Credit: Pixabay I saw "Dune" this past Veterans’ Day. I hadn't been intending to see it when it released late last month. I had been skeptical of it being just another remake for Hollywood to cash in on during this wave of remakes. But I had the day off, and I didn't want to just make it another day of routine even outside of my day job which would've meant that I would've been writing all day, not that I didn't have any to catch up on. (You know me with my latest book project !) I thought Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of the Frank Herbert novel of the same name was made good and personally liked it to a degree. But I wasn't a "Dune' fan from the beginning. I saw only once the 1984 original when I was a kid and just thought it was okay. That was over 30 years ago so I’m not even going to try to compare the two. I've never read the novel and probably never will. It’s a giant thing and I don’t have an attention span for books that go much mo...
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