It would help if they at least stayed consistent with the few words we get. Fine, elaborate from there as much as you like. Go wild, but at least respect the starting point. So I don't really care what the Aba Robes the Bene Gesserit wear look like, as long as they are kind of recognisable as an Abaya, or based on it, or at least derived from it. Not the trussed up, constraining taffeta monstrosities David Lynch had them squeezed into. They were about as far from the word 'robe' as you can possibly get and still be clothing.
I did like the look of Blade Runner 2049 though, so I have hope for the upcoming movie.
One of the more entertaining things about Dune is that it's been relatively bad at attracting fanfic and cosplay.
It's so ambiguous, rich, and open to interpretation that it's a daunting universe to visit as a casual tourist - and it's so stark and amoral that it's hard to feel comfortably at home in it, even if you're a fan.
Which is why it's such a challenge for directors. The visuals are critical, but it would take an uncanny imagination to make them work as metaphors as well as images.
IMO Lynch was a bit too literally imperial and historic. The movie feels more pedestrian and earth-bound than the books do, with some of the grandeur squeezed out by obvious signifiers and references.
The Jodorowsky version would probably have been amazing. I'm looking forward to the Villeneuve version, but I think Jodorowsky's Dune would have been a real game changer for SF movies - and all the characters would have been strikingly but plausibly weird, the BG included.
> One of the more entertaining things about Dune is that it's been relatively bad at attracting fanfic and cosplay.
well, unless you consider the "prequels" and two subsequent novels as "fanfic", which I do, and am apparently not alone since they seem to want to change canon so much.
> I think Jodorowsky's Dune would have been a real game changer for SF movies
even as far as he got was an amazing game changer for SF movies. the teams he put together, his story boards, and almost every aspect of what he created went on to define the sci-fi genre at the time. it's no coincidence that so many of those involved in Star Wars had been involved in Jodorowski's Dune adaptation.
After watching the wonderful documentary Jodorowski’s Dune [1], I think we already have that film.
As others mentioned here, and as the doc drives home, it’s pretty much Star Wars.
It wasn’t necessarily a wholesale ripoff, but are there a large number of similarities? And could they have been truly just coincidences? There had to be massive pollination from that Dune version to Star Wars Episode IV.
The mini series was... earnest. To me, it was a fine reminder that, while letting someone like Lynch ride roughshod over the source material isn't great, you can still get a pretty mediocre result from being faithful to the source material.
IMO the biggest weak spot of the miniseries was that it was about 50/50 good actors and terrible ones; and nothing shows this up more than scenes shared between both types of actors. The adaptation of Gormenghast had the same problem. It's almost better to have all indifferent actors, rather than have John Hurt swapping lines with someone who would be lucky to get a role in a soap opera.
Yep, it was actually pretty good. I went in with low expectations which were handily exceeded. While I wouldn't say it was ideal, it was definitely worth watching.
I agree. Opinions differ, some people like the Lynch movie better than the mini series, but I definitely liked the mini series while I found the Lynch movie virtually unwatchable.
I think the Lynch movie could have done better with better writers and less wooden actors. Some of the scenes cut around like cheap spaghetti westerns. Really bad editing...
I did like the look of Blade Runner 2049 though, so I have hope for the upcoming movie.