Quote from: Xenomrph on Apr 25, 2023, 11:27:26 PMI've never seen Lynch's Dune from beginning to end but Amazon has the upcoming 4K release and I'm tempted to blind-buy it.
It's a mess, but a very interesting one. As a curiosity, I do definitely recommend it. It actually adapts the first half of the book (pretty much what was in Denis' first film) pretty well, though after that it tries to cram the remainder of the novel into roughly 40 minutes of screentime and ooh boy did it need some space to breathe there. Lynch also didn't seem to totally get (or, more likely, didn't seem to totally care about) some of the logistics of what's going on with the novel, namely the ecology of Arrakis and the nature of "prophecy" in this world (the rain sequence in his film is pretty funny if you know what that would actually do to the planet, the worms, and the spice in the books), and there's a lot of really stilted, awkward voiceover to convey exposition, lore, etc. but I can't
really bring myself to dislike the movie, even with the film's many problems being as prominent as they are (and I totally get why Lynch would resent the film and the experience he had making it). It orbits this weird space between being a David Lynch movie and being a
Dune adaptation and it's pretty much the worst example of column A and column B in that chart, but it's also this real anomaly that kind of has to be seen. It's a really neat, perplexing little oddity.
Also, the worms look phenomenal. Like, 1:1 like they came right off of the book covers. Carlo Rambaldi's work is impeccable there. His work on the Navigator is also excellent. The production design across the board is incredible.
Man, after talking about it I'm actually getting myself in the mood to revisit this thing again I think...
Quote from: Local Trouble on Apr 25, 2023, 11:44:27 PMI firmly believe that we can thank Lynch's Dune for much of Warhammer 40k.
I don't know much about 40K outside of its overall aesthetic, but just visually... this does seem to track.
