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Plot: In the year 10,191 a race ensues for the discovery of a valuable spice found on a faraway planet.
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MCT:August 6, 2008i think lynch should've stuck to perfecting his sci-fi exploits because his other films just don't affect me at all. this is much more interesting and his weirdness almost belongs in a sci-fi theme. strange and good sets. bizarre script and story. the spice is almost a drug in nature. maybe they could've had a better soundtrack... hmm, rob zombie tunes spring to mind. anyway, it didn't have much of a score on it's own. fukkit, it was alright
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MCT:August 3, 2008
Dave Lynch's flawed but interesting take on Frank Herbert's Dune saga is a fun space opera with a floating fat evil dude and a guy that can use his voice to blast his enemies. They're on the planet Dune, a desert world in orbit of an actual star, Arrakis, (although really there could be no inhabited planets in orbit of the subgiant Arakkis, but Herbert didn't know that).
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MCT:August 2, 2008Not only is the movie one of my favorites, but the novel by Frank Herbert is as well. This movie did the novel justice.
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MCT:July 26, 2008
The original version from David Lynch is better than the extended edition now on DVD. Lynch disowned "Dune" when the extended edition was made, as we see the director's credit reads as 'Alan Smithee' as opposed to David Lynch, which is the approved pseudonym by the Director's Guild of America when a director wishes to have his or her name removed from a film. (see http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000647/bio for more detail)
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MCT:July 20, 2008While this film doesn't really fit in with David Lynch's other work, it's still very good. There are some great montages and other aspects that are signature Lynch, and the performances/characters are superb (and the sets are fabulous). Even though this is no Blue Velvet or Eraserhead, it's still a damn good film from David Lynch.
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MCT:July 15, 2008Oh man, it's a mess, but I still love it. I've never read the 'Dune' series of books, maybe they're impossible to adapt to screen, I don't know. Apparently the mini-series has had greater success, I've never seen it. This movie is batshit insane. If it's not the hilarious lines of dialogue or improbable casting (Captain Picard, Sting, the principal from 'Kindergarten Cop', Sean Young, and Kyle MacLachlan!) or David Lynch's usual insanity, it's something else. I make my share of Lynch jokes, but he has a mesmerizing visual sense that always keeps me interested in his films. If I have any guilty pleasures, this could be toward the top of the list. Remember your gom jabbar and the spice must flow, fellas.
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MCT:July 10, 2008
The story is good, but the movie was fairly bad. The more recent series redone by the Sci-Fi channel is far superior.
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MCT:July 3, 2008
Never read the books and never will. I really liked this film. I don't know what every one is talking about when they say that it was complicated and hard to follow, I got everything the first time I saw it (maybe you all are a little slow). This is one of my favorite Sci-fi films ever.
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MCT:June 24, 2008
I adore this film - the visuals are stunning. I don't care it's not got everything the book has - it works!
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MCT:June 18, 2008
I really like Dune, most peolpe hate it, or find it very boring. This is one of my favourite sci fi movies (except for the extended tv version) it has a great story, fantastic performances and an oscar winning musical score.
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MCT:June 7, 2008
The craziest film I've ever seen. Very difficult to watch, but it was very interesting to check out David Lynch's sci-fi perspective.
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MCT:June 5, 2008One of my favourite books turned into a terrible movie, the acting was so bad and it was just so crappy all around I couldnt even watch the whole thing. Look for the SCI FI channel version a really cheap movie set but the acting is much much better and its just a more enjoyable movie all around.
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MCT:June 5, 2008
Man, I was a f*cked up little kid.
I used to watch this movie every day. I don't know why parents let me watch it over and over. I also didn't know how I possibly understood one-tenth of the movie. I had problems understanding the movie now and I'm a healthy 25. (Okay, healthy might be pushing it, but I am definitely 25.) What's kind of sad is that this might be my favorite David Lynch film and it is his clearly something he did as a studio film.
I got a very cheap thrill out of Patrick Stewart in this movie. I've been rocking Star Trek: The Next Generation for a while now and it was surprising seeming him in another overtly science fiction role. But the casting on this movie is overall pretty top notch. Like most of Lynch's films, it's got this bizarre feel to the movie and a sense of "ugly beauty" to it. The people mostly look fairly freakish and they are complimented by a giant swimming/flying puppet slug. Ask me what that means, I couldn't tell you. But the best aspect to this movie, it really is a very solid science fiction film. It is engrossed in the genre. Normally, I would be disappointed with that, but I have always had problems relating to David Lynch'e characters, so I better get a good genre film instead.
The performances in this movie are really hard to gague simply because it is such a weird film. I can't say anyone was convincing, but that's because I wouldn't know what they are trying to be convincing of. Rather, it's just a bizarre film with really wacky visuals, and I kind of dig that. I also got to watch this on HD-DVD, so I got a high def look at a weird movie all about spice that does everything.
The reason I rated this movie so high is just because of the style. Yes, this is technically a Christian allegory (if you can make heads or tails of the spice story and the different houses) But this is much more of a visual movie, which could probably be said about Lynch's complete catalogue. But at least in this case, the bizarro style semi-supports the film and that's all I really ask from a director. I know that this might upset a good chunk of Flixster, but I just don't care for David Lynch and I think there's so much better cinema out there. Unfortunately, I probably can't ever recommend Dune to anyone, but that'll just be the cross that I have to carry. -
MCT:June 2, 2008
Bad acting and bad direction for what could have been a great film. A different director and a different cast could have made a world of wonders on this film.
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MCT:May 18, 2008I hoped seeing Dune on the big screen would improve my opinion of it. Like other Lynch films, it's visually dense and oppressive, but that doesn't make up for the story deficiencies. The most maddening thing for me is the voice overs -- so many of them are unnecessary and annoying. I had to go home and watch the last half hour of the Dune mini-series on DVD to wash the taste out of my mouth. That series, though with a totally different texture (more like theatre, really) made the world and people believable in a way the Lynch film failed to.
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MCT:May 14, 2008read the book. it's far superior. I can't understand where half the plot elements in this came from. maybe someone will make another attempt at this in the future (hollywood seems to have a habit of remaking films when they can't think of anything new to work on), and hopefully it will be closer to the book.
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MCT:May 11, 2008
The book is completely unfilmable -- they really should stop trying (although the SciFi channel version isn't too bad).
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MCT:May 6, 2008Una de las películas de ciencia ficción más interesantes, aunque casi mejor la serie televisiva reunida para película que es más fiel al libro.
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MCT:April 18, 2008
Box office flop based on the classic novel stands as Lynch's most mainstrean directorial effort and this lavish film does get better with repeated viewings.
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MCT:April 6, 2008
It seems like I wasn't meant to watch this movie. I fell asleep on it like 4 times. Maybe because I was tired or just maybe because it couldn't keep me awake. Either way, the story was good but it could have used a little more action and intrigue.
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MCT:April 6, 2008
Having watched this numerous times as a child, its a wonder I turned out at all normal. Say what you want about this movie (and I'm sure you could say a lot; Sting and his codpiece should give you enough ammo alone) I'll always love it. And although the plot is a confusing haze understood only by a reader of Herbert's books, it hits the tone with perfection.
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MCT:April 4, 2008
Underrated classic, admittedly pretty camp at times, but the dialogue and voiceover save the experience ;)
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MCT:March 23, 2008
Although strangely prophetic, there is too much information to keep track of, none of which adds much to the movie.
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terris85017posted 248 days ago -
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I'd only heard bad things about the film before watching it. I reckon it's one of Lynch's best. It's just filled with the most insane characters and inventions. I love it. All the weirdness and atmosphere of Lost Highway with an epic story.
posted 668 days ago -
I really think this movie and The Chronicles Of Riddick have so many similarities it is freaky. Watch them both together and tell me I'm wrong.
posted 674 days ago -
This is one of my favorite Sci-Fi movies. It's so underrated. People should give it a chance.
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