Posted on 04/21/2020 2:57:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway
“Blue Velvet” has been one of my guilty pleasures for a long time. I also liked “Mulholland Drive” and - to a lesser extent - “Inland Empire.”
That trailer is apparently a fake
It looked fake...LOL
It’s the DVD version.
For people who haven’t read the book, the explanation at the beginning is very helpful.
Ah. I’d recorded it off TV on to VHS. Wasn’t an intro.
Yes, that was the theatre release.
That’s why people walked out of it saying, “What the hell was that about?” Hahahaha!
The book was better
I enjoyed Lynch’s Dune, then and now. But I am of the SciFi fan generation of the Fifties and Sixties, we took what we could get, and hoped for the best. Remember “War of the Worlds”, “Forbidden Planet”, “Robinson Crusoe on Mars”, then “2001 A Space Odyssey” etc.?
There were so few good Science Fiction movies then, and fewer excellent ones, that we overlooked the cheese. Just like we Sixties TV Star Trek fans had to overlook Hollywood sequin and latex costumes and plywood sets. Forget “Lost in Space”, I have.
Now, with effects so real they can depict almost anything, we have become jaded. If something is either fishy, or stupid looking, we laugh and post flaming criticisms. We wonder what happened to the Golden Age of Science Fiction, you know, back when Star Wars came out!
The problem is and always was the writing, the Fiction part of SciFi. Poor concepts, bad plot and character development, and lack of scientific plausibility, deep six so many attempts at the next SciFi Blockbuster.
“Valerian”, Disney’s attempt to bring Edgar Rice Burroughs back to the screen, Disney’s most recent Star Wars retreads, all lack something, a lot actually. Sometimes bad casting, awkward pacing, lack of coherent dialog, or thin plot lines, are flaws no longer overlooked. They not made up for by dazzling CGI explosions, spaceships, aliens and monsters. Shame.
We wait for the next big hope: the new “Dune”, “Azimov’s Foundation”, and occasional rumors about a film adaptation of Arthur C Clarke’s “Rendezvous with Rama” keep us on the hook. Til then we will think about the old days, and watch Lynch’s “Dune” again and again.
Klaatu barada nikto
Guilty. Although I may not have started reading the books until after I saw the movie.
One of my favorite 50s sci-fi movies is “Target Earth,” about a few people who are left behind after “the city” has been evacuated because of an alien invasion.
I love David Lynch.
But his DUNE was atrocious.
moa deeeeeeb
I’m the opposite of that. I had read the books and liked the movie. I figured it probably didn’t make much sense to people who hadn’t read the books.
Plus, Lady Jessica (Francesca Annis) was HOT!
The only worse adaptation of a great book was Starship Troopers.
I re-read the book after 911. I realized that all the pseudo-mystical gobbledygook suddenly seemed somehow familiar.
I’m done with Dune now.
No one talks about Sci Fi channel’s Dune series which actually blows away the 1984 film. Much deserved criticism regarding the Matte background work but the story layout and acting were great. William Hurt as Duke Atreides could have used a bit of spark.
OMG! The only highlight of that movie was Denise Richards’ cleavage!
Utter garbage - I loved it. Seen it 3 or 4 times. It’s so bad it’s good
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