Reminiscing about Arrakis

[GKar]

I just recently picked up Sci-Fi channel DVD versions of Dune and Children of Dune off of Ebay. As an avid Dune reader I was very impressed at how closely these videos stayed with the original storyline. Children of Dune was actually Dune Messiah and Children of Dune combined (books 2 and 3), I must admit there was some water given to the dead in these books and movies.
Recently I ordered Brian Herbert's (Frank's Fremen son) House Atriedes , House Harkkonen and House Corrino books and I hope these are as good as the father's books.
Hopefully a long line of Dune movies as well as some Star War's sequel/prequel movies appear in the near future (If Jedi Master Lucas permits). There are socially redeemable factors in all these works.
Any thoughts on these subjects?

[Grimey]

Reminiscing about Arrakis

What?

[stiltman]

Reminiscing about Arrakis

What?

Spice planet if memory servers me right

[Faustus]

Brian Herbert is a guilty as whoever Zelazny's kids have writing the new Amber books. blah.

However even if you not in for the entire real dune series, I think everyone should read the first one, its a masterpiece.

[rallynavvie]

The first one is a fantastic book, the next two were pretty good too. The only real sci-fi books I've read actually. The SciFi movies were pretty damn good too, I haven't picked up the second one but I owned the first one shortly after it came out. I didn't get a chance to see it on TV because I don't get cable out here. The SciFi version was about as close to the story as Pete Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies, that is to say very close with some drama added.

However I also do like the old version with the better actors. Not that the actors in the new one were bad, they just aren't Patrick Stewart, Linda Hunt, Jose Ferrer, Jurgen Prochnow, and of course Sting. That one was campy almost, and the music by Toto I guess it's just a fun one to watch.

[Faustus]

I used to own the first one off scifi, but I swore off backup up series until dual layer disc price game down. Sadly with my wallet gone the orginals are now gone.

But yeah they did a good job, especially considering it was within the confines of a scifi channel budget.

[stiltman]

I tried watching the sci-fi channels version. Just didn't seem as good. I really liked the first one. I actually have the Dune board game

[Faustus]

I actually purchased the Dune PC game about 6 months before I had a computer. When I went to staywith my sister for a week I played it on my brother in laws computer. Had my first "computer headache" from it. If you dont know what a computer headache is you dont wanna.

[Madz]

I've read the whole original trilogy and loved it! But regarding the original movie, I spent abit of time looking for the double-tape extended version (theater release weighs in at ~2:17 & the extended at ~3:20). Must be out of print considering how much I've seen the double-VHS go for on eBay (although I was lucky enough to finally get a double-beta). I'm absolutely surprised it hasn't been reissued on DVD, however!

The miniseries? Around mid-2001, I purchased the Japanese R4 import triple-disk extended of that one, too! Although it's now available domestically, it wasn't at the time. Easily recognizeable by the gold border around the coverart. Although I haven't yet seen a "CoD" extended U.S release, I did find it in UK PAL-land.