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    Dune: Part Two (2024)

    https://deadline.com/2024/04/nuclear-war-movie-denis-villeneuve-legendary-dune-part-two-bestselling-book-1235876114/ "EXCLUSIVE: In a deal worth $500,000 against $1.5 million, Legendary Entertainment has optioned Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen‘s nonfiction book Nuclear War: A Scenario...
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    Dune: Part Two (2024)

    Just out of curiosity, which science fiction novels from the 1960s or 1950s do you have high regard for? From my pov lot of science fiction gets dated more quickly and more significantly than most other forms of literature. What was futuristic in the 1960s, for instance, might now be something...
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    Dune: Part Two (2024)

    My wife and I thought the movie lived up to our high expectations. Wow. The IMAX picture and sound were impressive.
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    Dune: Part Two (2024)

    I've been reading science fiction novels for half a century, and no science fiction novel has a plausible explanation of how faster than light travel could happen, because as we know it's impossible. "Warp Drive." "Spice." Interstellar has a "wormhole." Larry Niven has a hyperdrive "shunt."...
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    Dune: Part Two (2024)

    I'm in Louisville. Turns out my friend had to drop out bc of a cold, but I got his seat for my wife instead. She's happy to be going. I've seen the first one about half a dozen times. The first Dune movie was magnificent from my pov, and I'm looking forward to this one.
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    Dune: Part Two (2024)

    I'm seeing this with a friend tonight in IMAX. Showing looks like it will probably sell out.
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    Dune: Part Two (2024)

    For the Dune novel series I think most readers felt there were diminishing returns. The first novel was great (or close to that), the second and third ones good, the forth and subsequent novels maybe closer to so-so.
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    Dune: Part Two (2024)

    I loved the ending of the first Dune movie. In fact, it was the best part of that whole wonderful cinematic experience of that novel I read as a teenager.
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