Don’t forget the gratuitous explosions!
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I don’t think this is quite right: I think they take the same story and the same question, they just come to a different answer, or rather, suggest a different answer.
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How would Megan Fox wash a car in slow mo bikini vision on a world without water?
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OT, but Steven King books make better movies. Christine, The Shining, and Maximum Overdrive come to mind.
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Quasi Hat-Rack for me, please.
The thing I remember most about the Lynch film was a friend’s critique that the script trafficked in an abundance of apositives to serve its exposition.
“They’re speaking in apositves, extra words that mean what they just said!”, he’d say.
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All right then, let’s find out if the past has been altered … searching … searching …:
I concur, the electric sheep appears right away in the novel … confirming my suspicion that the past has been altered* since I read the book some years ago.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
* Possibly an alternate past involving my taking large doses of PKD … thus altering the future.
QED.
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Meeeee tooooooo!
I need depth and reflection, layered meanings, subtle visual story telling without an actor having to explain it.
I can’t see this happening but the last thing I want to see is Dune Fury Road.
Right you are. Further things I missed here.
Obviously the past has been altered such that my enemies neutralized the JJ-180 before I was able to metabolize the full dose.
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The passage you quoted comes after Jamis’ challenge in the cave, so Paul’s suit would have been in disarray (ETA he had taken it off). Given the suits were gifts, the size/shape of the plugs could only have been estimated. 
What @willmore referenced, before the trip to see melange harvesting IIRC.
Kynes straightened, stepped back with a puzzled expression. “You’ve worn a stillsuit before?” he asked.
“This is the first time.”
“Then someone adjusted it for you?”
“No.”
“Your desert boots are fitted slip-fashion at the ankles. Who told you to do that?”
“It… seemed the right way.”
“That it most certainly is.”
And Kynes rubbed his cheek, thinking of the legend: “He shall know your ways as though born to them.”
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Those represent two of the only SK books I haven’t read, but I’m of the firm opinion that he is one of the greatest writers in America. Not a genre writer, not a prolific writer, just a writer, no qualifications. The one I have read, Carrie, was a deeply unnerving book that was turned into a great movie, but I wouldn’t say better or worse.
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I didn’t want to see that before, but now that you’ve strung those three words together I can’t help help imagining how much I want to see a bunch of WarBoys try to take down a sandworm.
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I really like King; I have a shelf of him in my bookcases.
The comment wasn’t meant as a slag on him; it takes a good writer to inspire a team that wants to make the writer’s vision into their vision, and be appealing enough to inspire money people to fund it.
I love those 3 movies, for different reasons, and enjoyed the stories they were based on. Carrie was good, but not as unnerving as the prose (same with Misery).
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This comes just after the scene where they all rev their engines in unison to call it.
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I never bothered with the other two, so maybe I’ll read the books and then see the films based on your recommendation. I actually just finished the Gunslinger and started on The Drawing of the Three (his only major work I’ve never read), but I’m not sure I want to keep going right now. 4,000 more pages of sand are a little much. Maybe I have a copy of these somewhere…
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I don’t know but she best not complain about the director or she’ll be summarily fired and replaced with another Generic Hot Female
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Indeed. And – even worse that voice-overs – characters stating their most obvious thoughts aloud, presumably as a kind of cinematic relief from voice-over overload.
I would share the Emperor’s soliloquy, because it makes me want to weep for José Ferrer. But that clip doesn’t come right up on YouTube, so let’s watch the excellent Guild Navigator clip, something not quite from the novel but very much in the spirit of Herbert’s Dune and very very cool as science fiction:
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Honestly, Liet Kynes as a woman makes a ton of sense. If I was interviewing for the role of “Planetary Ecologist” and knew that role was dependent upon a comprehensive understanding of the subject matter as well as developing an empathetic relationship with native populations, I would be totally, unfairly biased toward a woman.
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I didn’t see this troll post (theirs, not yours, but I don’t want to @ them) before my previous, but it really answers their question. It absolutely does improve the character, IMO.
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You could basically take Sigourney Weaver’s character from Avatar and just drop her into the role as-is.
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