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Old 05-16-2016, 11:49 PM   #16
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Frank Herbert's Dune illustrates this exactly. David Lynch's film is a terrible adaptation of a superb book. Some years later there was an excellent TV mini series.
I consider the first Dune movie to be a masterpiece. The opening scenes with the 3rd stage Navigator are among the greatest I have ever seen.

The following movies, series, were "potboilers."
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