Re: been there, Dune that

Here, Sean O'Hara <seanohara@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> In the Year of the Earth Rat, the Great and Powerful William Hyde 
> declared:
> > On Mar 24, 9:48 am, Sean O'Hara <seanoh...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> In the Year of the Earth Rat, the Great and Powerful William F.
> >> Adams declared:
> >>
> >>> Actually, I think it could be done if one focused on the British
> >>> Empire-like elements (I always envisioned the Sardaukar in crisp
khaki
> >>> uniforms) and broke the first novel up into three separate movies:
> >> You mean like the SciFi channel miniseries?
> > 
> > But without the silly hats, for a start.
> > 
> 
> I liked the hats. They were silly, but in the way you'd expect from 
> a decadent royal court.
> 
> Now the cheap looking backdrops they used for the desert, those were 
> distracting

Oh, yeah, those. Ow.

And sometimes, in one of those rooms full of massively blocky stone
furniture, somebody would brush against a bedpost and it would wobble.

Makes me appreciate (lord help me) Roland Emmerich.

--Z

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