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Neither Villeneuve or Lynch's films come anywhere near to portraying the real meat of the story, which is Paul's struggles with his destiny as a messiah and inspiration for galactic Jihad. Neither do they consider much of the ecological aspects. They just made a nice adventure film in the desert with some big worms.
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About three quarters of the way through Dune. Was planning to read it before watching it at the cinema, so we can all see how well I am doing at keeping up with my reading goals (I didn’t end up watching it at the cinema, as I wanted to read the book first).
It’s pretty good! Must have been nice to be a sci fi writer back in the day though, where you could just be like “oh I’ll chuck in some Arabic” and everyone would be all “hail to the innovator!”