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

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.