>>What, you thought the version with Sting was better?
>>
>>It seemed a lot closer to the book. The acting could
>>not have been worse than the movie, such being
>>impossible. Special effects were OK, since they were
>>not really the point of the book anyway.
>>
>>
>
>I'll second Chris' comments - I thought the SCIFI Channel version
>was actually pretty good (putting aside the largely mediocre acting
>and some pretty lousy sets) and more importantly, it was
>interesting. The David Lynch Dune was better acted and had better
>sets, but was an incoherent mess. Then again, the SCIFI version was
>6 hours and extended movie version was about 3hrs.
>
Errr ... you guys do realise, of course, that the Fremen *as originally
written* have much in common with Al Qaida and the Taliban ?
Julian
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