I can’t stand it, and I liked it, at the same time. A spectacle.
“brilliantly bubonic Baron Harkonnen” reminds me of Adam Schiff, or possibly Gerry Nadler.
muad’dib
You can’t easily make a movie about such a long novel and pull it off.
Also, the movie only makes sense if you read the book.
I enjoyed both, but I understood why the movie was criticized and not very popular.
I saw it back in the 80s and thought it was good. Since then I have noticed that people who didn’t like it had read the books.
I had not.
“Alejandro Jodorowsky aborted his early ‘70s vision of a psychedelic 10-hour version starring Mick Jagger and Salvador Dali and scored by Pink Floyd as its sheer scale and ambition terrified the money men...”
That version would have probably been the 1st DVD box set and would have been in every sci fi fan’s collection even as a cult classic. Even if the money men could think that far ahead they knew that that would happen long after they retired so a long term money maker wasn’t their concern.
And it still features the most memorable edition of Baron Harkonnen.
One of the all-time worst movies.
This movie was terrible.
But there was another one, and it was great.
It took a long time before a successful attempt at the Lord of the Rings was done, so who knows, perhaps someday someone will do a good try at Dune. Loved the book, but boy, Lynch’s try sucked rotten Democrats.
Well its probably better than the woke SJW version thats coming out.
I was thinking “Hey! That’s not an ornithopter!”
The Lynch version was almost painful to watch in one sitting; it should have been made more for TV and been broken into five, 30 minute episodes with some extra exponential filler in there to sync running time and help the narrative along a little. Still, with sandworms, spice, a then-unknown Patrick Stewart, and Sting in a pair of space diapers, there was lots of little goodies in there for everyone. It’s a solid cult film.
The SciFi (SyFy) miniseries was pretty good. At least they divided it up into Dune and Children of Dune as the original should have been.
Too bad the movie couldn’t have been more close to the books as I liked the actors.
I read the books and have the movie and both SyFi miniseries. The movie was just poorly made,a terrible dud.
When shown on HBO the movie was shown as is.
When shown on commercial TV, a 15 minute prologue, in art work, was shown to get people who never heard of it, an insight of what it was about, “who was on first, what was on second, and I don’t know was on first.”
It’s not nearly as bad as its legend. It’s quite entertaining. Yeah they monkeyed with the story, surprise. And really it’s not nearly as over the top as the books get.
I thought SciFi channels Dune with Alec Newman was close, but the one starting James Macavoy was better.
Lynch’s did not come close.
So bad it was tolerable if you were stoned enough.
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