I couldn't find any pics of fat Baron Harkonnen, though.
Posted on 09/10/2020 9:46:36 PM PDT by bagster
The official trailer for Dune.
Never saw the William Hurt version. Will check it out. Thanks.
Try “Dorsai!” the Childe Cycle first book.
>>I disagree...that movie was a horrible mishmash...not watchable even in its various release edits!<<
To me it captured the tone and imagery I saw when I read the book (before Herbert went nuts midway through God Emperor of Dune which sadly Sci Fi channel decided to make a film of).
But I saw the same arguments for LOTR (there should be no such arguments for the Gawdawful Hobbit movie).
IOW YMMV.
PS: Sci Fi channel made a hash of it, too.
I kind of liked it. The guy didn’t look like a soy boy. William Hurt is or was a good actor, it did a great job with the portrayal of thopters and Arrakis...
I liked it.
I admit, the only thing I liked about the other version by David Lynch was the portrayal of the fat Baron Harkonnen with the anti-gravity thingamabobs...
But the portrayal was too nauseating to appreciate. Well, Lynch certainly knew how to do THAT.
>>Kylo Ren.<<
Took the crown of the whiniest Millennial since Anakin Skywalker (and that was quite a feat).
How much you want to bet they do the same to Paul?
Note: Strong rumors are that canon will be that SW Eps 7-10 will be treated like the ST Kelvin timeline and never happened.
Well one can argue that one needed to do more work with the sets and some of the effects in the first series. William Hurt as Leto (the first) was a piece of wood in his acting. I think the rest of it was fine and I liked the thopters and the worms were great!
The second series(Children of Dune) was much much better interms of acting a and talent. The actress playing Aliyah showed depth in showing a terrifying decline in her sanity as she descended into abomination. McAvoy as Leto 2 probably was the best feature in the whole series. He made the whole series work! Susan Sarandon was good but only had an expanded role due to PC politics in my view.
He was great in Split and Glass.
I haven’t seen a SW movie in decades.
I just wait for the Robot Chicken version.
Hey, maybe Robot Chicken will do Dune....
In all honesty (and I realize I may be speaking blasphemy here), I’m not too broken up about the gender-switch. Liet-Kynes was a semi-important character, but other than being the leader of the Fremen, not that big a deal.
Since Chani is Liet-Kynes daughter, and being that they cast the actress-singer Zendaya in the role of Chani, it’d fit. One could assume that since Chani’s father was white, and her mother black, Zendaya would fit as she herself has a black father and white mother.
I understand it’s not ALL about race, but there it is. I do plan on seeing the film, UNLESS I hear from those I trust who HAVE seen it that it’s unwatchable.
Hoping its good.
Good Lord it WAS awful indeed.
I think they are leaving out the aspect of the Barron being gay. Sad.
That’s right...Baron Harkonnen WAS gay!
I even remember when he was ogling Feyd Rautha in the Lynch ‘Dune’ as Sting stepped out of the steam bath., “My lovely, lovely Feyd”.
Female Liet... Crusade instead of Jihad... I shudder to think what other woke nonsense is being hidden behind the over-the-top cgi...
At least the actors for Paul and Chani actually look like they are in their mid-teens like they are supposed to.
This is a two-part movie...
Yup liked to diddle little boys. That would take courage to put that on the screen today.
It’s in the books that the Sisterhood had to juice him up with drugs to get him to impregnate a woman to produce Lady Jessica.
So... yeah...
I could do without that too, I had to go on YouTube to refresh my memory, and it is as disgusting as I remembered it.
IIRC, in the book, wasn’t it clear the Baron had a predilection for men and little boys?
I couldn't find any pics of fat Baron Harkonnen, though.
Baron Harkonnen looks a little scrawny there...
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