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Title: Bad mini-series
Review: I love the book, so I'm doing the horrible thing of reviewing a film against the book it's based on. In that spirit, I have to say this was a terrible rendition of DUNE. To start with, the character portrayals are way off base. William Hurt's performance is wooden; the guy playing Paul mistakes his literary counterpart's confident self-assurance with haughty arrogance; and Jessica is turned into a royal priss instead of the world weary intelligent woman she was in the novel. The sets were terrible and generic. Showing the navigator was just dumb--Hitchcockian allusion is the way to go with the navigators. And all of it looked like every other sci-fi miniseries, thus reducing a founding novel into an uninspired, derivative TV show. If you want the best movie version of DUNE, go rent Star Wars. It's a much better translation.
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