This movie is a cult classic only because more people haven't seen it. This movie takes you on a dark journey. There are so many good actors in this film, too many to list. If you haven't seen this film watch it, then read the book.
Absolutely stunning. One of the best films going. A world almost more absorbing then Star Wars, for me. Poor ending and I felt the Harkonnen were too much like stereotypes, caricatures of themselves.
Given Lynch's disavowal of this film and the 80's-ness of it, I didn't expect to like Dune as much as I did. The cast is incredible, the sets grandiose, and the story one told by sci-fi writers since space-time immemorial. The almost-three-hour running time didn't grate on me, as I settled into the deliberate pace of the film from the beginning voice-over establishing the interstellar political rivalries. This could have been way worse.
A supurb film that derails completely in the second half. Great performances and special effects. The flying "spice kid" sidekick is really stupid though.
Oh my god. Je sais pas pourquoi, mais maudit que je suis un amateur de science-fiction à mes heures. C'est fou comme Dune est un alliage d'Asimov, de Lucas et d'Orwells (un peu moins que les deux autres, mais tout de même). Sincèrement, je suis incapable de comprendre pourquoi le film n'a pas été acclamé mondialement. Je croyais que Lynch avait fait exprès de faire un flop pour son plaisir personnel, mais bon Dieu que le film m'a tenu en haleine pendant près de deux heures et demie. L'univers est vraiment incroyable et la réalisation est tout bonnement à couper le souffle.
(1964 Director: David Lynch) Boy did I love thiis Frank Herbert SCIENCE FICTION BOOK. 1964 C.A.M.P.Y. low budget B movie is the bomb! I'm loving it! More than half way thru (& trying to complete a semsester of Spanish, Student Intershipsips & endless essays & research & & &...) FUN with a capital F! Whew! Incredibly erotic written by Frank Herbert. There are 5 sequels (books) to the original "Dune" {"quoting"This Hugo and Nebula Award winner [author Frank Herbert] tells the sweeping tale of a desert planet called Arrakis, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interstellar empire. Arrakis is the sole source of Melange, the "spice of spices." Melange is necessary for interstellar travel and grants psychic powers and longevity, so whoever controls it wields great influence. . . The troubles begin when stewardship of Arrakis is transferred by the Emperor from the Harkonnen Noble House to House Atreides. The Harkonnens don't want to give up their privilege, though, and through sabotage and treachery they cast young Duke Paul Atreides out into the planet's harsh environment to die. There he falls in with the Fremen, a tribe of desert dwellers who become the basis of the army with which he will reclaim what's rightfully his. Paul Atreides, though, is far more than just a usurped duke. He might be the end product of a very long-term genetic experiment designed to breed a super human; he might be a messiah. His struggle is at the center of a nexus of powerful people and events, and the repercussions will be felt throughout the Imperium.
Dune is one of the most famous science fiction novels ever written, and deservedly so. The setting is elaborate and ornate, the plot labyrinthine, the adventures exciting. Five sequels follow. --Brooks Peck [ALSO SEE A FRIEND'S REVIEW OF THIS MOVIE (UNDER PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO!) he FORGOT MAX VON SYDOW PHOTO BELOW...see him at his more recent best in Snow Falling on Cedars]
i 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... it didn't have much of a score on it's own. fukkit, it was alright
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).
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)
While 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.
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.
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.
One 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.
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.
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.
I 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.
read 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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