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I first read Dune in 1975. I saw the first movie when it came out. (Warning – opinion eminent) If ever there was a novel that should have stayed a novel Dune is it. Only the mind is capable of truly bringing it to life.
Not including RiffTrax Live shows, this particular iteration of Dune was the first movie I went to see in a theater since Iron Man 2. My initial impressions were mixed. Pluses: The actor for Paul actually looks like a teenager. They feature proper ornithopters, and I love the hummingbird style of propulsion. Minuses: The way the actors failed to wear the stillsuit head coverings when they were in the desert bugged me to no end. The Harkonnens so far look to be badly underdeveloped, and it initially appeared as if they were going to make Rabban and Feyd-Rautha into a composite character. However, the IMDB entry for Dune 2: Jihad Boogaloo indicates that this will not be the case. Said entry also lists Emperor Shaddam being portrayed by Christopher Walken. Personally, I think he’d be a better fit as one of the Tleilaxu.
I asked on the RT site if there were any plans to riff on the David Lynch version. Someone astutely replied, “Which David Lynch version?”
Regardless of which version they’d use, the following riff can be in any with an uncut opening credits sequence:
Credit: Music Composed and Performed By Toto
“I’ll get you, my pretty, and your little composer too!”
From Wikipedia:
“The film was a box-office bomb, grossing $30.9 million from a $40–42 million budget. At least four versions have been released worldwide. Lynch largely disowned the finished film and had his name removed from certain cuts or went credited under pseudonyms.”
Or when Max Von Sydow explains how the still suits process bodily wastes…
“Poopie Suits…OF THE FUTURE!”