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pnumoman posted:Okay, now I really need to see the SciFi channel miniseries I think they were influenced Jodorowsky's Dune, i hated the costume design in that show. It was good for a tv adaption.
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The scenes on Gedi Prime were filmed in infrared which i think looks totally different from black & white, wonder if anyone has used that before. 
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Hunterhr posted:Was that Atreides the one that calls for shields in the first movie when they're getting off the ship? It's been awhile. Yep, same lad. 
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:If anyone's a cunning linguist, you might like the second part of this article. Can't speak Arabic yet i hate the decision to remove the words from the movie, i'm so used to them in the books i guess and they added a lot of flavour to the text. 
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Alucard posted:
Oh for fucks sake.  Him and K.J. Andersarse are a blight on the Dune universe.
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Bubblyblubber posted:and is this "realduneauthor" in the room with us right now? Pretty sure the real one is long dead. 
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Galewolf posted:I think it was due to my expectations after DUNK and Messiah were so high so it was a letdown First book is good by itself, first three are good together, first four are good together, the last two i also like though it feels like a new series rather than a continuation... that all stopped when Frank died. There are no books after that. 
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Galewolf posted:"Try looking into that place where you dare not look. You'll find me there, staring back at you" KJ Anderson does have that affect on people who read his books. 
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Galewolf posted:Not to start a failson discussion but I actually read all three house books and the Butlerian Jihad ones with the naivete of a reader who just wanted a bit more of Dune. I read those three, then threw the books into the bin, they made the Dune universe insignificant and bereft of wonder.
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Toxic Mental posted:Yeah, I’m a Dunie. So what? 👍 I thought that was an Australian dumpling?
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Anne Frank Funk posted:Here’s my unifying theory of all the Dune books (by Frank and his son alike): That's a nice take on it. 
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Scags McDouglas posted:If I recall correctly they're all 100% dependent on a single air-traffic controller that used to be a human woman. The guild is pretty lucky that a benevolent super-being with no value for incentives just keeps the whole operation afloat in her idle time. I assume that's from the "new" books.
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Scags McDouglas posted:Yeah every time I point stuff like this out, everyone else in the thread despises me just a tad more Don't forget those of who have shite memories and are just double checking info on the sly.  Just read.
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Scarabrae posted:Your friend is right, I said before its an amazing spectacle but a bad movie Welcome to Lynch 1984 Dune. 
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I still love how 'the House atomics' makes them sound like the family silverware or heirloom furniture I think they are, kept aside for all the "what ifs?" that keeps a Duke awake at night.
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Scarabrae posted:In other news my Folio Society copy of Dune arrived and it’s fantastic I've got the 1985 books (Gerry Grace cover art) and they look okish, but they are mine! 
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Monica Bellucci posted:Them the ones that show you the Golden Path from start to finish when lined up? Yep, i went a couple of decades before finding out about that... the books are on my shelf and i never caught on!. 
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Sweet Zombie Jesus!!! 
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A surprisingly accurate picture of "working class" Englishmen.
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bob dobbs is dead posted:herbert wasn't like terry pratchett, who was basically a human factory that took in coffee and outputted novels that slapped. he was an incredibly inconsistent dude Pterry was great until the Alzheimer's kicked in. Noli Timere Messorem  Outside of the Dune series i only read a few of his books and he came across as just one of many scifi writers from the 60s-80s.
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Bubblyblubber posted:Snuff and Raising Steam are really bittersweet reads for me, the few flashes of old terry are great but just highlight how not really there he is for the bulk of the rest. I felt the change in Unseen Academicals... it was not The Man. I've had a hard time going near his books since he died, a weird thing to happen. Mad Hamish posted:... Dirty Old Man Syndrome strikes again... see Heinlein etc.
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galagazombie posted:We need to outlaw porn again so horny people are forced to channel their pent up sexuality into literature and art again like in the good old days. Pornhub is standing between us and the great American novel. Literotica.com needs proofreaders if you're interested. ----------- edit: I've read the first three Dune books so often since 1984 that they have merged into chapters of one continuous story. Just Another Lurker fucked around with this message at 23:35 on Apr 18, 2024 |
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Halloween Jack posted:Have you not seen Barbora Kodetova? Pause/repeat on a dvd doesn't ruin a vid like it does on vhs... i was somewhat smitten by her back in the day.  ----------------- BlankSystemDaemon posted:I used to think like this, right up until I read Michael W Lucas' thoughts, and that let them shine on their own for me. I'll have to think about that. 
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Typo posted:so the way the baron broke yueh's unbreakable suk doctor conditioning is to.....kidnap his spouse and torture her? Wanna was Bene Gesserit and Jessica was able to spot that in the book, if Wanna had done the Sisterhood conditioning on him it might have interfered with the Suk conditioning... like running multiple antivirus programs on a computer it might break things and given the Baron more leverage.
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Admiralty Flag posted:This is awesome. I have the original vinyl LP of it in storage, even if i no longer have a record player.  A bit over the top but it worked for the movie.
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feelix posted:I can safely read through God-Emperor without encountering any lengthy passages about children getting hosed, correct? Yes, the sex is is only in the last two so you're safe.
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FMguru posted:If I remember the book correctly, people didn't use shields in the desert because it had the effect of making every sandworm within a couple dozen kilometers make an enraged beeline for it That's used in Children Of Dune where Pauls guide activates a shield to draw a worm onto them (it's shown in the tv version). Tree Bucket posted:The flame around the emperor's orb ship during the dust storm might also help explain why shields aren't great in deserts. It looks like the shield is trying to block every wind blown dust particle In the movie one of the Sardukar says the storm is causing shield issues and that they should return to space.
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skasion posted:They are slightly weird Jews tbf. The rabbi says God’s name like it ain’t nothin and several times quotes the apostle Paul. Kind of funny +25,000 years of cultural drift, even if they have their own wild reverend mothers... not to mention the Muslim/Buddhist fusion that gave us Fremen to begin with.
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