Gawd did I think he was hawt when I was a teenager. Whew! Not so much, now.
Owning the eights to Dune is like owning the rights to Ebola.
Looks like a big doofus.
And seeing Sting drink the pus out of huge pustules on some fat freak’s face with a straw was classic filmmaking and science fiction (not). (Was that part in the book?).
I saw the movie when it came out in the 80s...........................hated it.
Oh gawd, let us hope not. Even Frank Herbert could not make anything work beyond the first novel. Subsequent books were each worse than the last, and his heirs' attempts have been even more feeble.
Do just Dune right, make a billion dollars, and quit. Please.
I saw this version on HBO back in the 1980s. Later it cane out on commercial TV with a 15-20 minute still art prologue explaining who is on first, what’s on second, Who is whom, for to those (like me) who have never read the story.
The 2000 Sci-Fi miniseries of ‘Dune’ is actually good and doesn’t have Sting in it.
Get the directors cut on DVD.
DUNE PING!
It might be good as a “Universe”. There is so much detail that it would take hundreds of hours to show it all on screen.
Dune will never have the following or potential of the Star Trek or Star Wars sagas.
Dune - loved the book, hated the movie.
I stopped reading them when the titles got to long “God Emperor Fuhrer King Prime Minister of Dune.”
The $pice must flow.
CGI has now reached the point where any imagined scenario, no matter how fantastical, can be achieved and presented in the highest quality on film... Hopefully they will do it justice.
I actually liked the movie. Preferred its more positive ending compared to the novel’s.
While Dune was a good read it didn’t translate very well to the big screen. A Dune TV show wouldn’t fare any better.
Despite its flaws, Lynch’s “Dune” (the long version he disavowed) remains one of my favorite films.
I kinda like the ‘84 movie as a very well done turkey. I like most of the cast and the “tech” is 19th century looking, unusual for a SF movie. SF movies usually look typically “trendy” for whatever decade they were filmed in, ie: the “used car” look in science fiction movies post-Star Wars.
Kinda like to see crazy Jodorowsky get a chance to do his version, since he’s been obsessed with doing a Dune movie for decades, but that’ll never happen (and if it did would probably make Lynch’s version seem clear and comprehensible).
One of the worst movies ever made. Ed Wood had legitimate excuses, he was crazy and had no money. David Lynch can only claim the first. There was a British television version that did the novel some credit. But the big screen version was awful.
I would though, like to see an (English language) adaptation of "The Three-Body Problem".