3rd Dune

Having watched Chiller Theater and Double Chiller Theater (both with Dr. Shock) in my early teens, I saw more than my share of bad B movies.  Mamie van Doren in a tight sweater was the plot.  Occasionally you got an Angry Red Planet, The Thing, or The Day the Earth Stood Still, but mostly one saw mutated insects.  God Bless radiation.

Fortunately in the 60's The Outer Limits came on the scene, and provided 48 minutes of quality written, decently acted material every week.

Never watched the first Dune movie to its completion, but I've heard its pretty awful.

Its my favorite rendition so far. Even though it isn't very close to the book it is still a quality film.

Tell me who told you this? They will fall upon my Crysknife.

I like the original Dune... Patrick Stewart was awesome in that movie.

As for sci-fi originals... yeah some of them are really bad, but you have to enjoy them for what they are.  like some folks here said... they're like the B-movies of yesteryear.... Ed Wood and the like.

LOL.  Ed Wood is not yesteryear.  The Wasp Woman, now that's yesteryear.  The Blob (saw it at a double feature with the Mummy, the latter of which scared this 10 year old)  The Tingler - gods, how that sucked.  Yet, like a moth to flame, I was drawn to them.

Peter Berg is slated to direct www.imdb.com/name/nm0000916/

The people who think the original Dune is horrible are usually the folks who are never happy with an adaptation because they think every lil thing in a book has to be in there and nothing can be altered to fit a wider audience. The original movie didn't take so much away as it added things. Most just go by critics' reviews of the time, who never understood the source to begin with.

I personally love the original Dune, but then I've always been able to seperate books and their movie counterparts. People need to start thinking of movies that come from books as being more inspired by books and not direct interpretation. Books are long and can go into detail, movies only have such long of a time frame.

I've attempted the first movie 3 times, but not having read the book I can't more than 20 or so minutes in