What do you think of Dune?

[Orlanth]

I am just wanderING what everyone Thinks of the Dune books?

I personaly think the Dune is the best sci-fi out there. Dune is a 8 book series, going on 9 in October, with Brain Herbert's & Keven J. Anderson 3rd prequl, Dune: House Corrino. There is a 10th book, a sequl to Chapter House Dune. It is done, or should I say is being writin by a fan. I think when you have fans writing the story, it goes way out of wack, like with StarWars. Any way, have you say on this.

 

[p_p_man]

I voted for...

...the books not the film which sucked.

 

[ChaoticLil]

I have only read the original books, and they were very good until I got to the last couple of chapters. Personally, it seemed to me that Herbert looked at his outline and went "Okay, I'm have the amount of chapters that I planned on", and then just wrote to close it up.

I'm not sure if I'm making any sense, but what I'm trying to say is that the last couple of chapters in the books were always so rushed and choppy. It was like he was trying to hurry and finish up so he could be rid of it.

The original movie though was confusing. I saw it before I read the books; in fact I bought the books so I could understand the movie. Maybe that's why I feel the way I do about the endings.

 

[Orlanth]

The movie was very dissapointing, it didn't go by the book. I know it was based on the movie, but still a major disapointment. With Chapter House Dune, Frank died before he finished it, I am not even sure if it is finished to this day. Frank had planed for more in the series. Brain and Keven have done the prequls, and I am hoping they do the sequls to Chapter House Dune.

 

[ChaoticLil]

I'll have to read those then. The story line I thought was really good.

Something I learned a long time ago too was that I try to not to watch the movie and read the book. I've been so dissappointed with the ones that I did that I refuse to do it anymore {for example: The Shining (Jack Nicholson version) sucked big rocks. I couldn't even watch the first 20 minutes of it}. Now I try to either watch the movie or read the book.


Looking at this post made me realize why I shouldn't post at 2am. I just babble on and on.

 

[Never]

The movie or the book?
The movie was do-able but the book could have been so much more.

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Never, quite contrary.

 

[Weird Harold]

The books.

The movie or the book?
The movie was do-able but the book could have been so much more.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~
Never, quite contrary.

From the poll results so far, It's got to be the books. The movie sucked!

actually, it was not too bad as a movie, but as a movie to bring the books to life it failed horribly.

The first two books were great, but FH exhausted the potential of the concept about halfway through the third book. He would have been much better off wrapping up all of the loose ends then, instead of introducing more loose ends.

 

[Renegade]

I really need to read the rest of the series. Just read the first book all the way and a bit of the second during my last year of high school. The movie was okay, for the most part. Guess it's just since I'm a David Lynch fan that I liked the movie at all.

 

[Ally C]

I've read some science fiction / fantasy, but have never read "Dune". I've seen the film and thought it was good - certainly not a classic, but watchable anyway. I don't think there has ever been a film that has matched its book counterpart. Books translated to film are someone else's interpretation of the story, and can never live up to the way we all individually imagine things when we read.

 

[Andra_Jenny]

The book is great and yes the movie sucked but there was another Dune movie made that was on American television. I saw it on the Sci-Fi channel. It was a better adaptation, but the book is still better, and yes, I agree that at the end it may have not been as well-developed, but everyone deserves a payday, eh?