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Summary: Pathetic
Review: This movie was terrible as a movie alone, not to mention that it did not follow the book. After watching this movie, I cannot believe that anyone can make a movie using at most a quarter of the actual book! Many of the scenes were not even in the book and several were manipulated for one reason or another so that the content and/or settings were totally different! I also have to agree with all of the other complaints from other posts regarding this movie.If looking for a Dune movie, go with the 2000 miniseries, although not perfect, it is far greater than this junk.
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Summary: Hard to review
Review: Fans of the book will not really like it, it doesn't even come close to holding it's own against the book, the movies a absolute mess compared to the book. So dune fans will find this film very very disapointing. And people who know nothing about dune whoa are just watching the film will find themselves asking "what the? " every minute of the movie. Alien had much better effects and that was made five years earlier, the shields look horrible, the ships look horrible, the combat looks horrible, and the acting and voices are laughable, I couldn't give it one star though cause I'm a big fan of the book
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Summary: Garbage
Review: For anyone who has read Frank Herbert's Dune, this Lynch adaptation is an absolute farce. The star-studded cast notwithstanding, there is nothing redeeming about this movie. I find it infinitely perplexing why and how anyone (including many reviewers here) would find the movie worth 5 minutes of your time - I surmise that no one would give this garbage more than one star if it not carry the Lynch name.
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Summary: David Lynch why don¿t you realease a director¿s cut of this?
Review: I like the book alot . And I like this movie. David Lynch is one of my favorite living directors. Read the other reviews and you get the typical gamut of responses. I disagree with the hardcore fans of the book. There just aren't enough good sci-fi and fantasy films. Maybe this movie simply fills that vacuum and maybe not. I think not. I think it's a fine movie. I enjoyed it in the theaters when it was originally released. I finally watched it again last year, after 15 years. I was surprised by how much I liked it. I watched it over and over again. My only complaint (the reason I give this three stars) is that it could be even better: RELEASE A DIRECTOR'S CUT ALREADY!!!!!!! Make it six hours long or whatever it takes. PLEASE DAVID!!! PLEASE!!! DO IT FOR YOUR FANS. Perhaps my expectations are too high but I sense that the original cut of this, at four hours long or whatever it was, was better than all of the original Star Wars trilogy put together.
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Summary: SC
Review: This is movie is freaking crazy!!! I love it even though I know it isn't all that good. Now I know it is harsh and that this movie has taken its fair share of [criticism] from scifi buffs over the years, HOWEVER thats because that in so many ways the movie doesn't attempt to follow the book I mean its not a bad movie and it could have been so much better had they tried a little harder. My personal favorite part is in the beginning when Frank Herbert himself is narrating, that part was great. This way we know what the hell is going on of we have never read the books before(something incredibly rare in movies) Also I would like to add that for as much [criticism] as he got for acting STING did a great job. For example As for those parts that they could have erased and it would have been a lot better
Heart Plugs?
The Stupid New Weapons?
An Army using sound as a weapon?
And the one word that ticked me off the most SHHHHAAA!! I mean are any of us onvinced by this even for a second?(although I have to say the part with the Fermen riding in on the Sand Worms was very cool) Overall-OK movie doesn't deserve to be totally trashed
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Summary: Read the book
Review: Sometimes you need at least 20 hours of movie to tell a half of what is writen in a book. The same with Dune. And its 1984, so don't expect believable special effects. BTW, if you didn't like the DVD - read the book. If You think it is 5 star movie - read the book. If you are not sure you want to watch it - read the book.
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Summary: Great Movie if you like SCI-FI
Review: Got this DVD last year for my husband at Christmas..He loved it. Its got good animation and lots of extras to check out on the disk.
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Summary: It will take more than creativity to win my approval
Review: This movie seems to be made more for fans of the actors and not fans of Dune. Using people such as Patrick Stewart as Hallack is just to much for me to bare. And still they create utter trash such as "wierding modules" depress me even more. DO NOT BUY THIS MOVIE! SHUN IT! The sci-fi version is so much better.
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Summary: A Sci-Fi masterpiece.
Review: In the tradition of other great filmmakers, David Lynch has set a benchmark with Dune. Stanley Kubrick practically created science fiction as a legitimate film genre with 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Lynch in his own right has done the same. Dune displays incredible photography with its distinctly different settings: the exuberance of the emperor's throne room, the industrial coldness of Geidi Prime, the arid wasteland of Dune; each world contains such attention to detail that the viewer can imagine such places possibly existing. This is quite the accomplishment considering the age of the film.
The acting is very well done and the pacing of the film is acceptable (yet it does take an investment from the viewer. The film is usually only appreciated after seen a second or third time.).
Whether the movie version is loyal to Herbert's novel or not, it is without a doubt a great accomplishment in film; much more sophisticated than the 6 hour TV series which is trite in comparison.
A must for any serious sci-fi DVD collection!
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Summary: FOR LYNCH FANS ONLY
Review: Today, 50 years after it was written, Dune is still cutting edge science fiction and Arthur C. Clark accurately stated that nothing could compare to it except The Lord of the Rings. Machiavellian politics, mystic aristocrats fighting for feudal rights, complex social paradigms, wonderfully unerstated descriptions of time and place, fully fleshed characters, gritty combat scenarios, and an apocolyptic ending, all held together with an elegance of prose that is seldom seen in today's writters. But as for the movie.....paper thin characters that generate no interest from the viewer, a script completely lacking in substance, rediculously overdone costume and set design, muted dialog that does little except lull one to sleep, and by the end, you have to wonder if Lynch even read the original book. If you think the recent Star Wars films were facile, I can only say they have nothing on this trite piece of ... David Lynch's version of Dune is analogous to a child breaking an antique vase: great beauty shattered by an infantile ego.
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