It’s a waaaay too long story of politics and logistics.

Somehow the “ecological warning” label got stuck to it, which is senseless, since Arrakis was an alien planet that was not habitable without technological aid.

Now that computer graphic can do fur fairly well I’m waiting for Kzinti Attack! The “Integral trees” would be nice.

The now mandatory gender/race swaps did not affect the story — and why would they really in a far flung future where earth is a legend and “race” is an anachronism?

The actual only bad thing about the movie was that Lady Jessica was a horrible miscast, and some of the associated Jessica plotline probably had to go.

The rest was pure genius: epic, beautiful, and somehow original. Top 5 scifi easily.

Now onward to Wheel of Time and Ringworld. If they screw up Matt Cauthin or Louis Wu, I RIOT!

I’ve seen it. It has race mixing, sorta. White guy, duskie girl.

I’m not sure that this movie will break out. Dune has too many very subtle social cues in the story that mean a lot but don’t translate to film. Lots of “words” which you just can’t cram in and things don’t really make sense without them. In fact some parts of Dune don’t make sense and bothered me when I read it but as a whole the book is so good you tend to ignore the problems.

I read the first three Dune books in, maybe three days, four. It really grabbed me. I’m older it would probably not do the same now. I really like classic sci-fi, Anderson, Pournelle, Niven, that sort of stuff.

If you’ve read the books it’s worth seeing but don’t expect much. It’s just too difficult to do Dune. The graphics are fantastic as usual these days.

I recommend getting the anonymous internet program I2P and go to “postman” magnet file tracker in I2P and you will find it there.

https://geti2p.net/en/

http://tracker2.postman.i2p/

I2P) goes through three different servers(or more if you set it up that way), then it goes to an address. Each server only gets data to go to the next server so no one knows where it came from and the ones in the middle don’t know where it’s going. All is encrypted the whole way. The servers rearrange themselves every ten minutes or so you are never using the same servers. The postman server is inside I2P and does not exist outside of it. I2P is a self contained internet. There are some portals to the regular internet but they are additions and not really a reliable thing.

I wonder mightily why some of Pournelle and Nivens works have not been made into movies. “War World” would be a great one. It even already has diversity built in and the Whites are the bad guys a lot of the time so it’s perfect. Thy have a bunch of books that could all make great movies.

I’ve been watching Apple’s Foundation series and it is bad. The story moves at a glacial pace. It doesn’t understand the key points of Asimov’s story. I don’t agree with Asimov’s anti-religious, science worshipping philosophy. However, that’s a key point of the books. Plus, they race- and gender-swapped two main characters. A third key character is also a black woman. All of them are brilliant women who can just do anything.

I’m curious about Dune. The gender and race swapping though has become a major disincentive.

Hollyweird can’t stop lecturing us and so the supposed ‘ignorance’ of classic sci-fi authors must be exposed and corrected. It does not make for good viewing, which is why I avoid a lot of their current output.

I pray for Dune to not be in the same mould/mold.

If you genuinely care about the future of your country, one thing you can do now, and is perfectly legal, and will even save you money is to stop consuming the system’s mind poison.

It won’t put them out of business, the Feds will bail them out, but they won’t get your money or attention.

Would be amazing (a miracle?) if they manage to translate the later books of the Dune series into movies with mass market appeal (while also getting them green lighted past the SJW sensibilities).