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From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: How could anybody possibly like Dune?
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Date: Sun, 16-Dec-84 00:00:00 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec 16 00:00:00 1984
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Organization: Looking Glass Software, Waterloo, Ont
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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