I was very young when the first movie came out. I’d read the books and was disappointed in the movie it was just so spacey if you’ll excuse the pun. I thought the new Dune I&2 were brilliant. Baron Harkonnen’s nephew should have gotten Best Supporting Actor. I’m eagerly looking forward to 3
I still like the original better.
I do agree that Feyd-Rautha from Dune 2 was very well done.
Lynch’s movie was the very first Dune movie. It holds together just enough for me to enjoy it. Casting was good and an early gig for Patrick Stewart. The costuming was great and the soundtrack good.
The Sci-Fi Channel’s adaptation of the first three books across two series I thought very well done overall. It captured the intrigue of the books extremely well, I thought. The casting was hit and miss. The choice of the actor who played Paul didn’t gel until he returned as the blind Prophet. Costuming was good and inventive but the production couldn’t match the ambition. But both series are well worth watching, IMHO.
It took time and all those early efforts to find a director who read the books, “got it,” and had the talent to bring it all together in the movies we have. He distilled the sprawling complexities of the source material into a pair of films running five hours as well as could possibly be hoped for. As weird as Lynch but watchable. As labyrinthine as A Game Of Thrones but with a course you can follow. Everything about it is top-notch so far.
Really looking forward to the third movie!