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[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 17 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Does anyone know which book this is based on?

edit = silly me. Dune Messiah. as per the interwebs

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 25 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

And that will likely be where they end the movies as the books start becoming weirder.

[–] gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 22 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I seem to recall Denis making it clear this is where he intends to stop, for exactly this reason.

Having grown up on the Lynch film, I’m frankly astounded and delighted that we got a Dune adaptation that made it this far.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 9 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I seem to recall Denis making it clear this is where he intends to stop, for exactly this reason.

goddamnit, I wanted to see

spoilerLeto 2 becoming the sandworm god

but I guess with some of the disappointing scenes in the 2nd film (Paul taming Shai Hulud, the visions just being shots on a beach) , it probably wasn't going to go down the way I wanted to. It's a shame.

Soundtrack was still awesome, but it did re-use a LOT from the previous film

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Did you see the Syfy series?

At least the syfy miniseries dared to adapt Children of Dune.

I actually like it. We finally get an Irulan with agency and see Alia as a full character. And Leto 2 getting sandy.

Not sure how I feel about the Baron narrating in rhyming couplets though. Maybe just a tad too strange, even for Dune.

[–] gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I did not, but not for lack of interest. I just never got around to it. I know very little about it but it always looked to me like the visuals at least drew very heavily from Lynch’s movie.

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 1 points 21 minutes ago* (last edited 20 minutes ago)

It wasn't bad. It is better than Lynch's film. It's not as good as the Villenuve's.

If it means anything I read all the books

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 8 hours ago

I was wondering this. I mean I sorta would like to see the flash crossover part.

[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The American mind can't comprehend the glory of Leto III.

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

An American wrote the whole series. What we cannot do is make the 4th book interesting on film

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

But why not? Who doesn't love a giant worn talking around the fact that he's created a fascist dictatorship for some vague promise that'll it all pay off one day? /s

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 1 points 18 minutes ago

It's 500 pages of exposition and little story?

[–] scytale@piefed.zip 7 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The two things I’m looking forward to (if they bother showing them) are how they depict the Guild Navigators and Tleilaxu. The latter was kinda teased in the Dune: Prophecy series but that was a lower budget production, so I wonder if they will do it differently.

[–] undeffeined@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 hours ago

Also want to see the navigators and the tleilaxu. Dune prophecy was a big let down for me. Also very curious to see the Stone Burner on the big screen.

[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 5 points 10 hours ago

I guess I need to see part 2.

[–] karma_will_f_you_up@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Still haven't watched any dune movie as of yet.