re: Having a hard time getting into Dune

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but I did find it to be a little bit dry and maybe a bit pretentious at times

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The book was also about 50-60 years old at that point and a lot of things it covered were brand new in sci fi at that time but have been adapted by many other things since.



To give a somewhat random example, the horror movie Phantasm from the late 70s completely lifts the “box of pain” / Gom Jabbar scene. That was the first depiction of it on film I’m aware of because the Jodorwosky adaptation was in the process of imploding and the Lynch adaptation wouldn’t be released until 1984.



It is an influential book but, unfortunately, a lot of what made it influential at the time can be lost today because it has become so ever-present in other works.


That is why I am not a fan of Close Encounters of the Third Kind… it was an extremely influential film when released in the late 70s but I didn’t see it until the 2000s and I went “What’s the big deal?” upon doing so.


Not saying it is a BAD film but certainly one I have little to no interest in.