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If you see Dune in a theatre with good enough sound and screen (ex. IMAX), it’s an incredible experience in a way a book could not be. Not saying it’s “better”, it’s just different in a fundamentally incomparable way.


The movie is missing so much of the detail that made the book great, though. I agree, incomparable, really.

IMO, the best movies are NOT adaptations.


The best adaptations are short stories, like Predestination, from All you zombies. They also didn't meddle with the logic there, since the writers already found it perfect.


Yeah, it's a lot easier to do a faithful 100-minute adaptation of a 50-page story than a 300-page book.


The Mist comes to mind, a novella originally IIRC




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