Visually, the new movie falls far short of Lynch's vision
I thought it was better in parts, but they were over too fast for you to take it all in, this is a curse of every modern film now. Compare it to old French films which let you wallow in a scene until you feel you know the space. If you look at some frame gifs someone has collected they are perfect
This is maybe a fault of the books, there was not a lot of background detail of the people, apart from the fremen.
Yes, the mobile vats were a better visual I thought that was what the seeker-killer was supposed to look like? I may be wrong
The worms are oddly unthreatening
Yeh, "oh look, a giant worm... we should, umm, maybe save that spice harvester over there?"
There was no tension when Paul and Jessica were fleeing across the sand from the worm
Yep, there were better scenes in Tremors
The thumper doesn't look or sound as good as the thumpers in Lynch's movie.
Yep, designed to annoy moles at most
There was no tension when Paul and Jessica were fleeing across the sand from the worm
Yep, there were better scenes in Tremors
Ha! I actually thought the same thing as I was writing my post, but decided not to include it. The Tremors worms are much scarier.
I guess I took from the book that the worms represented something eternal and mythological, like they were as much a part of Arrakis as the sun and the sand.
But as a foreigner to the planet it probably should have elicited a bit more: "WTF is that thing?"
Some of these scenes are just like how I remember from the book, but I'm not sure they were described in the same way that someone would write a script for a modern audience.
Like the book was written in 1965, so back then just being on another planet was "drama enough" for a good story
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