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Re:I Found David Lynch's Lost 'Dune II' Script by nurbl on Saturday January 13, 2024 @09:24AM (#38980163)
I agree! I found the new Dune boring, nice looking but generic (a lot like e.g. any recent Ridley Scott movie) and the actors seemed bored too. It failed to communicate a sense of wonder at the strange world. I re-watched Lynch's version after the new one, and even though the story is the same, I cared about everything that happened. I can overlook other flaws in a movie if it's at least interesting. So I think you are right, not because Lynch's Dune was a masterpiece (it wasn't), but because the new one will be mostly forgotten in a decade or so.

Perhaps the new Dune was so appreciated because it ignores the recent trend of over-complicated story telling with time jumps and mystification, and instead just tells it straight. But that's a pretty low bar.

Re:I Found David Lynch's Lost 'Dune II' Script by jhbadger on Saturday January 13, 2024 @09:40AM (#38980321)
Also the cast of Lynch's version is better -- you had first rate actors like Kyle Mclachlan as Paul, Max von Sydow as Kynes, Patrick Stewart as Halleck (and yes, Sting as Feyd-Rautha, although that's maybe not a plus as Sting is a much better singer than he is an actor).
Re:I Found David Lynch's Lost 'Dune II' Script by ekianjo on Saturday January 13, 2024 @09:43AM (#38980356)
Sting was hardly seen in the movie though.
Re:I Found David Lynch's Lost 'Dune II' Script by at_a_remove on Saturday January 13, 2024 @11:49AM (#38981733)
Jose Ferrer showing us how to de-cloak better than a dozen synchronized Romulan warbirds, Brad Dourif as the explanation of what happens when you twist a mentat, wee Alicia Witt as St. Alia of the Knife, and let's not forget Freddie Jones, a late British actor of a subtle versatility. The money men were really quite skeptical of hiring him on but after being shown some daillies, supposedly they apologized.