I enjoyed the Brian Herbert trashy additions to the Duniverse, even though the writing wasn't all that and some of the plot points were disturbing or preposterous. I think it was all about getting a little backstory and spending time in The Dune Worlds. I hated every minute of Children of Dune when I was 16, and still do when I tried again in my late fifties. The other books are much, much more entertaining than that droning drivel. YMMV.
Why couldn't you be dealing drugs like normal people?
Snyder ,'Empty Places'
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Katerina Bee - May 15, 2020 8:18:42 pm PDT #2663 of 3424
Herding cats for fun
Jessica - May 17, 2020 10:57:36 am PDT #2664 of 3424
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I read through everything actually written by Frank Herbert. I tried one book written by his son (Brian? I forget) and oh my god it was unreadable so that was the end of that.
The Dune prequels are so godawful I only read 4 of them before giving up in total disgust. (What, I was trying to be a completist.)
We just rewatched the extended-edition "Alan Smithee" original last night and while Denis Villenueve's version may end up being, objectively, a better movie, it will never ever replace this classic hot mess of a movie in my heart. SO MUCH loud whisper-thinking! TWO HOURS spent on exposition only to rush through the last 400 pages of the book using voice-over montage! SO MANY reused shots in battle scenes that actually just could have been made shorter!
And of course the sheer joy of Patrick Stewart fighting Kyle MacLachlan inside these very convincing 1984 digital effects.
Calli - May 19, 2020 11:33:33 am PDT #2665 of 3424
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Holy eyebrows Batman!
Toddson - May 19, 2020 11:52:16 am PDT #2666 of 3424
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Not quite a "Buffista" movie, but here's a video of those involved in the movie discussing Blazing Saddles.
EpicTangent - May 19, 2020 12:05:42 pm PDT #2667 of 3424
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
I've never actually seen Dune. Should I ask the significance of fighting in holographic refrigerator boxes?
askye - May 19, 2020 3:11:42 pm PDT #2668 of 3424
Thrive to spite them
There are these energy shields to protect in fights. And that is the interpenetration of the energy shield idea.
EpicTangent - May 19, 2020 4:00:34 pm PDT #2669 of 3424
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
I can only assume the Dune purists were less than impressed with that interpretation...
Matt the Bruins fan - May 19, 2020 5:37:52 pm PDT #2670 of 3424
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Y'know, I don't think I've ever actually run across a Dune purist.
-t - May 19, 2020 6:09:15 pm PDT #2671 of 3424
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, I have. I don't think that particular thing made it into any complaints that I heard, though. I mean, there was so much else!
EpicTangent - May 19, 2020 8:28:31 pm PDT #2672 of 3424
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Enough else that holographic refrigerator boxes didn't make the cut? Wow.