Can we have a proper Dune thread? The other one is just about people gushing over that actors virgin anus

the movie was trash if you liked the book,
and it was quirky shit if you didnt read it

Lynch's Dune was a torpid, confusing mess with a poorly cast lead but 10/10 aesthetics & supporting cast.
Which is also what I predict for the new version.

Anyway, til now you had to actually read books to be into Dune.
Just imagine the concern trolling by the media if any of 'em had actually read the original, to say nothing of the sequels.

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I like it, but at this point I've probably seen the spice diver fan edit more than the official releases.
It's not trying to be a direct adaptation
And despite all its flaws it's still a big budget david lynch science fiction movie and worth watching for that alone. Amazing sets and costumes. The music by toto is criminally slept upon. The cast is all really great too, and a lot of lynch regulars creeping into the movie. Took me a long time before I realized that Stilgar is Big Ed.

I saw it in the theater when it came out in Dec 84, I was 15 and had been a huge Star Wars fan (like all kids were) from 77-83, I guess nobody really wanted to talk about it, or "get into it", because it was so damn weird. I mean it was cool to see once in the theater but all the weird stuff with the worms and the fat floating homos and Sting and all that crazy stuff just turned people off kinda. It wasn't really made to appeal to young people, I guess I don't know who exactly Lynch made it to appeal to.

The memorable thing about dune is that it's the opposite of an epic.
The original 6 dune books are all about people sitting in rooms talking while all the epic space opera shenanigans happens off page, and between books.
If anyone else had written these books they would have focused on literally anything and everything else happening in the universe.
It's like if the narrator of lord of the rings decided to stay with fatty bolger in crickhollow while Merry, Pippin, Sam and Frodo go on an adventure.
While the fate of middle earth is being decided across the continent where people are doing deeds that would be spoken of for ages, the story is just fatty bolger having existential conversations with farmer maggot or playing checkers with tom bombadil.
Chapterhouse is a perfect example. The known universe is getting its shit pushed in left, right, and center by honored matres, and instead of world hopping adventures staying one step ahead of planetary annihilation to discover their secret we have an entire chapter dedicated to mother superior space jesuit fantasizing about how she's going to go scam the cook into making her some oyster chowder, or admiring a van gogh.

>Chapterhouse is a perfect example. The known universe is getting its shit pushed in left, right, and center by honored matres, and instead of world hopping adventures staying one step ahead of planetary annihilation to discover their secret we have an entire chapter dedicated to mother superior space jesuit fantasizing about how she's going to go scam the cook into making her some oyster chowder, or admiring a van gogh.
Yeah but we also got a chapter dedicated to patrician-tier straight-shota marathon fucking

>Scam the cook into making her chowder
That's a great bit, I really need to read chapterhouse again

That's more Heretics, with duncan's awakening as a sexual tyrannosaurus thot destroyer.

The honored matres literally trained a woman to attempt to fuck him to death

No to imprint him, if they wanted to kill him they'd have gone with superspeed kick attack

Poor fucking Duncan. Literally someone's pawn for thousands and thousands of years and countless lives.

if this is actual the confirmed cast thus far I'm not going to see it
can't stand any of these actors

>Which is also what I predict for the new version.
I think you're wrong about Timothee desu. I had doubts, but after watching Beautiful Boy, I'm convinced he has the chops to play Paul.

I found the book hard to get into at first. It throws a ton of jargon at you and that just made me eyes glaze over. It is a good read overall but I can understand why people would give up on it early.

Most punished man in the universe

I thought it was impressive how the film managed to condense such a long and in depth book. They had to gloss over some things but overall it was a good attempt and the best they could do so I respect it.

Anyone played Behind the Dune?

>The best they could do
No it was not