Ok geeks! Get ready to skip Sunday TV this week. What? Am I crazy? Am I insane? Valid questions since I’m one of the biggest Sunday TV watchers around. However, this sunday Dune is on. YOU ARE CORRECT SIR! DUNE! Watch it on the Sci-Fi Channel at either 9pm or 8pm depending on your time zone. :-) Me am happy.
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Hey, I like Dune, too… but there’s no way I’m skipping my Sunday night TV to watch it. I might record it though. :)
November 29th, 2000 at 10:29 am
Yeah, no kidding. Besides, why watch something on TV when you can rent it and watch it un-cut. Duh!
Besides, I’ll have a DVD player soon enough, and I’ll just buy it. :)
November 29th, 2000 at 12:28 pm
Okay, I think you guys are missing an important fact: this is NOT the David Lynch Dune movie we’re talking about. This is part one of SciFis new six hour Dune miniseries. Brand new. Exclusive. Much more of the book will be adapted then in Lynch’s version. Will it be better? We’ll have to watch and find out, but it looks pretty cool from what I’ve seen about it. It’s not gonna invalidate the Lynch movie, but it will provide a different interpretation.
Part one Sunday night, part two Monday night, part three Wednesday night. They’re gonna replay all three parts in order the follow Sunday.
November 29th, 2000 at 11:01 pm
While Urn appears to be confused, I knew pat was talking about the mini-series. But I REPEAT my stand on it… DUNE IS NOT WORTH MISSING X-FILES and others. Is it worth taping? sure! But the fact of the matter is that Dune as a book was WAY too long. It was horribly long and boring, with some admittedly amazingly good parts interspersed. I have my doubts that the series will be able to do much with it.
November 30th, 2000 at 7:36 am
Purists and snobs, you all sicken me as I’m sure I will now sicken you. In my world (where the skies are all purple and green), there are some facts:
1) The movie was good. I liked it.
2) The book was even better. I’m sort of working on the third one, and someday will have read them all.
3) Without Sting, the mini-series doesn’t stand a chance, but I wish it well. :)
Stick that in your floppy drive and smoke it.
November 30th, 2000 at 4:29 pm
Heh… I really dig the movie. From what I’ve read, the mini changed many of the things I really liked about the movie. No voiceover for peoples thoughts, for example.
And yeah, I just can’t imagine anyone but Sting as Feyd Rautha Harkonnen. The new Baron is fine, but the new Paul sucks! He’s just doesn’t look like a leader. And how can we accept someone other than Patrick Stewart as Gurney Halleck?!
But then I saw a commercial for it. A shot of a thopter flying at the camera, with the gaping maw of the worm coming after it. Sure, the worm was CGI, but it looked AWESOME!
So I’ll tape it and watch it. It might even be good. But at six hours, probably with commercials, it really isn’t THAT much longer than the Lynch version, so I can’t see how it’ll be that much better. It stands a better chance of being slow and boring. Lynches movie dragged in places, so I can’t see how making it longer will help.
But we’ll see…
December 3rd, 2000 at 3:42 am