>>Battlefield Earth was a good book - heck, they made a movie of it in
>>the last year.
>
>a) No it wasn't.
>
>b) What has the production of a movie to do with the quality of a
>book? They made two movies out of Dune.

...every so often, one has to say enough.

Sorry, Gryph, even if you found it boring (and I'm not at all surprised by this, given your previously indicated preferences), Dune is not bad. Long, subtle, ambiguous, and obscure, but not bad by any stretch of the imagination. That it didn't do it for you, any more than the collective work of Philip K. Dick, or The Lord of the Rings, or the collective work of Neil Gaiman, does not make it bad. That you fail to see what is so great about soccer does not make it a dull sport. That you personally don't like Neon Genesis Evangelion or X-Files do not make them bad shows.

That's confusing subjective opinion with objective quality. That's stating personal opinion as if it's a truism.

I don't particularly like The Godfather Trilogy. I watched all three movies recently, after my sister's boyfriend got the collection on DVD. It's not bad by any stretch; the three movies are some of the most marvelously executed films I've ever seen. But I didn't find them anywhere near as enthralling as many people have. That I found them slightly boring does not make them bad; it simply means that I found them slightly boring.

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