Dune

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Ed 09/24/2024 Well done, but read the books first See more Lisa M 03/04/2024 One of my all time favorite films!!! See more April R 02/21/2024 It is a flawed masterpiece. But seeing in cinema was a mind bending experience!! See more gungi T @WhatWhere Apr 12 I enjoyed the few redeeming moments scattered throughout the film, but I didn’t like most of the other aspects. Apart from the fascinating setting and design, the film not only feels incomplete but also features haphazard special effects. Clearly, the movie went through a reckless editing and decision-making process, as the exposition lacks the coherence needed to follow the course of events. The pace underscores the film’s general difficulty in faithfully portraying the development of its characters, and thus the world it is unable to properly establish and explain. The narrative style relies on the characters’ endless whispering and internal dialogue, with their emotions, character and motivation presented from an omniscient perspective. Whilst this technique does provide insight into their inner state, this overused form of focalisation contributes to a lack of dialogue and visual interaction between the characters, essentially contributing to the patchy sequences See more Bruce T. @Trox56 Apr 12 Absolutely great for the '80's. See more Haze S @Daf666 Mar 7 I only recently read the first three books in the series. Then I decided to finally watch this movie. I would generally call myself a fan of David Lynch, but I think this is the weakest of his films I have seen so far. It's just really not a very good film. If you haven't read at least the first book, you'll be completely lost. The characterizations were overplayed, done to excess, perhaps intentionally, but they felt forced, especially Rabban and Baron Harkonnen, I get that a bit of it is Lynch's style, but it felt like it was too much. The effects were a bit of an overreach for 1984. And that leads to my last criticism of this movie, in that it TRIED to do so much, but it was limited by the technology of the time. No fault there. But it's clearly a movie of its time... Just not a very good one. See more Read all reviews

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