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Frank Herbert's Dune (TV Miniseries) (Director's Cut Special Edition)Rating:
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Frank Herbert's Dune (TV Miniseries) (Director's Cut Special Edition) Reviews
I'm glad they made it
When this mini series first opened I laughed with scorn. When William Hurt blundered through his near comatose performance I shook my head in derision. When . . . oh, there's no need to go on. Why vivisect someone else's hard work? Of course I watched it anyway, just because it was Dune . . . and then, slowly, incredibly, I watched in disbelief as somebody, finally, carefully, made an accurate portrayal of the Dune Universe -- on TV.
I couldn't believe it: Duncan dies as he was meant to die. The multiple plots are actually explained without resorting to soap operaish internal dialog. Chani was beautiful but in a hard, smart, Fremen sort of way (sorry, but Sean Young was always just a bit too polished for that roll.) Irulian was less the remote ice princess and much more interesting as a naive and protected child opening her eyes to realpolitik (and admit it guys: could you really keep your eyes off her -- really? I practically had to have mine replaced.)
Were the costumes what I imagined? No. Were the special effects perfect? No. Was each character what he should have been? NOT; but, most were pretty darn good (the blue within blue eyes were perfect) and the portrayal of the overall story is a good one. The ideas from the novel -- scarce commodities and the blood we pour out for them; beloved yet psychotic rulers; plans within plans, within plans -- come through in ways that never happened with the Lynch effort for all its gore and narcissism.
I finished this series with the utmost respect for the effort put forth by it creators, given the medium, and I say that as someone who has admired the series for three decades and read it at least a half dozen times, plus all the later works, both by Herbert and his son. Good job, Sci Fi, it was worth the wait.
Obviously more of the people reviewing this show need to read the book
Much is left out due to the epic nature but that which is still in the story is fairly accurate. Unfortunately performances fail to bring across Paul's "Terrible Purpose", and Jessica's need to hold back her poential lethality in order not to embarass Stilgar, this makes her seem meek. Duncan dies in Stiecth Tabr holding Sardukar so Paul and J and Kynes can get away, not in the Atreides stonghold or desert. Perhaps you are thinking of Kynes death. Paul starts strong in the story "gom jabbar episode sp?" and only gets stronger, till he is ruler of the universe at about 20. This guy is BAD and he knows it but can do nothing about it, he truly wants to avoid the jihad he is fomenting. Read the book then watch the movies, Lynches' has style, but his portrayl of the Barom H. is ridiculous (he always insists never kill a man who has worth), he is not a blood showering? psychopath (showering in Blood?!), though he is a pedophile. Feyd is scheemer and a formidable fighter as he shows occasionally. Rain!? at the end of lynch's? movie, whatever. The fremen are the greatest warriors of all time apparently and take over the univerce in a decade or so just to prove it, so again they are mistreated in the t.v. show and THE WEIRDING MODULES? in Lynches' film? WHAT?!, where did they get that from (chhhhaaaahhhh), inside joke if you,ve seen it. No one fights with guns, lasers, or other high velocity weapons because of personal shields. You are forced to fight hand to hand with knives and swords to slowly penetrate the shields anything fast, even a fist is stopped (except a laser which triggers something akin to a megaton explosion. I could go on and on but many of the gripes have to do with disconntinuity, which in many cases I agree with, but educate yourself before you gripe. This one's O.K. whereas lynches' (although i like him) was an abomination, even if you just based your opinion on his portayl\betrayl of the Harkonnens, who by the way have a storied past as a very honorabble house both related to and at one time friendly with the Atreides. Yes, the Baron was at one time more like Feyd, hard and muscular, till the B.G. forced him to sleep with Gaius Mohiam, He wasn't amused and raped her so she gave him a wasting disease ( the B.G. can do all sorts of nasty things with their bodies and metabolism at a moments notice) which turned him into a bloated toad of a man. Must stop now. Do yourself a favor BBIIGG FAVOR, READ THE BOOK
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