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Title: Centers on the Fremen
Review: While not perfect I'd have to rate this far and away above the Lynch movie. Besides hackign the plot to death in totally unecessary ways, the Lynch movie lsot the real story-- the story of the Fremen.This is emphaticly **not**the case in Harrison's movie which centers around them and their struggle against opression. As a sci fi allegory combining both the mythology of the middle east and the history of the Brittish empire's emperial presence, this movie succeeds as the book does.Thsi is not to say its a perfect film. Tehre are some scenes in the middle of the film where they clearly made due with inferior and obvious abckdrops to save a few bucks in production. Also, someone should point the scene designer at the dictioanry definition of an ornithopter, as none of the vehicles in this movie were in fact ornithopters at all.Still, gvien that Dune was oen of the formative books of my youth this movie left me happy, whereas Lynch's movie left me depressed.
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