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Dune
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.
2 July 1932, Brooklyn, New York, USA
10 June 1941, Berlin, Germany
12 September 1927, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK
8 January 1912, Santurce, Puerto Rico
10 April 1929, Lund, Skåne län, Sweden
24 June 1936, Everett, Massachusetts, USA
20 November 1959, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
21 October 1945, Miami Beach, Florida, USA
21 December 1943, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
4 February 1922, Vincennes, Indiana, USA
July 30, 2012
There's not a shred of humor in it, and it's a bleak look at humanity's future. But I was swept into the fantastic world.
May 20, 2003
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.
January 26, 2006
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.
January 07, 2013
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.
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.
December 15, 2014
It's bad - as bad as they come - but also built to last, and as the years roll on, its fascinating qualities continue to grow.
July 18, 2011
The problem is that the imagery isn't rooted in any story impulse, and so its power dissipates quickly.
February 21, 2014
An incoherent, strange, plotless, poorly structured mess that has to be seen to really be believed.
March 26, 2009
Dune is a huge, hollow, imaginative and cold sci-fi epic.
October 23, 2004
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.
July 18, 2011
Most sci-fi movies offer escape, a holiday from homework, but Dune is as difficult as a final exam. You have to cram for it.
January 15, 2016
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.