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  • I liked this version better than Lynch`s movie from 1984, although compared to the time they were filmed the effects were better in Lynch`s movie as far as I can recall. The movie was too weird for my taste though. Despite lacking the budget, I liked this production`s style and theme better. Ian McNeice as the Baron did a great job to name one.

  • the emperor's acting is weak, but over all i liked the sic fi channel's version of dune and the next 2 books

    i liked very much that not everyone spoke with english accents

  • This looks like a big budget High School play...

  • Hey it's the dude who played Churchill on Doctor Who recently...

  • The costumes are too bright and gawdy.... makes it seem like a cartoon. :(

  • @Tigerlilly0777 Yes, but Moebius' original drawings for the Jodorowsky version in 1974 were equally colorful. I wonder if they borrowed elements from it for this series, since the former was never completed. I must admit it was hard for my eyes to also adjust. Lynch's aesthetic (with Di Laurentiis owing largely, I'm sure) was tasteful and more classy pallette and style. Probably due to a subdued or appropriate nature of conveying the minimal of Polticial commentary as possible.

  • Only Cameron would be able to film this right.

  • Oh noes! TEH SUPERFETUS!

  • The miniseries is good till they run out of money, which is right after the first time you see a worm....

    The Children of dune miniseries is not that bad, I think they gave more money for that one.

  • somehow they managed to make a version even worse than the Lynch rendition in every conceivable way (though it followed the book more closely, which was their first mistake). The casting, costume design, lighting... everything is unimaginative, goofy, and amateur. It encapsulates all that is awful about the Scifi er "SyFy" culture these days.

  • @aylmer666 Aye, too much low cost production, but the Children of Dune series was way better.

    I have never forgived the 80's movie to include something even near to a "weapon" activated by "the voice"

    There was nothing like that in the Book.

    But at least they have chosen good actors, and good costumes.

  • god this movie was so cheesy.

  • Maybe in another 10-20 years someone will have the cahones to try again and do justice to a tremendous set of stories.  Anyone up for doing it as Machinima?

  • @WBradleyRobbins fuck you

  • this version is far closer to the actual story in the books, it's really too bad the production was so poorly executed. It's so bad... it's hard to watch, even for the story !

  • Me: Well, i wonder if this will be better than the original.

    Me: *watches video

    Me: Holy crap that was shitty acting.

  • Did this win an Oscar for best costume design? hmmm, maybe not.

  • They chose such weak actors to play these strong parts. Pathetic.

  • Fedy has kind of a cool outfit here, but the next time we see him (when he demands kanly) his outfit looks ridiculous.

  • Awesome movie, the direction, acting and set design is SO much better than the David Lynch travesty. I think I only stomached that movie once all the way through.

  • Wow those are the worst bene gesserit women of all time.

  • Thumbs up if you think Alia is awesome.

  • I find it hilarious and adorable that a little girl is defying the Emperor of the Known Universe.

  • @DarthBigBen a pre-born not so little girl with memories of many generations in her mind

  • True. Maybe Lynch's Sardaukar looked like garbage bins, but these one are just ridiculous. Its hard not to laugh when you see them. Plus the Bene Gesserit really looked like some secretive, manipulative cabal of witches, which they basically are, and not like Mary Poppins fan club.

  • David Lynch didn't do so bad after all.

  • I love Ian Mcniece.

  • LOL It's that the guy from Visconti's soap-opera flop "L'Innocente"?

  • PAUL, I AM YOUR GRANDFATHER!

  • @mindarinas NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!­!!!!!

  • @nightbringer757 Search your feelings, you know it to be true.

  • floating fatman

  • David Lynch's "Dune" differs from the book. That's why many people criticize it but I don't agree. The whole movie was very well done, visual effects were great for that time and the acting was brilliant. Kyle MacLachlan and Francesca Annis were stunning

  • @Magnolia296 That's why I love the movie more than the mini series. The acting was great and it was visually stunning. The mini series was more faithful to the book but it had a cheap look to it and the acting wasn't all that great. I'm hoping to see a movie down the line that can balance all three and give the Dune trilogy the epic adaption it deserves :)

  • @Magnolia296 in my opinion, the 1984 movie is better.

    Don't forget, CGI were still not yet known during 1984

  • Those are some devilishly sexy hats on the Sardukar. Seriously.

  • "There shields are going up!"

    "No shit sherlock! I can see that from here!!!"

  • Sci/fi chose... poorly.

  • @ElleRoni, never liked the remake by them . they changed a fantastic surreal world into a bad Borgia Soap Opera.

  • @ElleRoni now that was a bad movie - all pee pee ka ka - no substance

  • they should make the new movie with hiqh quality production...i hope Peter Jackson would be in charge :-)

  • The Baron should be an overweight dark menacing presence, not some silly mannered fat man.

  • @TheWrestlerNation

    the 1984 baron is a twisted, sore pus filled on his face evil blood drinker.

    This one's a Pig 

  • @losttribe Agreed

  • Wow this is so bad it makes me appreciate how good the Dune movie really was.

  • Does it seem that the Emperor was modeled on Shah Reza Pahlavi?

  • @Audinos the clothes do.

  • @Audinos Considering that the book came out in 1966 & the Iranian Revolution occurred in 1979, I'd say probably not. But it's still a possibility...

  • God, I hate the Baron in this, he looks like a fucking clown, At least in the first Dune, he looked disturbing and the acting was great

  • @SuperHeroMania Wrong, New Baron looked better

  • Sardukar Troops = Looks Stupid ...

    Sardukar Bashar = Make Sense.

    Spacing Guild = At least fits a little.

    Fremen = More accurate.

    Bene Gesserit = /facepalm... but makes sense how similar physically look.

    Irulan is fine though (Sophie Cox)

  • holy shit, this television series makes the new dune look like a masterpiece LMAO, even though the new dune did have great acting, despite crappy story direction that David Lynch went with

  • Hmmm not watched the mini-series yet, probably wont start after this

  • The Sardaukar, the emperors' dreaded chefs...

  • @squamish4244

    They cook a fine meal, and then kill you with it.

  • @Hot5six4231 They're all clones of that angry British chef who screams at people.

  • @squamish4244

    Gordon Ramsey IN SPACCCCCCE!!!!!

  • The costumes look like they were made by the cast members themselves at the last minute using anything that lay to hand.

  • 4:47- "we must fall back to space andaaa reform!" Obviously Uncle Luigi took his role very seriously.

  • this version was god-awful

  • @EucharistOfHypnos I'd gladly watch this 10 times than to watch 10 minutes of the Lynch movie. Also, Children of Dune mini-series served justice to the dune legacy in my opinion.

  • @mariusbigb The miniseries was way more faithful to the book. The only problem was that the book was a poorly-written mess. Enjoy your hideous CGI and bad acting, I guess.

  • @EucharistOfHypnos not sure if you're trolling, or trolling.

  • @mariusbigb what's trolling

  • I enjoyed this mini-series, but the Paul and Alia in this make of Dune had this sense of overbearing arrogance to them that I really couldn't stand, lol...everything else I enjoyed, but they were both a bit much for me.

  • This is some of the worst acting in the history of television.

    And yet, the small child is not the worst of it.

  • @tdwon I love alia at this age. and the acolytes are so funny. Other than that, yeah

  • @tdwon

    It's a little better than the original though. That one was a mess.

  • With the exception of some dubious costuming choices, this adaptation is about as close as one can get to being faithful to the original Dune.

  • @alexandrakl I agree, but I like the original dune better despite cutting important scenes and elements of the novel, but at least the vision of the areas looked real, plus they had some great actors in the film, kenneth mcmillan as the baron was a great choice

  • @SuperHeroMania no it wasnt shut up

  • @skinflint420 no what wasn't?

  • @SuperHeroMania sorry i was drunk a lil....i think i hit the wrong person to msg.....my bad....

  • Baron Vladimir Harkonnen is the announcer at the Forums in HBO's Rome isn't he?

  • @Truth118 yes same actor

  • Giancarlo Giannini is giving his all as Shaddam IV, but the director didn't do a good job of setting him up. His shots do Giannini's style no favors. Those long, static shots of him on the throne (like at 2:11) makes him look like he's flailing about like an amateur --which he most certainly isn't. That's what happens when you spend cable TV money and talent on a feature film-level star.

  • Goodbye grandfather. You've finally met the Atreides gom jabbar.

  • Sandworm Troop Transport FTW

  • bad acting, bad costumes, bad special effects, bad depictions of characters, bad movie

  • That little girl did a great job playing Alia!

  • Um, The Sardaukar look like the Vadican swiss guards.=\

  • "My brother comes!"

    Love it.

  • OH, DID ALIA MADE AN INSULT TO THE BARON, BURN

  • Is it true that Vladimir Harakononen is/was a homo? Um those were saradaukar? No fucking way!

  • @hawkcrie Yes it is true.The Prequels emphasize this more.If you closely watch the movie you will see that the movie implies this.Notice that all his servants are effeminate males, and he was with a male when his nephew tried to kill him.

  • @hawkcrie Sorta. He was a pederast who liked young boys.

  • @hawkcrie He was a pederast who liked young boys. The novels make this more clear.

  • Thumbs up if Alia reminds you of Emperor Palpatine :P ...

  • @verterdegete don´t you mean "thumbs up if Emperor Palpatine reminds you Alia"? :P

  • AndL

    - The Baron was killed with the Gom Jabbar. A painless poison that kills almost instantly.

    - The Baron shouldn't fly. He has those things that make his weight bearable, but not make him floathly like that. In the book he walks.

  • @Lolligator Actually I think he suffers from a condition where he cannot move without the lifts.

  • Multiple epic fails in a row:

    - The Sadaukar, some elite troops that were raised and trained from birth on some hellisch planet... I'd atleast expected them to be muscular...but those look like we-are-just-for-the-show nerds.

    - Those Bene Gesserit (that woman and her group that yells about 'her being in her mind'. Bene Gesserit is the dutch name, dunno if its the same.) look really weird, and the woman that talks should be an oldy.

  • To really do justice to any continuing story like this, the format of the movie must be in animation. Animation has improved so far beyond that which it once was that now justice can be done to a epic story like Dune. Please someone out there who has it in their power to make this a reality, make it happen.

  • The movie was terrible and so different to the book. This mini-series was a little better, in terms of plot, but was let down with the stupid costumes. Actually it's sequel, Children of Dune, was a lot better done and maybe the best of all.

    But nothing matches the books. I really do hope one day someone can really do it justice. Some say it can't be done, but they said that about The Lord of The Rings too.

  • Ugh, the guy playing Paul is awful! But I do very much like Alia; excellent, just like in the book. And Irulan, too, and the Reverend Mother Mohiam. Irulan is certainly beautiful.

  • Wouldn't the fallout from the atomic blast on the shield wall kill all the worm riders?

  • @CaptainPositron - Perhaps their stillsuits can deflect any residual radiation? It is plausible they can at least deflect the heat. Or perhaps the atomics in the Dune era are much more precise (like the stone burners, which run on atomic fuel, although they themselves are not atomic) and side-effects end quickly. Muad'Dib only shelters from the blast ITSELF and twelve years later (Dune Messiah), Arrakeen suburbs grow closer to the gap in the Shield Wall, so these atomics seem to be quite clean.

  • Good bye Grandfather, you finally met the Atreides Gom Jabbar!

  • I mean the novel was pretty clear that the people dressed in kind of futeristic Victorian era dress style. They sure has hell didnt dress like drag queens!

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  • someone should make an epic 10 hour movie for dune that actually does the sardaukar and the bene gesserit and all the other fucking awesome aspects of the genius masterpiece that is dune some justice.

  • @guitar4evr30 I agree, say what you want about david lynch's version at least they gave the characters justice they had amazing actors who played their parts well, the were dignified they wernt bad actining caudy and laughable like they are in this piece of sh*t

  • the costumes FUCKING RUINED this EVERTHING LOOKS GAY

  • I admire the miniseries for getting an actress for Alia that could speak and act with conviction and on an adult level, rather than have her lines dubbed by an adult reciting lines as if she was telling a ghost story to three-year-olds.

  • FUCKING GAY !!!!!! SHIT ACTING SHIT COSTUMES SHIT SCRIPT SHIT SETS SHIT COSTUMES!!!  SHIT MUSCI CHEAP EFFECTS! FRANK HERBERT IS SPINNING IN HIS GRAVE

  • 3:47 "My Brother comes!"

    I cant help but laugh every time I hear that line.

    The only question left is who had the last laugh: Alia or the Baron, hummmm?

  • good mini series, i liked it a lot.

  • The acting is terrible. The Bene-Gesserit and especially R.M Mohiam should not look like clown-dressed, crazy butterfly-helmet bitches. And much much more...Yet, one word is enough-crap

  • this movie is a complete, natural, pure, fresh crap. Dune (the novel) is one of the most amazing achievements of human imagination and it should in no way be humiliated with such retarded performances. What the heck are these fremen? They look like drunk brigands.

  • "Kill her! She is the ABOMINATION!"

    Haha I love this quote. The reverend mother is terrified at the sight of Alia, a little girl who has greater psychic powers than her own.

    The movie (and novel) ending, with Muad'dib's triumph, is fantastic. A triumph over Harkonnen is not enough- Muad'dib overpowers the Emperor, and Bene Gesserit (I am the Kwisatz Hederach, but not YOUR Kwisatz Hederach!) who maintain control of the universe with their dirty political intrigues. Justice defeats corruption!

  • @GMovieSeeker The end of the book is probably one of the best endings ever. Paul grabs the entire damned universe by the short and curlies.

  • What a horrible screen play, what horrible acting. They just stand there and recite their lines and do nothing because the director was too incompetent to give the actors any direction. Alia isn't the abomination, this whole series was.

  • I just wonder how could that be, that with the shield down, the Fremens and the people in Arrakin wouldn't just go radiated and die. They packed their entire nuclear missle storage in it!

    Anyway, I don't really like this version. It's quite good, but the Sardaukars look like idiots, Paddishach the Emperor is an old man; Bene Gesserit are wierd...

  • Fuck this SUCKS... what crappy costumes and actors. Lynchs DUNE was superior in every way.

  • WTF?! in our italian version of the film there is not this scene!

  • Mohiam wants to order the death of her own grandchild

  • LOL @ the sardaukars.

  • is the book really worth reading?

  • @cavok84 The books are so much better than any of the movies.

  • Patrick Stewart makes a much better Gurney.

  • @Voxateuri Like many already said elsewhere: Patrick Stewart's Gurney can beat the crap out of Chuck Norris... ;-)

  • @Voxateuri Patrick Stewart sucks! This new Gurney was way better

    LOL, can't say that with a straight face

  • @InternationFilmFest I was getting ready to flame the hell out of you haha

  • Total crap next to Lynch's version.

  • @1noen1 It can't get crappier than Lynch's version, they're all crappy.

  • @JACKtheRIPP3R189 -- Still trolling YouTube? Still have that raging hard on for Wesley Crusher?

  • @1noen1 What the devil are you talking about?

  • @JACKtheRIPP3R189 LOL, someone's having a grudge!

  • @JohnMoonlord Grudge over what? In any case i think you're right, they could adapt Dune but they'd need really good direction and actors to pull it off without it sucking.

  • @JACKtheRIPP3R189 I meant 1noen1's reply to you about trolling YouTube. Apparently, someone trashed Wesley Crusher on another video big time and he's coming back at you for it (whether it was actually you or not). I was just LOLing at his sudden accusation, out of nowhere, and your "where did THAT came from?!?" reaction. ;-)

    Back to our main subject, there is a new Dune movie in the works, currently announced for 2012, so cross your fingers!

  • @JohnMoonlord Yeah i don't even know who Wesley Crusher is. The dude is off.

    Yeah lets hope it doesn't suck. You'd think as big a sci fi epic as Dune would have warranted some more serious attention from hollywood, especially after the appallingly bad version in the 80's

  • @JACKtheRIPP3R189 Wesley was a character in Star Trek: TNG, the resident kid genius of the ship, and many fans find him annoying (à la "Jar Jar Binks must die" annoying).

    I actually love the 80's version a lot: it was my first contact and it drew me to the books. Still one of my favorite movies today, and I absolutely love the style of the movie. But I know that it was a "love it or hate it" movie for most fans, so another adaptation would definitely be awesome if pulled off right.

  • @JohnMoonlord Ok never mind now i know who you're talking about. I actually read the book before i watched the movie, so the movie seemed sort of incoherent to me. It also had a gimmicky dreary 80's feel to it which i didn't like, but that's just a personal preference. It's a tough book to squeeze into a movie time. I think it would be best if it was divided into parts, it is a long book.

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  • @JohnMoonlord -- Maybe it was a different person (and if true then I apologize) but *someone* with a nickname like that was getting hyper upset about Wesley Crusher's gay orange sweater, which it was. I just thought it was really funny because the other JacktheRipper was going on and on and about how gay Wesley looked. I mean, you know.... get a room already.

  • @1noen1

    Feyd...Lovely Feyd...

  • you cant make a film out of the books, would be a financial disaester...the old movie is fun but i like the miniseries more

  • @ReichsfuehrerSS They used to say that about LotR.

    Don't get me wrong, adapting Dune would be hard as Hell and tricky, but it is feasable.

  • the sardaukar remind me of chefs of doom

  • The costumes in this movie suck ass so hard. They take away from  what makes most the characters great like the witches, fremen, everyone! bleh

  • That is not Dune - That is Shit

  • True, Shaddam was supposed to have red hair, but Giancarlo Giannini is cool as hell.

  • @OneEyedJack1970 He doesn't have the royal bearing of Jose Ferrer. But who does? I like the Baron in the SciFi version better. Lynch's Baron was too over-the-top.

  • What is this garbage ? Is this from Tv ?

    The people who made it should be shot summarily.

    Ok. The Bene Gesserit DO NOT wear ridiculous butterfly wings.

    The Emperor does not have fuckign grey hair.

    The Sardauker are supposed to look scary.

    These guys like like Vegan Lesbians.

    The Baron is supposed to be alot fatter, see that's why he NEEDS suspensors to move.

    These idiots cut out one of the best lines from the book. "he has righteousness as his sword and heaven smiles upon him"

    Lame city

  • Give them a break.

    Frank Herberts nooks do not translate well to a mass audience.

    You know it as well I do.

  • @Joeeey1 Truly. And his son's books are such a disappointment. Now if only someone could make a ghola of Frank Herbert himself...

  • I agree. I've always loved the Bene Gesserit in all their power.This is too teatrically for them. The costumes are silly as they are known to wear simple clothes.They control their emotions.The truth is it's hard to make a good movie after a briliant book,but i suggest they keep trying

  • @1401AndersonAve LOL@ the Vegan Lesbians!!!

  • They pronounce everything differently in the movies than I thought they were when reading lol.

  • lol, that explosion is exactly the same as the one in the intro video of Command & Conquer 1.

    It's actually a liquid fuel mortar :P

  • yeah and the box-cover of c&c too xD

  • Ehh, the C&C1 box cover shows a soldier with the ion cannon scene reflecting in his visor. Not this explosion.

  • oh you´re right

    thought it´d been this explosion

    well it´s been some time :)

  • Can you upload this movie or link me to a site that has it and is not full of viruses.

  • This emperor isn't bad, but i like Jose Ferrer: LOL: Bring in that flying fat man!

  • @zisguy My favorite line from Ferrer's Emperor remains: "This is genocide: the deliberate and systematic destruction of ALL LIFE on Arrakis!"

  • Sardaukar! The Emperor's deadly chefs!

  • Horrible acting, horrible director, Lynch version better by a mile.

  • Crap compared to the books.

  • @Kirbywasfun Agreed, the books are amazing, this kinda puts them to shame. Someone should make an up to date remake

  • I like the actress who plays Irulan a lot.

  • I love Alia, this strong and wise character! She's cute!!

  • nice)she kills this old ugly russian pig

  • Ian McNeice is british.

  • @cmsahe ...and I think the Harkonnen's are supposed to be of Irish descent, anyway.

  • The remake was awesome, if it wasn't for terrible accents from shitty minor actors and had it not been made years ago with shitty graphics it would've been a classic, irulan, paul, leto, jessica, all very nicely played.

  • Muad'Dib! Muad'Dib! Muad'Dib!

  • The sardaukar looked like slightly less gay versions of the Swiss guard in this

  • I would say more like clowns. In the original movie they at least looked a bit scarier in their black suits. Same goes for harkonens and the stilsuits...

  • In the book the sardaukar had white uniforms.

  • havent read the book but still what i mean with my comment is that they really looked awesome and scary not like in this one...

    thx for pointing out!