I know it has its defenders. Like Metallica’s album Load<\/i>. People line up pro and con, and fierce debates rage.<\/p>\n
Dune<\/i>, to me, is stiff, formal, and humorless. I mean, I get it I get it, giant worms, a huge brain-like creature with a mouth like a vagina speaking from some huge black box, a young man must face the evil … etc. But the STYLE of the movie is just way too formal for me to engage on any level. It’s like a medieval tapestry. Which would be fine if it WERE a medieval tapestry – but it’s a motion picture!<\/p>\n
I saw Dune<\/i> when it first came out. I was in high school and I mainly wanted to see Sting nearly naked. That was my motivation.<\/p>\n
Mission accomplished.<\/p>\n
I didn’t understand one word of the movie. So naturally I read the book to try to figure it out. I liked the book. Sadly, there was not enough Sting in it.<\/p>\n
So now I have watched it again. And my motivation is the same as when I was in high school, only now I mainly want to see Dean Stockwell with a little red dot on his head being mysterious and intense.<\/p>\n
Mission accomplished.<\/p>\n
The more things change, the more they stay the same.<\/p>\n
But I can barely keep my attention on this movie.<\/p>\n
Is it just for Frank Herbert fanatics? Because I’m not one, never gonna be one, so I don’t know what to do with this movie! Except fast forward to the next Stockwell scene and take some screen grabs. For my growing archive.<\/p>\n
The story of Stockwell getting INTO Dune<\/i> is a great story – because that was really the thing that lifted him out of the outer darkness of dinner theatre in Nevada<\/a>. It was a significant project and he had a significant enough part to warrant some attention. It didn’t put him back on the map, Blue Velvet<\/i> really did that. Paris Texas<\/i> was the real breakout part of this period – but Dune<\/i> came first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I know it has its defenders. Like Metallica’s album Load. People line up pro and con, and fierce debates rage. Dune, to me, is stiff, formal, and humorless. I mean, I get it I get it, giant worms, a huge … Continue reading