I thought the SciFi Channel did a decent job with both of them — though I liked the SciFi Channel DUNE better than Lynch’s version by a considerable distance.

If anybody could play Elvis, 20-30 Kurt Russell could.

Vale, Peter Scolari.

Did she ever get around to explaining WTF was the big deal with that crystal skull, though?

And the Baron Harkonnen in the book didn’t have pustules and boils popping out all over his face — that’s also very Lynchian.

Okay, I LOL’d!

The longer “Novel for Television” version has a long explanatory (7:15) introduction that is cheaply-done and has a generic male voice-over, but it fills in a lot of the backstory which Virginia Madsen’s opening introduction to Lynch’s movie certainly doesn’t! It also includes scenes of epic sweep Lynch clearly wasn’t…

“Emperor ::doink!:: Emperor Shad - ::doink!:: Emperor Shaddam the Fourt- ::doink!:: Pardon us....”

I thought the SciFi Channel’s version of Dune, Dune Messiah and Children of Dune was an honorable television adaptation of an infamously difficult series of books to adapt, on the order of a BBC adaptation of a British SF/fantasy classic like The Tripods, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe or 1984. Yes, the Czech…

The question is, was he fucking around when he pulled the trigger, or was he following direction? It sounds a lot like he was directed to fire at the camera, and either the armorer wasn’t around or didn’t adequately check the gun to be certain there wasn’t an actual round in there.

Digital muzzle flashes rarely look convincing, and there’s over a century of using practical guns with blanks (and sometimes with live ammo, as they often used in Silent and Thirties movies for machinegun fire!).

Naw, VARIETY still uses it, too.

I know y’all know this one, but....

Why? A movie based on TIME would be about how often journalism bent itself into a pretzel to appease the whims of power, while one based on PEOPLE would be about how journalism ate its own tail in pursuit of subscribers/eyeballs/clicks.

Shh! Don’t let facts get in the way — he’s on a roll!

Sorry, if we have to listen to Right Wing editorializing on False Nuwz, and NeoLiberal bullshit on MSM? You can live with a wee bit of Leftism in your morning coffee, bfred — or run off and hang out with your intellectual inferiors just because you argee w/them politically.

Standing up for the notorious Hollywood movie hater A.A. Dowd, are we?

Of course The Asylum would have a mockbuster version ready to go!

I think I read that it was because Robert Shaye at New Line was as huge a LOTR fan as Peter Jackson — it was originally supposed to happen as two movies at (wait for it) Miramax! But Harvey Weinstein dicked Jackson around so much he got disgusted and shopped the project around elsewhere....