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#The spice must flow dune movie
The end of the movie features laser guns and explosions, finally. Oh, and the ropes they used to harness the sandworms were totally those plastic jumpropes from the school playground. The fighters sounded like Grover every time they fired their pistols. Capturing and riding the sandworms was pretty nifty, but then the guns powered by your voice came along and ruined it. Once the movie got going and actually started to feel like an action movie, things got better. Their design borrowed a lot from the Sarlacc Pit, while also being a clear inspiration for the Demigorgon in Stranger Things. The sandworms were great, but got tiresome after their one trick was shown over and over again at the end. I’m a sucker for miniatures and set design, and there were some good ones on display here. The cube fighting shields were straight out of Tron and unlike anything else in the movie. Star Wars hit the screens seven years before Dune, and looked a whole lot better despite the fact that Dune had a pretty robust budget. Overall, the special effects were not very good for 1984. The actors really got into the roles, even Sting, and I won’t forget their antics any time soon. The villains in this movie are disgusting, terrible, and hard to watch. If you haven’t seen Dune before and decide to watch it, I would recommend reading a synopsis so you have a vague sense of what is going on, and maybe make it just a little more watchable. You know a movie is going to be bad when they need a narrator to explain what’s going on at various points in the story. Was it his intention to make a campy movie or a serious epic? Granted, I’m not a big fan of Lynch’s movies, but why did anyone think he was a good fit for this one? Many of the scenes were laughably bad (floating Baron, anyone?), while the source material is so rich. I really don’t know what David Lynch was trying to do with this movie. He is just awful in the beginning, when his character is a dumb “kid” and later on, when he becomes the heroic figure he was destined to become, you just don’t care for him still. Kyle MacLachlan is miscast in this movie. A day later, I’m still wondering about certain aspects of this movie, but not in a good way - what the heck were those giant testicle creatures anyway? The plot of this movie is so muddled, an actual storyline only starts to appear after 2/3 of the way through. The first hour of Dune is the slowest of slogs, through meandering dream sequences and scenes filled with a cavalcade of characters straight out of George Lucas’ reject bin. If I hadn’t read the novel, I’m sure I would be even more confused, which is saying something.
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To be fair, I wasn’t going into this viewing totally cold, since I did read the Frank Herbert novel several years ago. Having never heard any good opinions or reviews towards this movie, I never felt the urge to give it a shot… until now. When the idea for “Cool, Cool, Cool Summer 2019” was born, I knew that part of the experiment would be viewing popular movies that I never managed to see while growing up.