Saturday, March 10, 2007

Dune. Desert Planet. Desert Dud

God, I hate the movie Dune. The LTR loves it. He's sick with a cold (a gift he has passed on to me) so I indulged him last night as we watched this clunker. Bad acting, bad script, bad photography, cheesier than a jar of Cheese Whiz poured into a can of Nacho Cheese Dip.

Remember scenes like these: the doctor gives Duke Leto Atredies a fake poison tooth to bite when in the presence of the evil Baron, to kill them both. He tells the Duke, as the camera zooms on his lips: "Remember...the tooth [his lips fill the screen]...the tooth...the tooth..."

He might as well have continued on "and the tooth shall set you fwee."

Not even Kyle MacLachlan's faint happy trail or a homo-sexed up Sting could save this one:

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