I had problems with my copy locking up as well. It was most noticeable in the Special Features section on Side A. On my Sony DVD player the Deleted Scenes section kept freezing up at the one-minute mark, while the Wardrobe and Models features wouldn't even play at all. I played it on my Ilo...
Has anyone encountered any viewing problems with the disc? When I first put it on my Sony DVD player, the disc locked up at the one-minute mark during the Special Effects feature and wouldn't even play the Models and Wardrobe features. I put it on my Ilo player, and it took a while for the...
Rich, the prologue is matted INDEED. If you have a VHS recording of the extended version, compare it to the new DVD, and you'll see that image material from the top and bottom of the screen has been removed from the DVD version. This is especially the case when we first see all four worlds on...
Bill, thank you so very much for providing the latest information about the status of "Dune". As a fan of the film and of other David Lynch works, this one, among his most mainstream in terms of subject matter along with the biographical "The Elephant Man" (as many of his other film and TV...
That's exactly right, Phillip. In the theatrical version, Virginia Madsen's character of Princess Irulan serves as an omniscient narrator throughout the film, whereas in the "Alan Smithee" edition Irulan is little more than eye candy with only one or two lines at most. John Harrison's 2000...
For that matter, "creating" additional scenes by cobbling together different clips from different parts of the film and throwing in sound bytes, and making us believe that it's a "lost" scene, is an outright cheat and a slap in the face to die-hard Dune fans. Case in point: the "scene" where the...