What is your honest opinion on Dune?

What is your honest opinion on Dune?

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Not very spicy

Painful to watch. Just awful.

There's the hint of a good movie. Lynch took his name off the movie because the studio interfered too much and wouldn't give him final cut, but even the direction is not very good. Try the dune redux fan edit, it fixes some of the pacing and gives the movie a more grandiose feeling.

Absurd nonsense. A fitting addition to the Dune canon.

But the weirding modules and the shield graphics were awful. And the graphics were awful in ways that could have been done better with Eighties production values.

>yfw Dune was first written to spread Herbert's ideas about fixing sand to the world

When I saw it in the theater when it came out and I was a 14 y.o. former Star Wars junkie? Too weird.

It's a good stoner movie for the "whoa deep bro" cerebral stoner, or for people whose natural mindset resembles a stoned person. For anyone else it might be worth a single watch for some cultural references and strange visuals but definitely not worth seeing more than once.

The first book was great. The second was just ok. Everything after that was bad. Then the prequels written by his sons were an affront to god and man.

Film adaptations have all been less than good.

The sound track was pretty bad ass during some scenes. Needed a much better movie and for more songs on the ST to be up to par with the best of the pieces.

obligatory
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movie is flat overall

but has some top shelf scenes and characters

I liked the sci-fi channel's mini-series and Children of Dune. David Lynch can fuck off tho

One of the best movies ever made. Love it.

this

I think this image I have in my mind of Dune as this amazing sprawling sci-fi epic full of bizarre, beautifully horrific cultures and corrupt mutated aristocracy is probably better than whatever the reality is. I'm afraid to watch the movie and be thoroughly disappointed.

The movie is truly monumental. It's a mess at first if you know nothing about the Dune, and it's also a bit of a mess of you know the books, because it's just a 2 (or 3) hour movie.

I think it is one of the most original mainstream movies ever made, it's truly like a classic sci fi book come alive. The music is incredible too.

Didn't care for it, but I was like 15 when I watched it last

I love the soundtrack. I love almost every individual scene. I watch it every time I see it on. It's not a good movie.

this, i feel like if I hadn't read the book I would have liked it a lot better. The fact that Jodorowski didn't get to make it is one of history's great tragedys

original dune >= last three books > second and third book

I was great, only fanboys got mad 'cos it differed slightly from books and normies didn't have high enough IQ

Is that Sting?

no. what's a tragedy is that so many people who watched that doc seem to think that it was really going to be amazing. hello...every movie in Hollywood starts with people coming up with all sorts of incredible genre-bending ideas and artistic visions, but they all end up like different shades of Transformers. Jodorowsky's Dune would have likely been a disaster not unlike Event Horizon.

More influential than Lord of the Rings in fantasy literature. In fact, if you deleted LotR and just had fantasy based on Dune (which draws nothing from LotR at all) and Conan, it would be much better today.

It has one of my favorite movie scenes ever
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I've never read the books but I'm a big fan of David Lynch and never seen Dune, is it worth watching?

This movie was so bad that it almost made David Lynch kill himself. Only reason why he didn't is because a friend introduced him to meditation.

Jodorowsky's Dune I think had it been made at that time would have failed miserably. However, I do think nowadays it's possible for someone to adapt his script, but only if it's animated (and not fucking CGI garbage)

>being this new

if you're a Lynch fan, yes. its weird but amazing

I heard Sting sung Inshalla at the Bataclan one year after the massacre.

Was he channeling actually a fremen all along?

>I heard Sting sung Inshalla at the Bataclan one year after the massacre.
This would be truly some Harkonnen tier shit.

i've never read the books but i knew they were a point of contention when compared to lynch's dune, but i enjoyed it overall.

LITERALLY BDUMP RIGHT NOW

Real talk, is the book worth reading now? I love sci-fi but I read a quick summary of the first book and it sounds a bit slow.

There is video of it on YouTube. Sting is a piece of shit.

Or just high on lulz

David Lynch's "Dune" is like a product of a stoner "what if" session brought to life. It's an interesting experiment, but ultimately it didn't quite work.

I was fascinated and intrigued by some of the costume choices. I thought some of the actors like Kyle MacLachlan and Sting were beautifully suited for their roles. I thought some of the scenes (the climactic duel, for instance) came off quite well.

On the other hand, the "weirding modules" were silly. The Baron Harkonnen was silly. Alia was pathetically silly. Galactic culture in general looked fairly silly. The choice of "Toto" for incidental music was ridiculously silly. And the sandworms came off as bargain basement special effects.

However, considering how freaky David Lynch generally likes his films, I'm a bit disappointed he wasn't allowed to indulge himself a bit more.

It's slow but deep.

I like it in the same way I like The Shining, a movie that isn't really the source material but interesting in its own right. I'd still like to see a proper adaptation with a budget, the miniseries from the early 2000s has not aged well.

I mean get this yeah but I think it's also the line up he got as well. Dali, Pink Floyd, Moebius Mick Jagger.

So deep put her ass to sleep

LOOK AT THE LINE UP Casino Royale (60's version) had and then see what a horrible mess that was

Those are really stupid choices if they were going to be anything like their book characters, Dali especially awful choice for Shaddam

When the flying fat asshole pulled the plug on the trap slave and all the blood came gouging out, gave my little 12 yo self a boner and I don't even know why.

quiet you

I don't think Sting is beautifully suited for Feyd-Rautha. Feyd-Rautha is quiet and subtle and almost manages to assassinate his uncle. He uses tricks in the gladiator arena and in his fight with Paul instead of relying on combat skills. He's also supposed to be a teenager. Sting is just a loud mouth smug villain who poses naked in a steam room

you literally went back in time and jacked your illegal self off? nice

He was also 'normal' the Baron used him as the Harkonnen poster boy basically 'see we're not all degenerate freaks, look at Feyd'

i have learned something today

gud

Don't read it. Instead, eat McDonald's every day and smoke cigarettes non-stop until you fucking die.

It's actually closer to the book than a lot of people bitch about it being. I watched it again recently and was surprised.

The only real glaring difference is the weird fucking word weapon sound cannon shit, but that was funnier than hell.

"Muuuaaaaaa DEEB!!!!"

Pretty much sums it up for me. It's horrible and I love it.

Well due for a modern remake.

What young black actor can we cast as Paul?

what's the deal with all this Josh shitporting?

Is Josh Homme a new meme?

In the future where computers dont' exist and everyone whispers all the time.

Sure. And the Fremen are going full WEWUZ too, instead of being Space ISIS

Paul was clearly written as black in the novels, this is a major red flag that you haven't even read the books

>A primary theme of Dune and its sequels is Frank Herbert's warning about society's tendencies to "give over every decision-making capacity" to a charismatic leader.

Scary how relevant this is right now...

I unironically LOVE this film, bros. Matter fact, I find it a masterpiece and top-tier sci-fi accomplishment. I know Lynch himself hates it, but I think it's because of goddamn Hollyjew scumbags ruining the filmmaking process, and not because of the quality itself.

>the mesmerizing, god-tier score that gives the film a divine touch
>incredible, expensive-looking sets
>believable props
>dropdead gorgeous cinematography, especially the shots of the sea and desert
>calm and collected build-up and pacing
>stellar cast and beautiful ladies
>bizarre and wonderful at the same time (seriously, that first Harkonnens scene is borderline experimantal)
>Lynch doesn't spoon-feed you to make it easy - we're dropped right into the middle of the big feud between major political forces with strange names and complicated alliances, there's so much mythos and wierd gadgets thrown right into our face, Lynch demands attention and learning from us, there's no lasers, speeders and quips
>fucking sandworms, bros!
>Dune is about ecology, politics, philosophy, religion, masculinity, femininity, greed, heroes etc., and Lynch captured it perfectly
>the theater-style of acting focused on dramatics was fitting

Sure, some effects were cheap and laughable, but it's no biggie to me. I fucking LOVE Dune and the way Lynch made it all serious and challenging, and because it flopped and Hollywood hates it, I fear Legendary is going to pick the easy route with everything watered down for manchildren and tumblrinas. Why do people hate this film, bros? It's beautiful.

I don't usually post, more of a lurker.
But the directors cut of this movie is one of the most memorable and interesting works of sci-fi I've ever seen. If you can get behind the production value and cheese, there is so much lore and intrigue to be found about the universe Dune takes place in. It is far deeper than most sci-fi. I have read the book, and believe that the movie (directors cut, again) does it fair justice.

>directors cut

No such thing, IIRC. There's an extended edition for TV, but it loses the god-tier film coloring.

>Those are really stupid choices if they were going to be anything like their book characters, Dali especially awful choice for Shaddam
This wasn't going to be an adaptation of Frank Herbet's Dune. This was going to be Jodorowsky's Dune. He was truly making the story his own thing. He hadn't even read Dune when he first decided to make it.

Let me tell you something, the way Lynch captured the soothing ocean and winds of Caladan and industrial hell of the Harkonnens is GOD-TIER. Future adaptations won't come close. Don't even let me start on all those mesmerizing Arrakis shots with DAT SCORE playing in background.

I dunno, the file name of the version I watched said directors cut... must have been extended, though, since it was considerably longer (30-45 min) and it was a lot more coherent.

Jodorowsky's would be better.

First third or so is very good, then it falls apart.

Ripped off Warhammer 40k. I mean "God Emperor"? What the fuck? Why hasn't GW sued their asses?

Utterly pathetic they can't come up with their own terms. Probably cashing in on that Drumpf meme.

Nah, there's no director's cut. David Lynch wasn't allowed to cut the movie, now he refuses despite the studio begging him to do it. I recommended the Dune Redux fan edit at the top of the thread. It finishes the effects for some of the deleted scenes to put them in and give the movie a proper buildup to its climax. It's probably the closest to what the director's cut would look like.

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>>That rocking Toto music.


It really is a guilty pleasure. Heart plugs (original content donutsteel) freaked me out when I was younger.

I would only recommend this movie to Lynch fans. It's lost on everyone else.

It's shit

Lol

It's not great, but it's enjoyable.

>God-Emperor of Dune
>bad

A true Harkonnen top kek

This image is HIGH ART.

The 1984 Dune movie? Love it. I can not get tired of it.

The miniseries however? Not so much.

what are you talking about?

It's good for an 80's sci-fi movie. As a Lynch movie? Not that much, but you gotta take it for what it is. I wish there were more movies like it.

DOOK LETO ATRIEDES

It was shit and I don't think that very quickly about a movie but it was really bad.
I hope that if another dune is made that they atleast folloq the books and setting as much as possible.

It was boring as fuck.

>shit plebs say

Lynch's Dune is patrician.

The book is not responsible for your attention deficit disorder

I pity you

Watch it, Paul.

>shield graphics
>awful
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Jodo was high af and gay for everyone in your list that's why he wanted to cast them dipshit, jodos dune if anyone was ever retarded enough to give him the cash would have been fucking awful.

With some cool visuals

Frank Herbert: the force shields are nearly invisible, just a slight shimmer in the air

David Lynch: what if they looked like cardboard boxes?

They suck he's right about that

Something akin to Verhoeven's Starship Troopers maybe (in the way of completely disregarding the source material and doing his own thang)?

>My name is a killing word. They are ready to fight, yet in order to lead them I must conquer the world, conquer Shai-Hulud.

I adore this film, bros.

he killed it, jodo would not have, look at the difference, Paul uses tv actors as MCs, jodo hirers Dali at wat? a mil a minute, he's not even right for the part. That drug addled Mexican should never be given any kind of budget, ever

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>hating on this

weirding guns, shields and fucking rain is what ruins dune not sting going fullhomo

Fuck off nigger

If there were no book, I'd consider it an imperfect but respectable movie with some really awesome concepts. Given the book it's based on, it's pretty disappointing.

>The first book was great. The second was just ok. Everything after that was bad.
I pretty much agree with you, though for me "everything after that" just means Children of Dune, as I quit at that point. I think Dune Messiah might have been a bit better than just okay if considered in a vacuum, but a bit worse than okay when taking into account the way it continues and reflects upon Dune.

>the miniseries from the early 2000s has not aged well
I haven't seen it since it was new, but I thought it was trash at the time, so if it's worse in retrospect...