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never heard about this before! thanks for the tip will check this out
Agreed that the SciFi channel miniseries of Dune is top notch. There’s also a Children of Dune miniseries with the same cast. Catch is when I wanted to watch it last these couldn’t be streamed anywhere legally. So I bought them on dvd from fleabay.
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For that 6-8 part series, you’re looking for the SyFy Channels version that was done early 2000s. Fantastic. Frank Herbert’s Dune. Had William Hurt in it.
Hurt was the worst part of it. I swear, I still cringe when I remember his unemotional delivery of "Desert. Power." Damn he was bad.
Historically, february is the time of the year where studios tend to offload the films they think are going to flop. Maybe that has changed.
Dune: Part Two was actually scheduled for release end of last year, but got delayed due to the writers' strike. Maybe it hasn't changed afterall.
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Only Arrival and Interstellar were released in the last decade, and Interstellar only just . This is my point. The last decade has been a sci-fi wasteland.
Plenty of good sci-fi, but mostly on TV. Still, you're also probably overlooking how common sci-fi films are. Like say, Ad Astra with Brad Pitt (2019). The Martian in 2015. Blade Runner 2049 . And so on.
Care to share? I can't name a single one besides 'The Expanse'.
How is Austin Butler's character? If he can pull off this _and_ Elvis he can be one of the great actors of our time.
I have the feeling the first part was review manipulated and therefore has the image of being good while just being mediocre and forgettable.
I loved the book but the story imo has not aged well. Too much of white savior going on and too much colonialism. I would not describe myself as "woke", I can see why the teenage me loved it, yet my adult self cringes too hard. Particularly now as multiple post-colonial wars are happening. Also, I do not think a mega-promoted mega-budget Hollywood blockbuster needs more marketing here. "Esquire says" - so what?
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Plenty of good sci-fi, but mostly on TV. Still, you're also probably overlooking how common sci-fi films are. Like say, Ad Astra with Brad Pitt (2019). The Martian in 2015. Blade Runner 2049 . And so on.
> Plenty of good sci-fi, but mostly on TV. Care to share? I can't name a single one besides 'The Expanse'.
Have heard good things about Station Eleven.
Even on Apple TV+ alone there are plenty to choose from, though funnily enough the one I've been watching the most is not the critically-acclaimed For All Mankind, but climate disaster drama Extrapolations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39543480
Fired on Mars on MAX is a gem of an existential sci-fi dry comedy.
Paper Girls on Amazon Prime has been cancelled, but it was a good time travel romp and comic book adaptation that wasn't a superhero one from the big two (it's an Image Comics title)
It's not quite the '90s extravaganza in terms of television sci-fi, but with all of the demand for streaming content, the odds are good, even if the goods are often odd. There's been like, three different Star Trek shows now, plus a cartoon. Surely there's something to be found from that.
I just came back from the theater. Every word of this article rings true. The movie is a piece of art, the best of star wars with the grandeur of Game of Thrones. Its very rare to get movies like this these days.
What were your feelings about part one, if you saw that back when it came out?