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Read the book, saw Lynch's film and this one

Posted by Steve O on January 31, 2022 at 15:39:53:
And felt that the 2021 version was about as true to the book as could be possible for a film intended for mass audiences. Enjoyed it much.

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Sci-Fi critics have blasted this film for having too many wrong science thingies and concepts, and for not having computers showing as part of Herbert's technology.
There were no artificial computation devices in the universe Herbert created. Apparently in the past there had been a "rise of the machines" that nearly wiped out humanity...many decades before "The Matrix" explored a similar idea. The Bene Gesurit "witch" caste was supposed to be some kind of guiding force after the uprising among their other roles. Another caste of humans, "mentats" performed computational functions in their heads when needed esp when their capabilities were greatly enhanced by consumption of the red staining "juice of saphoo". I beg mercy if I've gotten some of the details wrong here...going off memory and can't find my copy of the book.

I saw the current film twice, first time an IMAX presentation, second time in a top notch home theatre setting, supposedly a 4K stream with "Atmos" audio. My experience was that much of the film's sensual impact was lost in the HT as good as it was. Dialogue intelligibility wasn't as good either. Dune 2021 is very definitely a film that should be seen in a big screen high quality theatre setting. Unfortunately, that's not going to be the case for the vast majority of viewers.