“You know what would make it more epic? Guitar twang.” Vince Keenan, deadly serious comedic critic and poet of 1984 and Pizza Hut. This essay made my day. Thank you Vince!
I only have one vivid memory of seeing Dune in the theater. I was 19 years old and drunk out of my mind. I watched about five minutes of it and then spent the rest of the night in the men's room vomiting.
DUNE was my first (and so far only) Lynch film, and finally reading the novel decades later, I appreciated the film for just how weird Lynch's own vision was compared to Herbert's. While not perfect by any means, his DUNE just has a certain something that makes it a classic. As a Gen Xer myself, I whole heartedly agree 1984 was the greatest year in SF movies ever! And I'm still waiting for Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League.
“You know what would make it more epic? Guitar twang.” Vince Keenan, deadly serious comedic critic and poet of 1984 and Pizza Hut. This essay made my day. Thank you Vince!
Thanks, Vinnie!
A notably GREAT post from Vince Keenan (someone who already has such a high bar)
If I wasn’t so lazy, I’d write an essay, with a nod to Susan Sontag, called “Against Authenticity.”
I only have one vivid memory of seeing Dune in the theater. I was 19 years old and drunk out of my mind. I watched about five minutes of it and then spent the rest of the night in the men's room vomiting.
DUNE was my first (and so far only) Lynch film, and finally reading the novel decades later, I appreciated the film for just how weird Lynch's own vision was compared to Herbert's. While not perfect by any means, his DUNE just has a certain something that makes it a classic. As a Gen Xer myself, I whole heartedly agree 1984 was the greatest year in SF movies ever! And I'm still waiting for Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League.