2026-10-19 17:40 UTC
How does a movie craze ruin your favorite book, if you haven’t even seen any of the movies?
I wouldn’t let it do that.
And even if you watched the movies - Which I wouldn’t recommend. I only watched the first and wasn’t too impressed, although I haven’t even read the book either. - you could still love the book and just hold the opinion, that the movies weren’t a great adaptation.
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@Varpeggio@lemmy.zip 2026-10-19 18:06
The first movie of the modern trilogy is mostly exposition and world building, and it does drag. The second movie builds off the foundation of the first in a glorious way; the stakes are felt and it is truly a cinematic masterpiece. Some of the shots in that film give me goosebumps just thinking about them.
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@kurcatovium@piefed.social 2026-10-19 18:22
I still love the book. But whenever I mention it, it’s always something like “oh, it’s the movie book, right?” or something like that. And no, that’s not a reaction that makes me happy. I’ve read the book decades before the movie happened and I loved it. I don’t want to be tossed in the same bag with all these “I’m a huge Dune fan, it’s the best movie ever” people. So I usually don’t mention it.