ready for this.

 

[scrymettet]

I've not seen any of the movies or shows, but I remember reading the first book back when I was a skid and thinking it was too long LOL. Mind you, I was like 10 or something.

Just ordered the trilogy hardback. I'm a big girl now.

I though there are around 7 books from the original set.

 

[scrymettet]

I was sorta in the "no reboots. no remakes." camp regarding the film obviously like I am in general. But then some of my people began to get excited about it. Nothing can turn me around on something like genuine enthusiasm. Now, this game of stacking dominoes meets musical chairs the studios are playing? It has to stop. Release these things to the home market already, or explain yourself.
There may not be theaters to open to by the time this is viable again, at least not in the numbers studios are wanting.

I am with you in that camp.
But this is a special case. So many essential parts of the story have been left out by the previous movie that it may look like a good idea depending on how the new movie will be. I didn't hate the previous attempt but I didn't like it neither. That said, I won't see it.

 

[girlsmiley]

I though there are around 7 books from the original set.

I have the trilogy. Dune, Dune Messiah and Children of Dune. There are six novels in the series.

Hey Big Guy!

 

[girlsmiley]

Trailer #2

https://youtu.be/UfWVVu1tVgQ

Yes!!!

 

[gunslinger42]

I have the trilogy. Dune, Dune Messiah and Children of Dune. There are six novels in the series.

Hey Big Guy!

And after that there is God-Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune and Chapterhouse: Dune. They conclude 6 original novels but the problem is, the last one ends on a clifhanger, story is not over, and writer died. His son in a collaboration with another author continued writing the Dune novels, mostly prequels set in various period spread through eons (15th book in their colaboration should be published this year, maybe), but eventually they wrote the sequel aka Dune 7, based on a rough outline Original writer wrote before his death. They divided Dune 7 into 2 books: Hunters of Dune and Sandworms of Dune, and with that they brought the story to conclusion.

 

[scrymettet]

I have the trilogy. Dune, Dune Messiah and Children of Dune. There are six novels in the series.

Hey Big Guy!

Hey, feel like rearing the whole set

 

[Champakian]

I have not just the whole set, but also a knockoff by his son Paul of Dune.

It doesn't really add anything to the series though, most of it is recycled
and based upon the time of Alia's downfall.

 

[pecksniff]

I read Dune, but I found it a bit too . . . dry. [rimshot]

 

[sigh]

Jaws.

The book was a bit lacklustre.

Yes. Was trying to think of a movie that's better than its book, and that's one. The book sorta sucked. I saw the movie before reading the book, though.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Another remake!

I wonder how far off into the wild blue yonder this one will deviate from the Novel? All of them so far have been... far from what I believe Frank Hubert wrote.

 

[Champakian]

If the writers/director were constrained to do the movie word-for-word
then it would take three or four freaking movies to tell the story
so they take shortcuts and use artistic license to convey
the storyline in a timely and digestible manner.


IMHO

 

[InternationalFunboy]

If anyone wants to watch the Sci-Fi adaptation, you can find it here in good quality.

I've finished it, and I think I have gained a new perspective on this material. I still prefer Lynch's movie to this by a stretch... I feel this borrows from that production (to be polite), but I see a dimension to this story now that I have never before despite reading the books or seeing Lynch's adaptation. I see an even more complex reality balanced on the head of an even finer pin.

I do bump into everytime they say HARKON-nin, or CHAINey.

 

[FataMorgana]

Yes. Was trying to think of a movie that's better than its book, and that's one. The book sorta sucked. I saw the movie before reading the book, though.

Same.

Maybe The Shining too. Not that the book was crap, but the film is spectacular.

 

[LukSkyFokker]

https://tr.web.img2.acsta.net/r_654_368/newsv7/20/10/05/21/30/4855121.jpg

Gonna peep it today.

 

[pecksniff]

Here's one thing I never got: When God-Emperor Leto II speaks of his "Golden Path," he says the human race would have gone extinct if any other path had been allowed -- but, how? How can a species established on so many worlds go extinct?

Also, in the first novel, I read the whole appendix on "Bene Gesserit Motives and Purposes" without gleaning the least insight into Bene Gesserit motives and purposes. What did they mean to do with the Kwizats Haderach, and why? It would enable them to guide the future of the human race -- but there is nothing to indicate the content of Bene Gesserit values or doctrine, that is, how they would decide what future for the human race is desirable and what is not.

 

[pecksniff]

Can we all agree that anything written by Herbert's heirs is non-canonical?

 

[Sean]

Can we all agree that anything written by Herbert's heirs is non-canonical?

We can all agree it's shit.

 

[Saint_Ann]

Here's one thing I never got: When God-Emperor Leto II speaks of his "Golden Path," he says the human race would have gone extinct if any other path had been allowed -- but, how? How can a species established on so many worlds go extinct?

Also, in the first novel, I read the whole appendix on "Bene Gesserit Motives and Purposes" without gleaning the least insight into Bene Gesserit motives and purposes. What did they mean to do with the Kwizats Haderach, and why? It would enable them to guide the future of the human race -- but there is nothing to indicate the content of Bene Gesserit values or doctrine, that is, how they would decide what future for the human race is desirable and what is not.

It's basically Catholics vs. Muslims in space. Get the money...get the power...and sorta stick to the doctrine.

 

[pecksniff]

It's basically Catholics vs. Muslims in space. Get the money...get the power...and sorta stick to the doctrine.

Zen Buddhism and Sunni Islam are such very different religions . . . What historical circumstances could have caused them to fuse into something "Zensunni"?

 

[InternationalFunboy]

Saw it last night. Well done, Denis. It's a beautiful film. I was often wondering if a person with no knowledge of the material would understand anything happening.

 

[Sean]

Saw it last night. Well done, Denis. It's a beautiful film. I was often wondering if a person with no knowledge of the material would understand anything happening.

Ha! Exactly what I thought. Saw it tonight, I was very impressed.

 

[LukSkyFokker]

Villeneuve created a vast and beautiful world (s) that was just fun to absorb.

 

[jomar]

Saw it last night. Well done, Denis. It's a beautiful film. I was often wondering if a person with no knowledge of the material would understand anything happening.

Agree.

I reread the first part of dune which is the movie and found having done so allowed me to get background and nuance for a deeper understanding of what was going on. I think I’ll watch the second film before reading part two and see how that goes.

It was a bit plodding, so it is what it is, and I’ll withdraw that criticism of Lynch’s version.

 

[nowisthetime]

It almost rivals Star Wars, definitely a must see.