[nihiven]

I would love to see how insane a 10-14 hour Dune movie would be. No intermission I'm sure.

[hinkley]

SciFi did a miniseries, just before or just after they changed their name. It wasn't bad. I think it was about 10 hours.

The problem is that a lot of the payoff is at the end of book 3, and then book four tips the whole thing upside down with some deep religious and philosophical elements that I'm not sure everyone is ready for.

I'm always a little surprised how few people have read Dune relative to Lord of the Rings, but the more I think about Dune the more I get it.

[WalterBright]

I don't understand all the love for Dune. I read it, it was ok, and that was it. 3 underwhelming film adaptations is more than enough.

Special effects don't make a movie anymore. What matters is plot (and music). For example, "Colossus the Forbin Project" is very good. Some other very good scifi movies:

. Invaders from Mars

. Flash Gordon (1980)

. Terminator

. Star Wars IV

. Alien

[dylan604]

>with some deep religious and philosophical elements that I'm not sure everyone is ready for.

This is how I felt about Battlestar. I barely remember watching the original series as a kid, but I just remember a couple of character names, Cylons (which I thought were cool), the space ships, and the human in the dark room ontop of the pyramid shape the Cylons talked to. That was it. Then I watched the reboot, and was shocked by the religious overtones. Clearly, I never researched anything about it until that point, and then it all made sense.

I'm nervous about Buck Rogers (biddybiddup, what's up Buck!) might turn out the same way on a reboot.

[frfl]

Slightly unrelated, but there is a 19 hour fan-edit of the Hobbit + Lord of the Rings -- i.e someone glued all 3 Hobbit movies and all 3 LotR movies into a 19 hour video.

[superjan]

For starwars fans, there’s machete order: https://www.rodhilton.com/2011/11/11/the-star-wars-saga-sugg...

[AdamJacobMuller]

Hopefully that's 19 hours of LOTR with the 2-3 hours of the hobbit which was good.

[runeofdoom]

There are also fan-made "book edits" of LotR and the Hobbit that purge as much non-book material as possible while keeping th film coherent.

[usrusr]

I believe that a 90 minutes cut of matrix 2+3 could be actually enjoyable.

[vkou]

The best way to watch that is almost certainly to come in on ~hour 10.

[RajT88]

I would watch it.

My wife would probably head to her sister's for the weekend.

[dylan604]

I wouldn't mind sitting in a screening of Dune pt1 followed by Dune pt2 when it comes out. Sounds like something Alamo would do. While not 10-14 hours, I would be willing to sit in the theater for 4-5 hours.

[AdamJacobMuller]

AMC by me did all 3 LOTR films in 3 nights just before the hobbit came out. I enjoyed it a lot but by god by the time the 3rd movie ended I was done, and then I still had to sit through another 45 minutes of endings.

(Best movies ever)