Djinn@lemm.eeM to Movies and TV Shows@lemm.ee · 5 months agoDenis Villeneuve Will Stop Making ‘Dune’ Movies After ‘Dune 3,’ Despite More Books in the Series: ‘Dune Messiah Should Be the Last for Me’variety.comexternal-linkmessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up1182arrow-down15
arrow-up1177arrow-down1external-linkDenis Villeneuve Will Stop Making ‘Dune’ Movies After ‘Dune 3,’ Despite More Books in the Series: ‘Dune Messiah Should Be the Last for Me’variety.comDjinn@lemm.eeM to Movies and TV Shows@lemm.ee · 5 months agomessage-square34fedilink
minus-squareSemi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up5·5 months agoI was in the middle of reading Dune for the first time when I saw The Matrix and my first thought was “Holy shit it’s the Butlerian Jihad”
minus-squareTehgingey@lemmy.cacakelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·5 months ago“we broke out of Zion and use swords now. We also use aliens high on DMT to fly around space. Overall, things are better”
minus-squaresignalsayge@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months agoTo be fair to the Dune universe, the reason they used swords was because shields made projectile weapons useless and Lasguns and shields just killed everyone (like a mini-nuke on both sides).
I was in the middle of reading Dune for the first time when I saw The Matrix and my first thought was “Holy shit it’s the Butlerian Jihad”
“we broke out of Zion and use swords now. We also use aliens high on DMT to fly around space. Overall, things are better”
To be fair to the Dune universe, the reason they used swords was because shields made projectile weapons useless and Lasguns and shields just killed everyone (like a mini-nuke on both sides).