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I've read the first four of the series multiple times, they remaining two more than once. Needless to say, it's one of my favorite series. I actually love the Lynch Dune, but I love Villenueve's take on it too. I'm not terribly critical when it comes to things Dune.

 

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Season 3 of Resident Alien is cracking me up.

 

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It's got everything I look for in a movie. Drugs, politics, religion, a genetically engineered master race. And murderous fanatics living out in the desert waiting for their Messiah. My steppie is even called Alia. Or as we refer to her, the Abomination.

 

[Gorn]

They're making another Tron sequel. I love Tron Legacy.

 

[friskinator]

Watched the original Planet of the Apes (1968) and original Cannonball Run (1981) recently. Just fun to watch again.

Ran into a vid yesterday about the 2021 film Dune. Narrator uses the books to fill in much of what wasn't explained in the movie. If you've seen, and liked, the film but haven't read the books, the vid might be worth watching.

Also great for folk like me who read the series decades ago and needed some refreshing LOL.

Almost 1.5 hours long (I watched it over two nights). Moves quickly and done with touches of humor.

You can watch the first ~2 minutes to give you a reference of what to expect.

I really wanted to see Dune, but I’ve never read the books. As soon as I learned that I wouldn’t understand it without doing a ton of research, I changed my mind. IMO, movie adaptations of books shouldn’t require being familiar with the source material.

 

[Gorn]

I really wanted to see Dune, but I’ve never read the books. As soon as I learned that I wouldn’t understand it without doing a ton of research, I changed my mind. IMO, movie adaptations of books shouldn’t require being familiar with the source material.

It's not that you wouldn't understand it, it's that it'll bore you to tears. I haven't read the books either but I know the lore is massive. The movies bring up names and places and events and histories with so much gravitas, but, we don't know what the hell they're talking about so we don't care. Instead the movies are just big epics with cool shots and soaring music. They took a lot of substance and squeezed it into three hour movies that would have to be 100 hours long to really tell the story.

 

[Eli_Kyiv]

Airplane!

 

[Tom Bomb]

the apartment​

 

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I really wanted to see Dune, but I’ve never read the books. As soon as I learned that I wouldn’t understand it without doing a ton of research, I changed my mind. IMO, movie adaptations of books shouldn’t require being familiar with the source material.

I don't think you missed much not seeing any of the movies. The original Dune book was a classic. The ones that followed, not so much.

 

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Airplane!

Yep! I have to watch it almost every time it comes on. One of a few movies I'll re-watch anytime. Like Caddyshack or The Princess Bride, to name a couple.

I wonder if there was ever a thread created about what movies, series, etc., TB members watch again and again? Might be a fun thread.

It's not that you wouldn't understand it, it's that it'll bore you to tears. I haven't read the books either but I know the lore is massive. The movies bring up names and places and events and histories with so much gravitas, but, we don't know what the hell they're talking about so we don't care. Instead the movies are just big epics with cool shots and soaring music. They took a lot of substance and squeezed it into three hour movies that would have to be 100 hours long to really tell the story.

Well put, in my opinion. I wondered if folk who didn't know the lore would be bored with the movie, or get some basic enjoyment as just another a sci-fi flick.

For folk that may not know, the entire Dune series is 22 books. The newest Dune movie is only about 1/2 of the first book. After Frank Died, his son Brian Herbert, and another writer (Kevin J. Anderson), wrote the remainder. The entire series spans 10's of thousands of years. The Paul Atreides story in films and series is a very small sliver of the saga.

If anyone's interested, here's a timeline order of the whole Dune series of books. It starts on a little blue planet, lost to myth, called Earth. ~48 minutes. I can't help but think about the advent of AI we're seeing today LOL
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[WG Plum]

Yep! I have to watch it almost every time it comes on. One of a few movies I'll re-watch anytime. Like Caddyshack or The Princess Bride, to name a couple.

I wonder if there was ever a thread created about what movies, series, etc., TB members watch again and again? Might be a fun thread.



Well put, in my opinion. I wondered if folk who didn't know the lore would be bored with the movie, or get some basic enjoyment as just another a sci-fi flick.

For folk that may not know, the entire Dune series is 22 books. The newest Dune movie is only about 1/2 of the first book. After Frank Died, his son Brian Herbert, and another writer (Kevin J. Anderson), wrote the remainder. The entire series spans 10's of thousands of years. The Paul Atreides story in films and series is a very small sliver of the saga.

If anyone's interested, here's a timeline order of the whole Dune series of books. It starts on a little blue planet, lost to myth, called Earth. ~48 minutes. I can't help but think about the advent of AI we're seeing today.

Most of the Brian Herbert books are complete trash, imho. The first, Dune, is far and away the best, but the first four are worth reading at least once.

I've read them so many times I'm completely unable to say if someone would enjoy the movies without having read them, but I suspect most scifi fans would. I think if a person enjoyed Bladerunner 2049, they'd enjoy Dune.

 

[Gorn]

I've tried so hard to like Dune. I can't do it. I don't know what the hell is going on. Zendaya didn't like Timmy Charlemagne and then she liked him and then he rode a big worm and I think Rebecca Ferguson is bad now and I just don't care. She's talking to her fetus. Javier Bardem is there. I can't understand anything that Dave Bautista is saying. I made it about an hour. It's enough.

 

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Started Shogun, so far so good. Looks like they spent some money on it. Tough book to adapt and do well. I remember the week-long miniseries they did in the '70's. I was disappointed in the portrayal. The left out much and combined characters. I thought, if they can't do it in ten hours I guess it's hopeless. Now I wait for the movie then read the book

 

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Started Shogun, so far so good. Looks like they spent some money on it. Tough book to adapt and do well. I remember the week-long miniseries they did in the '70's. I was disappointed in the portrayal. The left out much and combined characters. I thought, if they can't do it in ten hours I guess it's hopeless. Now I wait for the movie then read the book

They supposedly worked really hard to be historically accurate and Japanese.

 

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I've tried so hard to like Dune. I can't do it. I don't know what the hell is going on. Zendaya didn't like Timmy Charlemagne and then she liked him and then he rode a big worm and I think Rebecca Ferguson is bad now and I just don't care. She's talking to her fetus. Javier Bardem is there. I can't understand anything that Dave Bautista is saying. I made it about an hour. It's enough.

It's okay, it's not for everyone.

 

[definenredefine]

Rebel Moon. It was good. We'll see what the sequel brings...

 

[Jeff Scott]

They supposedly worked really hard to be historically accurate and Japanese.

Another movie that was done quite well is Memoirs of a Geisha.

 

[JKos]

Ordinary Angels was very touching.

 

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I've tried so hard to like Dune. I can't do it. I don't know what the hell is going on. Zendaya didn't like Timmy Charlemagne and then she liked him and then he rode a big worm and I think Rebecca Ferguson is bad now and I just don't care. She's talking to her fetus. Javier Bardem is there. I can't understand anything that Dave Bautista is saying. I made it about an hour. It's enough.

You want to follow the details in Dune, you probably need to read the book. It's a decent space opera painted across a multi planet empire with all the political, religious and feudal intrigue one would expect of such a system. Lot of back story that's hard to get across in a movie.