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Old 05-01-2006, 02:19 PM   #1162
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Originally Posted by After a brisk nap
I am a huge Dune geek, and a great fan of David Lynch.

And I absolutely hate the Dune movie! As far as I'm concerned, it didn't get anything right apart from the sandworms and Francesca Annis.
...and the medieval atmosphere, and the Atreides self-righeousness (they're all pretty uptight, but that's the same in the books), the Harkonnen's love for blood and mayhem, the emperor's cowardice, the Fremen's fanatism, the Bene Gesserit over-confidence, the violence, manipulations, and treacheries, the modern yet antique technology... and the desert, ever present, dangerous and beautiful. It's all very theatrical and epic, as in the books.

Frankly, the only thing that didn't fit the books, in my opinion, are the ending and the strange additions like the weirding modules. Not that I care about any of these, really.
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