Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site looking.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!looking!brad From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: How could anybody possibly like Dune? Message-ID: <232@looking.UUCP> Date: Sun, 16-Dec-84 00:00:00 EST Article-I.D.: looking.232 Posted: Sun Dec 16 00:00:00 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 16-Dec-84 07:35:37 EST References: <3823@ucbvax.ARPA> Organization: Looking Glass Software, Waterloo, Ont Lines: 17 I am shocked to see positive reviews of Dune here on the net. I went with a large group of people, some fans who had read all 5 books (like me) and some who had read non. Yet every single person was certain that the movie was (except for fx) very badly done. Since then I have talked to more people and they have all said, "terrible movie." So what is it that people can like? Are there people who haven't read the book yet are clever enough to get the story out of this movie anyway, and are thus impressed with the basic theme, background and story of the book? Or are people just tremendously less critical than all the people around here? I've seen movies that there is controversy over before, but I have never seen it over a movie that is this obviously bad as judged by a large number of viewers. -- Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473