Children Of Dune
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You can call me Dave Join Date: 2002-12-11 Member: 10593Members, Constellation
You can call me Dave Join Date: 2002-12-11 Member: 10593Members, Constellation
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<div class="IPBDescription">opinions</div> I thought it was a total let-down. They build it up like this kid is gonna be a super god of doom, but barely show any super power use. just some blurring and one messed up fight scene where he knocks out 18 guys but in the end there's only 5 bodies.
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BOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Oh well.
/confused
"Ohh look at me, Im all powerful, watch me dismiss these 6 nameless guards to show you!"
"My my, you are the strong one, I think Ill finish having my psychotic episode and kill myself." And *DEAD* !
"Hurrah, my work here is done." *ZOOOOOOOOOOM!*
Mind you it wasnt that simplistic, and the dialog was a bit better, but the Children of Dune wasnt as cool as the first Dune miniseries.
And i think its playing again sunday.
I thought it was pretty good. If you read the books then you know that Leto doesn't really do much with his super-powers...except live for about 3500 years and save humanity from it's own destruction.
Pah, read the books before you make judgements. The movie did a very very good job of compressing about 12 hours of dialogue and endless pages of description.
now God Emperor, that'll be a difficult movie to translate.
What bothered me most was that it interrupted Star Trek: The Original Series. I was not pleased, especially since TNN booted Star Trek: The Next Generation from its 11:00PM slot, and UPN took Star Trek: Voyager from the 1:00AM slot. Boo, I tell you! BOO! I want to come home from work to 3 hours of Star Trek!
Oh well. Worm riding will always have a place in my heart <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->.
Plus Dune has only hot women! who have sex with their ... clothes on? Interesting way to keep your Network TV rating yet have it be explicit enough so that joe-schmoe can understand what's going on, I guess [/sarcasm]
Otherwise a nice experience, overall.
A good way to end my Sci-Fi Channel days.
[rant] I won't watch Scifi until Tremors the series is gone. No offense, I watched all three tremors movies, the first was best, 2nd second best, 3rd was bad, but cutting Farscape for something like that is asking for something like this. Farscape=rawk[/rant]
Least in the original it felt like an actual uprising, you got to see Paul's power and influence on the people grow. This one felt very disjointed at the end, this kids supposed to be more powerful then Paul (sp?) yet all he does is move really fast, I mean hell his GRANDMOTHER can do the same thing!
Im not even going to comment on Taken, that was the worst spent time of my life, it was hardly tolerable as is, but the crappy ending made me think Spielburg should stick to 1-2 hour flicks.
*sigh* Of course, no Half-Life, Deus Ex, Fallout, Baldurs Gate miniseries will ever happen. Such a shame. What would be really nice is a Drizzt minisieries, it would be perfect since the whole story of his coming up from Mezzoberanzan is a trilogy. Those Sci-Fi execs are really screwed, they are pimping Tremor's (the series *cringe*) and completly ignoring the billions of awsome potential sci-fi stories out there. Imagine a Chronicles of Narnia miniseries! Or Ringworld!
Bah, nuff ranting, I hear a movie studio bought the rights to a Max Payne movie. Oddly enough the upcoming A Man Apart looks exactly like Max Payne (minus Vinn Diesel looking nothing like Max Payne). There is hope...
Very very few cross-medium enterprises ever succeed, ALA. Games -> Movies or Books -> Movies or Movies -> Books and stuff like that. Think Tomb Raider, the Dune movie, Men in Black the game, etc... There is the occasional exception like Final Fantasy: The spirits within and the TV series of Hitch-Hiker's guide.
Before you lot go saying the Dune series is crap, go read the books. All of 'em, all the way though. You'll thank yourself for it. The universe that Mr. Herbert builds is amazing in its complexity, the entire series spans over several thousand years.
--Scythe--
EDIT: I should mention that I haven't seen this miniseries, nor the three-DVD set of the new Dune movie. I Played Dune 2 to death (Another exaple of a great port) and Dune 1 a bit ("OMG! Atomics!").
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oh and Greg Bears "Forge of God" and "Anvil of Stars" are well worth a look too, as is a lot of Orson Scott Card's..Enders Shadow is excellent.
Edit: Oh ffs, they're making FoG and AoS into movies..:/
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That's gonna be really painful...I bet Bruce Willis is in them or something...gagh..
By the way people, Children of Dune the book has almost no action, just the Laza fight and the end where Leto confronts St. Alia-of-the-Knife. Of course, Sci-Fi couldn't show the tossing of a 50 ton door.
it's their job to make it not suck.
simple as that. gg.
Now, I think they should do a series baised off of Ender's Game series, now that would be killer. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> But the only way I can see this story being pulled off properly for its visuals is to do it as an animated feature, probably similar to Titan A.E. (say what you want about the story, I dont care, but the artwork in that movie was pretty darn cool. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> )
IMHO Max Payne would be the best movie translation, because it pretty much WAS a movie. Second vote would go to Baldurs Gate. Half-Life IMHO would suck as a movie, the game was meant to put you in a first person perspective so you felt like you were there. Trying to make that into a 3rd person retelling would be damn hard, and it prolly wouldnt get the careful script writing it needed.
Baldurs Gate had it all though, you becoming a God, other demensions, assassination plots. It would be a kickass mini series.
Oh, wait... I like that too...
Anywho, Dune is supposed to talk about the issues in the world, and the issues in history. That's my opinion on the book, btw.
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