Re: been there, Dune that

On Mar 26, 1:01=A0pm, jdnic...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (James Nicoll) wrote:
> In article <fse2nl$e5...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Andrew Plotkin =A0<erkyr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> >Here, Sean O'Hara <seanoh...@[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:
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> >> >>> Actually, I think it could be done if one focused on the British
> >> >>> Empire-like elements (I always envisioned the Sardaukar in crisp
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> >> >>> uniforms) and broke the first novel up into three separate
movies:
> >> >> You mean like the SciFi channel miniseries?
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> >> > But without the silly hats, for a start.
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> >> I liked the hats. They were silly, but in the way you'd expect from
> >> a decadent royal court.
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> >> Now the cheap looking backdrops they used for the desert, those were
> >> distracting
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> >Oh, yeah, those. Ow.
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> >And sometimes, in one of those rooms full of massively blocky stone
> >furniture, somebody would brush against a bedpost and it would wobble.
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> >Makes me appreciate (lord help me) Roland Emmerich.
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 If this is the most recent DUNE series, in one of the
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rt
> 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.
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> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 It also had a hilarious scene where Paul is ogling a
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> ****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.,

He could've just been wondering where a hardened teenage desert nomad
warrior got D-cups from.  I certainly did.