On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 22:37:33 -0800, "Calif Bill"
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"Tom Francis - SWSports" wrote in
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On Sat, 6 Dec 2008 17:55:57 -0800 (PST), Tim
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On Dec 6, 7:24 pm, Tom Francis - SWSports
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On Sat, 6 Dec 2008 06:10:44 -0700, "RG" wrote:

Do we have wormsign?

ROTFL!!!

No - no worm sign.

No Spice either dammit. :)

"He who controls the Spice controls the universe".

Did you see either of the movies?

Personally, I liked the Lynch version a little better than the TV mini
movie.

Hmmm.

You mean the movie that contains a sisterhood of concubines,and some
flying fat guy with and eccentric doctor treating his oozing pustules.
An almost dead guy biting a poisonous gas pill and breathing on the
wrong dude.(oops!) Not to mention giant worms getting leashed and
ridden into a war that's being fought by people who is looking into
and operating a machine reminiscent to an antique penny arcade peep-
show, especially being led by Jose Ferrer who is gawking into the
viewfinder like he's watching Gypsy Rose Lee. And that's not counting
the fat blob of a thing that lives in a giant coffin-like closet that
oozes sweat on the fine marble floor? Oh, and Sting looking like a *#%
$ and yelling "What is truth!" ??

You forgot about the homosexual nuance of the flying fat guy with the
oozing pustules nephew and his "cadre" of muscled fighting "partners"
and the themes of religion in which the Bene Gesserit used it as a
tool allowing politicians and the state to manipulate religious
beliefs for their own advantage and how Paul Atredies took advantage
of the Bene Gesserit's manipulation of Fremen religion while
simultaneously fearing and reviling having to do so which was
completely out of context in the film as compared to the novel.

that movie?

Yeah - that one.

That movie, that made little sense unless you read the book. That movie?
When Dune first came out, was discussing it with a flight attendant while
traversing the world. She had seen it and made just that comment. Unless
you read the book, you would not really understand the movie.

"Dune" was the most pretentious pile of crap ever written. The only
reason Herbert got away with it was because of the brain dead nerds
who lived in their mother's basements all their lives discovered
something other than cement walls.

Almost as bad as George R.R. Martin and/or Robert Jordan.