Dune

[Buster's Uncle]

Frank Herbert's Dune (part 1 of 2)

[Buster's Uncle]

Frank Herbert's Dune (part 2 of 2)

These two are the entire TV miniseries, and surprisingly, have been up for over a year.  Not without its flaws, but mostly superior to the movie - at the very least, scriptwise.

[Unorthodox]

Call me crazy.  I liked the movie. 

[Buster's Uncle]

You are crazy, and everyone knows it.

I have a fantasy about being able to run the movie and the miniseries together - each has its strengths.  The movie did a better job of setting up the milieu and giving the sense of a far future where epic events are in play.  Both had lovely set designs and costuming - both had the guts to put funny hats on people.  Wouldn't it be lovely to be able to pick and choose which?  I would slightly tend to favor the cast from the movie, save the lead.  Both mishandled the Baron, the miniseries less so.

If the Blade Runner technology ever gets good enough, a clever amalgamation of the two versions of the story ought to be breathtaking.  It's fun to dream.

[Unorthodox]

I've never watched the miniseries, just bits and pieces. 

Just watched the hand in the box scene...Movie beats it hands down IMO. 


I seem to remember the tv series having the natives bringing knives to a gun fight as well.  I don't care what space ninjitsu it is, that's just silly.  Give me the sound weapons. 

[Buster's Uncle]

Read the book, man.

[Unorthodox]

Tried once upon a time.  Not interested. 

(I struggle with a lot of scifi, though, so, yeah.) 

Space ninjitsu just doesn't grab me. 

At least the Jedi had MAGIC swords to go with their space kung fu.  MAGIC sound-guns make more sense to me. 

[Buster's Uncle]

Uh huh.

Read the book, man.

[Unorthodox]

Why?

[Buster's Uncle]

Because it's THAT good.  Starts a little slow, but pays off.

[Unorthodox]

Yeah, yeah, LOTR is supposed to be "THAT GOOD", too.  It sucks.  So do the movies.

LOTR:  Meh.  Give me a good Arthurian legend. 

Dune:  Meh. Give me Stargate.  More adventure, less religious environmentalism.  Something the movie version manages to minimize in favor of epic sound gun battles. 

And the space witches were largely wasted potential. 

[Buster's Uncle]

Siiiigh. 

[Unorthodox]

More skulls, Stargate is clearly superior. 

[Buster's Uncle]

Movie or series?

[Unorthodox]

Pretty sure that pic is from a series considering the pine trees in the background. 

Honestly didn't watch much of the series though.  MacGyver did ok but some of the others annoyed me.