1984 cast with the 2021 production, yes, that would be great. I do have to say I take a star off the 1984 version for the "killing word" weapons, which are from Lynch's hallucinations.
This deranged adaptation nearly killed any hope for another one, going forward. I was shocked when the Czechs managed to finance the mini-series, TBH.
Lynch is an arthouse director, with all that implies. The number of weirdnesses he introduced into the story line, like the "weirding weapons" and all that? Totally wiped the narrative, in my view. Herbert's Dune was just grounded enough that you could accept the pieces of hippy-era psionic powers he put in there, like the nonsensical "genetic memory" that never did much to explain how someone's memories from after the birth process would be included and accessible. As well, how the F*CK does a single sperm contain that much data...? By rights, everything that's included in the memories of the mystic women ought to be "women only", and only include those memories up to about birth. Anything past that? WTF? How?
There are limits to the number of hand-wavey things you can include and it still be "science fiction" vs. it being "fantasy". Dune edges right up to that line; Lynch? He leapt over said line, and took the movie into straight-up drug-induced madness. Whatever his movie was, it was not "Dune"; it was a Dune-shaped thing in a box, just like Starship Troopers by Verhoeven was an even more vaguely Starship Troopers-shaped pile of bovine excrement found in a pasture somewhere, likely left by a dyspectic cow with diarrhea.
The mini-series at least tried, within the limits of their budget.
I saw this in the theaters when it came out in 1984 and I still remember it today.
Never saw *ANYTHING* like this before.
It's flawed but David Lynch's Dune is very much its own thing.
To be honest if I'm given a choice between the 1984 and 2021 versions to watch I go with the 1984 version every time.
1984 cast with the 2021 production, yes, that would be great. I do have to say I take a star off the 1984 version for the "killing word" weapons, which are from Lynch's hallucinations.
Yeah. No. Just... No.
This deranged adaptation nearly killed any hope for another one, going forward. I was shocked when the Czechs managed to finance the mini-series, TBH.
Lynch is an arthouse director, with all that implies. The number of weirdnesses he introduced into the story line, like the "weirding weapons" and all that? Totally wiped the narrative, in my view. Herbert's Dune was just grounded enough that you could accept the pieces of hippy-era psionic powers he put in there, like the nonsensical "genetic memory" that never did much to explain how someone's memories from after the birth process would be included and accessible. As well, how the F*CK does a single sperm contain that much data...? By rights, everything that's included in the memories of the mystic women ought to be "women only", and only include those memories up to about birth. Anything past that? WTF? How?
There are limits to the number of hand-wavey things you can include and it still be "science fiction" vs. it being "fantasy". Dune edges right up to that line; Lynch? He leapt over said line, and took the movie into straight-up drug-induced madness. Whatever his movie was, it was not "Dune"; it was a Dune-shaped thing in a box, just like Starship Troopers by Verhoeven was an even more vaguely Starship Troopers-shaped pile of bovine excrement found in a pasture somewhere, likely left by a dyspectic cow with diarrhea.
The mini-series at least tried, within the limits of their budget.