Monster
I have finally seen I movie Iâve wanted to see since I was 12, âDune.â
What can I say about this movie? Everything Iâve read about it is true. All the good, bad and otherwise contradictory information written about this movie is absolutely true.
Is it a good movie? Well I donât exactly hate it, but there is just something not quite right about it. For example, at the start of he movie, why does the woman fade in and out three times while explaining the plot? And then why is her explanation followed by a PowerPoint presentation explaining the plot a second time? And then why is Paul watching another PowerPoint presentation explaining the story a third time?
The producers clearly did not trust the audience, or David Lynch for that matter. They cut approximately one hour out of the movie and replaced that content with incessant, insulting explanations of what we could have been seeing.
They didnât need to do that. The story isnât that complicated: The floating bad guy doesnât like the good guy with the beard, the bad guy conquers the good guy and the good guyâs son gets his revenge while developing god-like powers. Herbertâs fascinating world-building would be the meat in those bones.
On the plus side, itâs certainly a beautiful movie. It all looks good, except for that âspace foldingâ scene. That part is so absurdly inept I have to imagine it was added without Lynchâs input.
My primary criticism about the movie is that both Brad Dourifâs and Dean Stockwellâs characters die halfway through the film. Thatâs bad movie-making. And then thereâs Sting. When you have Sting in your movie you have him do something â something other than standing around smiling, and taking the occasional steam bath.
So, the movie is a bit of a mess. But thatâs not necessarily a bad thing. One of my favorite movies is âMetropolis,â and thatâs a bit of mess at times too. And this did make a lot more sense than âInland Empire.â Iâll have to watch this one again.
A few highlights:
I listened to the book on audio book not too long ago. I remember absolutely loving it as a teen and I read the whole series. Well, listening as an adult woman, I had to lol because it is SUCH a teenage boy fantasy view of the world, inverting a lot of the actual power dynamics of a 13 year old. I guess as a girl I related somehow, or saw myself through his eyes.
I like Lynchâs Dune, except the Weirding guns and the ending, which are both really cheesy and completely divorced from the book.
Yes. I would say the beginning and the end were weak, but the middle was very well done.
Really? I was thinking of reading the book, now Iâm not so sure.
I read the book in university for a Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Romance course, and it didnât hold up so well. I think even by then we were too old for it. Everyone in my tutorial had trouble suspending disbelief.
And the last line â " We may be concubines, but history will remember us as wives" â annoyed the crap out of me.
Yeah itâs all about this teenager taking power of the country and also thereâs a love story that is very basic.
Just heard an interview with Mark Hamill on the radio, and
I never realized he was âdoing a voiceâ all through Star Wars
but I guess thatâs his whole thing 
they actually made action figures for it, I got Baron H. and his henchman guy for Christmas that year, but a few years later sold them at a yard sale since I didnât play with action figures any more.
The Baron one was cool, when you pressed the button on his back, he raised his arms over his head like in that one scene.
I have to say Iâm a bit surprised by the general opinion of âDuneâ the book. I had always been led to believe it is the purest, densest, most ambitious and most complicated example of sci-fi in the known universe. Instead, from what Iâve read here, it seems the book is more of a boysâ adventure book.
I feel like someoneâs pulled out my heart plug. 
By-the-way, from watching the movie I learned two important things:
I now know why Tom Servo occasionally shouts âI! WILL! KILL! YOU!!â
And I was charmed to find the Fatboy Slim, âwalk without rhythm, you wonât attract the wormâ is actually said in the movie.
Could you express his pustules?
See also An Infinite Jest. Also Fight Club in certain quarters.
Well, those I already know are crap. 
It is seriously one of the densest and deeply pursued explorations of boy-power tropes. * So⌠once you get it, you get it, and neednât go on through the power machinations of the feminist nun bioposthumans, the shapeshifting identity-queer bioposthumans, the weakling genius boy bioposthumans, the spacenaut stoner bioposthumans, and whatever came after Chapterhouse stuff and so on. I think itâs more relatable to feminism by describing a founding ruin to dissect and cart away to a 1 million year ash heap of history.
So yeah, itâs simplistic to a fault.
* Just like Fight Club!
This is everything. I want it all so bad.
Edit: especially the sand worm!!!
Iâm just trying to understand the sandtrouts.
Spermcocks. All just spermcocks.
it can be both things.
Isnât it, like, a pastiche of Lawrence of Arabia rewritten for the sci-fi market?