Genre: Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Fantasy
Length: 2h 17m 0s
Director: David Lynch
Tagline: A world beyond your experience, beyond your imagination.
Plot outline: In the far future, a duke and his family are sent by the Emperor to a sand world from which comes a spice that is essential for interstellar travel. The move is designed to destroy the duke and his family, but his son escapes and seeks revenge as he uses the world's ecology as one of his weapons. Summary written by John Vogel {jvogel@dgs.dgsys.com} The desert planet Arrakis - we enter the year 10191 and the whole universe depends on the spice Melange which exists only on this dry and desolate planet. The natives of this planet await the arrival of their Messiah who will lead them into a holy war against the evil Harkonnen empire. This is the film adaptation based on Frank Herbert`s cult novel. Summary written by Harald Mayr {marvin@bike.augusta.de} Set in a distant future where life in the universe and space travel is dependent upon a spice found only on the planet Dune, this film tracks the rise of young Paul Atreides, son of good Duke Lito, from the time of his father's betrayal and murder by a rival lord, Baron Harkonnen, to his discovery of the great secret behind the planet Dune and his own destiny, which is to free the planet and its denizens of the cruel rule of the Emperor. Summary written by Sunil Iyer {siyer@foobar.co.uk}
Comment: Note: This review is for the extended "Alan Smithee" version Two things can happen if you try to adapt a book to the screen. The movie may end up very different from the book. This isn't always a bad thing in my opinion. No, the worst thing that can happen when you adapt a book into a movie is this: you are TOO close to the book. The director ends up just showing you what he thinks every event in the story looked like. "Dune" is a prime example of this. It's tempting for me to say that this movie is so laughably bad that it's good. But I think it might have bypassed good and gone right back to being bad again. I have to admit, I'm not a big fan of _Dune_ (the book) to start with. I tried to read it over the summer and was nearly bored to death. I did find one thing interesting: Kids, this story is all about drugs! The buying of drugs, the selling of drugs, the politics of drugs, the addiction to drugs. Furthermore, the characters who partake of the strongest drugs are granted special powers. So, basically, a reasonably good _Dune_ movie would be a drug movie. Graft a really clumsy life of Christ parable onto "Traffic" and you get the idea. Picture some guy reading the book to you all the way through and you have the reality.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
Country: USA
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CDs: 0
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| Actors: | ||
| Francesca Annis | as | Lady Jessica |
| Leonardo Cimino | as | The Baron's Doctor |
| Brad Dourif | as | Piter De Vries |
| José Ferrer | as | Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV |