hope thats true

I hope we get this!! I just traded in my old copy of Dune to Blockbuster last week!!

Take care all!!

Well....yeah...got a problem with Bill Hunt?

Extended cut, no Lynch involvement. Here's the description from a rip of it that's floating around:

Why can't I help thinking this is going to be as much a disaster as the current extended cut?

Maybe so, but the original theatrical cut's on there as well. No biggie.

I think I'd buy anything at this point. We've waited long enough.

My only problem with him is that he has a history of repeatedly making claims that turn out to be in no way true.

Also, you can't discredit something that debunks a claim you made yourself.

Well, you can, if you can offer proof. But when you've got nothing to show to prove your claims, and the opposing claim comes from someone actually in a personal position to know, it rings hollow, to say the least.

DJ

Yeah, it would be cool to have Lynch do a Director's Cut & Commentary and all that, but at this point I'll settle for just about anything that's an improvement over the current 1-Discer.

Any word if this new extended edition will be the "Alan Smithee" cut? I ask because the Sci-Fi Channel aired the "Alan Smithee" cut the other day and I started to watch it and quite frankly, I was bored by the time the opening animated narrated part was over.

Hopefully this new cut is just the deleted scenes stuck back into the regular Lynch version.

HOLY!

I just read on the bits, Lynch HAS recut the film and it's 212 minutes! There's two commentarys, and they had a $250,000 budget to fix the FX on the extended cut!

Release Date is July 26.

Linky Linky....Here Linky Linky!!!!



Take care all!!

[Voice of W. C. Fields:] "Do I detect the fragrant aroma of fresh bovine excreta?"

[Bill Lumbergh]"yeah, riiiiight"[/Bill Lumbergh]

He said it was at "the bits", but there is no such story posted at the Digital Bits today. The site did 'report' (i.e. make up) a story a few months ago that Lynch was involved in recutting the movie, but this was denied by Lynch himself.

So where's this Bits' story?

from dugpa:

June 25th 2005
Universal Releases New Ultimate Dune DVD in France
Although the US release date is currently up in the air, France received what looks to be the new Ultimate Dune 3 Disc DVD from Universal. Most notably are a few changes from the original US release specs including no actual Deleted Scenes (only photos) and only a 4:3 transfer of the TV version. Good news for audiophiles is that the DTS track is back on this French DVD release (previously dropped on the US release at the last minute). Whether or not the US DVD will be a direct port of the French release remains to be seen. One other thing I will note is that the transfer for this version looks just amazing. You can see additional caps and a screenshot comparison by heading over to DVDFR.com.

there's some other places where you can see lots of screenshots of the french release, for more info there's a thread over in the International DVD area... the screencaps are AMAZING. Here's hoping that the US release still happens, and looks that good!

and one can only image what the rumoured/planned HiDef DVD edition of "Dune" will look like.

Guess no word? I have to say between this and the postponement of the SE of Face/Off, this has been a very poor summer for anticipated DVDs.

Anyone have word of the UK 2-disc er that came out last week?

buy from raremovieimports.com
http://raremovieimports.com/dune.html

I wonder what the hell that was about? ^

Anyway, the bump on this thread reminds me that I've recently added comparison reviews of the UK, Australian, and French SEs on my Dune site:

http://www.mindspring.com/~dunestuff/av.html#DVD

The French disc is a winner.