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kleinbl00  ·  2043 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Sci-Fi club: general discussion

So... I thought Dune was ...okay. Dune Messiah I made it halfway through and went "wait, there's nothing happening here" and decided I was done with Frank Herbert.

The original cut David Lynch Sting'n'Stewart soundtrack-by-Toto Dune is kinda cringe-worthy but not ghastly bad. It's kind of what a David Lynch sci fi film about Arabs with a soundrack by Toto would be. The "Director's Cut" is "directed" by Alan Smithee for good reason. It grinds on and on and on and on and on. Vast swaths of the story are provided by janky storyboards and voiceover.

The miniseries is worse than the Alan Smithee "Director's Cut."