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20 sats \ 10 replies \ @Undisciplined 15h \ parent \ on: What is your favorite science fiction movie? movies

Dune is great and beautiful, but do you really think it's a better sci-fi movie than The Matrix?

14 sats \ 1 reply \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 34m

I wouldn’t say that the recent Dune movies were were better than the Matrix. To this day, I have never seen a book for Matrix to compare the books. I like to compare the books as well as movies. If the Dune movies could go into the detail and complexity that is in the books, they would be far better than Matrix, but, alas, I don’t think it could ever be done.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 2m

That would have to be done in a streaming series. Otherwise, there's just way too much detail.

17 sats \ 4 replies \ @BlokchainB 11h

Yes the matrix is fantastic but Dune’s lore about the galactic order is great. The matrix is just about earth and AI while Dune is the whole galaxy

81 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 7h

To the extent we can make comparisons across media, I think the Dune books are much better science fiction than The Matrix, but I don't think the movies are better sci-fi.

15 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 37m

I think trying to compare across media is impossible. Films cover different aspects of a story than books do. Then, books can go into much more detail and have much more complicated and complex story lines. Films can only show what actions are readily available to the viewer. I have never been satisfied by a film from a book that I had read before seeing the film. I have been satisfied by films that I have seen first and afterward read the book. For instance, I saw 2001: A Space Odyssey before reading Clarke’s book. Had I read the book first, the movie wouldn’t have been so mind blowing.

28 sats \ 1 reply \ @BlokchainB 7h

The visuals of the Dune movies are fantastic!! The matrix has better action scenes and the plot and writing are very philosophical but I just think the matrix universe is very limited. But focusing on just the movie The Matrix was really wild in 1999

19 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 1h

I think that the Matrix was made as a one-off movie, originally. I don’t think they knew how it would be received! Reeves even took just a cut of the action, thinking the film would not really be a big hit. Therefore, the universe is much more underdeveloped than that of Dune. There is one more that people probably do not see: The Animatrix. It is about ten shorts of the Matrix universe that fill in the story line; like how the kid originally shows up, what happened to the sky, and why there was the war between humans and machines.

77 sats \ 2 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 15h

I like it for its fidelity to the novel. All three of them tried to do justice to the novel but it was just too dense to go from written medium to film medium.

94 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 7h

Yeah, I'm really enjoying the movies so far. I think they're only planning on making one more, unfortunately.

27 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 53m

That can’t be helped. If they thought that they could make money on more, they probably would make them. As you can see from post: #730664 There are a lot more films they could make for Dune.