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However I think Blade Runner 2049 was better. [1]
I'm excited to see "part two".
[1] Stephen A Smith Hot Take: I actually think BR:2049 was better than the original - and I am a true devotee of the original.
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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.
never heard about this before! thanks for the tip will check this out
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.
There haven't been many good sci-fi films in the past decade though, especially if you think the Marvel cinematic universe is boring. Competition is thin.
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.
I would like to see the average age of people who prefer the new Dune movie to the old David Lynch one. Are you all Millennials and younger?
Eh, they kept all the silly stuff from the book, the atomic bombs, the boring desert sections, way too much exposition, the insurgency and holy war aspects that barely seem like fiction considering recent world events, and like all movies nowadays it's way too long.
> Even better than the first film The first part left me quite underwhelmed, tbh. Maybe I had too high expectations given the director, but while the visuals are amazing, the characterization of some characters (like lady Jessica or Thufir Hawat) are very far from how the books depicts them, and I don't think is an interpretation thing. I understand that Dune is too big of a masterpiece for a simple 2 part movie (it…
I get that. I felt the same was at first. But after watching it multiple times on HBOMax I have come to really appreciate the film. I think maybe my initial expectations were just too high.
I would like to see the average age of people who prefer the new Dune movie to the old David Lynch one. Are you all Millennials and younger?
I never thought to myself they're in some desert on earth, but truly that this is some far away planet far in the future.