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Scary Dunleavy 👻🎃

25 Oct, 6 tweets, 1 min read

So, DUNE. Along with Lord of the Rings, it has been among my fav books since childhood, & like the LOTR films, tho it made changes to the source material I was ??? about, it also similarly captured the gist & feel & power & imagination of the book, & what else can you really ask?

I like that DUNE took its time, focused on both world-building & story-building instead of rushing thru the whole book in one film, brought space & the future to life w/ care in ways akin to Blade Runner, 2001, Interstellar, etc., & did its best to capture the themes of the book.

Definitely see it in IMAX. Powerful.

Still tho, the definitive ranking remains the Sandworms in Tremors > Sandworms in Beetlejuice > Sandworms in Dune

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Forgot about this one

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