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This is getting ridiculous. I could say the conceit of Roadside Picnic and the movie Stalker of alien trash being fought over and that there's people who dedicate their lives going into these Zones to be ridiculous and be rightly critiqued by every fans of the book/movies.
If you don't gel...
Trust me, you don't want the unabridged Dune movie. It's just too long and dense. In the books knives and hand to hand combat became popular again after the widespead use of shields and the interaction between lasguns (it's not lasers despite the name, more a particle ray) and shield making big...
Saw Dune earlier today at the cinema. I'm guessing the critiques this time are going to come from those who read the books instead of Dune part 1 where the critique I heard came from those who didn't read the books saying the pacing is off; the movie could stand to be shorter.
Heh. Sometimes...
Considering just how dense the Dune series books are with multiple characters, storylines and ideas (I know I had to have a second reading just to get through Leto's adventure in Jacarutu) are despite how thin (comparatively speaking) the actual books are, not surprised.
It's a play on the name of the main character in Altered Carbon. The MC's name is Takeshi Kovacs. Polish father, Japanese mother.
Basically just about every cyberpunk protagonist have very striking names. Johnny Mnemonic, Johnny Silverhand, Neo (all 3 played by Keanu Reeves) or Kenshiro...