Last night, Tristan and I went to see Dune at the Egyptian Theater. Nothing really says ‘fantastic evening’ better than Captain Picard riding a sandworm while guitars wail in the background, and I dare you to tell me otherwise.
THE SPICE MUST FLOW
Last night, Tristan and I went to see Dune at the Egyptian Theater. Nothing really says ‘fantastic evening’ better than Captain Picard riding a sandworm while guitars wail in the background, and I dare you to tell me otherwise.
Pfft, sez you! *I* spent my evening massaging my sore feet and buying vintage Tupperware on eBay.
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Your counter-argument, she does little to sway my mind.
I’ve got nothing to say to that except:
Make it ****ing so!
*guitar riff*
With music by Toto, I thoroughly expected ‘Africa’ to pop up somewhere. Like when the rainstorm starts!
I hear tell that it was your first time seeing Dune. I also hear that you haven’t seen Blade Runner.
I hereby state that Mellzah has been derelict in her duties as a nerd!
In my defense, I am more highly focused in my nerd subjects of choice! Though Tristan has indicated that he will help bring me up to speed so that I may no longer avert my eyes in shame before the general nerd population. 😉
……..Captain Picard? Which version of Dune did you see? Is the Egyptian Theater a MOVIE theater, or a stage theater?
cheers,
Phil
The egyptian is a movie theater. Patrick Stewart was in Dune. So was….Sting. 😀
mmmmm young Sting witha great tan…..*does a Homer drool*
Based on Dune alone, he could give classes on how to give someone the crazy eye!
Apparently, I need to give up some of MY geek creds, having completely forgotten that Stewart was in Lynch’s movie. I still don’t recall him doing a scene on a sandworm, though I do clearly remember the Big Guitar Riffs ™ by Toto every time Paul (er, Kyle McLachlan) got on one.
cheers,
Phil
It was right near the end. I feel that the movie would’ve been even better served to have someone in the distance, riding on a sandworm, shredding on his guitar like a music video, perhaps dressed like Slash.
Otherwise.
Damn U beat me toooooo eeeet!
I guess now it’s your turn. Truth or dare?
Oh Noes! I guess I’ll take a truth. It will make for much better journal.
Your lover has been magically transformed into an animal, and the only way to restore your lover is to mate with them. Here’s the question: Which animal would cause you the least psychological damage?
Oh I’m game…
So least psychological damage or greatest satisfaction? Since you assume that I’m not already dating out of my species…I’ll stick with your specific question and go with a Bonobo Monkey. Why? Cause those monkeys do it ALL the time. I can’t speak English well enough let alone Monkey, so I’d get the least resistance from this “very friendly” species.
…I now understand the folly of asking that question. D:
that’s quite a sexy userpic there… U dirty robot u!!!1111oneoneone
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
Though that question is giving me psychological damage just pondering it, so I’ll give you an out: What’s the worst song in your MP3 collection?
Taylor Dane “Can’t Get Enough of Your Love”… Just typing that makes my brain hurt…
Sad, John. Sad.
I believe it was YOU who made the dare.
Yeah, that’s right. I BA-ROUGHT it. Mmm hmmm!
If you’re to be my #2 when the revolution comes, I expect you to challenge me a little less.
OH MAN. You just got served.
Long live the fighters!
*wails madly in the background*
Oh, I don’t know, I imagine getting laid would be more fantastic.
But yeah, Dune on the big screen is up there.
Dune is a great movie, I want some spice and the cool blue on blue eyeballs.
I want a flying space manatee that shoots beams of fire out of a vagina-mouth!
Now that you’ve read the book and seen the Lynch verion you should rent the Sci-Fi channel miniseries version just to compare and contrast.
Having now read the book, no WONDER parts of the movie confused the hell out of me! I think I will get the miniseries soon–do you think Sci-Fi did a better job, considering they had more time to tell the story?
The Sci-Fi version is a lot closer to the book, kind of orthodox really, but they expanded certian things like Princess Illuran’s role. You wonder about her a lot reading the book since she writes all those chapter introductions but she only has like five minutes of “face time” and like two lines at the end. I like what they did with that, and the fact that things like the costumes are more like in the book.
The Lynch version is great and all, but he lays the gothic-punk on a bit thick sometimes. He’s got Toto going for him, however, and you can’t beat all the whipsered inner dialogue.
But, in retrsospect the bad guys are bit overexagerated and the Guild Navagators has a face like a pussy. That shit scared me when I was 5.
Irulan was another thing I wondered about–throughout the book, she has those chapter intros like she knows the entire history of Maud’Dib; the only way she could know these things would be if she wrote them after she was married to him…but she’s still referred to as ‘Princess’ Irulan. Wouldn’t her title have changed with marriage?
I guess it would have, weird…
One more reason to see the Sci-Fi version, the guy playing Feyd is pretty damn hot. I didn’t think anyone would live up to Sting’s charisma, but if you try to suppress that and just eyecandy it’s v. enjoyable.
Oh, ANOTHER thing that bothered me about the book was how cheap Paul was at the end. “So PAUL promised you safety, but Maud’dib does not.” When you’ve got multiple personalities, you can go against your word like that and it’s ok? Gee, let’s get ALL the names in and vote on it. What does Usul and the Kwisatz Haderach have to say about killing the Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV? Well, Usul would prefer dismemberment and the Kwisatz Haderach just voted ‘present’, so we’re at an impasse.