New Dune miniseries

[Master Belisarius]

Originally posted by Aloofi:
So spice can be eaten and is a fuel at the same time?
Isn't that kind of wierd?
I guess I know now why I didn't like it in the first place.

Is not a fuel.
It's a drug that use the Navigator Guild's pilots to control the space ships in the transtellar travels.
This drug give them a "prescience" that they need to control the ships.

Originally posted by Aloofi:

Isn't that kind of wierd?
I guess I know now why I didn't like it in the first place.

hehehehehe, really you're confused.
Of course many things in the book are "weird", unique, think should say. But IMHO this is one of the reasons because "Dune" is a great book.

[Desdinova]

i thought the spice gave/mutated the guild navigators the ability to fold space, i didnt realize there was an actual drive and the guild just acted as navigators.

[Aloofi]

Oh well, if there is spice in only one planet that makes the "Dune Universe" way to easy from an strategy point of view.
Even a 3rd grader would realize that controlling the spice will be controlling the galaxy.

I'll take StarWars and StarTrek any day.
L. Ron Hubbard's "BattleField Earth" is not that good because of the 7 universes in diferent dimensions.
Anything that goes beyond one galaxy is way too much for my peasant taste.

[Fyron]

Oh well, if there is spice in only one planet that makes the "Dune Universe" way to easy from an strategy point of view.
Even a 3rd grader would realize that controlling the spice will be controlling the galaxy.

Umm... that is the entire point. Maybe you should actually read Dune before you bash it.

[ March 18, 2003, 21:49: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[Master Belisarius]

[quote]Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:

OMaybe you should actually read Dune before you bash it.

Agree! Specially with the word "READ".
Was the first book to get the HUGO and NEBULA at the same time. And really I don't know a SF fan, that after read the book disliked it... but of course, that our universe is so big that I'm sure that should exist somebody that disliked the book.

[ March 18, 2003, 22:17: Message edited by: Master Belisarius ]

[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 ]

[Instar]

I dont mind Dune (having not read any of the books yet or anything), but my roomie has had me watch this marathon for too long (Ive seen ever part at LEAST 5 times! GET A LIFE!) Sheesh