Dunes vs Star Wars

I have no opinion on the Star Wars/Dune debate but that is one fantastic comment. Kudos to the author, brought me quite a smile.

My friend, who has never watched Star Trek, was convinced it was Star Wars ripoff.

Star Wars is a ripoff of some international (Italian? Japanese? I don't know) movie.

Star Wars is the plot of Hidden Fortress, in a universe similar to Dune, in the style of Flash Gordon, but with genius special effects and Jaws level care for every aspect of the production of the film itself.

Lol the real plagiarism is GW / Warhammer 40k ripping off Dune

Wow. A legit /MurderedByWords. Very rare even on reddit.

Now tell us how Lord of the Rings ripped off Star Wars, so that your journey to the dark side will be complete...

If you create a story, any story, and it’s in space then it’s a complete 100% rip off of Star Wars.

You might want to consider looking up "Jodorowsky's Dune" for a bit more insight into how... huh... let's say "influenced" Star Wars (and others for that matter) was by Dune overall.

When I said my biggest problem with the story was the same problem I had with Star Wars, royalty starting wars. My buddy who likes both said they were "Space Operas". I think that's the perfect way to describe them and how they are similar.

—Wait till they find out about Rebel Moon and how it was churned out with the specific intent of creating a space-franchise to capitalise on.

Does anyone have an analysis comparing the Fremen of Frank Herbert's Dune to the the Aiel of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time?

Google Gemini will regurgitate this one day.

Star wars was about how space fascisim is bad. Dune is the same but about the Space Holy Roman/Ottoman Empire.

I don't know anything about Dune, does it have Magic (the Force)?

Frank Herbert spent his entire family fortune building his time machine, and even had to sell his family ranch in California and the family's stock in General Electric.

Woah, that's heavy.

We've been making these Dune time machine jokes since Back to the Future.

And then Edgar Rice Burroughs used that time machine technology to go even further back to 1912 and started the serialization of A Princess of Mars.

read the first sentence and was almost gonna downvote. well played

Grandfather paradox.

Which doesn't change the fact that the new movies are snoozefest

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I was like Star Wars ripped off Dune! Oh wait…

Both reference each other.

I forget what was in Dune, but I remember Han introducing himself and saying he was a spice hauler in a past life.