I love Dune for the soundtrack, Jady Jessica, and having to explain the Holtzmann shield to people who have even weaker science understanding than me.
I am not sure that I even like the movie at all, I just enjoy it's circumstances.
Xander: I do have Spaghetti-os. Set 'em on top of the dryer and you're a fluff cycle away from lukewarm goodness. Riley: I, uh, had dryer-food for lunch.
'Same Time, Same Place'
The Minearverse 3: The Network Is a Harsh Mistress
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
alienprayer - Nov 10, 2004 1:14:57 pm PST #2859 of 10001
Conservative, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. -Bierce
Sean K - Nov 10, 2004 1:15:28 pm PST #2860 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I [heart] Sail.
SailAweigh - Nov 10, 2004 1:21:27 pm PST #2861 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Awww, Seanie. I [heart] you, too.
P.M. Marc - Nov 10, 2004 1:26:50 pm PST #2862 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Dune was one of the handful of movies we saw in a theatre when I was a kid. Some sort of benefit thing. I'm sketchy on the details. Though I think we'd have gone anyway, it being sci fi.
It's safe to say that almost ALL the things we saw in theatres as kids were sci fi/fantasy. Krull, Flash Gordon, Star.*.
My father is, at times, predictable.
Wolfram - Nov 10, 2004 1:28:47 pm PST #2863 of 10001
Visilurking
It seems that way for me too, Plei. I wonder if it's because most of the movies aimed at kids were scifi/fantasy genre.
Betsy HP - Nov 10, 2004 1:31:24 pm PST #2864 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Could be a LOT worse. In my day, they were all by Disney.
Although I still miss Fighting Prince of Donegal.
DCJensen - Nov 10, 2004 1:34:05 pm PST #2865 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
I watched Dune four times over one weekend.
Just watching it once felt like watching it four times over a weekend. Perhaps longer.
The book? A lifetime.
P.M. Marc - Nov 10, 2004 1:37:27 pm PST #2866 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
See, Wolfram, there could have been kids movies about anything else, and STILL all we'd have seen was SciFi. My dad's a SciFi buff, had a sub to Analog until the early 90s, and back issues floating all over the house. (When I was 12, I went on a binge and read about a decade and a half's worth of them in a week or two.) TV meant Star Wars reruns, Blake's 7, or Dr Who. There was no escaping it.
(My mother's mainly a non-fiction reader, which means most of my early fiction reading? Also Sci-fi. I think I hit the RAH stack at about 10/11.)
libkitty - Nov 10, 2004 1:42:11 pm PST #2867 of 10001
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
I imagine that the psychological effect Dune has on me is what ADD must be like.
Loved the books, though. When I was a freshman in high school, my mom's boyfriend gave me a bunch of books for my birthday that I probably wouldn't have found for ages otherwise: Dune, Zelazny, and Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. Good times.
Wolfram - Nov 10, 2004 1:45:06 pm PST #2868 of 10001
Visilurking
I'm the only scifi fan in my immediate family. Which supports my theory that as a baby I was beamed through a wormhole from an alternate universe.