I feel like everyone’s reactions to my takes are really out of proportion to what I think are pretty blase takes. Recall: this all started because I said Lynch’s version was more visually interesting, and then I explained why.
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Yes, a feast… but short on intellectual nutrition. Staying much closer to the book, Denis’ version provides more of that and sans all of the intrusive exposition. That said, when I want gonzo sci-fi, I turn to Lynch’s Dune.
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But then you started being a dick by insisting you are right.
It’s a movie. Like it or not, but play nice.
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I didn’t say I’m right, I just held my opinion.
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Um…
I said Lynch’s version was more visually interesting, and then I explained why.
That’s an opinion, but the problem is that it’s stated as if it’s a fact.
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Still missing out on the “play nice,” part there, buddy.
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i don’t understand. all those pictures look the same 
i felt its pacing incredibly slow. i understand that was to provide a sense of place and scale, and yet… when suddenly the movie just ends, i was left feeling like: so that was it huh?
compare kubrick movies, which though long and often boring, have a reward at the end that gives a needed sense of summation
i plan to give part 1 a watch again before part 2 because it’s not an unlikable movie. i just hope something happens in part 2 before the credits roll announcing part 14.
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The colors were much more natural in the book.
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Is that really the best use of your life?
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Those were the only costumes I respected in the tv miniseries. (Obviously they had a low budget to work with.) Looks like they mashed together a century or two of Imperial Habsburg guards; see below
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Recall: when others disagreed, you dialed the condescension to 11.
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No, not at all. All I’m saying is that Herbert’s story and themes were not well-served by Lynch’s movie, even if Herbert liked it (and it could just be that he’s being diplomatic here, so I don’t necessarily take his words at face value). For me its histrionic, shallow cartoonishness meant it failed as an adaptation of Herbert’s ideas, even if it was visually sumptuous (and I don’t actually agree that it was; even in 1985 I thought the design was overly tawdry and cheap-looking, the performances mostly stilted, off-putting, and Lynchian, and the FX mostly gawdawful.) I don’t dislike everything about the movie, but I much, MUCH prefer Villenueve’s version. All these things I use as a criticism of Lynch’s Dune adaptation, though, I consider to be virtues in his own movies. He’s got his own vibe, and I generally dig it. Hell, I’ve got What Did Jack Do? in permanent heavy rotation.
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Somebody always likes this. Dog knows why.
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That always makes me think that Sting’s moniker should’ve been Stank.
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Now I suddenly want a Quest for Fire reunion with Everett McGill and Ron Perlman.
“You two look like a bunch of Neanderthals”
“Yeah we get that a lot”
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This version is still my fave…
I saw it at a booth at the local anime convention a few years ago and said “oh, we’ll have to come back and buy that tomorrow!” and sadly next day, they were sold out…
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What always happens?
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Sting has said — for real — that he was quite prepared to go nude and was horrified when presented with the metallic penis bird, but that after huge discussions he finally agreed to glue the thing to his privates only if he could play the role like somebody who would take a shower while wearing a bird of prey on his old fellow. “So from that point on, I was as camp as knickers.” Sadly, Sting can’t really act so nobody realised that’s what he was trying to do.
Also:
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