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To: shibumi

Check out the BBC miniseries of Dune from a decade or so back. It’s a lot better than the David Lynch Debacle.

cheers
Jim


22 posted on 12/04/2014 6:38:50 AM PST by gymbeau (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: gymbeau; Darksheare
If you're referring to the one that was aired on the Si-Fi Channel starring Alec Neuman and (pant! pant!) Daniela Amavia, I have it on DVD.

(sigh!)

It's "sorta OK" but still does not touch on the finer psychological aspects of the prescient development of the main characters, nor the specialized aspects of the other "types" like the Mentats or the Bene Tleilaxu.

In being better than the David Lynch film, it had a very, very low bar to hurdle. It was also a bit disconcerting when they change4d actors for some characters in midstream (Stilgar. Jessica Idaho) and when they "recycled the guy who played Kynes by shaving his head and making him Korba.

That called on the audience to make an extra effort in the "suspension of disbelief."

Except for the music. Toto's music was great.

(Darks! Ping for something to add to your eclectic mix - if it's not there already.)

And now an act of gratuitous pandering -


25 posted on 12/04/2014 11:27:43 AM PST by shibumi ("Walk through the fire - Fly through the smoke")
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