Re: been there, Dune that

"Andrew Plotkin" <erkyrath@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Here, William Hyde <wthyde1953@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> On Mar 24, 1:27 pm, Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy > > But without
>> the silly hats, for a start.
>> >
>> > I thought it was a decent effort, for all its flaws. At least they
>> > didn't "reimagine" it.
>>
>> I agree.  For a while there I had a rant about this version getting
>> right everything the other got wrong, and vice versa.
>
> That's been my summary of the situation as well.
>
>> And since the Lynch version got most things wrong, this version
>> wasn't too bad.
>
> I missed the enormous visual *presence* of Lynch's version -- that's
> one thing he did well. (If not necessarily *faithfully*.)
>
> So the third incarnation will have to get *everything* wrong... or
> everything right? Neither of those outcomes is really imaginable.
>
> --Z

I could do without the black nose plugs. I thought it was a nice touch to 
simply cover the mouth and nose entirely.

Oh yeah, and them wearing sand-a-flage made far more sense in the desert 
than all-black suits.

-- Ken from Chicago