brent The Thing is still a great great movie that no one ever mentions.

yup! A must watch!

    Solarmass Never saw the old Dune.

    I saw them, enjoyed them, and added them to my DVD collection (Dune,Children of Dune). With special effects that are decades more advanced, this new version should be outstanding.

        WetGeek Old Dune movie was pretty good and stylish flick. It was quite lacking and Dune books fans weren't satisfied with it, but I like it more than anything made now. I hope the new one will be good and not some dumb CGI show-off.

          I usually like David Lynch's movies, so I did enjoy Dune although I saw it a long time ago and I would certainly be disappointed if I had to watch it again.
          I also enjoyed the video games Dune and Dune 2.

          I can't wait seeing the new Dune. No doubt it will be a great movie, the trailers are promising. Denis Villeneuve didn't disappointed me with Blade Runner 2049 and Hans Zimmer soundtracks are always great.

          Perhaps one day I'll read the books...

            kyrios Perhaps one day I'll read the books.

            You won't be disappointed. When it comes to SciFi, Herbert was a god!

            The figure that's usually quoted for a movie based on a book, is that it requires one minute of motion picture to express one page in the book. I'm not sure if I believe that figure, because in my experience it seems more like 2 or 3 pages per minute. Obviously, it depends on the movie.

            And just as obviously, a huge epic can't be done with a single movie, without leaving something out. Sometimes a lot needs to be left out. The moral of this story is, "If you enjoyed the movie, you'll probably love the book(s)."

            In my own experience, I prefer the book(s) for content, and the movies for presentation values.

                I read the book quite some time after I'd already seen the Lynch adaption, and really, really enjoyed it. Funnily enough I didn't have (m)any images from the movie in my head while reading it, but conjured up a completely different world (within the framework of course). Maybe because the movie wasn't fresh on my mind anymore.
                I will definitely go see the new movie too, even though something feels off to me looking at the trailers. Can't put my finger on it though.

                WetGeek The moral of this story is, "If you enjoyed the movie, you'll probably love the book(s)."

                S. King is the exception for me but I otherwise agree with you on that point. I find movie adaptations of his books much better than the hard (for me) experience of reading them. (IMHO of course). edit: clarity

                    brent Also the movies tend to skip the weird erotic scenes involving children ^^

                        Staudey Yikes if that's what I've been missing then I'm glad I'm not a reader. 🙁

                            brent I actually don't know if there are a lot of them, but I know for a fact that there is a rather graphic one in "IT".

                            edit: Sorry for derailing the thread somewhat.

                                Movies based on S. King's books are mostly not very faithful to the source material. It's because they would be just too weird or too long. I watched 'Thinner' some time ago and this movie was bizarre. Some scenes looked kind of retarded. 😆

                                  WetGeek I prefer the book(s) for content, and the movies for presentation values.

                                  What I didn't say in that post, and came back too late to edit it, was that I'm able to enjoy one without distracting anything from the other. I approach both movies and the books they're based on with a different set of expectations, and thus I'm rarely, if ever, disappointed.

                                      You need to read ALL the Dune saga books, from machine time to the great finale. Otherwise, you are missing out big time. 😁

                                      MattX Langoliers and Apt Pupil are two of my favorites. I've not seen them all, but I've liked what I've seen. Like @WetGeek said earlier, you'll never get all the content in there.

                                      WetGeek What I didn't say in that post, and came back too late to edit it, was that I'm able to enjoy one without distracting anything from the other. I approach both movies and the books they're based on with a different set of expectations, and thus I'm rarely, if ever, disappointed.

                                      Agreed. I feel that way about the Bond/Ian Fleming series, and even Tolkien and F. Herbert., etc. Can appreciate both.

                                      edit Staudey I missed that one but I saw the old one recently. Yes, hope its not a trend for him!

                                            Solarmass you know the second two weren't as good as the first one and keanu is looking long in looking long in the tooth right now, but so am I... since it was revealed the entire premise (renegade ships, traitors like Cypher, Zion) was also an alternate artificial construct and the Neo story (the software creator told Neo) was recycled several times because it's popular with the passive underwater bodies, but the Neo story developed a glitch...what's left? No Agent Smith. no Oracle (she died right in real life I think?) according to Wikipedia. Fishburne publicly said no one has contacted him and Pantoliano has publicly said Lana Wachowski is not responding to his texts.
                                            (Yet?)
                                            So why am I looking forward to this? Carrie Ann Moss🙂....and....wait for it....NEIL PATRICK HARRIS!

                                                WetGeek I don't believe in these figure things, this is just bullshit imho. A book could take 5 pages to describe a landscape or 15 pages to describe a scene that will last just 1 or 2 seconds in the movie. It's all about translating the athmosphere, feelings, the message of the author. Nothing else matter. Trying to do a one-to-one mapping will lead to a fail for sure. Personally I don't care if the director drops elements or add some in his/her movie... These things are just for fanboys/fangirls that will anyhow always find something to complain about.
                                                The books are full of dialogs, it looks like there are very few in the movie which personally which I think is positive because the movie will focus on the athmosphere.

                                                I regert I couldn't read the books before watching the movie (I won't wait) because I prefer not knowing the storyline and the main events but also and that's the most important because my imaginary is then influanced by what I saw in the movie. I think I'll wait a couple of decades before reading the books... Anyway I don't have the time now. Too many things in which I am involved... Even on Solus I had to slow down...

                                                    kyrios It's all about translating the athmosphere, feelings, the message of the author. Nothing else matter.

                                                    Pretty much. That's where a director comes in. No matter what a director is doing he/she is reinventing the author. Will he/she please everyone who read the book? There is no chance at all for that. edit: like wetgeek said, I can appreciate them both if they give me something to appreciate. No expectations of faithfulness on my end.

                                                    kyrios . Personally I don't care if the director drops elements or add some in his/her movie... These things are just for fanboys/fangirls that will anyhow always find something to complain about.

                                                    If the Mel Gibson/George Miller Max trilogy began as a series of books then that whining fanboy would probably be me🙂.

                                                        brent you know the second two weren't as good as the first one

                                                        The first one was awesome! The other two are mediocre imho, I was expected much more from the sequels back then.