Subject: Re: DUNE
From: droesch@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Doug Roesch)
Date: 1990-08-16, 21:28
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <107449@tiger.oxy.edu> eclipse@oxy.edu (Lynn Alyn Tanner) writes:
> >Come on you guys!  Don't be so harsh on Dune.  It was the movie version
> >of thestory that was so cheesy!  I didn't know it until someone mentioned

Agreed.  Dune was one of the longest, dullest, most superficial pieces of
visually-overdressed eye garbage ever put on film.  And, believe it or not,
I don't mean that as a criticism.  I don't think any film crew could do
justice to a story of that scope in less than eight or ten hours.  Frankly,
I've never read the book.  But watching the movie convinced me that some-
where in all those colorful, overstuffed sets and costumes was a rich and
engrossing story.  But it sure didn't come out in those short couple of
hours on film.

But what do I know...

Doug