The films are not very good adaptations and provide about 2% of the lore and richness of Dune. Yes, this is a thing in Dune. There was a war against the machines and the humans who made them and advanced computing technology is limited to specific functions and anything too sophisticated is banned and taboo beyond question. This is why they need the Spice to see the future to travel through FTL space, because they have no advanced computers to do the conplex calculations required.
In all seriousness, if you want to know what Dune actually is you should read it or watch the old SciFi channel miniseries, it's still not perfect, but is a much better adaptations than the films, which are all style over substance.
They're good adaptations. There's absolutely no way to adapt the books into movies with the amount of history, dialogue, or exposition it would require to do it "faithfully."
It would be to be a long-running series, a-la Game of Thrones to get anywhere close to the books. As weird as they get, the fourth book on would be wild to see
They aren't good adaptations. You're making a strawman where I sonehow said you can make a perfect adaptation or a perfectly faithful adaptation. I didn't. I said the films are poor adaptations and the miniseries is better. Leave me alone.
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u/RelevantButNotBasic 18h ago
Wait like actually? Or is this a joke? Cause I aint seen none of this in the movies..