In the year 10191, a spice called melange is the most valuable substance known in the universe, and its only source is the desert planet Arrakis. When a duke and his family are sent by the Emperor, his son leads desert warriors against the galactic emperor and his father's evil nemesis when they assassinate him and free their desert world from the emperor's rule.
Critics at the time labeled it "confusing"; I don't see how, considering that you hear what everyone is thinking, all the time, and they repeat their key thoughts constantly so that their actual acting never has to do the job of telling the story.
There's some pleasure to be had from its misguided spectacle...but only if you embrace the mystery rather than try to define it, which is true, really, of all of Lynch's work. Surrealism isn't meant to be sorcerered into making sense.
Several of the characters in Dune are psychic, which puts them in the unique position of being able to understand what goes on in the movie.
Movie Dearest
March 21, 2014
Underrated, especially for devotees of the book. An impressively faithful if necessarily streamlined adaptation, though heavy on industrial-looking art direction and grotesque makeup effects.
Lynch's third feature may have been a commercial disaster, but it gets under your skin and is marked by unforgettable images and an extraordinary soundtrack.
This movie is a real mess, an incomprehensible, ugly, unstructured, pointless excursion into the murkier realms of one of the most confusing screenplays of all time.
