New Dune miniseries

gregebowman · #1 March 18th, 2003, 12:01 AM

Heck, I didn't even know about it, and I have the Sci-Fi channel. Of course, I don't get to watch it all that much, what with the missus and the kid wanting to watch their own things. But I will defintely make an effort to watch the Battlestar Galactica mini-series.

raynor · #2 March 18th, 2003, 12:21 AM

Yesterday, the Sci-fi Channel played the entire Dune mini-series and then the Children of Dune episode one. I thought the Children of Dune episode was well done and will definitely watch part 2 tonite. Based on what I've seen so far, I'll look forward to the complete Children of Dune mini-series coming out on DVD down the road. I hated the Dune mini-series that came before it. If you are someone who hated the Dune mini-series, I think you will like the Children of Dune. The production quality seems significantly different. (I may just be biased against the original Dune mini-series because I'm more familiar with that book and compare the mini-series to the Lynch big-screen film.)

Slynky · #3 March 18th, 2003, 12:30 AM

"Dune" was definitely a great SciFi novel. Of course, one had to read the rest of the trilogy after book one.

I'm afraid, for me, the trilogy went downhill a bit when it spent increasingly more time "discussing" religion. And, I would tend to make the same remark about "Stranger in a Strangeland". Perhaps it was because I was in my late teens and early twenties.

I'd say it would be hard for anyone to turn "Dune" into a movie as great as the book but that's usually a problem with any good book. Having said that, I would trust Peter (of LOTR fame) with it.

[ March 17, 2003, 22:31: Message edited by: Slynky ]

baetis · #4 March 18th, 2003, 12:39 AM

If you missed part one of Children of Dune, they are replaying it tonight at 7:00 before part two comes on.

It was good. So who's making the Dune MOD?

Fyron · #5 March 18th, 2003, 01:22 AM

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Originally posted by baetis:
If you missed part one of Children of Dune, they are replaying it tonight at 7:00 before part two comes on.

It was good. So who's making the Dune MOD?

There was talk of making one a while back, but I don't think anything ever came of it.

Master Belisarius · #6 March 18th, 2003, 01:49 AM

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Originally posted by Slynky:
I'd say it would be hard for anyone to turn "Dune" into a movie as great as the book but that's usually a problem with any good book.

Yes, agree 100% with you.
But think specially with "Dune" is not possible "to turn it into a movie" witouth hurt the original.
Most (all?) the time in the book, the characters say one thing and think other thing... How to do it in a movie, without a constant "voice in off" ???

I know I know, we live in times when the people read less and less.... But if someone liked the movie but still doesn't read the book, send NOW a purchase order to Amazon!!!!

Chronon · #7 March 18th, 2003, 04:52 PM

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Originally posted by Master Belisarius:
But to be honest, think only the first book is a true SF classic of all the times.

I agree. Dune is my favorite science fiction book of all time. I don't really care for the rest of the series, though.

I thought the mini-series wasn't too bad, but David Lynch's Version was the worst movie I have ever seen.

To really do Dune correctly in movie form, I think it would have to be a trilogy (like the Lord of the Rings (which should have been a septology - a movie for each "book"). But I doubt this would be attractive to any of the major studios, so we'll probably never see it. We do have the book, though, and I would highly recommend it to anyone who hasn't yet read it.