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Dune (1984)
Feb. 18th, 2026 05:45 amCombine Dino De Laurentis, David Lynch, and Frank Herbert, and your brain ought to explode. Put any of those two together, and your brain ought to explode. Add in Toto and Brian Eno for sound, and you have a "what the fuck am I looking at?" sort of product.
I feel like the whole production could have been made for TV and nobody would have known the difference.
What sort of film is it? Who knows? I don't. I have no clue. It's not campy enough to be true camp, but it's not serious enough to be truly dramatic. It more has ambitions of drama, but without any clue on how to get there.
The special effects budget was too small for its time, so it's even sub-standard by 80's metrics.
I can't recommend this enough. Unless you have a serious historical film hankering that can't be satiated, you are unlikely to enjoy the film.
I feel like the whole production could have been made for TV and nobody would have known the difference.
What sort of film is it? Who knows? I don't. I have no clue. It's not campy enough to be true camp, but it's not serious enough to be truly dramatic. It more has ambitions of drama, but without any clue on how to get there.
The special effects budget was too small for its time, so it's even sub-standard by 80's metrics.
I can't recommend this enough. Unless you have a serious historical film hankering that can't be satiated, you are unlikely to enjoy the film.
