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Dune, the miniseries (Part II)

by storiesbywilliams on July 16, 2011 in Movies, Reviews and tagged baron harkonnen, bene gesserit, chani, classic sci-fi, desert, doctor kynes, doctor yueh, duke leto, Dune, Dune 2000, Dune miniseries, emperor, fedaykin, feyd, geidi prime, Health, irulan, jamis, Jessica, Kwizats Haderach, kynes, lady jessica, liet, naib, padisha emperor, Paul Atreides, princess irulan, rabban, reverend mother, sandworms, sardaukar, Sci-Fi, science fiction, sietch, sietch tabr, spice, thufir hawat, tribe, water of life, weirding way, yueh

Okay, in my last post, I tried to cover Dune the miniseries and everything that made it work. I tried to do this in one post… and failed! Going over that six hour beast is like trying to devour an elephant. You can’t do it all at once, no matter how hard you try. I’m […]

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Dune, the miniseries (Part I)

by storiesbywilliams on July 16, 2011 in Movies, Reviews and tagged alia, arrakis, Atreides, baron harkonnen, bene gesserit, Butlerian Jihad, caladan, chani, classic sci-fi, doctor kynes, doctor yueh, duke leto, duncan idaho, Dune, Dune 2000, dune fansites, Dune franchise, Dune miniseries, Dune universe, feyd, Frank Herbert, frank herberts dune, geidi prime, harkonnen, irulan, Jessica, kaitain, Kwizats Haderach, Leto, lyet kynes, mahdi, Muad'Dib, padisha emperor, Paul Atreides, piter de vries, princess irulan, rabban, reverend mother, sandworm, sardaukar, sci fi channel, Sci-Fi, science fiction, selusa secundus, spice, stilgar, thufir hawat

In my previous post, I think I made it pretty clear that the Dune movie was a flop. And I mean this in every sense of the word: commercially, critically – hell, even Lynch distanced himself from it! But that was to be expected, since Dune is just not something that translates into a movie […]

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Dune, the movie (and miniseries)!

by storiesbywilliams on July 14, 2011 in Movies, Reviews and tagged 1984, alejandro jodorowsky, arrakis, arthur p jacobs, baron harkonnen, chani, david lynch, david lynchs dune, dean stockwell, dino de laurentis, doctor yueh, duke leto, duke leto atreides, duncan idaho, Dune, Dune 1984, Dune miniseries, feyd rathau, francesca annis, Frank Herbert, frank herberts dune, fremen, geidi prime, gurney halleck, house atreides, house corrino, house harkonnen, jurgen prochnow, kaitain, kyle maclachlan, lady jessica, max von sydow, Muad'Dib, patrick stewart, Paul Atreides, princess irulan, reverend mother, richard jordan, sandworm, Sean Young, spice, sting, thufir hawat, weirding modules, weirding way

Wow… when I first started doing these movie reviews, last week, I knew that at some point I’d have to cover the book-turned-movie that inspired me to write! And truth be told, I actually saw this movie before reading the book. Yes, Dune was just like Lord of the Rings for me, a film that […]

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