[TheOtherHobbes]

All of those are popcorn. Even Alien - which is a jump scare creature feature expanded with some token politics and superb horror aesthetics. And Star Wars, which is a fantasy for ten year olds in space (according to George Lucas), but with ground-breaking special effects.

Dune - the book - is not popcorn. The series is probably the most brutally surgical examination of power, politics, religion, and economics ever to appear in print.

There are giant worms and weird drugs and such, but they're all metaphors.

If you're looking for the literary equivalent of CGI, that's very much not what it's about.