I still like the David Lynch Dune. I know a lot of people hate it and I agree that it has a lot of problems, but the batshit weirdness of it seemed to jive with

I still like the David Lynch Dune. I know a lot of people hate it and I agree that it has a lot of problems, but the batshit weirdness of it seemed to jive with the feel of the novel. The Guild navigator alone is a masterpiece. The fact that it looks simultaneously uncanny and silly actually gave it a certain weird realism. If humans really did mutate like that the result would not obey any Hollywood rule of badassery and could well look silly. A platypus and an aardvark are silly looking but are great examples of adaptation to a specialized niche. I imagine flying a transdimensional space drive while hotboxing psychedelic nootropics would be a weird niche too. I just can’t get over the hotboxing shaman piloted flying bong spaceship as a concept. The Mentat mantra from the Lynch Dune is also great and I don’t think it appears in the book. I have my own version: “It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of coffee that thoughts acquire speed. The teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning.”