All of the movies sucked. Lucas basically just stole Dune and repackaged it with laser swords. He didn't think there would even be an Ep 5 or 6 and had to write them while they were being made in real-time, no source material, creating all kinds of fuckups in the story, but no one cared. Fuckin laser swords and blasters and a bigfoot with a crossbow and hyperspace. Pew Pew Pew.
I liked the Star Wars verse for a long time, but I never thought it or Lucas were ever brilliant or visionary. They were not.
Dune just didn't have laser swords or Star Wars' marketing.
He borrowed as much if not more from the Flash Gordon serials, John Carter books, and Kurosawa movies than from "Dune". That's how he was so successful: he borrowed a bit here and a bit there from many things rather than ripping off any one thing to an annoying degree.
You see it pretty clearly.
All of the movies sucked. Lucas basically just stole Dune and repackaged it with laser swords. He didn't think there would even be an Ep 5 or 6 and had to write them while they were being made in real-time, no source material, creating all kinds of fuckups in the story, but no one cared. Fuckin laser swords and blasters and a bigfoot with a crossbow and hyperspace. Pew Pew Pew.
I liked the Star Wars verse for a long time, but I never thought it or Lucas were ever brilliant or visionary. They were not.
Dune just didn't have laser swords or Star Wars' marketing.
He borrowed as much if not more from the Flash Gordon serials, John Carter books, and Kurosawa movies than from "Dune". That's how he was so successful: he borrowed a bit here and a bit there from many things rather than ripping off any one thing to an annoying degree.