Dune. On Sky movies, I'm late to this one but it seems like my kind of movie. Was talking to a lad at work who said it was a book and already been a film years ago. I totally missed that. Apparently this is only half the story and there will be another one. Anyone read the book(s)? Is it worth sticking with?
Dune is mate, but it can be a bit dense and some will find it hard going or slow. I read the book when I was 16 and it's quite heavy going, I enjoyed it but gave up after the third sequal. From the fourth book on the story gets progressively weirder. The 1984 movie by David Lynch isn't as bad as a lot of fans of the book say. Visually it's great to look at and most of the casting is good, but it's very flawed. Lynch has disowned it and wanted his name took off it. There's plenty of stories of studio and producer interference that spoiled it, but this new version serms to have taken most the good parts and very little if the bad parts. And the casting is pretty much spot on. Definitely give it a go.
Thank you for this. I saw that it won awards but I knew absolutely nothing about the books or even a previous version of the film existing, genuinely never heard of it. I will need to watch from the start as I've missed an hour of this so far and I can't be doing with that for a movie tbh.
I don't mind the Lynch version but I am a big fan of his. Probably my least favourite of his works but I guess that's because it was a hybrid of his style and the studio wanting mass appeal. Bit like series 2 of Twin Peaks.
Seven Samurai epic samurai drama film co-written, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa this one is canny as are a few of his others, fabulous battle scenes in some of them.
I'd also recommend anything by Shane Meadows, a room for Romeo Brass, Dead Man's Shoes etc. There is a canny box set knocking about.
Talking about British films like this has reminded me of "Love, Honour and Obey". Used to have a good laugh watching that one! This is England film is decent the TV series is brilliant!
