TV/Movies Megathread

[Tonitrus]

That was always my impression...not great, but so deliciously campy that it is still watchable.

Sting and Patrick Stewart are worth price of admission.

[Barrister]

So I watched the Dune movie. God, I knew it was supposed to be bad. But it was terrible.

The new one?

No....the old one.

The TV movie, or Lynch's Dune?  The Lynch movie was dumb but kinda fun because it was so dumb.

The thing for me about Lynch's Dune is it mostly looks fantastic.  The worms, the guild navigator, the stillsuits - a lot of trippy stuff going on.

I always said it was a great but deeply flawed movie.

[crazy canuck]

What was great about it?  The director had great source material, changed it and made a bad movie.

Really hoping the new movie gives the source material its due.

[Sheilbh]

I love Lynch's Dune. It's a mess but an ambitious, glorious mess - it occupies the same part of my heart as Gilliam's Brazil.

[The Brain]

I haven't seen the Dune movie in years, but I didn't find it bad. It's not like the source material makes much sense. It was certainly better than the dry af TV version that came out a number of years ago now.

[Josquius]

Yeah, I liked Lynch's Dune in a Starship Troopers sort of way.

[crazy canuck]

I love Lynch's Dune. It's a mess but an ambitious, glorious mess - it occupies the same part of my heart as Gilliam's Brazil.

Brazil is one of my favourite movies of all time.  Please do not sully it like that.

[grumbler]

I love Lynch's Dune. It's a mess but an ambitious, glorious mess - it occupies the same part of my heart as Gilliam's Brazil.

Brazil is one of my favourite movies of all time.  Please do not sully it like that.

This.  Brazil was intentionally zany.  Dune was zany because Lynch was trying not to make a zany movie and missed.

[The Brain]

I watched the first episode of Deadwood. Does it get sexier or is it an essentially chaste show?

[The Larch]

My understanding is that many of the more bizarre elements of the Lynch version of Dune actually came inherited from the failed Jodorowski project, is there any truth to that? 

[crazy canuck]

My understanding is that many of the more bizarre elements of the Lynch version of Dune actually came inherited from the failed Jodorowski project, is there any truth to that? 

Some time ago I read about the link between the two.  No idea of the accuracy of the claim though.

[celedhring]

My understanding is that many of the more bizarre elements of the Lynch version of Dune actually came inherited from the failed Jodorowski project, is there any truth to that? 

The flying space vaginas seem very Lynchy.

[The Minsky Moment]

Sting is a riot as Kid Harkonnen and the costume design is campy fun.

That about exhausts the positive things I have to say about the Lynch (Loosely Based On) Dune. I find much of it unwatchable

[Darth Wagtaros]

The Lynch Dune movie, what truly bothered me were the voices.  They had weird accents or they sounded poorly dubbed.  It affected the dialogue too.

[celedhring]

You know, back in college we had this huge divide among ci-fi geeks about whether they'd rather Lynch ruined Star Wars (he was offered ROTJ) than Dune.

Star Wars ruined itself in the following decades, though.