I'm guessing most of us know these two titles. Two fictional stories set in space, mixing swords, sorcery, space ships. Which was the better one; Star Wars or Dune?
I don't like either but love sci-fi... Go figure that... People are always like "how do you not like Star Wars" - I just don't.... I love movies like The Last Starfighter tho.
Dune is a good series of books, Star Wars is a good series of films. Dune wasn’t as effective on the screen and Star Wars wasn’t as effective in print. It’s all pretty entertaining though and luckily we don’t have to pick and choose. You might as well ask whether we prefer sex or bacon.
Apples and oranges. Star wars was a much better movie, but I never read any of the books. I read Dune more than five times and always found new perspectives in it. I've watched the movie maybe twice and its okay. I've watched Star Wars too many times to count, but I've never been inspired to read the literature beyond the comics when I was an early teen. Its a wash, I don't have a equitable way to compare them.
Dune was one of the first sci-fi themed stories to be regarded as literature and not merely pulp. I can;t help but think Dune influenced George Lucas to some degree, the book, not the movie obviously as Dune the movie was released after Star Wars.
Maybe the Dune film unfortunately influenced the Star Wars prequels. Actually thinking about it, the Gungans did have the shields that the droid army couldn’t shoot through but could walk through… mmm.
Yes it's not a good comparison. I enjoyed the Dune books and the Star Wars movies, and they're not mutually exclusive.
I never could get through watching the Dune movie... but did love the video game. Star Wars is good if you watched as a child, watching it as a grown up ....it utterly and fully sucks....Harrison Ford basically is the reason it was any good to begin with.
David Lynch's version of Dune? You should check out the miniseries SyFy did. It was much more faithful to what Herbert wrote. They even did a sequel, that covered Dune Messiah and Children of Dune. Both are worth the watching, and vastly superior to Lynch's mess.
I had a problem with that book. I mean, no matter how omniscient he might have been, how impressive is a god who can be taken down with a Super-Soaker? Or a slight drizzle?
Arrakis = Tatooine? Spice = The Force? Kwisatz Haderach = The Chosen One? Skywalker = Atreides? Stormtroopers = Sardaukar? Interesting... Dune is far more cerebral than Star Wars. Someone made an interesting comparison between the original Star Trek movies and Star Wars years ago: Star Trek is classical music, while Star Wars is rock 'n' roll. I think the same can be said of Dune and Star Wars. Their approaches to storytelling are polar opposites, but each stands on its own.
Dune Can't Flash Mob. Star Wars! starts at 1:05, be patient [video=youtube;c5v3Z856lzg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5v3Z856lzg[/video] Does any philharmonic orchestra of renown play, "Dune". [video=youtube;4wvpdBnfiZo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wvpdBnfiZo[/video]
First of all, Star Wars is not Sci-Fi, it is fantasy dressed up as sci-fi. A young farm boy, an old mystic, two comedic slaves, a pirate and a hairy giant go on a quest to save a princess from an evil sorcerer and get swept up into a rebellion against the evil empire. Change the blasters to swords, aliens to elves and dwarves and the spaceships to boats and you have a fantasy worthy of Tolkien.
it's a Western too. Farmboy goes to a port city and a brawl happens in a cantina. Han solo fought for the confederacy. He's a gun slinger hunted by bounty hunters...
And a World War II flick! Thanks to a member of the Résistance sneaking out with the secret plans, a group of fighter pilots try and destroy a base full of SS Stormtroopers before they can launch their doomsday weapon.
