re: Dune answered an age old question for me tonight

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I've always wondered what it must have felt like for people to see Star Wars for the first time, or the Fellowship of the Ring, not knowing they were about to begin one of the greatest film trilogies of all time.

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I’m not going to read any further into this thread until Tuesday or Wednesday when I see it (busy with some things this weekend), but I’ll never forget watching Fellowship for the first time in theaters. I had read the Hobbit before but not Lord of the Rings, so I knew who Bilbo, Gandalf, and Gollum were and knew about the Ring of Invisibility. I had no idea Lord of the Rings was a trilogy (and it technically isn’t) and thought it was simply the sequel to The Hobbit. It blew my mind. I thought Mount Doom was across the Anduin and the movie would end there, and then when Frodo and Sam come over the ridge, see Mordor in the distance, I’m dumbfounded, and then the movie just ends… I was pissed for half a second before realizing this was a trilogy and there was much more to come. Read the entire Lord of the Rings before New Years that year. It was awesome.

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I doubt they green light the sequels.
And I loved this new Dune

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When you have assholes jmarto1 just ripping off the movie online, I don’t want to hear people bitching that we don’t get Dune 2 anymore than people bitching about the lack of Blade Runner 3 when they stayed at home when it was in the theater.

Movie was amazing. I know I talked a lot of shite about watching it at home but I can see the appeal of wanting to see it in theaters.

With that being said, I would suggest this movie to anyone. I never read the books but I plan to know.

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I’m rewatching the original movie and it answers a lot of questions in the first 10 minutes of the movie.

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It answered too many questions. Lynch removed the mystery of the novel. Like starting Psycho with, "This is the story of a man who masquerades as his mother in order to kill people." The true value of the spice is slowly revealed in the novel.

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They don't even mention the Guild Navigators until towards the end of the first novel.

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bullshite, Paul has a discussion with Thurfir before they leave Caladan and wonders if he will see a navigator, and speculates that spice has mutated them
Secondly when Paul meets the Reverend Mother on Caladan they discuss the the Kwisatz Haderach.

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"The drug's dangerous," she said, "but it gives insight. When a Truthsayer's gifted by the drug, she can look many places in her memory — in her body's memory. We look down so many avenues of the past . . . but only feminine avenues." Her voice took on a note of sadness. "Yet, there's a place where no Truthsayer can see. We are repelled by it, terrorized. It is said a man will come one day and find in the gift of the drug his inward eye. He will look where we cannot — into both feminine and masculine pasts."
"Your Kwisatz Haderach?"
"Yes, the one who can be many places at once: the Kwisatz Haderach. Many men have tried the drug . . . so many, but none has succeeded."
"They tried and failed, all of them?"
"Oh, no." She shook her head. "They tried and died."

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bullshite, Paul has a discussion with Thurfir before they leave Caladan and wonders if he will see a navigator, and speculates that spice has mutated them

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But they do not reveal that they are using the spice to navigate until towards the end of the novel. Paul wonders about the Guildsmen out loud, when we get to the much later reveal where the Emperor notices that a Guildsman's contact lens has moved and reveals the telltale blue eyes, but the secret of the spice isn't revealed until late in the novel.

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"The drug's dangerous," she said, "but it gives insight. When a Truthsayer's gifted by the drug, she can look many places in her memory — in her body's memory. We look down so many avenues of the past . . . but only feminine avenues." Her voice took on a note of sadness. "Yet, there's a place where no Truthsayer can see. We are repelled by it, terrorized. It is said a man will come one day and find in the gift of the drug his inward eye. He will look where we cannot — into both feminine and masculine pasts."
"Your Kwisatz Haderach?"
"Yes, the one who can be many places at once: the Kwisatz Haderach. Many men have tried the drug . . . so many, but none has succeeded."
"They tried and failed, all of them?"
"Oh, no." She shook her head. "They tried and died."

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Where in there does it say that the spice is used to navigate the cosmos?

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To add to that, the emperor is afraid the Atriedes army rivals the Sardaukar

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That is not true.

The movie was legit awesome