First official pics from Dune

Looking forward to the movie too.

Loved the book when I read it long ago. Reread it a coupla years back and it still held up for me. If memory serves, I read most of the series back in the day, though I stopped liking it, I think, once Paul’s son turned into a . . . for lack of a better word . . . monster. Then, again, if memory serves, Herbert passed away and his son continued the series?

I didn’t keep up with it after that.

(In short, I think I really liked the first three books.)

Might also be alone in kinda liking the first movie version. I suspect recent innovations in CGI, etc. will make it much easier to get the “worms” right. They did look kinda cheesy, as the kids used to say. But I thought the casting was mostly spot on.

Thanks for the movie pics, ZN.

wv wrote:

I dunno. The uniforms look like cheesy plastic to me. They always do. Gazillion-dollar movies, and the uniforms always look like plastic to me. Star Wars is unwatchable for me, because of the cheesy plastic uni’s.

I hope, at least, the logo is good.

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I can see that, WV.

Reminds me of a few of the original Star Trek episodes, where even as a kid I could tell the alien monster was just some actor in a costume. Perhaps the worst was one where Kirk fights this actor in a Rhino-man suit. Most of their stuff made it easy to do that “suspension of disbelief” thingy. But not that one.

Some of the Superhero shows/movies have the same problem with silly costumes. One would think the director would make sure that never happened.

I read Dune for the first time a summer or two ago and liked it. Never read the sequels because I heard they weren’t good. I was glad to see a new movie was coming out. I never saw the first movie with Kyle and Sting, and heard that I wouldn’t understand it anyway since I’d never read the book.

I think the movie has made the still suits a little…slight. At least in my head, the still suit was more of a mask/helmet thing. Not good for acting, however.

ZN,

I responded to your post, but it put me in purgatorio again. Happened a coupla times earlier today too.

Am guessing it was the Wiki link, or maybe it just hates me, cuz, maybe it hates that I’m a San Fran Giants fan, along with being a Rams and Lakers fan.

Probably just can’t accept that odd mix.

;>)

zn wrote:

Billy_T wrote:

I stopped liking it, I think, once Paul’s son turned into a . . . for lack of a better word . . . monster.

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Don’t know that story. Why, in what way, is he a monster?

I had to cheat, and look it up in Wiki to jog my memory.

(Spoiler Alert, for anyone who wants to read the series)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leto_II_Atreides

(I skimmed the article. Didn’t read it in full, etc.)

So it looks like I liked the first three books, starting with Dune, but gave up on the fourth, God Emperor of Dune. It’s set thousands of years later, Leto II is still emperor, no longer “human,” basically a sandworm, and nearly invincible.

I kinda said “check please!” at that point.

;>)