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   From: petertrei@gmail.com   
      
   On 3/6/2024 6:06 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:   
   > On 3/6/2024 12:04 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote:   
   >> Perhaps a bit off-topic for .written, but I went to see   
   >> Dune 2 last weekend.  I quite enjoyed it (orders of magnitude   
   >> better than the the 1984 version with Sting, and better than   
   >> the 2000 miniseries).   
   >>   
   >> It was an adept telling of the second half of the first novel,   
   >> terminating with the emperor kneeling to Muad'dib.   
   >>   
   >> The best part was Paul's first worm-ride (done as a practical   
   >> effect rather than visual magic), but the rest of the film   
   >> (aside the modern cinemetographic tendancy to poor contrast   
   >> and lighting - not as bad as the first film, but still)   
   >> was excellent.   
   >>   
   >> The only sour note was during the previews before the film,   
   >> one of which I think should not have been made in this time   
   >> and place, and which I hope bombs at the box office when it   
   >> premiers.   
   >   
   > Thanks !  My 85 year old Dad and I are going to see it on Friday.   
   >   
   > I am hoping for a complete series.   
      
   The director definitely want to do Dune Messiah.   
      
   But after that, who knows. Things get weird with   
   half-worm half human rulers, and gholas.   
      
   pt   
      
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