The whole final battle is just Paul and Gurney and Stilgar sitting on top of the worm shooting lasers at people for like two minutes, and then suddenly they've won, apparently.īut the Harkonnens are pure over-the-top awesomeness. Paul's voiceover tells us that now it's time to take the water of life, and so he does that.Īnd, man, Lynch cannot direct an action scene. Paul's voiceover tells us that now he has to ride the worm (which is the first we've heard of anybody riding worms), and so he rides the worm. The pacing just disappears-for the next 30-40 minutes or whatever it is, things just start happening out of nowhere. It's perfectly fine right up until Paul and Jessica meet Stilgar and company in the desert, then it just totally falls apart. I thought it was both better and worse than I remembered. I just dragged my wife to see Lynch's movie on the big screen a couple weeks ago. I can't wait to see what a hash they make out of Foundation. But you think the Lynch film was tough to follow? Heh. Batshit insane film maker would be perfect for bringing out the batshit insane aspects of the Dune story. That's too bad.Īll that being said, the lost Jodorowsky Dune would have been fucking epic. It's real weakness isn't that the Herbert fan-boys don't like it, but rather that the viewing public didn't because it was too complicated. There's no way any movie of Dune would have satisfied everyone, but I think Lynch's film stands well on its own. Compare Lynch's film to the Sci-Fi miniseries a few years ago. Also so many great visual moments, little vignettes. It's a bit odd, a bit lumbering, but then again so's the novel the movie is based on. I also like the pacing and narrative structure. His film is underappreciated for the artistic vision, the set design, the costuming. Even the longer cuts, the 3.5 hour ones, although it does take a lot of fortitude to make them through. Imagining Foss-designed spaceships, with interiors like the Alien mothership, populated by people dressed like they are actors in The Fifth Element is a little disconcerting. I can't imagine how three artists with such unique and recognizable styles could be combined into a cohesive whole. I would have really liked to see Foss, Moebius, and Giger work on the same film though. I am glad that Jodorowsky never got to make this version, because it sounds to me like it would have been terrible. At least one of the ships in that game is taken directly from my book. I spent a lot of time poring over the pictures in that book, and it's still one of my favorite books to browse through.Ĭhris Foss has such a distinctive style that as soon as I started playing Homeworld, I knew what they had used for their inspiration. I found a copy of 'Spacecraft 2000 to 2100 AD' that someone was throwing out when I was around 10 years old. Those books were probably the Terran Trade Authority books, which have a lot of art by Chris Foss. Ooga_booga: See Cool Papa Bell's comment.

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