I can understand why many people hated the Lynch film. Yes, Lynch is a weird director, and I can see how sequences of Kyle M. ranting on and on melodramatically about "dune...arakis, desert planet..." would annoy some people to no end. But let's look at where Lynch was at least moderately correct.
Let's start with Barron Harkonen. In the movie (and yes, I saw the movie before I was 10 years old, give or take a couple years) the Barron scared the living hell out of me. Lynch made the Barron and his nephews creepy and at the very least, *dangerous*. I honestly found it funny when the new "retro-feyd" with the affeminate triangle behind his head fought and killed the slave in front of Barron. Give me a break! The guy looks more concerned with his manicure than he does with taking over Arakis! Same with the Barron. What kind of a House Harkonen was the sci-fi channel going for? Some sort of militant gay rights organization?? These guys aren't frightful, they're laughable.
Now, on to the fremen. Oh god, don't get me started. Way too tame. As a matter of fact, I'm just going to get down to it; the whole mini-series has been lacking in something Lynch knows perfectly well how to utilize (granted, sometimes too much): intensity. This interpretation of the Herbert's Dune makes you feel like you're actually *reading* it at some points it's so slow. Alright, I've ranted enough. Oh yeah, did anyone else find the Emperor's Daughter's personal guard at the party funny-looking? (I couldn't help making swedish chef noises the whole time)
Hey, I think I woulda loved viavoice if I coulda gotten past the first four voice training screens. The damn thing didn't like my voice I guess. I musta wasted two days trying to get past that fourth reading. "Hello, this is yet another test for the voice of the user to let the computer recognize each of these words...." or something like that....heh..... anyhow....I'm ready to give it another shot...:)
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I can understand why many people hated the Lynch film. Yes, Lynch is a weird director, and I can see how sequences of Kyle M. ranting on and on melodramatically about "dune...arakis, desert planet..." would annoy some people to no end. But let's look at where Lynch was at least moderately correct.
Let's start with Barron Harkonen. In the movie (and yes, I saw the movie before I was 10 years old, give or take a couple years) the Barron scared the living hell out of me. Lynch made the Barron and his nephews creepy and at the very least, *dangerous*. I honestly found it funny when the new "retro-feyd" with the affeminate triangle behind his head fought and killed the slave in front of Barron. Give me a break! The guy looks more concerned with his manicure than he does with taking over Arakis! Same with the Barron. What kind of a House Harkonen was the sci-fi channel going for? Some sort of militant gay rights organization?? These guys aren't frightful, they're laughable.
Now, on to the fremen. Oh god, don't get me started. Way too tame. As a matter of fact, I'm just going to get down to it; the whole mini-series has been lacking in something Lynch knows perfectly well how to utilize (granted, sometimes too much): intensity. This interpretation of the Herbert's Dune makes you feel like you're actually *reading* it at some points it's so slow. Alright, I've ranted enough. Oh yeah, did anyone else find the Emperor's Daughter's personal guard at the party funny-looking? (I couldn't help making swedish chef noises the whole time)
Hey, I think I woulda loved viavoice if I coulda gotten past the first four voice training screens. The damn thing didn't like my voice I guess. I musta wasted two days trying to get past that fourth reading. "Hello, this is yet another test for the voice of the user to let the computer recognize each of these words...." or something like that....heh..... anyhow....I'm ready to give it another shot... :)