This is pretty Cool. Or, in this case, Hot. Because of the whole, you know, desert planet kinda thing. Just be prepared for a longer journey. In that, this is only half the fuckin story. A bit more style over substance, but still a decent delvings into what is a pretty dense book by Frank Herbert from 1965. Dense in that, you ain’t just breezin through it like an Archie comic, there’s some shit that needs to sink in a bit more than burgers and boobs.
The planet of Arrakis, not much of a planet with all the sand and rocks and 150 degree heat and Giant Fuckin Sandworms that eat yo ass if you go on their turf, which is pretty much everywhere. Unhospitable, we will say. But the fuckin thing is a goldmine of Spice, a rare substance that helps intergalactic travel by allowing the pilots to trip balls so they can slide through space? I dunno, I forgot the details but that seems close enough and quite frankly it’s glossed over pretty quick. Whoever runs the planet basically runs the civilized space governments. But It ain’t no Star Trek kinda peace of federations kinda stuff, it’s still all politics and and backstabbings and war. So Arrakis is kinda the focal point of spacefamily fuckeries. Is the main character kind of a chump? Yeah. But, I have a feeling he grows into the role.
While you do still get a decent look at the political, social and fighty mechanizations of these worlds completely absolutely totally removed from anything our current society might even potentially exhibit, this definitely plays up the drama and cool shots a bit more than what I think I got from the book. But even with that, the book, one of the world’s best selling science fiction novels, is a surprisingly good read from what I remember. And there’s plenty more of books that followed, with a lot more space politics and stabbys and killens and spaceworms. I think I gave up after the third one though. This interpretation isn’t bad and has a lot of cool and evil visuals, where necessitated.
