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Title: "The book was better"
Review: I made the mistake of seeing this movie before reading the book on which it was supposedly based. At first, I thought it was an interesting enough movie, with a few oddities and curious names thrown in, but then I read Frank Herbert's masterpiece, Dune. This film throws all the important details out the window, discarding key concepts that make Herbert's Dune Novels some of the most memorable books in the science fiction world. I must give the director credit for creative (if completely inaccurate) sets and props, and going through all this trouble to create a movie that didn't do so well, but the film doesn't do the book justice. Read Dune first, and you'll see what I mean.
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