Lisa Grant Coffin said:
> the version of dune that ran as a serial on the sci-fi channel was
> inordinately better (in my humble opinion) than the movie version with
> sting et al. it is well worth watching, and is much more interesting in
> terms of maintaining the integrity of the writing than the rather campy
> flash-gordon-style movie version.
>
> lisa grant coffin
Hmm... I'd have to disagree. I just liked the "feel" of the
Lynch version better- particularly the "old tech" that was
everywhere. Everything looked too new for a centuries-old
empire in the new one, for my tastes.
Another beef of mine about the new version- I felt that nearly
all of the actors (there were a couple exceptions) weren't all
that good. Much of the time, I felt the overacting was a 7 on
the scale where Jeremy Irons in "Dungeons and Dragons" is a 10.
I'd agree that the miniseries was closer to the book... but the
tradeoff wasn't worth it, in my opinion.
-Rick
http://rick.978.org/