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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
The problem for Dune as a movie is the that the book is basically a pretty ####ty story, it never attempts to explain where or why anything happens, its a mono dimensional good versus bad hero story that hangs itself on the existence of giant worms that can swim through a tractless desert that provides them with nothing to eat but they still manage to crap out a mind altering drug that the universe needs to fly around the galaxy, asking the obvious question 'how did they get to the planet in the first place?'
It's a really really stupid story
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The extended universe explains it a bit. There used to be high technology but they went to a completely computer free existence after an AI tried to wipe out humanity. So essentially Spice was a way for human navigated space flight and not AI navigated. That is my understand anyways.