Dune (Extended Edition)
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Movie Reviews of Dune (Extended Edition)
Movie Review: Get over it!!
Summary: 5 Stars
What is there to complain about on this release?? You don't like the extended version?? Oh well, you have the original all remastered here for you as well. I have a nice LCD TV and a nice surround system and it is great to get both versions all remastered. As far as the "6 Hour" version goes, it will never happen!! Lots of my favorite shows and movies will never be out the way I want them. "This is Spinal Tap" has a 5 ½ hour version out that we will never see on DVD. Beavis and Butthead has episodes we will never see on DVD again. Frankly, that is ok with me.
Being a retailer of CD's and DVD's I can understand why the things we REALLY want will never get released. Imagine an industry full of lawsuits, disputes about rights, companies getting bought out, pissy directors crying because the studios wouldn't give them 100% creative control, family members of deceased Cast and Crew members bitching about not making enough money, ETC.
Consider us lucky that we now live in an age where we can get complete seasons of TV shows and get out favorite movies looking and sounding the way they were when they were originally in the theaters. Most of the time they even look and sound better at home!! Technology has come so far in the last 7 years with the invention of DVD's!! Remember when VHS was around and we couldn't get hardly anything we wanted?? When our only options to watch our favorite movies were to rent them, buy them from the video rental stores pre-owned or for a hefty price of $100+, or just to simply copy them off of TV!!
With the invention of DVD we have been fully spoiled with out movies and we totally expect the movie companies to give us the shirt off of their back. Movies are made for profit!! Even the so called "indie" and "artistic" movies are still for profit. It is the actors, directors and movie maker's job. This is how they make their living. Be happy we can all go out and spent $20 or under for a movie we all love and enjoy, being remastered with excellent digital sound and picture that we can add to our collections.
Because essentially you are getting 2 different movies for the price of one. Try spending $20 for both versions when VHS was around!!
Movie Review: Dune: epic classic, timeless, powerful...
Summary: 5 Stars
For all those cheese-balls who criticized "Dune" when it came out in 1984, you're a bunch of goobs! I've read all the books, especially the first two books several times. It is a complicated environmental, political, religious, mythological masterpiece from Frank Herbert. The movie was poorly-received in theatres because most folks that went to see it back in the day couldn't stand to sit for more than two hours, never read the books (they are heady and complex), and didn't make much of an attempt to really get into the movie. Likewise, due to having shot way too long a movie, the DiLaurentiis folks had to edit the movie hardcore so it left some gaps.
All-in-all, I was eleven years old when I saw this movie back in the 80's an I understood it just fine. I came to grasp it even more as I read the novels.
The movie is basically about royal families competing against one another for a substance known as "the spice," which represents crude oil on earth. The fremen are a parallel-Muslim-type culture that lives in the desert where the "oil" or "spice" is harvested. Complex politics and intrigue are everywhere.
The acting is SUPERB! Kyle MacLachlan was the best choice is the world to play Paul, Sting was perfect as Feyd, good ole' Kenneth MacMillan was the GREATEST Baron Harkonnen ever, and overall there was an excellent international cast. The costumes, backdrops, scenery, and TOTO SOUNDTRACK were all unforgettable. I'm a huge Toto fan anyway (saw 'em in concert recently)...David Paich, the keyboardist and main songwriter for Toto delivered some music that will give you goose pimples.
I like this extended edition because it shows deleted scenes that add SO MUCH to this movie!!
Dune is quirky at times with some whispering and drawn-out scenes but in general it is so much fun, so heady, so vast, and despite the wild fantasy world we see in it, it seems believable at times. Fun trip. Worth every penny....
It's worth the spice to buy!
Movie Review: Its a DUNE Thing.....You Wouldnt Understand
Summary: 5 Stars
There is so much mystery and confusion. I am going to break this down as best as I know how:
1) I know that there are at least 3 versions of this film.
A) The origional theratical cut. Included on this DVD.
B) The extended TV release. Included on this DVD.
C) The extended Sci-Fi channel TV release, which is not included on this DVD. This version contains additional scenes not seen on this current DVD release. To my knowledge this release has never been commerically available (at least in the US). This is the only time I have seen this version, when it was aired on Sci-Fi about 6-7 years ago. So I am calling it the Sci-Fi channel release. I do not know if the previous foriegn releases of this film contain this cut or not.
2) The producer eludes to the fact of a 4+ hour edit that may be in Universals vaults. Based on the differences between the TV release and the Sci-Fi channel differences, plus the deleted scenes you see included with this DVD, there seems to be enough materail for just such a film.
3) This new disc release is one disc that has 2 sides. It is not a 2 disc set.
4) The extended version screen aspect loses (yes loses) some of the picture frame from the origional cut. This was done to have your "wide screen" and preserve aspect. Check out this link to see. http://www.duneinfo.com/giedi_prime/dvd_extended/
All this said as a DUNE fan its a good thing and I enjoy this collection. Its as good as we will ever get I think. You could proably wait 2-3 years and it will be a $10 disc. I dont think we will ever get "all the movie" or even the Sci-Fi version. If they do it wont be for a VERY VERY long time as Universal has put this together and will want to cash in on it as much as possible. So go ahead ad get this and enjoy. Then dream of the day we get the whole enchalida. Youll love this until we do.
Movie Review: "A beginning is a very delicate thing..."
Summary: 5 Stars
The Extended Edition of David Lynch's big screen adaptation of Frank Herbert's classic novel finally arrives on DVD. This release contains both the 1984 theatrical release and the extended version which has aired on television. This DVD release also contains bonus features which the original DVD release was sorely lacking, such as deleted scenes introduced by producer Rafaella DeLaurentiis, Deigning Dune documentary, plus featurettes on special effects, models and miniatures and wardrobe design, plus a photo gallery and production notes. And then there's the movie (or movies) itself. Lynch brings a remarkable cast together, including Jurgen Prochnow (Duke Leto Atreides), Max von Sydow (Dr. Liet Kynes), Jose Ferrer (Emperor Shaddam IV), Kenneth McMillan as the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, Kyle MacLachlan (Paul Atreides) as well as Dean Stockwell (Dr. Wellington Yueh) and a pre-Star Trek: TNG Patrick Stewart as Gurney Halleck. Other cast members include Francesca Annis (Lady Jessica), Virginia Madsen (Princess Irulan), Sean Young (Chani), Paul L. Smith as Beast Rabban, Brad Dourif as Piter DeVries and Sting as Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen. Lynch's version was visually stunning and is faithful in that it captures the atmosphere and feel of Herbert's novel while John Harrison's version on SCI-FI is faithful in terms of attention to detail. Now we just need a filmmaker who is willing to marry the atmosphere of the former to the latter's attention to detail (Peter Jackson, are you listening--can you hear my cry?!?) Lynch and his cast and crew did a great job in their efforts to bring Frank Herbert's science fiction masterpiece to the big screen, and they should all be commended. I'm still waiting for another director and screenwriter to create the "definitive screen Dune." Until then, this DVD set and the director's cut of Harrison's version will have to suffice.Movie Review: It's FINALLY available to purchase!
Summary: 5 Stars
I was lucky enough to VHS-record the "long" version off of cable over 10 years ago - 2 years in a row - didn't capture the whole thing either time! The VHS tape, being organic, is losing quality. I have been waiting and watching for the long version to become available in ANY form - DVD - YEA! I am SO on board and don't know how I missed it the day it came out.
I have read all five DUNE books (and the prequels). Between this long version of DUNE with Kyle MacLachlan as Paul Atreides, and the newer release with William Hurt as Duke Leto Atreides, the actual first book of the quintology is well-covered. Either movie alone is still missing parts, and the shorter Kyle MacLachlan version was so confusing to me, that is what compelled me to read the book, to see what was missing!
The newer William Hurt release has a totally different mood than the older release. I enjoyed it and appreciated it, but more like it was a movie of its own, not a remake or another DUNE.
Francesca Annis is absolutely breathtaking as Jessica. When I read the book, I could see why she was chosen for the part. Same with Shaddout Mapes (good casting) and certainly the Baron and his brother! Sting is fantastic as Harkonnen (prounounced in this movie as "har-KO-nen" not "HAR-kennen" as in the newer movie) Feyd Rautha.
To adequately convert the book's true revelation of "plans within plans," into a movie, would result in nothing less than a six-hour movie. By itself, the extended version of DUNE with Kyle MacLachlan is my favorite out of any other DUNE movie. I don't want to spoil it by telling what scenes are added, if you haven't seen the extended version yet, but I will say, like I was, you will be pleasantly surprised.