Michael, The movie Dune which came out back in the mid-eighties was awesome. I have never read the book.
JP On Dec 24, 10:23 am, shiplax <[email protected]> wrote: > Ive always been a fan of the Dune series by Frank Herbert. His > writings have an ecological undertone and his talent as a writer is > second to none. The first three novels in the series are probably the > best and could stand alone, but the next 3 jump thousands of years > into the future and lose many of the original characters. Now if they > could make a decent movie that would be great! > > Michael Dunn > > On Dec 24, 8:49 am, "Edward Frank" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Bob, > > > At the risk of exposing how nerdy I might be, I have between 2500 and 3000 > > science fiction and fantasy books in my collection. Of these there are > > hundreds that have excellent story lines that could be drawn from to make > > better movies. Instead directors choose to produce their own pabulum of > > derivative drivel ignoring the body of work that made the genre popular in > > the first place. It is a fiction about the ideas that must be richly > > developed and internally consistent. Ego over quality. Instead they > > either blow up an enormous amount of stuff or give us soap opera crap with > > just a hint of futuristic background and call it al science fiction. When > > they do make a movie based upon a classic science fiction novel, they > > typically mutilate it beyond recognition and somehow think they are > > improving it. It can be done well. The Lord of the Rings, while not > > perfect was excellent. The movie 2010 was good. Others recommended include > > Blade Runner, Silent Running, A boy ad his Dog to name a few. > > > Here are some screen grabs from Avatar: > > > Edward Frank > > > "Beauty is a summation of the parts working together in such a way that > > nothing is needed to be added, taken away or altered." Elio Caretti > > > avatar01a.JPG > > 21KViewDownload > > > avatar02a.JPG > > 18KViewDownload > > > avatar04a.JPG > > 15KViewDownload > > > avatar05a.JPG > > 15KViewDownload > > > avatar06a.JPG > > 14KViewDownload- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected]
