The Shrine

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Though, not quite as accurate as the first movie was with the first book, but understandable with the differences between the two. Dune was a 6-hour series for one book, while Children of Dune was a 6-hour series for two books (2 hours for Dune Messiah and 4 hours for Children). Really, it was just some minor changes/details that irked me a little bit, but this was no major fuck up like Two Towers was. The main plotline was not changed.

Dune Messiah was a little rushed, but this was a small book, anyway, and quite frankly, not nearly as interesting as Children of Dune, which is my favorite Dune book so far. They made the 10-year-old kids into 15-year-old teenagers, probably so that it wouldn't completely weird-out the audience. (It -is- probably hard to find good child actors with such advanced and "adult" roles, but it would have been cool to see.) However, they showed their love for each other (as well as their eerie almost-telepathic connection) very well. The last hour with Leto was pretty damn cool, too, and I liked their use of the sign language that was in the book.

They are planning on showing the entire Dune series, all 12 hours (!), Sunday. (Probably right now.) So, if you want to watch it, it's probably on right now.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>I watched the first part of CoD last week and it just wasn't interesting enough for me and if I looked away for 5 minutes I was lost. I'm sure it's great but I guess it just didn't interest me enough</div>

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>Yeah, Messiah wasn't that great, in my opinion. The book was more or less just setting the stage for Children anyway so I'm glad they treated it as such in the movie.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>And I don't mean that as arrogance, just that I don't think Dune doesn't really lend itself to film very well. The action in Dune is all very...I want to say cerebral. Most of the tension in the plot is created by the sort of mental-sparring between the characters and how the character's thoughts are displayed in the subtext of their actions. I don't think this translates well to the screen - not that a movie can't involve unspoken subtext, of course, but it's remarkably difficult with a series like Dune which involves subtext as the main vehicle of the plot.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>I disagree, at least with the first movie. Dune held itself up well as a stand-alone series, even if you've never read the book.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>I could gather that much-- I know had I read the CoD series I woulda been glued to the TV but while I enjoyed the Dune movie (and agree with what Sine says below) I just never had the desire to read the series</div>

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>Well, the first book is a LOT different from the rest of the series. Original Dune is almost closer to LotR than it is to Children of Dune.</div>