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Updated Review List

by storiesbywilliams on August 26, 2011 in Movies, Reviews and tagged 2001: A Space Odyssey, 28 days later, A Clockwork Orange, A Scanner Darkly, Akira, Alien, aliens, Aliens franchise, anime, Avatar, Blade Runner, children of men, classics, District 9, Dune, Dune 1984, Dune 2000, Dune miniseries, equilibrium, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, ghost in the shell, i robot, Impostor, Inception, Independence Day, iron man, Lord of the Rings, metropolis, movie reviews, movies, ninja scroll, Paycheck, Philip k dick, PKD, Predator, Predator 2, Predators, princess mononoke, Reviews, Sci-Fi, sci-fi movie reviews, sci-fi movies, science, science fiction, Screamers, Soderberg, Solaris, starship troopers, Strange Days, sunshine, T2, Terminator franchise, Terminator Salvation, The Adjustment Bureau, The Matrix Trilogy, The Star Wars prequels, The Terminator, Tron, twelve monkeys, V for Vendetta, vampire hunter d, wall-e, watchmen, Willow

Hello, and welcome to my updated review list. After many, many reviews and plenty of change-ups in the lineup, I decided it was time to revise my master playlist. I do this mainly for the sake of being succinct, seeing as how I put up three in the last two months. The first was dedicated […]

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Dune Miniseries (best lines, revisited)

by storiesbywilliams on August 5, 2011 in Movies, Reviews and tagged baron harkonnen, bene gesserit, chani, classic sci-fi, Dune, Dune 2000, Dune miniseries, emperor, fenrig, feyd, Frank Herbert, frank herberts dune, guild, irulan, kwisatz hadderach, Leto, Maker, Paul Atreides, plyometric, princess irulan, Sci-Fi, science fiction, spice, taekwon-do

Yesterday, more lines were coming to me as I busted my butt to get through Taekwon-Do class. I don’t know, it seems plyometric exercises are all the rage these days. Did I mention I hate them? I hate em, I HATE EM! But my aching shins and stiff muscles aside, it was good in that […]

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“Fear is the Mind-Killer…”

by storiesbywilliams on August 3, 2011 in Books, Movies, Sci-Fi and tagged bene gesserit, david lynch, Dune, Dune miniseries, dune movie, dune movie 1984, fear is the little death that brings complete obliteration, fear is the mindkiller, I must not fear, I will face my fear, john harrison, litany, litany against fear, Paul Atreides

Recently, when looking back at the best Dune lines from the miniseries, I forgot all about one, very important one. How could I? It’s only one of the most important lines in the Dune series, one that gets repeated in just about every book. And that line is… The Litany Against Fear! For those who […]

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Best Dune Lines!

by storiesbywilliams on July 21, 2011 in Best Lines, Movies and tagged arrakeen, arrakis, baron harkonnen, baron vladimir harkonnen, doctor kynes, Dune 2000, Dune miniseries, dune quotes, emperor, feyd, Frank Herbert, guild, Jessica, lady jessica, mother superior, Paul Atreides, Sci-Fi, science fiction, spice, the voice

Hey all! As you can plainly see, I did a rather long review of Dune, the movie and miniseries, recently. One thing that kept coming to mind was all the great lines that made it in. Some of these were taken from the novel, others were the result of John Harrison’s imagination. Either way, they […]

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Dune, the miniseries (Part III)

by storiesbywilliams on July 18, 2011 in Movies, Reviews and tagged arrakeen, Atreides, baron harkonnen, bene gesserit, chani, duke leto, Dune, Dune 2000, Dune miniseries, emperor, fedaykin, fenrig, feyd, fremen, guild, gurney, harkonnen, irulan, Jessica, lady jessica, Leto, Muad'Dib, naib, othyem, princess irulan, sandworms, sardaukar, Sci-Fi, science fiction, sietch, spacing guild, water of life, yueh

We come at last to Part III and the final act of the Dune miniseries! Been a long time in coming, and funny thing is, I tried to do all in one post. Now here I am breaking it into four just so I can cover the original movie and the miniseries faithfully. But as […]

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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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Coming reviews!

by storiesbywilliams on July 9, 2011 in Movies, Reviews and tagged 2001, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, A Scanner Darkly, Akira, Alien, aliens, Avatar, Big Brother, Blade Runner, classic sci-fi, District 9, Dune, Dune 1984, Dune miniseries, Impostor, Inception, Lord of the Rings, movie reviews, movies, Philip k dick, Sci-Fi, science fiction, Screamers, Solaris, Space Odyssey, Star Wars, Star Wars prequels, Star Wars trilogy, Terminator, Terminator Salvation, V for Vendetta, Willow

Not long ago, I plotted a list of movies that I wanted to review in the coming weeks and months. Thus far, I’ve fulfilled on the two of the first three I promised: Terminator: Salvation and Independence Day. However, the third movie I planned to do (Transformers 2) has dropped from the list. Why review […]

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