Comment on Denis Villeneuve Will Stop Making ‘Dune’ Movies After ‘Dune 3,’ Despite More Books in the Series: ‘Dune Messiah Should Be the Last for Me’

• Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  a series on the Butlerian Jihad would be pretty fucken sweet I think

  I thought that as well and so gave the prequels a try.

  I’ve never read the prequels either,

  Honestly, that was for the best. The writing was ok but a pale shadow of the original. (think the film version of LOTR vs The Hobbit...)

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  • PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It was interesting seeing some of it fleshed out, but I’m not a fan of Brian Herbert’s contributions.

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• Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I was in the middle of reading Dune for the first time when I saw The Matrix and my first thought was "Holy shit it's the Butlerian Jihad"

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  • Tehgingey@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “we broke out of Zion and use swords now. We also use aliens high on DMT to fly around space. Overall, things are better”

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    • signalsayge@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      To be fair to the Dune universe, the reason they used swords was because shields made projectile weapons useless and Lasguns and shields just killed everyone (like a mini-nuke on both sides).

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