My first encounter with Dune was staying up all night to record it off Sci-Fi on VHS. I was just a naive teenager, I didn’t know what I was in for. By the time Feyd Rautha showed up I was so tired and confused…
It took many years before I read the books but I’m glad I did, and I’m glad we’ll actually get to see Paul’s story wrapped up for once.
The Sci-fi channel made a Dune miniseries, and then a Dune Messiah + Children of Dune series. They’re really good versions of the story. Better than Villeneuve’s in my opinion. It doesn’t look nearly as good, obviously, but it’s well done. Go into it expecting more of a screen play though, not a blockbuster movie. I highly recommend it.
The Dune soundtrack was done by the soft rock band Toto, which was something incomprehensibly weird to me at the time, but makes some sense when you realize that one of the band’s members was the son of composer John Williams. It’s actually good, standard orchestral music with the exception of the guitar power chord moment you linked to, which actually made me laugh out loud when I saw/heard it in the theater for the first time. Personally, I would have preferred this as the soundtrack; it was created by the band Jade Warrior as an attempt to get the gig for Lynch’s movie.
The only part of the movie which made me laugh harder than the guitar was Sting’s appearance. Just wildly out of place in a movie that was at least a visual masterpiece. And you can’t go wrong with Joergen Prochnow.
Personally I liked the 1984 Dune. Would watch all 4 hours if it was released.
Peak 80s movie moment: Listening to the weird wacky otherly world soundtrack, when all of a sudden ripping guitar solo. https://youtu.be/jzj6b2YV2aA
Lmao someone put it on the 2024 Dune https://youtu.be/NaaJRGYSyGo
Toto and Eno!
My first encounter with Dune was staying up all night to record it off Sci-Fi on VHS. I was just a naive teenager, I didn’t know what I was in for. By the time Feyd Rautha showed up I was so tired and confused…
It took many years before I read the books but I’m glad I did, and I’m glad we’ll actually get to see Paul’s story wrapped up for once.
Jockstrapped and half naked Sting would make anyone ahem confused.
The Sci-fi channel made a Dune miniseries, and then a Dune Messiah + Children of Dune series. They’re really good versions of the story. Better than Villeneuve’s in my opinion. It doesn’t look nearly as good, obviously, but it’s well done. Go into it expecting more of a screen play though, not a blockbuster movie. I highly recommend it.
Edit: I thought I should add, the first series is called “Frank Herbert’s Dune”.
I can’t remember the moment and I have to be quiet and can’t find my headphones, so I’m going to assume the music is from Wyld Stallyns
The Dune soundtrack was done by the soft rock band Toto, which was something incomprehensibly weird to me at the time, but makes some sense when you realize that one of the band’s members was the son of composer John Williams. It’s actually good, standard orchestral music with the exception of the guitar power chord moment you linked to, which actually made me laugh out loud when I saw/heard it in the theater for the first time. Personally, I would have preferred this as the soundtrack; it was created by the band Jade Warrior as an attempt to get the gig for Lynch’s movie.
The only part of the movie which made me laugh harder than the guitar was Sting’s appearance. Just wildly out of place in a movie that was at least a visual masterpiece. And you can’t go wrong with Joergen Prochnow.
I think it is ironic that most of Villeneuve’s Dune Soundtrack by Hans Zimmer has a ton of heavily processed electric guitar.