Dune the 80's movie

[Lavoruis]

Which extended version should buy? the foreign import entitled the Alan Smithe cut.
Or new extended version with David Lynch"s name on it.:confused:
And yes I know Alan Smithe is false name of David Lynch

[Jarl]

It's the false name of all directors who take their name off a movie because they hate it.
The Alan Smithee version is the re-edited TV version. Get the Lynch version.

-I had a weird conversation with one of my teachers a few years back over the nationality/previous careers of various people involved in the production, notably Sting, Frank Herbert, and... the dude who played Paul.

[tstone]

You know, for the longest time, I thought this movie sucked. But upon subsequent viewing, altho it's supremely flawed and the Sci Fi version is actually much more faithful, it is an enjoyable and imaginative adaptation.

[KingVoyeur]

When I was younger I slept in our furnished basement for a week while my room was being repainted, and I stayed up real late every night watching TV. The main reason for this was that the Disney channel for some reason that whole week showed the TV cut of Dune at like 11pm every night without commercials. I think I watched it every night and got completely hooked on it. Imagine my surprise when I went out and bought it on video and found out that it was practically a completely different movie! I was unbelievably pissed off. But now that it finally got released on DVD I'm back in my happy place :lol:

[Lavoruis]

I heard there is 6 hr version of 80's dune movie, but being keep in the vault
be some director who names escapes me . This be would awesome if they ever release it

[Bill_the_Pony]

check out this link, for a clip from the DVD, where Raffaella DeLaurentiis explains and debunks the popular misconception of a long director's cut...

http://www.moviesonline.ca/movienews_7271.html

There exists hours of raw footage, scenes that were dropped and reshot (Paul's Water of Life scene, for example, was originally filmed as an interior, then reshot to take place outside on a sand dune).... the dvd has several minutes of this raw footage, not seen in EITHER version. Scenes that are classic scenes right from the novel....they, along with the actual extra LYNCH footage in the "Alan Smithee" tv version....all point out what a brilliant, moving experience this movie could have been. The theatrical version, at 2 hours and 20 minutes is a Cliff Notes version devoid of almost all humanity than Lynch's intended vision....

I found somewhere online an early draft of Lynch's screenplay, containing the dialogue and scenes we now know to be from the full version.

Again, the final result was far less than what was envisioned. Too bad, because all the elements were there.

An interesting sidenote is that the extended tv version is now in animorphic widescreen, which is some sort of improvement over the hack job of editing this version received.

[Nebka]

Sometime back the SCIFI Ch aired a long version is this the same one that just came out on DVD?

[Lavoruis]

Good, I will buy tv version .
I found seller that has the tv version for very cheap price.

[Bill_the_Pony]

Are you in the US?

If so, then just go to Best Buy and get the newly released version, with David Lynch's theatrical version, and the tv Alan Smithee version, all in one metal fold-out box. It retails for 28 bucks, but it's on sale now for only $16.99.

There isn't a better deal than that.

[Jarl]

That sounds fantastic.

-Barring that, Amazon, most likely.

[SlamShut]

Are you in the US?

If so, then just go to Best Buy and get the newly released version, with David Lynch's theatrical version, and the tv Alan Smithee version, all in one metal fold-out box. It retails for 28 bucks, but it's on sale now for only $16.99.

There isn't a better deal than that.

I picked that up a week or two ago.

It's interesting to watch the two versions back-to-back. The Smithee version has a more cohesive narrative flow, but it has much of the Lynchian flavor chopped out. The Lynch version has more verve and style, but is almost impossible to follow, narratively.

The DVD package is nice, though. The metal case that it comes in should be the model for all premium DVD releases in the future. It's quite lovely.

[jayce78]

Never really been able to get into 'Dune' . . . .

But I understand the appeal. It's funny some people complain about the Star Wars trilogy having to many versions . . .

Dude!

http://img468.imageshack.us/img468/2189/ertf3uh.png (http://imageshack.us)

[Bill_the_Pony]

Dude!


Not Dude. DUNE. :)

Yeah, Slam, it's quite the trade-off between the two, I guess we're going to have to settle for that.

I loved watching the deleted scenes, there are lines and moments right out of the book.

[Alpha]

For anyone who's interested, both of the Sci Fi Dune miniseries are now on sale at Amazon.com for about 10 bucks each.

[Karatekid84]

loved the versoin onthe scifi channel.:)

[ellenora]

The case itself isn't really metal. Look at it closely once you open it. It is plastic that has a metallic layer laminated on the outside. ;)

[mediagirl42]

Love the the first and second books, made it throught the third and never finished the 4th. May have another go some day. I really hated the 80's version at first, but now I can watch it for awhile. Actually like the 1st SCI FI mini-series quite alot. The second one wasn't as good, I wish they would have done one book at a time. Have to look for that dvd set though it sounds like it would be worth haveing.

[Bill_the_Pony]

I just finished reading the FIRST draft of the 80's DUNE. This was when there was a notion to present Dune as TWO movies instead of one. It was written by Eric Bergen, Christopher De Vore and David Lynch, all three having previously written Lynch's Elephant Man.

This draft can't be found anywhere online. It's been for sale through a couple individuals, sporadically, and I found one recently on eBay. It's 125 pages long, and ends where the first segment of the book ends, with the Harkonnens/Sardaukar having decimated House Atreides at Arrakeen and Paul and Jessica escaping into the desert.

The ending of part one, as written, had the potential to be moving and sad, and the screenplay pretty much follows the book, with of course several things simplified, but it's pretty amazing how much closer it was to the novel and its underlying subtexts and intricacies.

Not perfect, far from it, BUT.... a very admirable job that indicates that the writers....Lynch included...knew EXACTLY what they were trying to adapt. And far, far closer than what we see in the existing versions (Lynch's, and Sci-fi network's).

Oh....and no weirding modules. :)




I don't know enough of Peter Berg's work to have an opinion, but I hope Dune isn't turned into a mindless action P.O.S. like most movies so far this last decade and a half.

I hope the trailer doesn't have Don LaFontaine spewing forth in it.... :mad:


"In a World.......blah blah blah....ONE man......blah blah blah...TO SAVE THE UNIVERSE!" ~worm leaps out of sand dune and swallows camera POV Shot~