Dune. Frank Herbert inspired George Lucas's Star Wars, Games Workshop's Warhammer 40,000, as well as other scifi and fantasy stories with his novel about a Duke's son on a vital desert planet.
I remember being a little boy back in the 90s and seeing the cover art for the movie in blockbuster and wanted to see it but never got a chance to. While staying at my sister's place for a week, her and her husband put in their DVD of the miniseries and had me watch a chapter a day for 3 days. I was just amazed and sucked in by the end of the first of 3 movie chapters. by the end of the third day I was mystified by this unique universe. After watching the miniseries in I then picked up the movie to see how it is. After they crash the thopter I just have to turn it off. I just couldn't get into it. The characters and cinematography was just too weird. I introduced Dr. Fiancée to Dune about a year ago by watching the mini series. She just loved it! When we finished, BBC just so happened to be showing the movie the very next morning. We caught it at the beginning, but again by the time of the thopter crash we were just sick of it. Even with Picard there it was just unbearable. I finally got around to reading the book last summer and thought it was amazing and the miniseries was quite close to the source material.
I do know that the movie has a cult following. The Nostalgic Chick did a review of it back in 2010 or so. She voiced her opinion, largely negative, and received a huge backlash from the movie fans. So bad that she removed the video and put up a new video apologizing. When I try to search the internet for gifs or pictures of the Dune miniseries, they are so few and even if I type "miniseries" I am still flooded with movie gifs and pictures. It has lead me to believe that most people prefer the movie over the miniseries, and perhaps I am just in the minority. I posted an "unpopular opinion puffin" on imgur saying I prefer the miniseries over the movie and was surprised that it was not an unpopular opinion at all.
One of these days I would love to try to give the movie another chance and then perhaps make a youtube video comparing the movie with the miniseries. I was shocked to see that there isn't any already! I would talk about who has the better costumes, character portrayals, overarching story, special effects, etc. Still trying to figure out how I want to do this but wouldn't mind getting some outside input here on their thoughts of all 3 depictions of Dune.
Long story short what is your opinion on the book, the movie, and the miniseries of the beloved universe of Dune?