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<LI><em>From</em>: <A HREF="mailto:coder#ibm,net">coder#ibm,net</A></LI>
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On 18/12/97 at 10:43 PM, Matt Chatterley <root#mpc,dyn.ml.org> said: >On
Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Maddy wrote:
>> On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, Matt Chatterley wrote:
>> > On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, Sauron wrote:
>> > > Matt Chatterley wrote:
>> > > > On Fri, 12 Dec 1997 s001gmu#nova,wright.edu wrote:
>> > > > > On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Adam Wiggins wrote:
>> > > > > > Frank Herbert's Dune. See Tolkien.
>>
>> [Lengthy discussion about the Dune books]
...
>> > And the film was *dire*!
>>
>> Actually I liked the film - it helps if you disassociate the book from it
>> and treat it as a seperate thing.
The Dune film had for me one extremely notable point: They used the sound
track and only the sound track to carry the pacing and continuity for the
entire movie. Turn the sound off and the movie falls apart into a
collection of fractionally related scenes. Put it back on and all of a
sudden it starts back together, items relate, a plot starts to appear,
there is continuity, etc.
Dune actually isn't a bad movie for all that, tho I would have much
preferred to have seen it with the original classical sound track. You
just need to watch it in its own right, as a happenstance similar to the
books, not a version of the book.
Re: Highlander.
>> > > > Heh. I am repeatedly impressed by the quality of the TV show, as far as
>> > > > spin-off shows go. The first movie was a *classic* (Chris Lambert, AND
>> > > > Sean Connery!), the second was utterly bizarre, and the third sucked.
>> > >
>> > > I really loved the first, the second one was well I don't know what it
>> > > was, and the third on its own was a fairly good movie, but when compared
>> > > to the rest of the "franchise" it is disappointing.
>> >
>> > The third was reasonable as a 'run of the mill action movie', something
>> > which I counted the original above. This is the trouble with sequels - you
>> > compare them to the originals, and they have generally lost the sparkle.
>>
>> The 2nd Highlander film should be ignored completely - it only makes sense
>> if you see the highly editted version of Highlander that the Americans saw.
>> Basically they removed all the plot, charactisation and just made it into a
>> full action movie. McCloud lost all of his past etc. and so they were able
>> to make one up for the 2nd film.
I'll confess to finding all the Highlander movies and TV productions, err,
I think the term used above was "dire". They are excruciatingly terrible
and hackneyed.
>> - The Xanth series: Piers Anthony.
>> Likewise, very funny. Putting puns in a mud would probably be a bad idea,
>> but humour definitely is.
I lived up the road from him in Florida FWLIW.
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00852" HREF="msg00852.html">LIST: Now back on the air</A></strong>,
coder <a href="mailto:coder#ibm,net">coder#ibm,net</a>, Thu 18 Dec 1997, 06:21 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00850" HREF="msg00850.html">I live over there!</A></strong>,
coder <a href="mailto:coder#ibm,net">coder#ibm,net</a>, Thu 18 Dec 1997, 05:09 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00849" HREF="msg00849.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] OT: Books</A></strong>,
Maddy <a href="mailto:maddy#fysh,org">maddy#fysh,org</a>, Wed 17 Dec 1997, 15:21 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00860" HREF="msg00860.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] OT: Books</A></strong>,
Matt Chatterley <a href="mailto:root#mpc,dyn.ml.org">root#mpc,dyn.ml.org</a>, Thu 18 Dec 1997, 09:18 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00930" HREF="msg00930.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] OT: Books</A></strong>,
coder <a href="mailto:coder#ibm,net">coder#ibm,net</a>, Tue 23 Dec 1997, 07:22 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00945" HREF="msg00945.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] OT: Books</A></strong>,
Nathan Yospe <a href="mailto:yospe#hawaii,edu">yospe#hawaii,edu</a>, Wed 24 Dec 1997, 10:11 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00874" HREF="msg00874.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] OT: Books</A></strong>,
Jon A. Lambert <a href="mailto:jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com">jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com</a>, Fri 19 Dec 1997, 04:31 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00893" HREF="msg00893.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] OT: Books</A></strong>,
Sauron <a href="mailto:dlove#kusd,kusd.edu">dlove#kusd,kusd.edu</a>, Sun 21 Dec 1997, 00:38 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00863" HREF="msg00863.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] OT: Books</A></strong>,
Koster, Raph <a href="mailto:rkoster#origin,ea.com">rkoster#origin,ea.com</a>, Thu 18 Dec 1997, 15:20 GMT
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