Original dune is still my fav
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it has this WILDCARD MOTHERFUCKERS vibe that no other Dune adaptation really managed to achieve. With that said, the miniseries is still the best of the bunch mostly due to writing and acting - Ian McNeice is a beast
Wonderful. Thank you for sharing
Man I loved the Lynch movie - it's dialogue is kinda silly, the special effects dated and it's got some super dumb moments, but so has the book at times. The design work is top knotch though, doubly so for it's time. I'm also still partially convinced Sting just wandered on to the set out of the desert and they just filmed what happend.
I will always love Lynch's Dune because I played the shit out of Dune II and Dune 2000 when I was a kid (the earlier Dune I game is pretty lit too) and I had the extended cut on VHS and watched it religiously until the tape wore off. It was also one of the first instance for me and my dad to share a nerd out which was too awesome
I love that movie, it's really too bad the square bodied shields turned most people off from it.
I never heard complaints about that as a problem, vs. all the other ones. The new version was a lot better, but this was in the 80s, so they did pretty good.
it's not perfect but it has attitude. Something the new ones decidedly lack.
It's got David Lynch among other things.
Say what you want about De Laurentiis but he took chances like a motherfucker. Any other producer with that kind of big budget project would've hired someone who would do the job just fine. But Dino's built different so he hired a guy who did Eraserhead because it would cool. True G.
That's no mini... it's a space station
well, technically its still a minituare because that thing gotta be huuuuuuggggggeeeee