There are good and bad points to both the Dune movie and Dune miniseries.
I thought that the look of the Duniverse, particularly the Harkonnen home world was very well done in the movie. I thought that the performances were generally better in the movie, and that the guy who played the Baron in particular was fantastic.
Sting was also great.
I thought the Fremen sequences were better handled in the miniseries. I really disliked "the weirding way" as it was handled in the movie...
I recently picked up the new director's cut of the film, but haven't had a chance to watch it yet. I might get a chance next Saturday.
duchess of malfi wrote:There are good and bad points to both the Dune movie and Dune miniseries.
I thought that the look of the Duniverse, particularly the Harkonnen home world was very well done in the movie.
Interesting fact: Geiger was to be the main designer of the movie, but something happened and they brought in someone else. But some of Geiger's designs made it into the movie: the still suits, guild navigators, and the worms.
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Sting was good as Feyd, but on the whole, I enjoyed neither the movie nor the miniseries. (And yeah, Paul was terrible in the movie, as was the "weirding way". Sonic blasts? WTF?)
None of them can match the books, and I'll stick with them every time.
Yeah, it was a big let-down. I mean, I know they couldn't cram the religo-socio-political intrigue of the book into a movie, but it spoiled it for those of us who were attracted to the book because of those very aspects.
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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duchess of malfi wrote:My husband and I had a long discussion over this very matter after we saw the movie.
Choice:
a hot looking member of the opposite sex who wants you and adores you and will do anything for you
or
a hot looking but cold blooded member of the opposite sex who treats you like sh*t
We both concluded that any sane person would have gone for the red head.
Ahh, but Denise wasn't giving me any sh*t, now was she? And as to emotional rollercoasters: I suppose that might be true, but I certainly didn't see one bit of emotion in that movie, and I doubt any of you guys did, either.
Dandelion don't tell no lies
Dandelion will make you wise
Tell me if she laughs or cries
Blow away dandelion
I'm afraid there's no denying
I'm just a dandelion
a fate I don't deserve.
dANdeLION wrote:You're right; it wasn't the dialogue in Dune, it was the horrible delivery, and frankly, that's the strength of the movie.
Really? Perhaps Paul Atreides was badly played, as well as some of the others, but Sting's portrayal of Feyd was great, and Baron Harkonnen goes down as one of the top screen villains of all time.
I left that movie thinking "Hey, at least Sting still has his day job." As for screen villains, I doubt Harkonnen would break my top 100. But, I do agree that those 2 were far and away the high point of Dune.
Dandelion don't tell no lies
Dandelion will make you wise
Tell me if she laughs or cries
Blow away dandelion
I'm afraid there's no denying
I'm just a dandelion
a fate I don't deserve.
And speaking of the redhead, why didn't they bring her back, like they did her boyfriend? It sure looked like his injuries were worse than hers..... yet another reason that movie sucked.
Dandelion don't tell no lies
Dandelion will make you wise
Tell me if she laughs or cries
Blow away dandelion
I'm afraid there's no denying
I'm just a dandelion
a fate I don't deserve.
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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Google Dina Meyer. There's plenty of very nice pictures of her.
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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I've blocked the dialoge out, but that horrible romantic pre-launch scene in Armageddon between Liv Tyler and Ben Affleck...The one with the animal cracker.
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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Ok, took my son out to see Doogal last night. I wasn't expecting Pixar, but... It was THE WORST MOVIE I HAVE EVER SEEN. I was in the process of negotiating with the manager for free tickets to another movie before I realized I was moving soon and would never use them.
Pick any five minutes of that movie and you'll find something that qualifies.
"It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”
-George Steiner
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