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Post by harrycanyon on Dec 15, 2010 9:58:45 GMT -5
I can't wait, coming in 2014 Paramount has aquired the rights for Frank Herbert's masterpiece of Sci-fi/fantasy to come to the screen. Now if they can hire the right director who cares/loves/cherishes the book and the right cast as well as make it 3 movies then it will do the book justice on the big screen.
Hope it improves over that 1984 David Lynch monstrosity or the above-average Mini-series, i am a fan of the books.
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Post by Shep on Dec 18, 2010 1:43:47 GMT -5
I can't wait, coming in 2014 Paramount has aquired the rights for Frank Herbert's masterpiece of Sci-fi/fantasy to come to the screen. Now if they can hire the right director who cares/loves/cherishes the book and the right cast as well as make it 3 movies then it will do the book justice on the big screen. Hope it improves over that 1984 David Lynch monstrosity or the above-average Mini-series, i am a fan of the books. I don't think David was necessarily the wrong director (in fact he's often a pretty amazing director--"Eraserhead," "Blue Velvet," "Mullholland Drive"). He didn't like the script, had a lot of problems with the studio, etc. |
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Post by PimPamPet on Dec 19, 2010 18:32:34 GMT -5
I don't care what anyone says, I love Lynch's version of Dune. Long live the fighters!
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Post by harrycanyon on Dec 20, 2010 19:45:09 GMT -5
I thought David Lynch's movie was a major 47 million dollar abortion, he was an awful choice to do Dune when it should have been Alejandro Jordowosky or Ridley Scott for both were the original contenders when Dune was in development but NO Dino De Laurentiis saw Elephant Man and hired David Lynch for Lynch knows nothing of the awesomest Sci-fi book on the planet as he rewrote the other 2 scripts in one, god i hated Lynch for that. He made a complete mockery of a great book and felt like a parody, Lynch disowned this movie and to this day he loathes it for he refuses to talk about it or would walk out of interviews if Dune is ever mentioned for he knew it was a megabudget stinker like Ishtar.
I think Lynch's movie is a cult classic for the WRONG reasons, it's one of those cult movies like Showgirls that gets watched over and over for people to laugh at how bad it is. I hope this new movie will do Frank Herbert's vision justice on the big screen.
Besides Star Wars, Matrix, Nausicaa and Avatar are the same thing as Dune already.
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Post by mummifiedstalin on Dec 23, 2010 9:51:28 GMT -5
I agree that Lynch's movie wasn't particularly close to Herbert's books.
But I still like both. Even if Lynch ended up hating what the studio did to the movie, it still has a wonderful aesthetic.
Of course, if you judge it just by how closely it matches the book, you're going to be disappointed. But that's not a very sophisticated way to judge a movie. I mean, Herbert wrote a novel, not a screenplay. If you just translated his books into movies, they would be terribly boring. I mean, how many conversations that are essentially "I know that you know that I know what you know" can you have before it just becomes tedious on screen?
In the novel, that kind of stuff can work, but not in a movie.
I wouldn't mind seeing a new Dune movie, but I can live in a world where there are multiple interpretations of the same ideas, too.
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Post by harrycanyon on Jan 4, 2011 7:28:46 GMT -5
Do you agree with me that Avatar is the same thing as Dune? i mean Avatar was written in 1993 but had to be shelved until 2005 for the technology to catch up and Cameron did admit that Dune was a major influence over his Avatar and that he's a fan of the books. I mean Avatar shares same ideas, themes and some scenes from that book.
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Post by Shep on Jan 8, 2011 4:36:02 GMT -5
Do you agree with me that Avatar is the same thing as Dune? i mean Avatar was written in 1993 but had to be shelved until 2005 for the technology to catch up and Cameron did admit that Dune was a major influence over his Avatar and that he's a fan of the books. I mean Avatar shares same ideas, themes and some scenes from that book. Yeah, Cameron's "borrowed" from a lot of people. (Most infamously Harlan Ellison for "The Terminator.") I haven't seen "Avatar," but I've enjoyed some of his work. However, the thing that really bothers me about Cameron is he's under the delusion "Titanic" was a good film. |
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Post by lazlo25 on Mar 23, 2011 9:45:37 GMT -5
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