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apolloooo
10/29/21 11:10:00 AM
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I am not familiar with the source material, but the story is just typical chosen one almost like 90's JRPG (I do know the book is old, before subverting the monolith was cool).

Unless the story pull something like mistborn where it subvert hard the chosen one trope in the second movie.

Still entertaining af thougj and honestly after 2 years not going to theather, watching it in imax was amazing

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EndOfDiscOne
10/29/21 11:13:25 AM
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The series gets weird as fuck and certainly less traditional later on, but book 1 is still the best.

Book 4 is really good but I don't know how well it would translate to film.

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Shablagoo
10/29/21 11:14:35 AM
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A Dune adaptation always runs the risk of being boring and this one doubly so since they only adapted part of the book, but I think they made the part of the story they told as exciting as they could have.

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ZevLoveDOOM
10/29/21 11:15:25 AM
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how many books are there btw? i thought it was just one. lol
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ssk9716757
10/29/21 11:15:25 AM
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Feel the same way. Looked and sounded incredible but I was falling asleep halfway through

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Shablagoo
10/29/21 11:17:43 AM
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ZevLoveDOOM posted...
how many books are there btw? i thought it was just one. lol

22 lol (but only the first 6 are written by Frank Herbert)

  • Dune (1965)
  • Dune Messiah (1969)
  • Children of Dune(1976)
  • God Emperor of Dune(1981)
  • Heretics of Dune(1984)
  • Chapterhouse: Dune(1985)



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specialkid8
10/29/21 11:19:06 AM
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What makes it interesting is that the chosen one prophecies are a complete plant. The Bene Gesserit have had a breeding program for centuries because they want a perfect man to rule the galaxy with. They also seeded Arrakis with a version of this prophecy so the natives would be susceptible to them when they came around. It's all some space witch illuminati bullshit.

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ZevLoveDOOM
10/29/21 11:39:30 AM
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Shablagoo posted...
22

holy moly! that's a whole lotta books! O_o
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SauI_Goodman
10/29/21 11:43:04 AM
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ZevLoveDOOM posted...
holy moly! that's a whole lotta books! O_o
Most are not good lol

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Shablagoo
10/29/21 11:44:52 AM
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ZevLoveDOOM posted...
holy moly! that's a whole lotta books! O_o

Yup his son and another author took up writing them after his death in 1986. In fact theyre still writing them the 22nd one isnt even published yet, its set to be released next year. So there could be even more when alls said and done.

SauI_Goodman posted...
Most are not good lol

Oh yeah lol I forgot to mention in my original post, all of the non-Frank Herbert ones are considered far inferior to the original 6.

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specialkid8
10/29/21 11:45:33 AM
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ZevLoveDOOM posted...
holy moly! that's a whole lotta books! O_o
There's only 8 in the main series. After his death his son went wild with a bunch of spinoff crap that everyone hates.

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EndOfDiscOne
10/29/21 11:46:16 AM
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ZevLoveDOOM posted...
holy moly! that's a whole lotta books! O_o
Most fans like to pretend that there are only 6.

Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson say that they've worked off of Frank Herbert's notes. I've seen others say that Frank only left a half page of notes at best. I don't know how true that is.

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apolloooo
10/29/21 11:47:13 AM
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Shablagoo posted...
Yup his son and another author took up writing them after his death in 1986. In fact theyre still writing them the 22nd one isnt even published yet, its set to be released next year. So there could be even more when alls said and done.

Oh yeah lol I forgot to mention in my original post, all of the non-Frank Herbert ones are considered far inferior to the original 6.
Wtf i thought it was finished.

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CommonStar
10/29/21 11:56:15 AM
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People that liked The Green Knight will like this because it's 10/10 visuals but boring as shit.
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LNSS
10/31/21 12:21:56 AM
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specialkid8 posted...
What makes it interesting is that the chosen one prophecies are a complete plant. The Bene Gesserit have had a breeding program for centuries because they want a perfect man to rule the galaxy with. They also seeded Arrakis with a version of this prophecy so the natives would be susceptible to them when they came around. It's all some space witch illuminati bullshit.

Yeah, it's actually a subversion of the chosen one.


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