[an0n]

You do remember the rain thing at the end, right?

[Carl]

You can't just take any stranger's word for it.  A syndicated stranger, however, is a different matter.

no, you still can't take his word for it. you cannot judge any movie until YOU YOURSELF see it.

[Carl]

one of those infantile people who don't like books or movies where "nothing happens"

I guess I'm infantile, then. forgive me for thinking that plot is important to a movie.

[Flipside]

You do remember the rain thing at the end, right?

Yeah, it was a rather iffy attempt at squeezing several books into one movie, and, from the Book point of view, it didn't work out too well, but I was lucky to have seen the movie first and read the books after, I think had I done it the other way around, I wouldn't have been impressed.

The one thing I did like about that movie was the acting, Leto Atreides was brilliantly done, and Paul's sister (at least in her youth) from the series was obviously modelled on the incredibly creepy version of Paul's sister from Lynch's Dune.

Though, admittedly, Sting was a mistake, a big one, I suspect the movie would actually have done better without a grinning emaciated ginger haired skeleton playing the most vicious and heartless member of a warrior family.

Edit : Oh, and finally, the movie contained some of the best Music Toto ever produced, odd to think that the band who's song 'Africa' was used to represent Live Aid were the same group who did the music for Dune...

[Dark Knight]

Never mind that. Patrick Stewert charging into battle with the warcry of "For Duke Leto!" while carrying the familly dog is one of those beautiful moments of film that stick in my mind forever

Of course Dune has to answer for. Thank you Dune film, for the look of GW's Warhammer 40k ... and thank you Dune books for half the backstory come to think of it.

[Flipside]

Heh, well, fantasy battles was more than slightly based on an amalgum of Lord of the Rings and Raymond Feists' works. Though, in retrospect, Oblivion is pretty much the Warhammer 40K story with a Warhammer Fantasy battles environment.

[Ford Prefect]

I guess I'm infantile, then. forgive me for thinking that plot is important to a movie.

Don't get me started. Please don't. I'm an avid James Joyce fan, and if there is one lesson everyone should carry away from life, it's that you should never try to tell a James Joyce fan that plot is important for anything.

[starbug]

mine are,
- Wallace and Gromit curse of the Wererabbit
- Pirates of the Carribean
- back to the future 1 and 3 (can't stand 2!)
- Ghostbusters
- Dark crystal
- Dr Who and the Daleks
- the mummy and mummy Returns
- Tremors 1 & 2
- Blues brothers
- Shaun of the Dead
- Gundam wing Endless Waltz
- Appleseed
- Blood last Vampire
- Transformers
- Airplane 1 & 2
- the original Dune( got it free with the newspaper)
- Spaceballs
- Morons from outa space
- Saving Grace
- A brigde to far
- see no evil hear no evil
- Clue (film based on the game Cluedo)
and thounsands of other films.

[achtung]

Office Space, mainly for Milton's antics.

[Mr. Vega]

Memento.

[phreak]

I always laugh when i look at this picture

[Martinus]

The Last Starfighter
Hero
Withnail and I
Original Starwars trilogy
Indiana Jones trilogy
Blazing Saddles
The Three Amigos
SouthPark the Movie

[Nuke]

You do remember the rain thing at the end, right?

Yeah, it was a rather iffy attempt at squeezing several books into one movie, and, from the Book point of view, it didn't work out too well, but I was lucky to have seen the movie first and read the books after, I think had I done it the other way around, I wouldn't have been impressed.

The one thing I did like about that movie was the acting, Leto Atreides was brilliantly done, and Paul's sister (at least in her youth) from the series was obviously modelled on the incredibly creepy version of Paul's sister from Lynch's Dune.

Though, admittedly, Sting was a mistake, a big one, I suspect the movie would actually have done better without a grinning emaciated ginger haired skeleton playing the most vicious and heartless member of a warrior family.

Edit : Oh, and finally, the movie contained some of the best Music Toto ever produced, odd to think that the band who's song 'Africa' was used to represent Live Aid were the same group who did the music for Dune...

i have to agree with most of that. the music was so awesome its hard to believe a band called toto did it. paul's sister is one of my favorite characters. also the acting was awesome and it was nice to see sting get his ass kicked at the end. i think the lynch movie, while being a good movie, did a far better job at explaining some aspects of the dune universe. it had the side effect of the dialog being bloated with information about the universe to the point that it would sound unrealistic, yet still they managed to pull it off without comprimising the performance of the actors. it is a good intro to the universe and i watch it as such. from there i turn to the miniseries cause it was by far more accurate and because it had a longer running time, they were able to have the characters seem more natural. so i think they complement one another.  children of dune is on tonight and while what i saw of it the first time i watched it sucked, maybe this time i can avoid falling asleep in the middle of it.

[Martinus]

I've also read the books and think the movie was awesome. Again I read the books after but anyone who expects as much from a movie as you can fit into a book is pretty much expecting far too much.

It still remains one of my favourite films.

[Nuke]

i finally read the book. satarted it this weekend and finished it this morning. it was ok but it only reminded me why i hate reading. still il read the other books as well, though il probibly read at a more leasurly pace.