I Think the movie was trying to hard to portray a story more then telling it. It made me annoyed to see desert people/fremen as white people with no accent sounds like they're from 1800 USA.

It is a very bad movie, with a slow plot and poor visuals. However, I had a lot of fun watching it, and I would put it in the 'it's so bad it's good' movie category.

Filme mais ou menos, o roteiro é mais ou menos, as cenas de mais ou menos, o elenco é bacaninha e poucos ajudam a melhorar o filme.

Catastrophically bad.

There's so much to like about David Lynch's Dune, but, for reasons that were largely beyond his control, it simply doesn't come together. Great actors are introduced and dispensed with little fanfare, opulent sets are seen all-too-briefly and never appear again, and so many pieces of narrative lore, technology, and canon are introduced so quickly that it's nearly impossible to understand what is happening on a first (or indeed even a second or third viewing). Additionally, the special effects are largely uninspired and cheaply delivered, so that in the end the film is at different times beautiful and garish, riveting and dull, intriguing and confusing. It remains one of the biggest cinematic disappointments of the 1980s.

Dune starts with some good set-up exposition and then keeps going and going and going. If that weren’t enough, the directorial decision to have several inner-monologues was a sin. Exposition and inner-monologues seemed to make up the whole movie. Some of the practical effects (and very early digital effects) are charming, but upon reflection, this came out after all three of the original Star Wars trilogy with a budget on parity with Return of the Jedi and looks significantly worse. The movie is cramped with storylines cropped. Paul (Kyle MacLachlan) and Chani (Sean Young) share like two scenes together and then we’re supposed to believe they’re in love? If there’s a highlight, it comes in the form of the pustule-laden, Baron Harkonnen (Kenneth McMillan). McMillan appears to give the only performance that isn’t — ironically — robotic. (Dune takes place in 10,191, after humans and robots/computers had already gone to war, with the former coming out victorious.) Juxtaposed Villeneuve’s incredible reboot (2021 & 2024), there’s little reason to watch David Lynch’s take at the formidable Sci-Fi story. (We discuss Dune and other Lynch works on Ep. 159. ) On the bright side, the fact that Dune was such a flop allowed Lynch to return to his surrealist roots and give us all that good stuff that came after. There’s no reason to see this one.

Even for its time this feels like a complete disaster in every way.

Wasted by studio interference. The design of this film is absolutely stellar. Sets: magnificent, large, exquisitely designed. Costumes; extravegant and futuristic. The effects are top of the line for it's time. The scale of the things is properly shown. Alas, it fubs a lot of things. The pacing is atrocious, especially the last 30 minutes feelsl like a lot crammed into it. Someone made the terrible decision to do voice over narration of what the characters are thinking. You know, something that can be better shown by dialogue, acting and exposition. It's a shame that David Lynch was not able to fully employ his vision for this movie. It would have been an excellent thing to see.

Love it or hate it, it’s more iconic and memorable than any version since.

Felt like the entire screenplay was written by ChatGPT. So damn awkward and soulless.

Underrated sci-fi masterpiece.

Sadly, not his best work, or a natural progression to go from Eraserhead to a big budget sci-fi epic. Looks dated, and the actors sound like they’re reciting Psalms.

Rooting for a remastered cut where they make the personal shields slightly less ridiculous.

So cheesy. A real bad take on a great story

To all who read this comment: TL:DR - Incredible movie, plus a very different view over original book work, everyone involved on this movie made a true work of art; This is art, not a rendition of the original work like the 2021 movies are. If you watched this and expected a copy+paste of the books , you got this movie wrong, this is art, simple and pure. The director and producing teams did what they could with what they had. Either admire the results of their work or at least respect the results of their works. _ I do not know how you received the movie, neither the movies (new or old). But know this: it's hard enough to make an idea known to the world, much less a movie. Sure, it could had been better, like the 2021 versions of this movie, but try to see the great side of this movie, they digged the sands of an empty dry "movie world" that never tried to make a movie of this scale before, and they succeeded, they did their best and we as spectators are blessed to see the result of their efforts. The newer movies digged their path after this one, much like all of the generations did before they met the Kwisatz Haderach in Arrakis, like we do in the real world. This movie is a work of art that symbolizes the endurance of the human spirit, we could had done better, but that don't mean we cannot do better on the next try...and the next...and the next...and so on. Respect this incredible work of art, like we do about all the other efforts people did before us. Be thankful for what we had, because people failed or tried HARD before us. God bless all generations before each and everyone of us, because of those uncountable people, trials and errors so we have what we have today. God bless you, who read this comment, may this help you value more what we have today for the sacrifices other people did before us.

A unique example of a missed opportunity, it’s visionary director was systematically neutered by the studio footing the bills in the first place which led to a discombobulated end product that shines in it’s occasional psychedelic inventiveness but falls shockingly flat with it’s beyond exposition-heavy dialogue, leaving one wondering and wishing what might have been.

Not bad though it could have been better

Too much studio interference gutted the final product. Some great moments but a flawed work, at least this version. What a shame.

Well done, but read the books first

It's such a shame Lynch didn't have the director's cut on this, a great sci-fi perfect photography and music. Also some great acting performances. The visual effects are just great. A missed opportunity to create a monumental masterpiece, I hope one day we'll see a full version of it. Lynch deserved his director's cut.