Queeq's Asteroid Arcade and Alcohol Hang-out

I'm awake! I'm definatly awake!

*holds sledgehammer high*

Not for long. 😈

You fell asleep reading Dune??? Hmm, I liked it. I'm reading the second book of the prequels now: House Harkonnen. It's very enjoyable, but then I like Dune. Strange enough though, I can't remember much of the sequel books, except the first one where Paul dies.... hmmmmm, I should re-read them some time.

I wanna see the Sci-Fi Channel version. Is it out on DVD yet? I got a longer version of Lynch's Dune some time ago. It had a horrible and tediously long new introduction (which caused Lynch to have his name removed as director). It takes about 25 minutes (I skipped it after watching ten minutes, it's just made with rostrum shots of paintings, really horrible). But the the movie starts, they removed Virginia Madson beautiful narration by an ugly man's voice who also does the lengthy introduction. But after that there are numerous new scenes put in place. The quality's not that great, but the I still loves the film.

Yeah, the Sci Fi Channel version has been out on DVD since March.

Ooooh, I hope it's out in Europe as well. Gotta get me that.

Yeah I kind of brought it up in January about the Dune series, it is more true to the books than the Dune film was.

Well, I checked, but the series is so far only available on DVD in the States. Sucks! Problem is, my DVD player CAN play the US DVD's so I could order it in the States, but my old TV can handle the converted signal. So I'm reluctant to buying a US DVD when I can't watch it. And I don't plan on buying a new TV now, first I gotta get me a new receiver and speaker system.

And yes, it was more true than Lynch's film. But it better, they had 6x50 minutes to tell the story. Lynch only got a little more than two hours. Yet, most people seem to agree that Lynch's vision was much more enthralling than the series. I still wanna have it though.

They just started running trailers on the European SCiFi channel for the new version of Dune.

Really? Cool..... but I don't have sci-fi channel in the town where I live. 🙁

Here's hoping for the DVD to come out soon then.

I liked the series better, but then it is a long time since i`ve seen the Lynch film.

I never saw it. Dune is just some really big books that I never read.

I think Lynch struck an excellent cord in design, atmosphere and casting. What I've read in responses so far, that's were the series is weaker at. Unfortunately, Lynch didn't get enough film length, but he did shoot a hell of a lot more than we see in the film. I love it.

He spent a helluva lot of money on it as well, and it crashed at the bx office.

Didn't they recut it into a box set of videos, with loads of extra footage?

really?, I have no idea seems to me like everything is DVD in the stores no videos left 🙁

This is true, I worked out the cost of replacing my video collection and decided that I could live with the quality...

Though I will not be buying video anymore, even if it means a slightly longer wait for DVD sometimes.

I need a DVD palyer, got one in my pc but I need a cable that is like extremly long. 🙁

There is a 3-hour version out on DVD, crappy quality though, but it's nice to see a lot of scenes never before shown. The much rumoured 9 hour version was never made as far as I know... 🙁

Replacing my collection is extremely expensive, I will only build towards it slowly. I have almost 700 titles in my collection, so that's almost impossible. I may be transferring a lot of it to DVD once the recorders become available. It won't add to the quality, I know, but at least I can get rid of the tapes. I'm running out of physical space for it. Transferring the lot to DVD (if there is enough room for two films on one DVD) may help me reduce the volume to 50%. But that's all in the future. No more new VHS's for me now.

Can I have a drink?
BTW: I only have one dvd, because it isn't that big in Belgium. How is that in the rest of the world?

It's huge in the US, like 25% of the population now has a DVD player. Blockbuster just recently started renting out DVD's, and it's impossible to rent them because they are always checked out! That SciFi Dune was really big in the US too, it was the highest rated program in the history of the SciFi channel. They even showed trailors in theaters way back in December.

and ofcourse you have something like the SciFi-channel. Darn it