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The Sci-Fi channel (when it was still Sci-Fi...) did do a miniseries version of Dune[1]. Some people apparently don't like it, and they did make it on a relati

by douche 11y ago

The Sci-Fi channel (when it was still Sci-Fi...) did do a miniseries version of Dune[1]. Some people apparently don't like it, and they did make it on a relatively low budget, but I like it, and it feels more like what I imagined reading the books than the David Lynch freakshow. Seriously, "weirding modules"...? [1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0142032/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0142032/

thisone 11y ago
agreed. I liked them as well. Though probably heresy, the Sci-Fi series of the first two books were how I got into Dune. I went on to read all the Frank Herbert written Dune books and I still like the Sci-Fi series.
- AdamJacobMuller 11y ago
  I also enjoyed the SciFi series. While it didn't posses the same level of Artiness that the Lynch adaptation had, it definitely was a very beautiful movie. There was very little CGI in the movie. Seriously real sets and some absolutely massive and impressive ones at that. All of the interiors of the palaces on Arrakis? Wow. The backdrops weren't CGI either, nor were they Matte paintings. They used Translights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translight which are basically gigantic sheets of plastic that hang behind the sets meaning the actors actually got to stand on real sets and actually see the world around them and I think it showed in the quality of the acting. Actors don't act well when they aren't able to immerse themselves in the world they are pretending to be in. Watch the LOTR making-of documentary where Andy Serkis explains how he basically inserted himself into parts of filming that Peter Jackson didn't think a Voice/Motion-Cap actor needed to be involved in (not that Jackson objected, he embraced the ideas, but just didn't realize it at first). Speaking of the acting, I hear a lot of people complain about Alec Newman, calling his character "wooden". Hard tasks need hard ways and hard ways need hard people. I think he nailed it.
simoncion 11y ago
Yeah. If you combine the -er- art direction [0] and fight scenes of the Lynch Dune with most everything that's not a fight scene in the Sci-Fi Channel Dune, you get something that's pretty close to the book. [0] Though, you'd most def have to put facemasks on those stillsuits!
Havoc 11y ago
No not that one. The miniseries were actually really good. Tempted to say excellent - I read the books first then saw the mini-series. Thats not what I was talking about though...those miniseries are like 2000 or 2003ish. There was a recent attempt (2012?) to launch into this again...failed...and never made it past concept (see my earlier reference to pink tiger strip spacecraft) - thats the one I was talking about. Wasn't a complete failure though...they documented the process & I gather the docu was decent. Haven't watched that docu.

by douche 11y ago

thisone 11y ago

agreed. I liked them as well. Though probably heresy, the Sci-Fi series of the first two books were how I got into Dune. I went on to read all the Frank Herbert written Dune books and I still like the Sci-Fi series.

AdamJacobMuller 11y ago
I also enjoyed the SciFi series. While it didn't posses the same level of Artiness that the Lynch adaptation had, it definitely was a very beautiful movie. There was very little CGI in the movie. Seriously real sets and some absolutely massive and impressive ones at that. All of the interiors of the palaces on Arrakis? Wow. The backdrops weren't CGI either, nor were they Matte paintings. They used Translights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translight which are basically gigantic sheets of plastic that hang behind the sets meaning the actors actually got to stand on real sets and actually see the world around them and I think it showed in the quality of the acting. Actors don't act well when they aren't able to immerse themselves in the world they are pretending to be in. Watch the LOTR making-of documentary where Andy Serkis explains how he basically inserted himself into parts of filming that Peter Jackson didn't think a Voice/Motion-Cap actor needed to be involved in (not that Jackson objected, he embraced the ideas, but just didn't realize it at first). Speaking of the acting, I hear a lot of people complain about Alec Newman, calling his character "wooden". Hard tasks need hard ways and hard ways need hard people. I think he nailed it.

simoncion 11y ago

Yeah. If you combine the -er- art direction [0] and fight scenes of the Lynch Dune with most everything that's not a fight scene in the Sci-Fi Channel Dune, you get something that's pretty close to the book. [0] Though, you'd most def have to put facemasks on those stillsuits!

Havoc 11y ago

No not that one. The miniseries were actually really good. Tempted to say excellent - I read the books first then saw the mini-series. Thats not what I was talking about though...those miniseries are like 2000 or 2003ish. There was a recent attempt (2012?) to launch into this again...failed...and never made it past concept (see my earlier reference to pink tiger strip spacecraft) - thats the one I was talking about. Wasn't a complete failure though...they documented the process & I gather the docu was decent. Haven't watched that docu.