I saw this movie before reading any reviews, and I thought it was very funny. I was very surprised to see the overwhelmingly negative reviews this film received from critics.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

I am writing this review after listening to the book on Audible. I am also writing this review in 2018. I am taking two things into account, the length of the movie and the time it was made. When I watch a movie based off of a book, I know that it is impossible to get everything into it. This movie is basically an abridged audio book (meaning it cut out the fat and leaves only the necessity). I watched the movie with my father and wife who did not read the book. What they took out of the movie was good. I told them some more information about certain scenes For example, when Paul told Kynes that he adjusted the stillsuit properly. In this movie Kynes noted this but if you didn't read the book, you would not know that this is significant because the messiah will know the way of the Fremen. Another example I had to provide more information for was explaining why Alia was considered an abomination. In all, I was truly disappointed by two things. (1) The portrayal of the Baron. In the book, he is clearly the bad guy. However, he is at least logical and his plans are great. He puts deep thought into his plans and reads into peoples actions before he will even reply. In the movie, I feel like they were trying to make a bad guy more like Star Wars Jabba the hutt. (2) The shield suits. This one I do not blame the movie for. I blame myself for being born in 1992 and seeing very good special effects in my life time. The suits in the movie are laughable and should be taken with a grain of salt. In all, the movie is more of a trailer to read the book. You can watch the movie first, and then read the book to get a way better story. Since IMDB is owned by Amazon and Audible is too, I will promote Audible really fast. I highly recommend buying the book on Audible. The voice acting is amazing. They have many narrators for the characters in the book (including Scott Brick who does amazing work in all of his audio books). I like the audio book because the book itself has many words that I did not want to even try to pronounce. The narrators read the text the way it was meant to be read.

Nothing post 1984 can even come close to being as good as this one, I like the fact F\X were used sparingly, & the actors were all top notch too. This was brutal sci-fi @ it's best.Now movies like this are deemed socially unacceptable sadly :(

"Dune" had one of the finest casts ever assembled. Francesca Annis, Freddie Jones, Dean Stockwell, Jose Ferrer, Brad Dourif, Sian Phillips, Patrick Stewart, Max von Sydow, Sean Young . . . why, even Sting shows up (quite a lot of himself; and, according to the special features, he might have shown off even more!) Sure, most of those actors are a bit on the "cult" side, but they're all solid talent.The source material was a little more iffy. DUNE is a BIG book, and so different it carries a glossary of terms author Frank Herbert coined (well, in lots of cases, ripped off). And adapting the book for the screen was a delicate balancing act, as Herbert fans are, in their bookish way, as fanatical as Star fans (Trek or Wars).The surprising thing was that a movie this size, costing forty million dollars in an era when a movie's price tag was part of its marketing, was entrusted to David Lynch. Until that time Lynch's most normal movie was "The Elephant Man." Lynch, who enjoys focusing on the weird and the frankly disgusting made Herbert's novel even more weird and disgusting. Whenever the Harkonnens appear onscreen, lay aside your popcorn.For all that, the streamlined story is compelling; and while the effects are purely 1984, the sets are gorgeous. It's always eye-catching. The major problem with the movie is that most of the more interesting and/or likeable characters get killed, incapacitated or go AWOL at about the half-way mark. Since this movie is nearly two and a half hours long, that means a long stretch of near-tedium before the climax.The second half of the movie is dominated by the people Paul Atreides needs to free (part of the myth popular among left-leaning artist that normal people can't do anything for themselves, they need a "strong man" or woman or government to come and break their shackles; without some outsider who is nobler and higher and richer and more educated telling them how to go it's a wonder they can feed themselves or tie their shoes).The second half of the movie has the normal people played by Everett McGill and Sean Young, and they're perfectly fine. But after the freak actors and carefully-nuanced performances of the first half, the come off unfortunately bland. It's not their fault. They're doing the best. They're parts simply aren't written in intriguing ways. Because the movie's first half is so compelling and has so many great performers doing their best to chew the scenery, it deserves more than five stars out of ten. But Lynch lets the side down in the boring second half.

One can never really compare a book to a 2-3 hour condensation of a book. This is an awesome attempt. A CLASSIC of the period. Incredibly good especially considering its age. We're talking 1984! Well worth the watch. Fav for me.