Dune

[Darko]

David Lynch's version was a better interpretation of what the world should be like: dark. It isn't a happy cheery world like they made it to be in the Sci-Fi version. Every little detail was there. Everything down to the Baron's disease (which was apparently overlooked by Sci-Fi). The Baron was incredible in the movie, but in the Sci-Fi channel remake, he was anything but.

In the movie the Fremen are exactly how they are in the book. Noble, practical, to the point. The remake, however, they seem more like paranoid Native Americans than noble desert people. Chani wears headbands with feathers sticking out of them. WTF? Stilgar doesn't even have a freakin' beard! They don't speak with the cold nobility that I got from the book, either. The stillsuits suck balls in the new one, too.

The worms in the remake are fucking incredible though. Exactly how I pictured them.

Paul Atreides is definitely better in the Lynch version. As is the Lady Jessica, Baron Harkonen, Feyd, Chani, Alia, Stilgar and Gurney Halleck. I don't think Duncan Idaho was made into a very important character in the Lynch version, so I can't judge that one, though he wasn't as strong a personality as he was in the books. Chani didn't have that 'elven' appearance about her in the Sci-Fi version. And Alia is so creepy in the Lynch version.

All in all, the original movie is better on how it captures the mood and image of Dune, but the remake has enough time to include every aspect of the book, which is almost necessary when dealing with such a detailed novel.

Once you get into Children of Dune we'll discuss that series, as I have some major beef with it.