Subject: Re: DUNE
From: droesch@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Doug Roesch)
Date: 1990-08-17, 06:50
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

> >You are both assuming that when somebody makes a film based on a book
> >that they intend to do the book justice. It is nearly always the case

I'm not 'assuming' anything of the sort.  Let's make the (explicit, this
time) assumption that the book never existed.  Is the movie now better
because it is no longer 'a literal interpretation' of a book that has
'fail[ed] miserably'?  No, it's still bad, because it substitutes set
dressing and special effects for a richer, more involving story that is
clearly lurking in the background.  As I mentioned in my original message
I haven't even read the book (explicit assumption lifted now), and the
movie is still overinflated and without substance.