Dune | | Cast : | Kyle MacLachlan, Virginia Madsen | | Director : | David Lynch | | Studio : | Universal Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | December 14, 1984 | | DVD Released Date : | May 07, 2002 | | Language : | Spanish (Subtitled), English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), German (Dubbed), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 15, 2005 | | Summary | "DUNE" gets better with age (and maturity) | Content
 | I think one of the main reasons the film bombed in 1984 was that the mainstream audience was not yet familiar enough with the "weird" and original artistry of David Lynch, despite the fact that "Elephant Man" had been nominated for oscars only 4 years earlier. Later, after "Blue Velvet" and "Twin Peaks", Lynch finally hit gold with the public. Watching "Dune" again after that or now, the film has a much more literal and appreciative quality. For those who can only deal with "speed" sci-fi films, stay away from this one. You just aren't intelligent enough! |
| Rating | | | Date | July 15, 2005 | | Summary | 2 stars cause I like the floating guild dude | Content
| This movie is like reading the first chapter and then a bulleted outline of the rest of the novel.
It begins okay, building up Paul and his supporting crew, but about half-way through Lynch kicks it into high gear and we see this one hour montage of highlights with music from Toto. By the time the credits were rolling, I was cringing at this tumbling stack of cards.
Go grab the miniseries; it does twice as much with a third of the budget. They actually bothered to show his transformation into Mau'Dib.
Also, if you decide to watch this film, please pay attention when they roll out the alien in to the emperor's chambers and a guy on the left side trips and falls...hilarious. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 10, 2005 | | Summary | Nothing like the book | Content
| In 2004, I finally read Dune. Awesome story and I plan to read it again someday. Movies often fail to meet up to the book they are based upon and this is no exception, in my opinion. Maybe I am mesmerized by all the amazing special effects in movies these days, but I actually laughed much through this movie. I realize the story is complicated and long, but the 1984 version just doesn't cut it. I would LOVE to see a remake of this, not so much for updated special effects (the worms were great in the 1984 version) but for a more engaging storyline. Like LOTR, one is going to appreciate the movie much more if they've read the book, but LOTR followed the books quite well, IMO, AND they came out with movies that awed even non-book-readers. I think DUNE could be like that. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 07, 2005 | | Summary | Spice is not cinnamon! | Content
| Since people seem to be complaining that the movie is ridiculous because wars are being fought over "cinnamon", I will try to explain why the spice is so important:
-Spice prolongs life. That would be enough to make it worth warring over, but there's more, far, far more.
-10,000 years prior, machines wrestled universal power from the humans. After a Great Revolt-- the Butlerian Jihad, named for the family that was the driving force of the revolution--, computers were banned across the Empire. To replace them, human computers called Mentats came into existence.
-Some Mentats, after consuming vast amounts of spice, transformed into those "talking vaginas", Navigators. Only they could hold in their mind the patterns of space between a starship and its destination. Without Navigators' mind power, starships would be useless.
-Through a melange (oops! pun, read the book) similar to spice called the Water of Life, obtained in the same way, some females were able to obtain potent mental abilities. They formed an Order, the Bene Gesserit, and they were the Reverend Mothers. Their abilities include Truthsaying, the perfect lie detector, and the Voice, which forces all who hear to obey. Later, new Reverend Mothers recieved the Other Memory, the memeory of Reverends before them. Supposedly, someone will eventually be able to consume the Water of Life and recieve a sort of half-omniscience, where they can go into occasional trances and see the past, present, and future as one. The Reverend Mothers in the movie wonder if the hero, Paul Maud'Dib, could be this "someone".
-Spice is addictive! The Navigators, the Reverend Mothers, the Dukes and Barons and Counts, they would all die without it. Even the Emperor Corrino, who loves nothing better than the prospect of cheating death, would be killed if the spice no longer flowed.
Now, if cinnamon prolonged life, allowed for interstellar travel and psychic powers, were addictive, and could only be found on some distant planet, we probably would fight over it a bit. The movie didn't do much to convey how important the spice is, but I hope now everyone will stop complaining about the cinnamon. Now we can all appreciate it as a complex and amazing book and a darn good movie. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 09, 2005 | | Summary | One Of My Favorite Sci-Fi Pictures. | Content
| I would like to be an exception to SharpX13 "Jeremy"'s comment that those who read the book loved it and those who didn't hate it. I've never read any of the Dune books, and I also haven't seen any other David Lynch movie besides this one (though I did watch some of Twin Peaks). Yet, I enjoyed this picture immensely.
For those who haven't seen this picture, it has excellent special effects. If the job of a movie is to take you to a world you've never been, this would qualify for exhibit A. It is too graphic and intense for the younger crowd, with a PG-13 rating. It is long, but not boring. This movie made a very strong impression on me.
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