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09/10/09
Maybe the best way is to follow Monty Python and just not have an end?
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More Hancock plz!
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It's like being forced to choose between broccoli and cauliflower.
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we're now at the point where sequels and remakes are fighting it out for greenlights
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Now I realize that, similar to a Duckling imprinting on a hog, David Lynch's Dune in 1984 was the first time many saw "moving pictures associated with the Dune story"...and this made a cult following
But similar to how the 1980's Flash Gordon movie doesn't do the original series justice whatsoever....indeed, mores than that...
...David Lynch's Dune is a godawful adaptation. The most anyone says is "it had such a distinct look!"....which was actually unsubstantiated by the books
further...MOST of the film felt like someone reading off a direct quotation of the first 100 pages of the book, then simply slapping on the last dozen pages really fast at the end
(and while the sandworm effects may have been interesting in 1984, they're pretty lousy today.....that, and *sandworms don't make lightning*)
In short: your song...is ending. David Lynch's Dune is now universally decried as the living example of a "bad adaptation"
09/10/09
The miniseries followed the story faithfully, but it just didn't look right (or sound right... Czech central casting...).
In short, you can't have one without the other, or just stick with the book.
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But I get why people who've read the books think the films were gawdawful. Film versions of books rarely/never get the story right. As someone who did not really enjoy reading the Dune books (read: I read half of the first book, sighed loudly and clapped it shut) I thought the FIRST film was inventive, if not terribly corny and fragmented. The Sci Fi miniseries sucked against the Lynch model, IMO. But overall, I enjoy Lynch's Dune. It's in my list of Good Cheese Flicks.
09/10/09
Still can't believe they made toys from the thing...
09/11/09
The eyebrows...the eyebrows
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Not a bad adaptation, if you just read the script, just a really, really bad movie, and you can stick that in your wierding module and smoke it.
08/07/09
Back to movies. Liked that SciFi (Syfy wtf) tried to do something more true, but utter fail in converting an epic book to visual form. I mean, was I the only one that noticed that Stilgar was seriously "water-fat." Gurney was just not believable (or understandable at times). Duncan was ok. Lady Jessica!? Seriously, she was supposed to be beautiful. There were lots of choices for that. I think Lynch's Dune was a better visual experience, but agree that you shouldn't mess around that much with a masterpiece.
No possible way to cram the book into a single movie. All in all, I'm not looking for the story to be right. That's false hope. Just looking for something that will provide some visually appealing view of the Dune universe. Something it's fun to have some visualize it for you. But film is only 2-D. The depth is in the book. So go read them if you haven't.
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Aren't there a MILLION other fantastic Sci-Fi's out there to adapt?
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[www.duneinfo.com]
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Ok, so it's not a literal translation, but it hits the key beats: noble child survives slaughter of his family, becomes messiah to indigenous people and ends up defeating those who engineered his slaughter. On top of that looked fantastic and it had a wonderful wrongness to it.
Compared to the more literal, but less inspired SciFi Miniseries, it's made of awesome.
Sadly the movie was financed and marketed by people who thought they were getting the next Star Wars. Queue bad audience reaction and an undeserved stigma.