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The book is better...


The book is better than Lynch's movie, but not better than this.

This movie is much better than the book.

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Dune is not based on a book, it's based on a video game.

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Which one? The 2021 (this) one?

Hmmm, you might be actually right :D

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Dune is a 1965 science fiction novel by American author Frank Herbert, originally published as two separate serials in Analog magazine. It tied with Roger Zelazny's This Immortal for the Hugo Award in 1966 and it won the inaugural Nebula Award for Best Novel. It is the first installment of the Dune saga; in 2003, it was described as the world's best-selling science fiction novel.
The video game was based on the book.

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No, actually the book is based on a video game made in 1935. I remember my grandfather telling me it was the best game he ever played online.

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hahaha! Good one!

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No. It’s not. It’s pathetically sophomoric.

Don’t encourage the fucking Peanut Gallery.

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Apparently you cannot recognize my appreciation of his humor. He was obviously being "clever". Either that, or like you insinuated, he is a part of the peanut gallery and actually believes what he said.
Oh, and by the way, with all due respect, who are you to tell me what to do (or not to do)? The only two people on this Earth who could tell me that are both deceased. So, if you still have your parents, make sure you appreciate that they are still around.

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Hey, I remember that game, and I remember kicking your grandfather's ass in Dune ... he was always playing the Atreides ...

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You must be high :D

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The book is ALWAYS better - when you are talking about books.

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Not really, Blade Runner was better than the book, Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep.

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Planet of the Apes (1968) was also better than the book.

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This must be one of those dumb jokes that I cannot really laugh at :(

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If the movie is made after the book, yes.

If the books are made after the movie, then not that good.

Btw, the one and only movie better than the book (in my opinion): A flew over a cuckoo's nest.
And maybe the green mile but I've never read the book :(

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That was One Flew Over THE Cuckoo‘s Nest, but you’re literate, educated and articulate, right?

The novel was written by Ken Kesey, who also wrote A Fine Madness and then vanished.

Not for nothing, Jaws the movie is head and bellybutton above Jaws the novel.

So, no to your opinion. Just no.

You are correct that 😂novelizations😂 of movie scripts are beneath contempt. Woodie Allen had a field day with this in Manhattan. Plus, you cannot make an adverb out of a noun. Only a cretin would do that.

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"That was One Flew Over THE Cuckoo‘s Nest, but you’re literate, educated and articulate, right?"

Or maybe I'm an emigrant and English is not my first language, but for idiots is easier to assume, right?

"The novel was written by Ken Kesey" I know - I've read it, still the movie is better.

"Not for nothing, Jaws the movie is head and bellybutton above Jaws the novel."

haven't seen or read, not interested in the topic/plot.

"So, no to your opinion. Just no."

Ya well that's just like, your opinion man.

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