Kind of. The pacing/editing of the movie is a mess. I'll give you that. I'm also not a huge fan of the (dated) electric guitar/eighties elements in the soundtrack.
But the acting is good, the set design is good, the costumes are good, Kyle MacLachlan's chin is spectacular (as always), and it features Picard and Sting and Meat Loaf goddamnit. Despite the flaws, I think they did a decent enough job translating the book to film. It's certainly unique.
I beg to differ. Dune was Game of Thrones before Game of Thrones was Game of Thrones. The movie we are talking about here would have been a huge treat for the eyes. I am not takinf away from the other iterations, butI would have loves to watch it.
You talking the book, or the movie? Because the book was an attempt to tell a story about a guy who has the choice of saving the universe by killing a fucktonne of people, and decides he'd rather not get involved, while a bunch of people try to force him to.
Dune wasn't difficult to follow or understand. It's just one of those books that sounds like it would be great to see on the big screen, when in reality it just isn't filmable.
Lynch's completely missed the point. Sci-Fi's mini-series was boring as hell. And from what I've seen of Jodorowsky's concept art, holy hell what a LSD trip that would have been.
Now as for its sequels, talk about opaque (though I rather enjoy, if not outright love, God Emperor of Dune).
Tbh You would have better luck filming the Butlerian Jihad and books thereafter than the OG Dune books which relied a lot more on mysticism. The uprising against the Omnius would be a great story a lot of people could get into. HOWEVER, I did think the miniseries was pretty fun to watch.
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n/a SnapshillBot 2017-01-09
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n/a ThyDocco 2017-01-09
Did you mean to just link the Dune wikk
n/a lvl99SkrubRekker 2017-01-09
The CNN news source on it was too fake newsy. Favors the navigator guild way to heavily.
n/a UpvoteIfYouDare 2017-01-09
Everyone knows the MSM is owned by (((CHOAM))) anyways.
n/a lvl99SkrubRekker 2017-01-09
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n/a -jean-paul- 2017-01-09
Time for JIHAD baby
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n/a lvl99SkrubRekker 2017-01-09
SIEZE THE MEANS OF SPICE PRODUCTION
n/a OnlyRacistOnReddit 2017-01-09
Welp, I know what I'm watching this morning.
n/a -jean-paul- 2017-01-09
"We have just folded space from Ix."
Fuck the critics, I love that movie.
n/a OnlyRacistOnReddit 2017-01-09
Don't get me wrong. On almost every metric you can judge a movie by it is horrible. But I feel almost compelled to watch it at least once a year.
n/a -jean-paul- 2017-01-09
Kind of. The pacing/editing of the movie is a mess. I'll give you that. I'm also not a huge fan of the (dated) electric guitar/eighties elements in the soundtrack.
But the acting is good, the set design is good, the costumes are good, Kyle MacLachlan's chin is spectacular (as always), and it features Picard and Sting and Meat Loaf goddamnit. Despite the flaws, I think they did a decent enough job translating the book to film. It's certainly unique.
n/a OnlyRacistOnReddit 2017-01-09
The acting is amazing (with the exception of Sting). The worst part is the constant inner monolog.
n/a -jean-paul- 2017-01-09
For me that's part of the charm.
n/a OnlyRacistOnReddit 2017-01-09
Exactly true
n/a Senator_Chickpea 2017-01-09
Quick! Someone get Alejandro Jodorowsky's take on all of this!
n/a lvl99SkrubRekker 2017-01-09
That dream is dead, low blow. Very sad. : / Would have been a humungous visual accomplishment
n/a Senator_Chickpea 2017-01-09
It would have made an already opaque novel utterly inscrutable.
n/a lvl99SkrubRekker 2017-01-09
I beg to differ. Dune was Game of Thrones before Game of Thrones was Game of Thrones. The movie we are talking about here would have been a huge treat for the eyes. I am not takinf away from the other iterations, butI would have loves to watch it.
n/a Senator_Chickpea 2017-01-09
Dune was an attempt to shoehorn a tale of Renaissance Italy In Spaaaaaace with ham-handed environmental lesson cobbled to it.
There is no way Alejandro Jodoworsky would have done anything to it that would have left it other than a fevered acid dream.
n/a lvl99SkrubRekker 2017-01-09
Implying this wouldnt be great to watch when high. Lol cmon.
n/a Vakieh 2017-01-09
You talking the book, or the movie? Because the book was an attempt to tell a story about a guy who has the choice of saving the universe by killing a fucktonne of people, and decides he'd rather not get involved, while a bunch of people try to force him to.
I think it did quite well with that.
n/a DrunkAutopilot 2017-01-09
Dune wasn't difficult to follow or understand. It's just one of those books that sounds like it would be great to see on the big screen, when in reality it just isn't filmable.
Lynch's completely missed the point. Sci-Fi's mini-series was boring as hell. And from what I've seen of Jodorowsky's concept art, holy hell what a LSD trip that would have been.
Now as for its sequels, talk about opaque (though I rather enjoy, if not outright love, God Emperor of Dune).
n/a lvl99SkrubRekker 2017-01-09
Tbh You would have better luck filming the Butlerian Jihad and books thereafter than the OG Dune books which relied a lot more on mysticism. The uprising against the Omnius would be a great story a lot of people could get into. HOWEVER, I did think the miniseries was pretty fun to watch.
n/a toynbeeidea16 2017-01-09
Except that David Lynch did a pretty damned good job.
It just needed a longer runtime, it got kinda compressed towards the end.
n/a The_Reason_Trump_Won 2017-01-09
NERDS
n/a lvl99SkrubRekker 2017-01-09
no kinkshame plz
n/a glmox 2017-01-09
so sick of these boring agendaposts
n/a Prince_Kropotkin 2017-01-09
https://www.reddit.com/user/lvl99SkrubRekker/submitted/
this is a lil' embarrassing OP
n/a Akilroth234 2017-01-09
It could be, were it anyone but you calling it that.
n/a lvl99SkrubRekker 2017-01-09
We all have our specialties. Pop off my dick and mind your own Prince.
n/a DornishRedViper 2017-01-09
This is my favorite shitpost you've ever done
n/a lvl99SkrubRekker 2017-01-09
: D
n/a gatshicenteri 2017-01-09
Up vote for dune reference