Well, we aren't going to agree.
To me, the storyline(s) have always
been incredible and the otherworldly
picture that's painted is so creatively
encompassing in its scope that you
have this fine line that needs to be
tread in order for the story to not be
so completely overwhelming in film.

It's a great story what are you talking about? @OH
I'm currently reading it.

I hope theaters are open by the time this comes out.
Never seen the Lynch film, not super interested tbh. I'm a big fan of the Jodorowsky/Moebius ghost version though.

I will watch Timothee Chalamet in anything tbh but casting him as Paul gave me butterflies :love:

Horrible Harry Potter/LOTR fantasy with corny ass symbolism that has aged incredibly poorly pretending to be science fiction and on top of that is insufferably boring af.

You'll get no truck from me hating on Harry Potter, LOTR, and fantasy even if I'm not over the moon about Dune. Bitchass mother****er.

I had no idea that it was like Harry Potter, that makes me more interested in it than what I know about it so far.

Misery hates fantasy

*nods as I roll dice to define my D&D character literally right now*

The Dune series itself is honestly pretty damn good, but for various reasons it is hard to get the "feel" of it down visually. Alejandro Jodorowsky might have been able to pull it off, but alas...

I tried reading the second book but it at least started out way more boring than the first so I dropped it. You're saying I should give it another shot?

Don’t. Imagine OH creating his current fantasy version
(Over tHe top) and that’s what you’ll pretty much get.
The Jodorowsky version could’ve been incredible.

I think you should. The first three books are pretty solid actually. Their fingerprints are all over Star Wars, comics and a lot of the pulp sci-fi that emerged in the mid 70's through the 80's. Things get really whacky once they jump forward around 3500 years in God Emperor Of Dune (Book 4) though.

I often read about people who think that the fourth book was the very best.
For me, it was just a leap forward in the story - and a good one at that.
The first six - really, that’s about all you really need.
Herbert died soon after that, but I was able to talk with him for quite a while a
few months before and got his signature (which is a kind of unusual thing for me to ask for).

Hell yeah. It’s not like you’re going to die not having read thousands of better books. Keep on with the series you already know blows the ding dong.

I'm a genre nerd who loves sci fi and fantasy and Dune is a heavy hitter so why not give it another shot while I'm busy never reading Anna Karenina.

@OH
Yeah, because we all know how people live
one-dimensionally and things like this never happen
(“God Emperor...”):

Book 4 is my favorite too. Would make a great movie all on its own, but it would be very hard to do it justice.

Speaking of hard opinions on sci-fi/fantasy we should all do a book club reading the Sword of Truth series. That would be this site's crowning achievement.

That might be fun. Roger Zelazny's series The Chronicles Of Amber has some meat too.

I mean does that have all the stuff that would set this forum off like Sword of Truth would? I mean if this site had a larger user base with more variety of opinions like a mid-size 00's forum a Sword of Truth book club could splinter the site.

That's what I said!

Imagine getting to look through one of those books (idk what it's called, the entirety of the movie but in comic strip form?)

I slept on it. Dune is still for losers.

I've never heard of Dune and I'm no judge here because I mostly don't care about science fiction but ****ting on Anna Karenina is unacceptable :mad:

I've also never read it and I'm Russian.

Tolstoy killed her tbf

Which is even more unacceptable, I had quite a breakdown over that when I read it

Damn

Not ****ting on it, but I'll probably never read it cause no space battles.

****ing avoid.

Someone wrote Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, maybe Anna Karenina and Space Battles will be next. Who knows

I think I still own Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

neat

Keen and swell

THE TEA TOWEL OF DEATH

https://i.imgur.com/lTlkgev.jpg

That's also the application for becoming a mod.

I like how the artist made sure both have watches but only one has a marriage ring and it's the non-aggressor.