Lynch?

[Gunseng_Harkonnen]

This is VERY original :) question, but which movie is better?

I think that the Lynch one, but in Harrison`s one  there are more things from the book

[Vanguard3000]

I like Lynch's Dune better.  the set design, wardrobe, script, and acting are all much better.  Although the Mini had it's charm (Baron Harkonnen's metal fan, the Baron snorting the Spice like Victorian times, The Harkonnen's rhyming couplets, and Kynes' dress suit.  that is all).

[nampigai]

I must agree with you Vanguard. I think the Lynch movie is cult in a way the minies will never be. I still like the minies though I like the Atreides uniforms, but the Harkonnen is better in Lynch's.

Besides I like Sting the most as Feyd. ;D

[garth]

I liked the miniseries better because it was closer to the book.

[TMA_1]

I loved the original and the new series. But the original is better. THe mood and feeling of the original is more to the book then the new one I think. more dark and ominous. The sardaukar are cooler looking too in the older version though not like the book.:)

[Vanguard3000]

Damn right, Feyd!  Sting had the right eyes for Feyd's character.

[quoudam72]

I liked Lynch's version, the Fremen stillsuits designs are better. Although Harrison's take on a few things were good ie, getting the water of life from the worms and some of the Fremen set designs for the inside of the stetches. Lynch's version

[nampigai]

I was very mad when I saw the spice was green in the minies. I would like the fremen to have the Lynch still's but they need a robe in my opinion.

Something I like about the Minies is that they fight with knives, and the uniforms I think the sardines outfit is quite fine.

[quoudam72]

Yeah they can keep the robe but how the hell are you going to go into battle wearing a robe? I felt also the Fremen sneak attacks were over done they did not look natural.  

[Vanguard3000]

I also hate the CGI in many movies.  i prefer live actors, models, etc, any day.  I agree that the mini sets looked a bit unnatural.  The sietch, for instance, was too visible from afar (i.e. the large statue carving).  The heighliners in the mini were pretty dopey looking too.  And the remen spat when they talked.

[Digital Guerrilla]

Lynch's version was multi-ethnic Harrison's version was not. Harrison did his by the book but so did Lynch he just used a different approach. You may never get the same interpertation of Dune. I mean it is Dune, it is a desert planet there are no alien lifeforms, no high-tech gadget wizardary, no mutiple battle scences and most of all you might need a degree in philosophy to understand it all in the end. Both Lynch's and Harrison's version of Dune speak for themselves and it depends on who's listening. Enjoy whichever version you choose, Lynch is more movie and Harrison is more mini-series. There will always be difference between big-screen and small-screen.

[Vanguard3000]

Well said, Sandwraith.  Although, as I said, I'm more partial to Lynch's Dune, I feel much the same way.

[Timsvs]

i like lynch's betta, i got it on dvd :P

[nampigai]

You're right about that fed (the robes)

another thing about the minies is when Paul and Chani goes out in the desert to make a little one, they don't where still suits as I recall.

Well I'm looking forward to see what OrLoK can do about the Lynch movie.

[UsulSK]

Lynchs is way better then this new one.  The new one sucks  big time.  You can even spot the fake sets in the new one!  And the acting is terrible!  So its got to be Lynchs version.

[Acriku]

Lynch is the best of course, it is a classic. And classics never die. My fave part in the Lynch one is when the abomination goes to the Baron and kills him. Weee

[exatreide]

Personaly i am a fan of harrison version. My main Complaint about about Lynchs is its horibul lighting. That and its just short you cant jamm dune into 2 hours even the 4 hour version leaves alot out, and what about the ending. I mean it rains on dune. COME ON! That is such a cheap ending. Realy bad.

[Vanguard3000]

Yeah, but in the mini where Paul is standing on that statue, and water pours from nowhere all over the place.  Same deal.

[exatreide]

Yes kinda. Not realy. I mean Paul made the whole planet rain or atleast areaken. In the mini Paul just made the statue.  THe only complate i have about the mini is that paul seems to old, and to much of a brat

[Digital Guerrilla]

Yes ExAtriedes in Harrison's version Paul does act too much of a brat even in Frank Herbert's book, Paul's character was never this way.

The only character that was a brat was Alia, but I pity her character because she was an abomination and there was nothing she could do about it. Once people found out about her (birth) they would always shun her, being the reason the Baron was able to manipulate her later in the series.

In the Dune Appendix it speaks of the Water hymn that is where Lynch and Harrison both get their ideas of water on Arrakis.

[Vanguard3000]

ExAtreides:  It's on a smaller scale, yes, but it's just as absurd compared to the storyline.  I assume they were both metaphors (I personally like the rain if that's the case.  It showed nice foreshadowing).

[quoudam72]

How is it absurd they (Fremen) were wanting to bring rain to Arrakis each director was only being symbolic.

[Vanguard3000]

That's what I meant when I said:

I assume they were both metaphors (I personally like the rain if that's the case.  It showed nice foreshadowing).

[quoudam72]

Yeah well the sentence before that one sounds contradictory that's why I asked.

[Vanguard3000]

Sorry.  Looking back, it does look contradictory.  Next time I'll be clearer.