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Offline CptTrips

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Re: Dune
« Reply #15 on: September 27, 2021, 08:00:05 AM »
Quote from: Gman on September 27, 2021, 01:58:37 AM
Fantastic film, best Sci Fi film I've seen in ....years.  Might be the best SciFi film I've seen ever.

Had you read the book? I’m curious if the story made sense to someone who would never read the book.
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Re: Dune
« Reply #16 on: September 27, 2021, 11:13:46 AM »
Quote from: CptTrips on September 27, 2021, 08:00:05 AM
Had you read the book? I’m curious if the story made sense to someone who would never read the book.

I will ask my wife on Wednesday.  Though, while not having read the book(s), she has watched the David Lynch version before.
I have read the book several times since I was 16  :old:
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Re: Dune
« Reply #17 on: September 27, 2021, 11:36:49 AM »
Quote from: Lusche on September 27, 2021, 11:13:46 AM
I will ask my wife on Wednesday.  Though, while not having read the book(s), she has watched the David Lynch version before.
I have read the book several times since I was 16  :old:

If she says, “it was OK, but they forgot to put in that cool voice-activated sonic weapon. “

Then you’ll have no choice but to divorce her. :cool:

“Whuuuuuuuuuuuuu  Cha!”  Lynch should rot in Hell.  :furious
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Re: Dune
« Reply #18 on: September 27, 2021, 04:08:05 PM »
I read Dune in the early '70s and it blew my mind... the first attempt
to make it into a movie (DeLaurentis I beileve) was lacking in that it DID not accurately
depict the feint within feint within feint that I enjoyed in the book
I really think, given the restraints of a budget, NO movie will ever live up
to the majesty of the book  :aok

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Re: Dune
« Reply #19 on: September 28, 2021, 02:38:54 PM »
Read the whole series plus the sons prequels. Probably about time to start it over again.
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Re: Dune
« Reply #20 on: September 28, 2021, 03:29:01 PM »
Quote from: Vulcan on September 28, 2021, 02:38:54 PM
Read the whole series plus the sons prequels. Probably about time to start it over again.

I read the 2 sequels... I was not impressed  :salute
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Re: Dune
« Reply #21 on: October 02, 2021, 05:20:05 AM »
Quote from: CptTrips on September 27, 2021, 08:00:05 AM
Had you read the book? I’m curious if the story made sense to someone who would never read the book.

I've read the first few books, and the first book numerous times - to answer your question, yes, the story could be followed by a non reader of the book(s).  Obviously some things will make more sense having read the first book, or at least having a rough familiarity with the material.  IMO they certainly didn't "dumb down" anything in order to capture more ticket sales or anything like that.

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« Reply #22 on: October 02, 2021, 06:50:46 AM »
The majority of Colonials have a reading age of a 12 year old …. Fact

And Budweiser is cat piss
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Re: Dune
« Reply #23 on: October 02, 2021, 08:40:39 PM »
Quote from: zack1234 on October 02, 2021, 06:50:46 AM
The majority of Colonials have a reading age of a 12 year old …. Fact

And Budweiser is cat piss

So says the person who omits common punctuation at the end of both his sentences.  So hah!

I found cat piss to taste marginally better than Budweiser. 
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« Reply #24 on: October 03, 2021, 01:29:48 PM »
Bud is too tin canny to me  :bolt:
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Re: Dune
« Reply #25 on: October 03, 2021, 02:45:05 PM »
Quote from: Lusche on September 27, 2021, 11:13:46 AM
I will ask my wife on Wednesday.

According to her, the story was very accessible and much clearer than in Mr Lynch's overly ambitious version. It certainly helped that the movie only tried to cover the first half of the book.
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Re: Dune
« Reply #26 on: October 03, 2021, 09:28:41 PM »
Whoa whoa whoa apparently Kynes is a chick in this movie. Seriously WTF...
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Re: Dune
« Reply #27 on: October 04, 2021, 01:28:12 AM »
Quote from: Gman on October 02, 2021, 08:40:39 PM
So says the person who omits common punctuation at the end of both his sentences.  So hah!

I found cat piss to taste marginally better than Budweiser.

I leave out punctuation whilst posting when I am having a big dump on the toilet.

Your Budweiser comment is refreshing  :rofl
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Re: Dune
« Reply #28 on: October 05, 2021, 04:55:25 PM »
I doubt the new will be better than the old. Will be rare if it is.
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Re: Dune
« Reply #29 on: October 05, 2021, 06:53:12 PM »
Quote from: Shuffler on October 05, 2021, 04:55:25 PM
I doubt the new will be better than the old. Will be rare if it is.

Well as the "old" one was crap, this really cant be worst. Just from the trailers it looks a hundred times better.
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