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Michael Finocchiaro
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I reread Dune for the first time in several decades and immensely enjoyed it. I also went back to watch the original cult feature film by David Lynch and had quite mixed feelings - while it was close to the overall aesthetic that Frank Herbert describes with the gorgeous desert sets and the terrifying worms, the parts of the story that were necessarily culled out was disturbing (that and the woeful special effects at the time trying (and IMHO failing) to visualize the personal shields t ...more
I reread Dune for the first time in several decades and immensely enjoyed it. I also went back to watch the original cult feature film by David Lynch and had quite mixed feelings - while it was close to the overall aesthetic that Frank Herbert describes with the gorgeous desert sets and the terrifying worms, the parts of the story that were necessarily culled out was disturbing (that and the woeful special effects at the time trying (and IMHO failing) to visualize the personal shields t ...more
Dune is one of those books that just about every fantasy/sci-fi enthusiast has read. It has been on my to-read list for ages but given its sheer length and the mountain of books I have, I never seemed to get to it. With the release of the 2021 film, I finally decided it was time to see what it was all about. I am not sure what my expectations were here. While I love Tolkien, and have thoroughly enjoyed C.S. Lewis, Asimov and Bradbury, I wouldn't necessarily consider myself a sci-fi reader. I muc
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I skimmed this sometime about 1986. It seems like I went to see the movie too with a writer. I don't remember much about it at all.
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