Subj : Re: Dune 2021
To   : Dr. What
From : Boraxman
Date : Fri Dec 24 2021 22:06:00

-=> Dr. What wrote to Arelor <=-

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 -=> Arelor wrote to The Lizard Master <=-

 Ar> "Horrible" is too strong a word, in my opinion. I personally reserve
 Ar> "Horrible" for those movies that were so bad that they kicked them out
 Ar> of hell. Among those, I count Night Train to Venice, The Beast of Yucca
 Ar> Flats and Blueberry.

 Ar> Lynch­ Dune was just an attempt that fell short, in comparison.

 DW> It fell short because there was no way to do the story in a 2 hour
 DW> movie.

 DW> I remember reading about the movie being made and it should have been 6
 DW> hours long - and even then, it wouldn't get most of the story.

 DW> I agree with your "falling short" assessment.  You can't tell a 12 hour
 DW> story in 2 hours.  It just won't work.


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I quite like the Lynch version, it certainly left an impression on me when I
first saw it.  I would have been about 7 years old at the time.  I'm into weird
and wacky movies, the odd visuals, the over-the-top crazyness, I find that
appealing not a turn off.

The new movie I have seen, and is quite good.  Flawed though because of the
dense nature of the source material, the difficultly in condensing such a
sweeping, multifaceted saga into a moview.  The ending I think would turn off
many who haven't read the book, appearing to be abrupt and unsatisfying. 
Still, this new Dune movie created a sense of grand scale which the original
didn't do, the size of Arrakis, the Heighliners.  It needed more Piter though,
such a great character.

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