Dune

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Ed Well done, but read the books first Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/24/24 Full Review Lisa M One of my all time favorite films!!! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/04/24 Full Review April R It is a flawed masterpiece. But seeing in cinema was a mind bending experience!! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/21/24 Full Review Brad S. R There's so much to like about David Lynch's Dune, but, for reasons that were largely beyond his control, it simply doesn't come together. Great actors are introduced and dispensed with little fanfare, opulent sets are seen all-too-briefly and never appear again, and so many pieces of narrative lore, technology, and canon are introduced so quickly that it's nearly impossible to understand what is happening on a first (or indeed even a second or third viewing). Additionally, the special effects are largely uninspired and cheaply delivered, so that in the end the film is at different times beautiful and garish, riveting and dull, intriguing and confusing. It remains one of the biggest cinematic disappointments of the 1980s. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/06/25 Full Review Ben D Dune starts with some good set-up exposition and then keeps going and going and going. If that weren’t enough, the directorial decision to have several inner-monologues was a sin. Exposition and inner-monologues seemed to make up the whole movie. Some of the practical effects (and very early digital effects) are charming, but upon reflection, this came out after all three of the original Star Wars trilogy with a budget on parity with Return of the Jedi and looks significantly worse. The movie is cramped with storylines cropped. Paul (Kyle MacLachlan) and Chani (Sean Young) share like two scenes together and then we’re supposed to believe they’re in love? If there’s a highlight, it comes in the form of the pustule-laden, Baron Harkonnen (Kenneth McMillan). McMillan appears to give the only performance that isn’t — ironically — robotic. (Dune takes place in 10,191, after humans and robots/computers had already gone to war, with the former coming out victorious.) Juxtaposed Villeneuve’s incredible reboot (2021 & 2024), there’s little reason to watch David Lynch’s take at the formidable Sci-Fi story. (We discuss Dune and other Lynch works on Ep. 159. ) On the bright side, the fact that Dune was such a flop allowed Lynch to return to his surrealist roots and give us all that good stuff that came after. There’s no reason to see this one. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/27/25 Full Review Split V Even for its time this feels like a complete disaster in every way. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/27/25 Full Review Read all reviews

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