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I am writing a story for the office news paper. I'd like to hear what you all thought of the mini series.
I have read only Dune, so I didn't know what to expect from this one. I was looking forward to Saradon and Kreig getting a lot of screen time together, but that didn't really pan out. I'd be surprised to learn that they had more then 15 minutes apiece. Sci-Fi's add campaign made it seem like they were stars of the thing. Oh well.
My opinion? zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!
It may get me to read the two books though.
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Haven't seen the miniseries yet, but I read the two books a few weeks ago. Lady Jessica (Alice Krige) and the Princess Whats-her-name (Sarandon) were never major characters in the latter books. I was surprised how much they were touting those actresses because of that.
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$$$$$$ Just saw the new trailer on apple.com, though. It seems the small children Leto and Ghanima (10? 12 years old?) will be played by 25-year olds, too bad. Although understandable.
I also had envisioned the sand trouts (that Leto covered his entire body with) to make him look kind of like in the Spawn-suit, a leathery-gelatinous black-green, checkered organic suit. In the trailer, he just looks naked as usual, but with some black thing on his upper arm and something on his hip. This doesn't look promising at all.
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I enjoyed it much more than the previous movie. Some of the effects were cheesy, but most were really groovy. The acting was well done and the scenery was pleasing. I'm glad they got rid of the painted background scenery that they used in the other movie.
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quote:Originally posted by Jubilee: Well I've seen the whole thing, and I thought it was just beautifully done! Not that my opinion matters for much, but hey.
Yours counts as much as any, as far as I'm concerened. I haven't seen you post in ages. I deleted my link to this place, so I came in through the front page for Solareclipse. Went and looked at your page yesterday. I was wondering if you were still around.
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quote:Originally posted by deadcujo: I enjoyed it much more than the previous movie. Some of the effects were cheesy, but most were really groovy. The acting was well done and the scenery was pleasing. I'm glad they got rid of the painted background scenery that they used in the other movie.
I agree, it looked far better then Dune, and the costumes were a big improvment. The hats alone looked so much better that it would help the film.
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I rather enjoyed the condensing of "Dune Messiah" as part one of "Children of Dune." While I enjoyed the last "Dune" mini, I'm glad that TPTB allowed another director to take over from Harrison. I preferred the style in which "Children" was filmed over Harrison's style in the last mini.
I didn't like some of the visual choices Harrison made, in terms of camera angles and such in the first film; although he did do an admirable job at writing it, both this current series and the first one (even tho' there was some corny Harkonnan dialogue). Harrison stayed more true to the books than the Lynch disaster.
The best part about this mini was the music, especially at the climax of part one. It went well with the montage.
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