Comments on: Frank Herbert’s Dune (2000) SciFi Channel Miniseries

By: jozseffrd

jozseffrd — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 01:56:29 +0000

The miniseries might have been closer to the book but most of the acting,”special effects”,Characters,Oh My God the cheese-y Blue eyes and the sets were TERRIBLE!!! David Lynch’s 84 Film is in the all time top 10 sci fi on most of the web sites.And if u read the book/s the 84 version says us much as this one.The movies and miniseries on SciFi and now SyFy are Terrible and this one is no difference Thank You

By: Stettin

Stettin — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 14:42:21 +0000

@ Eric

It has been several years since I read/watched the Dune series, so bear with me. I think what I was getting at about the whining was the comparison to the 1984 movie. You bring up a good point about the actor being a few years older, so his behavior seemed more out of place. I still hold to my opinion that the sets could have been done better.I knew it was low budget, so I wasn’t really expecting much anyway. Maybe they could have diverted some of the CGI budget to better sets.

By: Eric J Gibson

Eric J Gibson — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 06:35:25 +0000

It is a obvious fault that the miniseries really suffered the look of a small budget film, but you must also remember that is WAS a small budget, made for cable TV science fiction miniseries which almost always have very small budgets. That, along with the Children of Dune sequel are two of the top three programs ever played on the Science Channel, but they certainly couldn’t expect that before hand.

Also, is it really a criticism to think that Paul was a whiny, spoiled brat when in the book, he was a 15 year of … wait for it… spoiled whiny aristocratic brat kid that had to GROW into his destiny. The miniseries didn’t get it wrong in that way. It got it RIGHT. Actually, the fault was that Paul was not portrayed as young enough in the miniseries, so rather than seeing a kid acting appropriately whiny and spoiled, you saw a young adult acting whiny and spoiled which just feels wrong.

By: Stettin

Stettin — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 23:33:37 +0000

I just couldn’t stop laughing about what they did to the Weirding Way in the 1984 movie. Waaaachaaa to blow something up? Sheesh.

By: bob

bob — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:04:50 +0000

mini series not shown in the uk but glad i didn’t see it. having read the book i agree the 1984 movie was not faithful , however as the previous comment says “one of the best sci-fi movies ever made. for it’s time it was technically excellent with a great cast( a lot of whom were brits)

By: Dennis

Dennis — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:05:56 +0000

Didnt see the mini series but IMHO the 84 movie is one of the best scifi movies ever made. Just my 2 cents.

By: Stettin

Stettin — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 08:13:24 +0000

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion of course. As I said, if you can get over the cheesy sets and bad acting, the story is much more accurate. I still can’t understand why the 1984 movie decided to massacre the “Weirding Way” and turn it into a bunch of soldiers yelling “Beeeeooop! Whhaaaachaaa!” You have to admit that part was comical.

There really is no way anyone can understand what is going on by watching the 1984 movie. There is just too little time. I still need to find a copy of the extended Director’s Cut (close to 3 hours) and see how it fills in the plot holes.

By: Timothy

Timothy — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:43:11 +0000

I have to disagree with you pretty strongly here. Yes, the mini series was more faithful to the books, I’ll grant that, however the acting and production was terrible! I felt as if the actors were being fed their lines, and some of the asides were awful. Also, they really, really should have included the whispering “in the mind’s eye” dialog, which I thought was a tremendous feature of the 1984 movie.

All in all, I believe the writing was sub par, the acting was poor, the direction was poor. The only good thing was the Sfx budget and the more extensive story which was more faithful to the books.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 04:03:14 +0000

I agree with you. The whiny Paul was annoying and was reminiscent of Luke Skywalker, and that was a bad thing. The one thing this version is missing that the 1984 film had, though, was Sting. They should have brought him back for the miniseries.