I really enjoyed this movie mainly cos in some ways it is actually closer to the book than the miniseries(really awesome too). In the extended edition, there are a few references to Dune Messiah(Paul dreams about the Jihad) and Children of Dune.
I love this ending because it fits a stand alone film. Unless they went the full mile and made 'Messiah and 'Children the original ending would have had little meaning to the common audience.
It was one of the many scenes that stuck in my mind when I was a child - Paul dreams of the seas of Caladan, and then makes it rain on Arrakis...
David Lynch's "Dune" differs from the book. That's why many people criticize it but I don't agree. The whole movie was very well done, visual effects were great for that time and the acting was brilliant. Kyle MacLachlan and Francesca Annis were stunning
@Magnolia296 I agree, this film is highly underrated and though it differed from the book, I thought the film kept so many important points to the novel, I think Lord of the Rings changed more than Dune did
The acting is unbearable. The first moment you see paul he is being a giddy fucking retard. Every line is so corny and ridiculously delivered it's like something from one of westwood's games. The shields in the shield scene looked fucking ridiculous (don't tell me this is because the movie is old. Plenty of 80's movies have better effects). Paul's "weirdening way" is some little fucking box that shoots lasers.
@SuperHeroMania Frank also got all pissy when a band wanted to name a song dedicated to his novel "Dune". Just because I like his works doesn't mean I agree with the chap.
@SuperHeroMania So you're turning this into a popularity contest? Because my opinion isn't popular it's automatically wrong and I'm not entitled to it?
@napalmnacey I agree, I read the book and I was very disappointed they summarized the novel, but the movie is still awesome, despite being a bad adaption
harkonnens is halliburton, the emperor is bush and saddam in one person :)) and arrakis is iraq, spice is oil, and it is been squeezed ever since... i love science fiction, better than the real stuff ...i love the movie. but this movie needs to be compared with lawrence of arabia, not with herberts novel, thats for sure. one can even feel the need to say that even the novel "dune" needs to be compared with "lawrence of arabia". :))
I saw this before reading the books and as a kid it blew me away. The music is simply outstanding, and the vfx for the Sandworm conquest at the end of the film is gob smacking.
If one forgets the original books for 2 hours, this is a sci-fi version of The Four Feathers and Laurence of Arabia, and in that respect its fantastic.
yep the books are great and quite deep! I think the film was great at the time and was more suggestive along the lines of the novel! A newer film would possibly good as it could iron out the criticism from this film and the miniseries plus you have todays effects! Both the film and miniseries I really liked.
Ha classic. Thats one of the funniest, most tasteful fetishes i've ever heard of - a 'thing' for bald women. It really had me giggling - priceless. I think a woman has to be really beautiful to get away with having a bald head though. I mean if you took the average woman off the street and gave her a bald head she'd look a cunt. Looking on your channel page i see you enjoy fantasy. Have you read Robert Jordan's 'Wheel of Time' books? If not you should check them out cause they're the business.
Tedsuplex - Don't let anything put you off reading the book(s). They are unbelievably good, but require full attention. And: Paul thretaens to halt spice production in the book but never goed through with it. Some one should do Dune movies again to show up Starwars for ripping off so much from them.
cheers for your reply, i do have the first Dune book that my mate gave me (a first edition aswell) he's so insistant i read it he even painted a map of Arrakis for me to refer to. i will read, love the ideas in the book even if they are just from the film.
I agree someone should remake it, although i still like Lynch's film.
@tedsuplex I'm not sure if they are hard to come by, but I'm a big fan of Dune, and would love to have a copy of the first edition of Dune. I guess if your friend has ore than one copy, then they are not hard to get.
I have tried so hard for years to love Lynch's shot at Dune .... and fail every time.
A great film should not demand the viewer reads the books first ~ nor lead them to Wikipedia to find out what the fuck a 'Kwisatz Haderach' is. Ridley Scott should have made this instead .... and made it a 3-Parter (minimum). Great story - but done badly! Lynch definitely bit off too much with this one.
i havent read the books, i always thought that it was in order to destroy spice production "he who can destroy a thing, controls a thing" i'm probably wrong though.
was this not in the book btw.
havent read because a homeless fella in manchester told me one friday night what happens to Paul in the end, so made it seem pointless to go thru such an epic tome. I will not say what it is though so as not to spoil it for anyone else!
I loved this movie - particularly for the great set pieces and the strange feelings the film conjured in me. The stand-out bit was the sequence on Giedi Prime, and Alia was convincingly creepy. Francesca Annis' acting was brilliant - she put more feeling into the line "she's here to observe you" than most actors get into their entire careers.
With Lynch, a film is always more about the journey than the ending, but this is a good ending IMO.
However it was a good movie by itself. It is a shame that Lynch couldn't incorporate the entire book into the film. He could have made "Dune" in three parts since the book is separated into three parts.
most Freemen words are taken from Arabic Arakkis means the dancer or Iraqi, Chaytan=Satan, Jihad= Holy War, Kwizatz Haderach sound Hebrew, not surprising there is much historical and linguistic refernces in these books, Frank Herbert did some good research, the Atreides are supposed to be descendants to Agamemnon, etc etc,
David Lynch actually wanted to make threemovies out of the fiirst novel, hisfirst draft was only based onthe first third of the book, he alsowrote half a script for a possibleDune Messiah movie but scrapped it
I don't recon you actually know what the girl is saying. So here it is: What she is saying is "Kfizat Hadarech", which mean nothing the way she is saying it. But ask anyone who speak Hebrew, and they will tell you That she is mispronouncing it. The literal meaning of the words, they way they are ACTUALLY spoken, is "The leaping way" or "The jumping way" or something like that. Unfortunatly, they had no actual Hebrew speakers on the production crew at the time...
she's not saying "kfizat hadarech". she's saying "kwisatz haderach", which is invented. it's supposed to sound like hebrew, but it isn't. happy to enlighten you, pal.
Y'know,as overall unfaithful to the novel as this movie was,I think it added a sense of techno-mysticism to the Dune universe. And I like the notion of Paul rising like next stage in human evolution a la 2001: An Space Odyssey.
Good lord, this movie was an abomination. Confusing, raped some very important elements (weirding, baron, etc). The look was fine, but the rest... tsk tsk.
the visuals in this movie were great, especially for the mid 80's. it is however impossible to encompass all the aspects of the book in 2 hrs. what was the whole thing with the weirding modules? the voice is a natural power that doesn't require some tracheotomy box.
I saw that robe for sale on a website a while ago, shame I didn't have several thousand dollars to flit away I'd walk around town with it on all the time. It's such a shame this film never really took off despite its differences to the book, it could have been an amazing set of films. The visual look of Lynch's Dune is gorgeous, I won't be able to shake it if I see the Peter Berg remake. Meh, why Berg? I'm just about to finish downloading the fan-edit 'workprint' of Dune, can't wait to see it.
whats with "bring peace" and "bring love" in the book he waged jihad and killed billions of people (not to mention Leto ii) this is more innacurate then the rain (since it can be considered an abstract representation of Dune's ecological transformation)From what i know killing people is bad
the books are so immense in their depth its nearly impossible to compile each for a two hour movie, i like Lynch's work though, some important key point were modified. Can u say 5 (+2) all new Dune films. I'll do it!!!!
YES! The first book was good. The film is loose, and David Lynch add some scenes which are not in the book just to make it look epic or spectacular. I only wish he dissected the the novel into 3 movies (like Lor of the Rings) to give non-readers of the book with a lot more sense of what is happening.
Yeah I watched both your endings.. The other one IS more faithful to the books. I suppose this one was created to appeal to the general populance that hasn't read the original books
Either way, the ending seems to make sense as David Lynch was unable to produce further sequels to this undeniably bizarre adaptation of Frank Herbert's most beloved novel.
This movie is the greatest thing ever. And the ending was fitting, some people just can't cope with changes or differences from the book. Let's face it, this movie had start and ending, and should have only been made once.
Changes to the book I can cope with, but the problem here is that by putting in the rain at the end this film does exactly what Paul Muad'Dib himself expressly did not like (as was made clear by Herbert in the books), namely to create a god out of him. It is silly to make it pour like this in Arrakis at this point in time.
Not to mention that the rain will kill all the Worms, ending spice-production and destroying his seat of Imperial power. In a single moment of over-dramatic dribble Lynch destroys all hopes for a sequel, ruin Herbert's universe, and destroys the rest of the film. Of course, when I first saw this film in theatres, when it rained it was too late for me to walk out in disgust. :P
Paul threatened to drown the newest brood of worms, b/c, don't forget, he wouldn't be just f-ing his seat of power, but stopping all travel throughout the universe, essentially stranding everyone...save him.
The sandworms would be collateral damage. Don't forget that spice essence reacts highly volatile to water. Shit would explode everywhere. The worms would not just die, the spice currently there would be destroyed as well. It would be an instant collapse, not a gradual.
Water-Of-Life is taken from a "little worms"(i don`t know how they are called in original - i`ve read only polish version") which are kept in traps, surrounded by water. Water kills snadworms.
actually, brianredd, this ending means that he, as the messiah, as a messenger of god and a supreme being, may have enough power to change that as well. if he has the power to change the face of Arrakis, who says he can't change the biology of the worms? this ending suggests the kwisatz haderach is allmighty.
No. The ending of movie is Hollywood-style bullshit. Kwisatz Haderach is a person who can look into future without fear and able to see everything that Bene Gesserit are afraid to look at, kwisatz haderach isn`t allmighty though. And changes which turned Rakis into "normal world" took centuries according to original novels.
i know what's supposed to be the kwisatz haderach, thank you. I read the books quite a long time ago and I haven't seen the movie, by the way. but I guess I'm not as much a narrow-thinking, die-hard fanatic as you.
I`ve just disagreed with your interpretation of this ending part of the movie, it is called 'discussion'. I don`t understand why you are trying to offend me pesonally ? Chill out man.
I'm sorry if I offended you, but I felt quite offended myself with your comment. not every person who defends this ending or tries to give a reasonable explanation to Lynch's depiction is an ignorant in the topic of the novels, and not just because it develops in a different way it's a "hollywood-style bullshit".
I would consider "hollywood-style bullshit" the fact that they apparently replaced the martial arts with that supersonic-pistol-thingy, but not just because Lynch decided to make the Kwisatz Haderach something more divine than what Herbert originally outlined in the book the ending automatically turns into crap.
Well, you may be right., i`ve been thinking about it .Lynch probably knew that this movie would not have it`s continuation so he decided to finish it in some reasonable way, just to make us sure that everything was said and there is nothing more.
@brianredd The problem with the movie was that it was just too short to tell the whole story. For instance the time between Paul and Jessica enering the desert and Paul becoing Maua'dib was supposed to be years not the days that it was in the movie. In God Emperor, we see that the planet does become lush, and the worms have mostly died out during the rule of Leto II, not while Paul ruled.
@brianredd That`s how a serious sabotage looks like: destroy the transport (Spacing Guild needs spice), destroy the counter-intelligence (mentats need spice) in a single bold move that looks good on TV! ^_^
@brianredd you have a good point, but if you did further research, lynch did plan a sequel faithful to dune messiah if you could believe it, but due to pour revenues and bad critic response, he didn't want to do another dune film again
@MrJonasBerthelsen They also forgot the part where Paul unleashes a Jihad across the universe and slaughters billions of people to secure the golden path... So much for "where there was war, Muadib would bring peace" :P
I believe Lynch got many things right about the film, and I will disagree with Orangevideo's remarks about the spice worms and the soundtrack. CG gets dated so quickly that what looked good 5 years ago, looks ridiculous now. Lynch's model work still stands the test of time. The problem lay in the fact that Herbert's book is so vast and sprawling and interior that to transform it into a concise, entertaining movie of two hours long is a problematic endeavor.
uhuhuh, this movie was okay, until the end....seeing as how water KILLS WORMS, and WORMS make spice, how would rain save the day? lynch basically went like 400 years into the future books in the doom series and scooped up the whole rain on dune premise without much thought to current times sadly
those animatronic spice worms were the worst part of the movie (Toto's rock soundtrack runs a close second). Lynch should have done what Lucas does: go back to his earlier works and sweeten them digitally. With modern CG, those spice worms could look fantastically realistic.
I really enjoyed this movie mainly cos in some ways it is actually closer to the book than the miniseries(really awesome too). In the extended edition, there are a few references to Dune Messiah(Paul dreams about the Jihad) and Children of Dune.
DarthRushy 1 month ago
I love this ending because it fits a stand alone film. Unless they went the full mile and made 'Messiah and 'Children the original ending would have had little meaning to the common audience.
It was one of the many scenes that stuck in my mind when I was a child - Paul dreams of the seas of Caladan, and then makes it rain on Arrakis...
SamusDrake 2 months ago
David Lynch's "Dune" differs from the book. That's why many people criticize it but I don't agree. The whole movie was very well done, visual effects were great for that time and the acting was brilliant. Kyle MacLachlan and Francesca Annis were stunning
Magnolia296 8 months ago
@Magnolia296 I agree, this film is highly underrated and though it differed from the book, I thought the film kept so many important points to the novel, I think Lord of the Rings changed more than Dune did
SuperHeroMania 5 months ago
There are Harkonnens among us. 3 according to the dislikes!!
700gsteak 8 months ago
Oh god. I tried watching this movie now.
The acting is unbearable. The first moment you see paul he is being a giddy fucking retard. Every line is so corny and ridiculously delivered it's like something from one of westwood's games. The shields in the shield scene looked fucking ridiculous (don't tell me this is because the movie is old. Plenty of 80's movies have better effects). Paul's "weirdening way" is some little fucking box that shoots lasers.
This movie nearly butchered the book for me
ignas1130 9 months ago
@ignas1130 hey westwood made great games
Sirpain1 9 months ago
@Sirpain1 I never said anything about their games. My first experience with dune was neither the movie or the books, but their game Dune 2.
I'm talking about the cutscenes in their game. They are just... they're bad enough to be funny.
The acting in this movie, however, was just horrible. I couldn't stand it.
I didn't even watch the whole movie. I was about an hour in before I just stopped. It was just ruining the book for me. It was that bad.
ignas1130 9 months ago
@ignas1130 that's not what Frank Herbert said
SuperHeroMania 5 months ago
@SuperHeroMania Frank also got all pissy when a band wanted to name a song dedicated to his novel "Dune". Just because I like his works doesn't mean I agree with the chap.
ignas1130 5 months ago
@ignas1130 I think more people would agree with his opinion than yours
SuperHeroMania 5 months ago
@SuperHeroMania So you're turning this into a popularity contest? Because my opinion isn't popular it's automatically wrong and I'm not entitled to it?
Whatever you say, brosky.
ignas1130 5 months ago
the movie is a fucking badly edited joke, but i love it.
dontleademsomuch 9 months ago
Ok this sound stupid but in a sense , we all have a sleeper that must be awakend .
well we can do much much more
Marcodisius 10 months ago 2
Even though I've read the books and know how the movie is inaccuate, I still love it to pieces. I f*cking love it.
napalmnacey 10 months ago
@napalmnacey I agree, I read the book and I was very disappointed they summarized the novel, but the movie is still awesome, despite being a bad adaption
SuperHeroMania 9 months ago
father!!! the sleeper has awakened!!!
700gsteak 1 year ago
This has classic vintage Dolby Stereo operatically roar. It would sound best in Dolby TureHD 6channel.
Alia: And how can this be? For he is the Kwisatz Haderach!
EmpireLS56KW 1 year ago
"The sneakers have some bacon!"
spacecowboy5000 1 year ago
harkonnens is halliburton, the emperor is bush and saddam in one person :)) and arrakis is iraq, spice is oil, and it is been squeezed ever since... i love science fiction, better than the real stuff ...i love the movie. but this movie needs to be compared with lawrence of arabia, not with herberts novel, thats for sure. one can even feel the need to say that even the novel "dune" needs to be compared with "lawrence of arabia". :))
STuRMBR1NGER 1 year ago
This movie is sooooo fucking bad.
BobMcCob 1 year ago
For he IS the Big Black Caddilac!
cadumal 1 year ago
@r4wmaterial Sean Young was fit back then eh!
sim0b 1 year ago
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sim0b 1 year ago
I saw this before reading the books and as a kid it blew me away. The music is simply outstanding, and the vfx for the Sandworm conquest at the end of the film is gob smacking.
If one forgets the original books for 2 hours, this is a sci-fi version of The Four Feathers and Laurence of Arabia, and in that respect its fantastic.
LONG LIVE THE FIGHTERS!
SamusDrake 1 year ago
@SamusDrake agreed.
tedsuplex 1 year ago
Vivi 10 años creyendo ese final y ahora despues de leer los libros me doy cuenta de que nunca fue ese el final cuec!!!!!!!!!
santagtan 1 year ago
very under-rated film
angel55676 1 year ago
and HOW CAN THIS BE
Colinmayr 1 year ago
Fucking rain.
workingclassbum 2 years ago
yep the books are great and quite deep! I think the film was great at the time and was more suggestive along the lines of the novel! A newer film would possibly good as it could iron out the criticism from this film and the miniseries plus you have todays effects! Both the film and miniseries I really liked.
dawnrazor7 2 years ago 3
For he is the Kwisatz Haderach!!!!!!!
Lady Jessica is so sexy after she shaves her head! Bald women are awseome!
MythicDude 2 years ago
Ha classic. Thats one of the funniest, most tasteful fetishes i've ever heard of - a 'thing' for bald women. It really had me giggling - priceless. I think a woman has to be really beautiful to get away with having a bald head though. I mean if you took the average woman off the street and gave her a bald head she'd look a cunt. Looking on your channel page i see you enjoy fantasy. Have you read Robert Jordan's 'Wheel of Time' books? If not you should check them out cause they're the business.
sidious76 2 years ago
lol thanks?
I've heard of Wheel of Time. Supposed to be really great. I've had the first book on my shelf for awhile. I'll have to get into it sometime.
MythicDude 2 years ago
i have to say though i love the film. flawed? YES.
but i think it's a fairly affectionate take on it.
brave to take on Star Wars as well
tedsuplex 2 years ago
Tedsuplex - Don't let anything put you off reading the book(s). They are unbelievably good, but require full attention. And: Paul thretaens to halt spice production in the book but never goed through with it. Some one should do Dune movies again to show up Starwars for ripping off so much from them.
JEKAZOL 2 years ago
cheers for your reply, i do have the first Dune book that my mate gave me (a first edition aswell) he's so insistant i read it he even painted a map of Arrakis for me to refer to. i will read, love the ideas in the book even if they are just from the film.
I agree someone should remake it, although i still like Lynch's film.
tedsuplex 2 years ago
@tedsuplex Do you still have it? I'll buy it fro you.
Nomoreidsleft 1 year ago
@Nomoreidsleft
Hi mate, yes I do still have it. but i can't sell it as it was a gift of one of my best friends
i'm not sure if it is the first edition (but i think it is) why? are they hard to come by?
my friend has a few as he collects them. I could ask him if he has any more which he could sell, not sure though buddy
tedsuplex 1 year ago
@tedsuplex I'm not sure if they are hard to come by, but I'm a big fan of Dune, and would love to have a copy of the first edition of Dune. I guess if your friend has ore than one copy, then they are not hard to get.
Nomoreidsleft 1 year ago
@Nomoreidsleft i'm pretty sure i've seen loads on ebay.
i know i got a first edition of the sequel "children of doom" for about a fiver on ebay
let me know if you dont have any luck and i'll ask my mate if he has any more.
tedsuplex 1 year ago
I have tried so hard for years to love Lynch's shot at Dune .... and fail every time.
A great film should not demand the viewer reads the books first ~ nor lead them to Wikipedia to find out what the fuck a 'Kwisatz Haderach' is. Ridley Scott should have made this instead .... and made it a 3-Parter (minimum). Great story - but done badly! Lynch definitely bit off too much with this one.
bvseediermedia 2 years ago
That's though to say, re: "should not demand the view reads the books first"... I suppose it depends for whom the movie is truly made.
ShasoDnarb 2 years ago 2
AND LO! It Rains! killing all the spice worms! Water is poison to them. What dickhead had to add this into the story... that's the movies for ya!
JEKAZOL 2 years ago
i havent read the books, i always thought that it was in order to destroy spice production "he who can destroy a thing, controls a thing" i'm probably wrong though.
was this not in the book btw.
havent read because a homeless fella in manchester told me one friday night what happens to Paul in the end, so made it seem pointless to go thru such an epic tome. I will not say what it is though so as not to spoil it for anyone else!
tedsuplex 2 years ago
i played the game too,but the movie is mutch more entertaining.
Europepowerrangers 2 years ago 4
Dude, the blue eye thing is what happens if you stay on Arrakis (Dune) for long enough. It is an effect of the Spice.
0762798 2 years ago 3
I loved this movie - particularly for the great set pieces and the strange feelings the film conjured in me. The stand-out bit was the sequence on Giedi Prime, and Alia was convincingly creepy. Francesca Annis' acting was brilliant - she put more feeling into the line "she's here to observe you" than most actors get into their entire careers.
With Lynch, a film is always more about the journey than the ending, but this is a good ending IMO.
I'm currently reading the book...
MidoriNoSaru 2 years ago 3
You will see that the ending is bullshit and that a lot of extremely important things in the book were left out including entire characters.
0762798 2 years ago
However it was a good movie by itself. It is a shame that Lynch couldn't incorporate the entire book into the film. He could have made "Dune" in three parts since the book is separated into three parts.
0762798 2 years ago
I just realized he is from desperate housewives :S lol
hannahtim 2 years ago
Wont the rain kill the worms?
Kaiserhawk 2 years ago
This movie was raped by the producers...
juggep80 2 years ago 3
We Fremens have a saying :
God created Arakis to train de faithful
One cannot go against the word of God
marc93700 2 years ago
FOR HE IS THE KWIZATZ HADDERACH!
Jonnylegg 2 years ago
i love the way that the ecological transformation which took about 3000 years happens in like 3 seconds :D
danpayne118 2 years ago
Mr. Lynch, please don't employ the same two crappy screen writers no the same project again.
Thankyou.
thedarkallies 2 years ago
"He who drives the wizard's cadillac"
1poiuztrewq2 2 years ago
Funny man. Really funny ;P
tropaR 2 years ago
And Obama is Muad Dib.
vlgtube 3 years ago
OMG, I SWEAR I read that as "And Osama is Muad'Dib".
DevilMaster 3 years ago
most Freemen words are taken from Arabic Arakkis means the dancer or Iraqi, Chaytan=Satan, Jihad= Holy War, Kwizatz Haderach sound Hebrew, not surprising there is much historical and linguistic refernces in these books, Frank Herbert did some good research, the Atreides are supposed to be descendants to Agamemnon, etc etc,
TonyHour 3 years ago
David Lynch actually wanted to make threemovies out of the fiirst novel, hisfirst draft was only based onthe first third of the book, he alsowrote half a script for a possibleDune Messiah movie but scrapped it
TonyHour 3 years ago
and how can this be? For he IS the Quiz-Arts Hatrack!
RunningWithSkizors 3 years ago
I don't recon you actually know what the girl is saying. So here it is: What she is saying is "Kfizat Hadarech", which mean nothing the way she is saying it. But ask anyone who speak Hebrew, and they will tell you That she is mispronouncing it. The literal meaning of the words, they way they are ACTUALLY spoken, is "The leaping way" or "The jumping way" or something like that. Unfortunatly, they had no actual Hebrew speakers on the production crew at the time...
Happy to enlighten all of you!
dancarmon 3 years ago
she's not saying "kfizat hadarech". she's saying "kwisatz haderach", which is invented. it's supposed to sound like hebrew, but it isn't. happy to enlighten you, pal.
akodoryu1 3 years ago
Y'know,as overall unfaithful to the novel as this movie was,I think it added a sense of techno-mysticism to the Dune universe. And I like the notion of Paul rising like next stage in human evolution a la 2001: An Space Odyssey.
SardaukarPrime 3 years ago 2
and how can this be? for he is the Quidditch Cataract!
jamieleng 3 years ago
Good lord, this movie was an abomination. Confusing, raped some very important elements (weirding, baron, etc). The look was fine, but the rest... tsk tsk.
TagDaze 3 years ago
the visuals in this movie were great, especially for the mid 80's. it is however impossible to encompass all the aspects of the book in 2 hrs. what was the whole thing with the weirding modules? the voice is a natural power that doesn't require some tracheotomy box.
chocrow 3 years ago 2
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This movie sucks.
GibertFilms 3 years ago
What's the name of the song in the end of this clip?
It also appears the first time they ride the sandworm
krellewill 3 years ago 3
Big Battle. I think its the last song on the soundtrack, but it is called Big Battle.
azeo 3 years ago
Yeah, the Meggido. Harma Geddon. The last battle.
jilagone 3 years ago
I saw that robe for sale on a website a while ago, shame I didn't have several thousand dollars to flit away I'd walk around town with it on all the time. It's such a shame this film never really took off despite its differences to the book, it could have been an amazing set of films. The visual look of Lynch's Dune is gorgeous, I won't be able to shake it if I see the Peter Berg remake. Meh, why Berg? I'm just about to finish downloading the fan-edit 'workprint' of Dune, can't wait to see it.
MintySpunkBubble 3 years ago 4
whats with "bring peace" and "bring love" in the book he waged jihad and killed billions of people (not to mention Leto ii) this is more innacurate then the rain (since it can be considered an abstract representation of Dune's ecological transformation)From what i know killing people is bad
zombijesus3000 3 years ago
the books are so immense in their depth its nearly impossible to compile each for a two hour movie, i like Lynch's work though, some important key point were modified. Can u say 5 (+2) all new Dune films. I'll do it!!!!
lordcrunk 4 years ago
I love this movie. This part always gives me the shivers!
VisionWiz1978 4 years ago
is the book better than the movies...cuz ive been wanting to read it but im not sure if i should waste my time.
Achilles6454 4 years ago
Yes, the book(s) fucking rule. I liked the movies, but reading the books are certainly no "waste" of time.
SwindlerOfPies 4 years ago
god emperor of dune is worth reading... others arent so good... especially dune messiah it sucks balls and cock......
ifukyouintheass 4 years ago
YES! The first book was good. The film is loose, and David Lynch add some scenes which are not in the book just to make it look epic or spectacular. I only wish he dissected the the novel into 3 movies (like Lor of the Rings) to give non-readers of the book with a lot more sense of what is happening.
jonjonbalaos 3 years ago
Awesome sequence; Too bad the movie overall didn't match up.
pukeachu 4 years ago
At least it was better than all the other movies afterwards that tried to capture the novel
timanonymous 4 years ago 3
Quisatz Haderach-Tikvah Haddasah
captainkeoni 4 years ago
A great ending for an okay movie
azeo 4 years ago
hahaha zombie
captainkeoni 4 years ago
For he is the Knick knack paddywack!
zombiesatemyretro 4 years ago 24
@zombiesatemyretro ..give a dog a bone. This old man came rolling home.
Nomoreidsleft 1 year ago
3 weren’t so lucky as the Sandworms ate them because they had no spice!
EmpireLS56KW 1 year ago
I like the movie, but how did that girl Alicia Witt learn to overact so much at so young an age?
Must have been taught by Shatner.
tuttt99 4 years ago
I'm Captain Kirk!
EEEYYMMM CAPTAIN KIIIIRRRK!!!
Ashworth6 4 years ago
I saw this years ago, the Sci-Fi channel movie stays closer to the books, but this one was cool as a stand-alone story.
ninjakindaguy 4 years ago
Yeah I watched both your endings.. The other one IS more faithful to the books. I suppose this one was created to appeal to the general populance that hasn't read the original books
DaCidre 4 years ago
Either way, the ending seems to make sense as David Lynch was unable to produce further sequels to this undeniably bizarre adaptation of Frank Herbert's most beloved novel.
glenbw 4 years ago
bless the rains in africa
recoveringcarnivore 4 years ago 5
This movie is the greatest thing ever. And the ending was fitting, some people just can't cope with changes or differences from the book. Let's face it, this movie had start and ending, and should have only been made once.
maanemanden 4 years ago
Changes to the book I can cope with, but the problem here is that by putting in the rain at the end this film does exactly what Paul Muad'Dib himself expressly did not like (as was made clear by Herbert in the books), namely to create a god out of him. It is silly to make it pour like this in Arrakis at this point in time.
erietveld 4 years ago
Not to mention that the rain will kill all the Worms, ending spice-production and destroying his seat of Imperial power. In a single moment of over-dramatic dribble Lynch destroys all hopes for a sequel, ruin Herbert's universe, and destroys the rest of the film. Of course, when I first saw this film in theatres, when it rained it was too late for me to walk out in disgust. :P
brianredd 4 years ago 18
I agree to a point. Isn't it true that water-poisoned worms would still produce the Water of Life?
Or really, is it just about the fact that Lynch fucked up?
Scientific1 4 years ago
Paul threatened to drown the newest brood of worms, b/c, don't forget, he wouldn't be just f-ing his seat of power, but stopping all travel throughout the universe, essentially stranding everyone...save him.
belleaspen86 4 years ago 2
The sandworms would be collateral damage. Don't forget that spice essence reacts highly volatile to water. Shit would explode everywhere. The worms would not just die, the spice currently there would be destroyed as well. It would be an instant collapse, not a gradual.
TagDaze 3 years ago
Water-Of-Life is taken from a "little worms"(i don`t know how they are called in original - i`ve read only polish version") which are kept in traps, surrounded by water. Water kills snadworms.
zeberdee24 2 years ago
actually, brianredd, this ending means that he, as the messiah, as a messenger of god and a supreme being, may have enough power to change that as well. if he has the power to change the face of Arrakis, who says he can't change the biology of the worms? this ending suggests the kwisatz haderach is allmighty.
akodoryu1 3 years ago
No. The ending of movie is Hollywood-style bullshit. Kwisatz Haderach is a person who can look into future without fear and able to see everything that Bene Gesserit are afraid to look at, kwisatz haderach isn`t allmighty though. And changes which turned Rakis into "normal world" took centuries according to original novels.
zeberdee24 2 years ago
i know what's supposed to be the kwisatz haderach, thank you. I read the books quite a long time ago and I haven't seen the movie, by the way. but I guess I'm not as much a narrow-thinking, die-hard fanatic as you.
akodoryu1 2 years ago
I`ve just disagreed with your interpretation of this ending part of the movie, it is called 'discussion'. I don`t understand why you are trying to offend me pesonally ? Chill out man.
zeberdee24 2 years ago
I'm sorry if I offended you, but I felt quite offended myself with your comment. not every person who defends this ending or tries to give a reasonable explanation to Lynch's depiction is an ignorant in the topic of the novels, and not just because it develops in a different way it's a "hollywood-style bullshit".
akodoryu1 2 years ago
I would consider "hollywood-style bullshit" the fact that they apparently replaced the martial arts with that supersonic-pistol-thingy, but not just because Lynch decided to make the Kwisatz Haderach something more divine than what Herbert originally outlined in the book the ending automatically turns into crap.
akodoryu1 2 years ago
Well, you may be right., i`ve been thinking about it .Lynch probably knew that this movie would not have it`s continuation so he decided to finish it in some reasonable way, just to make us sure that everything was said and there is nothing more.
zeberdee24 2 years ago
@brianredd The problem with the movie was that it was just too short to tell the whole story. For instance the time between Paul and Jessica enering the desert and Paul becoing Maua'dib was supposed to be years not the days that it was in the movie. In God Emperor, we see that the planet does become lush, and the worms have mostly died out during the rule of Leto II, not while Paul ruled.
Nomoreidsleft 1 year ago
@brianredd That`s how a serious sabotage looks like: destroy the transport (Spacing Guild needs spice), destroy the counter-intelligence (mentats need spice) in a single bold move that looks good on TV! ^_^
cadumal 1 year ago
@brianredd you have a good point, but if you did further research, lynch did plan a sequel faithful to dune messiah if you could believe it, but due to pour revenues and bad critic response, he didn't want to do another dune film again
SuperHeroMania 1 year ago
@brianredd
Read the books, it only rains on parts of dune
MrJonasBerthelsen 8 months ago
@MrJonasBerthelsen They also forgot the part where Paul unleashes a Jihad across the universe and slaughters billions of people to secure the golden path... So much for "where there was war, Muadib would bring peace" :P
philbateman1989 7 months ago
Fuck the worms! Who needs the spice anyway??? Well ... uh ok, what happens to the guild navigators after being cut off from the spice? :D
lilbrothaaa 4 years ago
LOL it's raining... dummmmb
mrkalebfelts 4 years ago
The ending was the worst thing about the film, the novels are always better.
Wolf7479 4 years ago
and how can this be? for he is the quizarts hadarach? what is that?
joshuasocean 4 years ago
that means he is the suprem being you have to read the books to understand it dune is not for everyone
Alex15Shinra 4 years ago
I thought the deep voiced narrator at the end was a better fit
bigbuuma16 4 years ago
I believe Lynch got many things right about the film, and I will disagree with Orangevideo's remarks about the spice worms and the soundtrack. CG gets dated so quickly that what looked good 5 years ago, looks ridiculous now. Lynch's model work still stands the test of time. The problem lay in the fact that Herbert's book is so vast and sprawling and interior that to transform it into a concise, entertaining movie of two hours long is a problematic endeavor.
enjolras 4 years ago 4
Yeah, but alot of opticals and matte paintings in this movie are crap. I mean that shot of it raining over Arakeem is crap.
larsnord 4 years ago
uhuhuh, this movie was okay, until the end....seeing as how water KILLS WORMS, and WORMS make spice, how would rain save the day? lynch basically went like 400 years into the future books in the doom series and scooped up the whole rain on dune premise without much thought to current times sadly
mulattoman 4 years ago
those animatronic spice worms were the worst part of the movie (Toto's rock soundtrack runs a close second). Lynch should have done what Lucas does: go back to his earlier works and sweeten them digitally. With modern CG, those spice worms could look fantastically realistic.
orangevideo 5 years ago
yes it is.
ImALonerARebel 5 years ago
It sure would.
I love the look, feel, tone, actors, etc of Lynch's version, but this is one thing he got wrong.
I can't remember if the rain is in the laughable extended version of Lynch's film.
hudson9280 5 years ago
wouldn't the rain kill all the sandworms?
Manbi 5 years ago