The Good
A comprehensive look at a movie that I don’t think was fully appreciated when it was first released.
The Bad
I wish the deleted scenes would have been disseminated better.
Dune is one of those movies that I don’t think I fully appreciated when it first came out. It was a different time back in the mid-1980s. It’s hard for me to explain but there weren’t as many movies in the theaters. At least that’s the way it seemed to me. As a result, I think I saw this movie two or three times when it first came out.
Truthfully, this tale of battles and majestic splendor happening in a time either before or after or may be not even related to Earth (I’m still not sure), still confuses me. It is the kind of movie that I have never totally understood, yet I can watch it again and again. When I was younger, I was a big fan of The Police, so I was naturally disappointed to see that Sting was barely in the film, which was why I saw it in the first place. Yet, looking at this movie now, with it’s sweeping deserts, inspired FX and overall feeling of “grandness,” I know I didn’t understand that I was seeing one of the last great epic movies that Hollywood has made.
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While I know that there is a giant lore around this film of what it was or what it could’ve been, Dune will forever remain a great example of film’s potential to tell great stories.
Features
Deleted Dune
With an enlightening introduction by the film’s producer, Raffaella De Laurentiis, I was saddened that these scenes weren’t indexed out. In fact, it seems a bit odd that such a well designed DVD wouldn’t make it easier to navigate through it’s deleted scenes. The quality of these scenes isn’t that great but I think that adds something to the mystique of the film.
Designing Dune
This segment gives us an in-depth look into the world that David Lynch has created. We are treated to early sketches, concept ideas and just about everything else we could want in order to see how these world’s were brought to life. Also, seeing David Lynch here it is interesting when you realize the direction his career took afterthis film.
