New Dune miniseries

[raynor]

Originally posted by Chronon:
I thought the mini-series wasn't too bad, but David Lynch's Version was the worst movie I have ever seen.

I can't believe you liked the mini-series better than Lynch's movie? At least the movie tried to stay true to the source material. The writes for the mini-series seemed to look at the book and say, "This is way too complicated for folks to understand." So, they tried to water it down. For example, they decided it would be too confusing for Paul to be known publicly as Paul Maudib and privately as Usul. So, he just because Muadib, period. They took out the sonic weapons because that would be too expensive for a cheap SciFi channel movie. They decided upon a very weird pronunciation of Harkonnen. The acting throughout was pretty horrible. There were just so many odd deviations from the book that really didn't make sense. All in all, I thought it was pretty horrible.

I had to go back and re-read your post to see if you had read the book. I'm really surprised you liked the mini-series better than the Lynch film.

Oh well... different strokes for different folks. Definitely, no offense intended. As you can see, I really, really didn't like the mini-series.

Edit->I remember that most folks didn't like the Lynch film because it tried to cram so much stuff into one film. I thought, given the time constraint, that they did a pretty good job. But I definitely wouldn't have minded if they'd made three feature length films of that original caliber.

[ March 19, 2003, 01:19: Message edited by: raynor ]