Watched some of Lynch's Dune today. Movie is ROUGH. I really enjoy the musical score and I dig many of the casting choices and the art direction for the most part, but the movie is a narrative disaster.
Watched some of Lynch's Dune today. Movie is ROUGH. I really enjoy the musical score and I dig many of the casting choices and the art direction for the most part, but the movie is a narrative disaster.
Which version did you watch? Did it have an animated prologue and a lot of expositive narration? That's the "Alan Smithee" TV version that Lynch disavowed.
Which version did you watch? Did it have an animated prologue and a lot of expositive narration? That's the "Alan Smithee" TV version that Lynch disavowed.
Most of the cast is dead and no one in their right mind would finance it in this day and age and it was amazing that it got as far as it did decades ago.
We got Alien out of it, one of the biggest jumps in cultural sci-fi imagination at the time (even if in hindsight you can see there's some clear ripping off from Planet Of The Vampires, like, a lot). And that was a decade after 2001 to boot. I think we're square with Jodorowsky on that one.
Can you imagine a world where Alien did not exist? Because in that world, Jodorowsky's Dune would have.