Dune

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Summary: THE BEST MOVIE EVER!!
Review: Dune was one of the best books i have ever read, and the movie was no different. I found the movie to be very complex, but that is what makes it so great. you really should read the book before watching the movie.

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Summary: Universal another studio disappoints me
Review: Well I was hoping for the whole movie. The director's cut of this movie. Which was excellent. But of course the studio sells the cheap version of the movie. I wish these studios would give the consumer what they want. I want all those scenes that you deemed to delete, which then makes people ask well why did he do that? I all these studios realize their stupid mistakes and put out some better dvd's with more features. Like a director's cut, or deleted scenes, behind the scenes. In my opinion don't buy this movie wait and hope it comes out in the director's cut.

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Summary: simply wonderful and compeling
Review: It has a book related to it a video game related to it and possibly dune 2000 coming out. Who could ask for more. It has 3 species in the story. I definetley recomend you see this movie. One of my friends who hardly likes to watch any whole movie said this was awesome i agree. I will not give away the story go watch buy and enfoy most of all. so for all for all you sci fi fans heres my friends quote "it was kina old but i loved this movie."

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Summary: Strengths outweighed by poor editing and production.
Review: Prior to viewing this film, I read the book it was based upon and enjoyed it. Unfortunately, those who brought it to film flunked the very real challenge. Certainly a great deal of effort shows through in the costumes and casting, as other reviewers have noted. But overall, the production values are poor. The film is muddy and the colors generally muted. The special effects are unremarkable at best, although allowances must be made for the age of the film.

Far more serious is the terrible editing. There is absolutely no sense of plot continuity or resolution. The film makes gigantic leaps from scene to scene to the next, stringing unrelated events together with no attempt at segueway, follow-up or explanation. Unless the viewer is extremely familiar with the book, it is completely impossible to keep up at all. Several scenes from the book are thrown in in with no rhyme or reason, as if the whole point were to bring that moment to tape regardless of how it integrates with the whole. To top it off, several changes were made to the original story line (such as the introduction of "weirding devices") that add nothing to the story and serve only to make the whole mess more confusing even for those who are familiar with the print version. I seriously doubt that anybody viewing this film without having first read the book would find the film engaging in the least, and it is a distinct struggle for those of us who have.

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Summary: a magical and confusing world
Review: Te Dune novels are one of the all time classics of SF. This movie can't posibly include every aspect of the F. Herbert novel, but it's a very exact aproximation after wich you'll provably want to read de book, and then see the film again and again. The magic of the novel finds it images in this film. The efects are amaizing and the frasing of the lines beautifuly constructed, with an economy that is in itself compeling. It's a magical film.

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Summary: Can It Please Hardcore Herbert Fans?
Review: It will be interesting to see how the forthcoming 6-hour mini-series will compare to this ambitious undertaking. David Lynch and an excellent cast and crew tried their best to create a worthy version of the hard-to-film novel. Most of the actors are well-cast and the special effects run from quite good to lukewarm, even taking into account the relative age of this film. The Sandworms are well done and the costumes and sets are terrific. But the vehicle designs seem just plain wrong in the mind's eye of this Dune fan. And some of the optical shots of the Guild Highliner starships and the folding of space don't hold up well to Y2K viewers. The video transfer of David Lynch and cinematographer Freddie Francis' visions are faithful but any problems are inherent in the way the movie is photographed. Even with the fierce squinting of the actors in the day scenes, much of the film looks as though it is shot on an overcast day! If you want to know how to shoot a desert, just look at Lean's 'Lawrence Of Arabia' or even George Lucas' original 'Star Wars'. The only false note in the characterisations is the Baron Harkonnen. In the book, the Baron is a very intelligent and Machiavellian deviant. The Baron of this film is more deviant than cunning, making him more of a Lynch creation than a Herbert one. But most of the other characters are spot-on. At a running time of 140 minutes David Lynch was hard pressed to do the full story of the first Dune novel justice. But the proposed six hours of the mini-series may be excessive. Perhaps the happy dramatic medium is somewhere between. With some of it's excised scenes replaced and some of the opticals redone, David Lynch's Dune could be a 4 star motion picture. But this DVD is worth getting nonetheless.

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Summary: Mmmmm... shai-halud
Review: I too was hoping that the DVD would have had the deleted scenes from the longer version or the option to play either version of the movie. There are SO many scenes in other versions of this movie that illustrate things that happen in the novel.

I've seen 3 or 4 different versions of this movie, and each one of them containing a little more detail about different aspects of the movie. If you note the back of the DVD box, you see a picture of Paul and Chani in a love scene... the love scene doesn't appear in the DVD version of the movie. Odd, eh?

Anyway, I think this movie is a great vision with a scope and a granduer even greater than that of Star Wars.

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Summary: If you don't understand it, read the book and watch it again
Review: and again and again and again... The movie is hard to follow if you're not familiar with this amazing and completely new and different world created in the story. Once you've read enough of the Dune Series and watched the movie enough, you'll understand it...and then you'll get it.

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Summary: Good Adaptation;Dissapointing DVD
Review: Lynch's adaptation of Herbert's still amazing novel is actually as good as it can get for the big screen. The regular version is a tighter movie, but the DVD should've had the extended Director's Cut as well. The Director's Cut includes some very good scenes that will make fans of the book more satisfied with the movie. O well.

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Summary: DVD review
Review: I bought the DVD version for my wife's birthday present, as she liked the original movie. I didn't realize that the version she saw was over three hours long and the DVD version ( I gather, the original ) is about an hour shorter. I actually enjoyed the movie but beware if you are expecting the long version.