Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

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.

A big history killed by a bad performance, bad special effect, bad actors, bad direction, very bad everything

I had only seen David Lynch's 1984 production of Dune once before when I was much younger, so when I got the chance to see a midnight screening of it at my local theater, I jumped on it. Going into this screening I recalled the movie being somewhat goofy, probably because I had just read all six of the original Dune novels the first time I saw it and OF COURSE it didn't come close to holding up to that lengthy, legendary storyline.Frank Herbert's universe had seemingly endless plots, subplots, characters and themes. Dune has all the sex, violence and political machinations of Game of Thrones while also concentrating on much more weighty issues like technology, ecology, drug use, spirituality, the destiny of mankind, etc. The depth of Dune is too much for any movie to come close to capturing and that's the brick wall that David Lynch runs into. He can't possibly do the source material justice; not on a thematic level anyway. He can only capture the forms and some of the spectacle from the first book.That said, I did enjoy it slightly more this second time, probably because I was focusing on its artistic merit and what David Lynch does well rather than mercilessly comparing it to the scope of the books. The first half of the film is steady, well presented and follows the book fairly well but somewhere around the middle of the movie the pace dramatically speeds up and they start cramming way too much story into too little screen time as events hurtle toward a hasty, contrived conclusion.I wish that Lynch hadn't shoved so many of the characters thoughts into recorded voice overs. Apparently this was done because the studio demanded he cut his original 3 hour version of the film by 40 minutes. I get that anyone who hasn't read Dune would have a hard time comprehending what was going on without all that exposition, but I think the film would've benefited greatly by saying less. Let the mysterious remain mysterious and focus on those inspired visuals! If people want to unravel it all, they can go back and read the novel. What a torture, to have to read one of the most important works of science fiction ever!For all its flaws, the film nails quite a few elements of "Dune." It's very well cast and most of the costumes / sets are spot on. Even the pronunciations of Herbert's fictional terminology are mostly correct and Paul's dream sequences are splendid to behold, evoking the symbolism and artistry you expect to flow from the prose of the book.The film ends on a bit of an eye roll. Muad Dib and the Fremen win a crazy one-sided battle, he kills Feyd in the duel (Sting was surprisingly good in this role for someone who's not, primarily, an actor), Paul proclaims a new dawn of humanity and it suddenly rains for the first time on Dune. Really David? That rain wasn't in the book and you couldn't think of a better way to end it? How about after the proclamation we have a nice long zoom in on Paul transitioning into visions of the future from the subsequent five books? Muad Dib's fall, the trials of his children, the God Emperor and the rise of the Honored Matres! Paul is soaked in spice at this point so he's already getting glimpses of the future. Even just a brief montage eluding to those events with the dramatic score in the background would've made a great ending to your acid trip of a movie! But no, we get a sadly typical put-a-bow-on-it Hollywood ending and fade to credits.Despite its shortcomings, I'm not overly disappointed. Adapting Dune is too great a task for anyone and it was fun to see Lynch try. Although much of the substance is missing, he succeeded in capturing the dramatic weight of Dune and painting a dazzling silver screen portrait of my favorite novel. It will be interesting to see if Denis Villeneuve can do better.

(Flash Review)They threw the heavy book at you. It appears having a working knowledge of the book is critical for a clear understanding of this film. Within the open few scenes, they throw lots of names, locations and quarrels at you with little context. Trying to remember obscure names right off the bat was a challenge and I wasn't sure if one was a person or location as they sounded alien and mythical. Point being, they dug a hole for me that I had to work to get out of and not feel stupid. There were some unique and creative looking creatures and lands. Occasionally, the special effects looked fine for the mid-80s and other times the effects were appalling even for 1984. The pacing felt off too with several long scenes that drug on. The plot was rather typical too with a son of an important man who attempts to thwart enemies from conquering them or something all in a far future in lands of sand. If you haven't read the book, I dare you to watch it.