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The movie is vastly different from the book Wibble Send a noteboard - 04/10/2009 02:58:04 AM
The movie has to answer questions quickly, so it invents 'sound' technology etc to explain why the arteides and fremen may be a threat to sardukar. Which is fine, but is absolutely unrealted to the novel.

The book explores themes around religion, human conditioning, empire building over hundreds of years. And as a result makes the movie make sense. I too watched the movie before i read the book, and I know that was the right decision. I liked the movie, i loved the book.

I could go on about how good the book was, but instead i will simply say - if you want the movie to finally make sense, read the book.
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Why should I read "Dune"? Danu - 04/10/2009 01:23:46 AM 883 Views
The movie is vastly different from the book Wibble - 04/10/2009 02:58:04 AM 771 Views
SciFi Channel's version was much much better IMO *NM* imlad - 05/10/2009 06:23:18 PM 318 Views
and it cover much more of the story random thoughts - 09/10/2009 08:15:02 PM 554 Views
i just re-read dune recently... temeraire - 04/10/2009 03:17:24 AM 662 Views
because it's gooooooooooooooooooood *NM* Jessie - 04/10/2009 07:50:20 AM 248 Views
The movie was terrible. Spriteling - 04/10/2009 01:07:00 PM 639 Views
The worst part was, Herbert actually had a major role in writing the script imlad - 05/10/2009 06:22:42 PM 567 Views
Because it's a genre-defining classic, of course! Craig - 05/10/2009 12:43:48 AM 662 Views
It's a beautiful weaving of... Great Lord of Chaos - 05/10/2009 02:47:53 AM 713 Views
Because I said so. *NM* Joker - 05/10/2009 07:07:37 AM 254 Views
Re: Why should I read "Dune"? Mad Cow Bomber - 05/10/2009 09:12:12 AM 678 Views
because it was about the limits of power and the danger of religious fanatics random thoughts - 05/10/2009 06:14:03 PM 571 Views
not just the Middle East (plus other thoughts) imlad - 05/10/2009 06:30:14 PM 600 Views
Dune is pretty clearly inspired by Islam and the Arab world. Joker - 05/10/2009 07:24:00 PM 614 Views
I didn't say that the book dealt directly with America imlad - 06/10/2009 05:11:12 PM 600 Views
How very clever and relevant to the discussion of whether or not the OP should read Dune! Joker - 06/10/2009 09:24:17 PM 613 Views
I didn't see much about environmental impact random thoughts - 07/10/2009 06:10:05 PM 661 Views
I'm not the first to point out the environmental themes imlad - 08/10/2009 03:18:58 PM 639 Views
I guess if you want to squint hard enough you can see it random thoughts - 08/10/2009 07:24:26 PM 617 Views
it wasn't JUST that wiki article imlad - 09/10/2009 04:43:17 PM 825 Views
It is possible your right random thoughts - 09/10/2009 08:14:14 PM 729 Views
Of course I am right, I'm me!! imlad - 10/10/2009 05:11:02 PM 713 Views
and because I went to the trouble of double posting about it random thoughts - 05/10/2009 06:14:08 PM 503 Views
1. Because you want to. Rebekah - 05/10/2009 06:49:51 PM 585 Views
Meh. rebelaessedai - 05/10/2009 07:45:14 PM 617 Views
It gets better in the second half, i love the first part though *NM* Asharak - 07/10/2009 07:41:07 AM 230 Views
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