Re: been there, Dune that

In article <fse2nl$e5m$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Andrew Plotkin  <erkyrath@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>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.
>
>
	If this is the most recent DUNE series, in one of the desert 
scenes they lost track of where the light was supposed to be coming 
from. On the CGI backdrop, the shadows pointed one way but in the 
foreground, they pointed another.

	It also had a hilarious scene where Paul is ogling a (semi?)
****d Chani. Well, not so much that scene but that Paul's mother thinks
he's fascinated by Chani for reasons other than he's a male teenager
and she's a hot ****d woman of about his age.,


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