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From: jpm@ptsfc.UUCP (Jim Moore)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: How could anybody possibly like Dune?
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Date: Tue, 22-Jan-85 20:34:45 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 22 20:34:45 1985
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>I think the movie in itself was good.  The only problem I see is that they
>cheated us by using the characters, locations and actions that we knew too
>well.
>                                             Robert Kenyon


I also thought that the movie was visually well done.  The [3gbattle between
Gurney and Paul early on using their personal shields was very convincing.
The members of the Spacing Guild were fantastic, even if they weren't
what one might have pictured from the book's description.  The first time
(or two) that we see the Makers was truly awesome.  If the acting was bad,
let's blame it on the pacing of the film and the direction.  The actors,
after a few glimpses, seemed to appear as the book might have described
them, with the possible exception of Feyd Rautha.

But you can not take a book that requires you to - read between the lines
on practically every page, picture (in your mind) an entirely different
Universe, and spend a sizeable amount of time just reading it - and make
a classic motion picture.  Not in the 2+ hours *they* tried to do it in.
Maybe it would have been better as a (gulp) T.V. maxi-series.  We may yet
find out.

I *enjoyed* the movie, but didn't *live* it with the characters like some
of (all of) the great ones.  Heck, in Cassablanca I felt as though I was
standing at the airport with Rick and Ilsa and Victor.  Aaaaaah!
"Louie, this could be the start of a beautiful friendship!"
Oh, well... The movie DUNE has few (no?) memorable lines.  Sad.

-- 


     Jim Moore
     dual!ptsfa!ptsfc!jpm
     Pacific Bell

REMEMBER - "Things are only as bad as they are
            and can only get worse if they do!" - James P. Moore