[HPforGrownups] books / movies

[Donna Rae]

No: HPFGUIDX 3446

Hi carole...

Dune was a funny movie.  The actual movie was badly cut and you didn't have any background information at all.  The extended version which was only broadcast on television, contains all the background information, but cuts out all the (offensive?) parts, so it still looks choppy.  I have the extended version - it's almost three hours long and very good - of course, I'm a Kyle MacLaughlin fan and that helps - plus Patrick Stewart is also in it.

The book was absolutely wonderful and much different than the movie, and since I saw the movie first, I knew how to pronounce all the names of the people and the worlds - which helped while reading.  I didn't read the other Dune books but I will some day.  I'm looking forward to it.  Right now, I'm pretty caught up in Harry Potter (surprise!!!!)

Donna Rae

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: lrcjestes 
  To: HPforGrownups at egroups.com 
  Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 9:15 AM
  Subject: Re: [HPforGrownups] books / movies



  > Actually, I also have a suggestion, but it's not the usual sci-fic books,
  > and still one of the most famous and popular: Frank Herbert's "Dune" and
  > it's sequels. I think it can be compared to the LOTR and it's definitely
  > not for children. One of my favourites,

  Now there's a movie that IMO was awful.  I'd never read the books, but I'd
  heard great things about them...so I went to see the movie.  Now, maybe it
  was the atmosphere in which I saw the movie...it was in a drafthouse where
  they serve pizza and beer during the movie...so it was crowded, and people
  were getting up and waitresses were wandering through.  I had a hard time
  hearing, and could make no sense whatsoever out of the plot...but it sticks
  out in my mind as one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

  Whenever my husband and I are referring to a ridiculous plotline in a
  movie...we tend to start chanting "the worm is the spice...the spice is the
  worm" and burst out laughing.....

  I mean no disrespect to the books, as I have heard from many people they are
  great, and maybe I will try them one of these days, but the movie surely
  turned me off attempting them for a long time...lets hope that doesn't
  happen to Harry.

  carole




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