Lynch changed a lot of things. The Baron was probably the biggest problem, in this 84 film he is just a loudmouth, covered in sores -somewhat correct because in the book he does collect diseases for the hell of it, but he is also described as "baby smooth". In the new version he's back to being hugely fat, smooth, and again, buoyed up by suspensors.
And then there's the acting and script. God, damn, awful. All the performances are atrocious. Except for Sting - his Feyd Rautha is the only acting highlight, and it's a tiny role. All the inner thoughts, all the odd decisions about what gets exposited and what doesn't.
And then ....
Everything else is PERFECT. The hardware, the styling, the costumes, the planets.
That HEIGHLINER SCENE has yet to be equalled!
Lots of people, myself included, still quote Pieter's thought-mantra.
The scene on Geidi Prime with the heart-plugs is Lynch's horror side in all its disturbing briliance!
The Sardukar kick MAJOR ass in Lynch's version and are genuinely strange and terrifying. Villeneuve's ... are not.
This is a very 80s "thing", an object that survives in time through it's sheer oddity. Lovers of Lynch, like myself, sympathise with him and how much of a struggle its birth was, but David ... it lives on its own merits.
And then there's the acting and script. God, damn, awful. All the performances are atrocious. Except for Sting - his Feyd Rautha is the only acting highlight, and it's a tiny role. All the inner thoughts, all the odd decisions about what gets exposited and what doesn't.
And then ....
Everything else is PERFECT. The hardware, the styling, the costumes, the planets.
That HEIGHLINER SCENE has yet to be equalled!
Lots of people, myself included, still quote Pieter's thought-mantra.
The scene on Geidi Prime with the heart-plugs is Lynch's horror side in all its disturbing briliance!
The Sardukar kick MAJOR ass in Lynch's version and are genuinely strange and terrifying. Villeneuve's ... are not.
This is a very 80s "thing", an object that survives in time through it's sheer oddity. Lovers of Lynch, like myself, sympathise with him and how much of a struggle its birth was, but David ... it lives on its own merits.
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