Children of Dune - (nearly) live discussion

RangerWickett · Mar 17, 2003

So far, it looks better than the last Dune movie Sci-fi made.

Dagger75 · Mar 17, 2003

What happen to glowing blue eyes? I thought they were cool.

Ankh-Morpork Guard · Mar 17, 2003

Holy Gods that was amazing...

omata · Mar 17, 2003

why did they kill the space guilder

Ankh-Morpork Guard · Mar 17, 2003

He was helping with the plot against the Emperor. Surprised they were able to do Messiah in 2 hours like that...did a good job though.

Droogie · Mar 17, 2003

Dagger75 said:
What happen to glowing blue eyes? I thought they were cool.

They were still blue---but I guess they went with a more subtle effect.

Droogie · Mar 17, 2003

I thought the show was fantastic. Just for the record, no, I haven't read the books.

I rented the first series on DVD and watched it before this one-- first thing I noticed- the fx were 10x better. I suppose they have a bigger budget and better technology this time around. The whole sequence where they capture the worm was nifty. The Spacer guilder is all CGI now and he's well animated.

Costumes....better. Acting...better. Story....I'm getting wrapped up in it. Juicy. mmmm.

eXodus · Mar 17, 2003

that was interesting.

i have read the books many times. and that first two hours was better then the dune miniseries, but still i am not a fan.

Dagger75 · Mar 17, 2003

Having not read any Dune books at all I was a bit lost as to who is who and why these people hate everybody. Then again I had Children of Dune basically on as backround noise. I didn't sit down and watch it per se.

I did think the stealing the sandworm was cool but why didn't the worm just dig down and go under the shallow moat? (Shallow relative to the sandworm)

Skade · Mar 17, 2003

I love Alia. Roar.

I was pretty happy with it, and did not have the reservations I had about the first miniseries. Susan Sarandon was actually quite good as a villainess. Looking forward to tomorrow night.