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If you see Dune in a theatre with good enough sound and screen (ex. IMAX), it’s an incredible experience in a way a book could not be. Not saying it’s “better”,
by MattRix 5y ago
If you see Dune in a theatre with good enough sound and screen (ex. IMAX), it’s an incredible experience in a way a book could not be. Not saying it’s “better”, it’s just different in a fundamentally incomparable way.
- abakker 5y agoThe movie is missing so much of the detail that made the book great, though. I agree, incomparable, really. IMO, the best movies are NOT adaptations.
- alternatetwo 5y agoThe best adaptations are short stories, like Predestination, from All you zombies. They also didn't meddle with the logic there, since the writers already found it perfect.
- ProjectArcturis 5y agoYeah, it's a lot easier to do a faithful 100-minute adaptation of a 50-page story than a 300-page book.
- imbnwa 5y agoThe Mist comes to mind, a novella originally IIRC