I still haven’t read the Dune books. I started the first one when I was maybe 12 but never got further than a few pages. I did play Emperor: Battle for Dune back in the day, over and over again and it may have been the second game I played online. Anyway, I hated the recent Dune film. I thought it was horrendously dull. It was like a book on screen. And sadly, many of its fans suggested this was the very reason it was the superior Dune film. Having finally seen David Lynch’s 1984 adaptation, I can rest comfortably knowing they’re wrong. That’s not to say this one is great, it abuses voice overs too frequently, and the second half of the film felt very rushed in terms of pacing, and it features one of the key problems I had with Denis Villeneuve’s version: the planet is a setting instead of a character. It’s obvious from the nature of the story that the real main character of Dune is not Paul Atreides, it is Arrakis. Neither Lynch nor Villeneuve bring this forth enough. The most recent was closest, I will admit, but failed to execute it in an entertaining way. At least Lynch’s adaptation was constantly (if often unintentionally) entertaining.