David Lynch's Dune in 4K

You know you want it.

What blew the movie for me (and doesn't seem to have been corrected in this version) is in the final scene where they stop the fight so you can hear Paul think, "I shall bend like a reed in the wind." I could handle all the fuckups until then, but that just yanked me out of the fucking movie.

Bury all the copies in the landfill next to the Atari E.T. cartridges.

I'm struggling not to buy the Deluxe Edition. It's a terrible movie, but it's one of my favorite movies. Before I ditched cable/broadcast TV, if I came across the movie playing, I'd end up watching it.

Honestly, if someone were given less $ than what Snyder was given for his version of the JL movie, you could have a much better version of the film, without reshoots. Some edits, fix the effects in spots, and a few other things, and you'd have a decent film. Not an epic film, of course, but one that did justice to the book.

I don't like the movie enough to buy it, but otherwise I'm much the same way. It's so terrible but I watch it just about every time it's on.

It's an awful movie as a whole, but full of awesome individual things. So torn.

Exactly. It can both rivet you yet also put you to sleep

Patrick Stewart in battle.
Holding a pug.

A cinematographic masterpiece, he has to recreate this scene in Picard.

As a person who has never read the books, I did not hate the movie Dune. I do stay mainly with the director's cut and the standard theater cut probably was confusing as fuck because there was not any time to tell the story, even in the abridged cut down movie version. I like the camp. I like the mood and the visuals. I can see where it was probably hugely lacking for the fans of the book, and where it was too slow for most of the theater crowds.

Between Al, Captain Pickard, Stingy, and Max Von Sydow you just have a ton of referential material to have fun with in a viewing. I really do not see a need for a 4k version, but my digital copy gets rewatched whenever I am in the mood.

Between the 2000 mini-series and the Lynch Director's Cut, you get a very good representation of what the book is. What one misses the other picks up

One could also say that the source material is the problem.

I found it quite interesting to watch the mini series for a more in depth presentation of a video release. I just wish it could have had Sting in it.

Some people just have a complaint about everything.

So yeah, fuck it, I ordered the Limited Deluxe 3 Disc Steelbook edition.

David Lynch's Dune...a bad movie that I dearly love. Yes, I'll take it on 4K.

One can say all kinds of things.

I've probably watched this movie at least 30 times, probably more. Yet I can watch again and again. I can't even tell you what draws me to it. It's an accidental masterpiece.

So yeah, definitely had to buy the 4k Limited Deluxe Steelbook version.

It just realized something.

That Pug is long dead by now.

World-building? Top notch.

Art direction? Superb.

Cast? Outstanding.

Characters? Vivid, well-drawn.

Quotable dialog? Lots.

So, there's a lot of positive things about David Lynch's Dune.

Yes, the effects are merely passable, and lacking in places. Yes, there are a lot of grotesqueries (this is a Lynch film, after all). Yes, there are some aspects that would be "problematic" today.

But I enjoy it for what it is.

I love the shield effect for the shield fighting, it's basic but it works.

So yeah, everything you noted is right there, but yet it's still considered a "bad" movie.

The three quotes that stand for me are.

"How can this be? For he is the kwisatz haderach!"

"It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion."

"Behold, as a wild ass in the desert, go I forth to my work."

When I was in Australia in 2019, I visited Uluru and we met an aboriginal woman who told us (through a translator) a little bit about how the aborigines live. They've learned--over tens of thousands of years--all of the tricks and strategies for staying alive in an exceedingly harsh environment.

I was suddenly struck by the similarity of their situation to that of the Fremen in Dune, who live in the deserts of Arrakis by using every scrap of tribal knowledge to survive. And the quote I recalled might as well apply to the aborigines who have, in a sense, stayed alive by keeping faith with their traditions:

"God created Arrakis to train the faithful."

It would seem so, since only the faithful will survive the environment.

Maybe the extra features will explain something. So all those Fremen warriors were out there to fight for Arrakis, against the Sadrukar, the Baron's forces, and who ever else. Near the end, when Paul fights Feyd, why are there Fremen warriors with drums? Is that something you really would carry into battle or even think you might need in case your leader decides to have a knife fight at some point? I guess it's possible Paul's prescience let him know he was going to have a knife fight that needed drums for drama enhancement.

One more line.

"I've thought of many pleasures with you. It is perhaps better that you die in the innards of a worm."

One more line.

"I've thought of many pleasures with you. It is perhaps better that you die in the innards of a worm."

And the epic eyebrows.

The drums were made from the skins of Sardaukar warriors. My biggest gripe was the "weirding modules" WTF? What did they need that for? Apparently Lynch had never read the book, which doesn't mean he couldn't have made a good movie and it doesn't mean that he couldn't come up with his own ideas to advance the story, but that was just...just....

I didn't read the the book that the movie was based on until several years later, around 2000 or so. I was sort of disappointed that the weirding modules weren't in the book.

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Well... it arrived.

And fuck me.... the audio on the Blu-Rays have a bad delay on them, the audio is out of sync by about 1/2 - 3/4 of a second. I checked the audio through the TV speakers and and the surround system, it's present both ways. It might be due to what I'm using the play the discs, my Xbox, but I don't have that delay on other discs. Well, I guess I'll see if other people have the same issue. Hopefully if it's widespread I may be able to get replacement ones.