Dune
In the year 10191, a spice called melange is the most valuable substance known in the universe, and its only source is the desert planet Arrakis. When a duke and his family are sent by the Emperor, his son leads desert warriors against the galactic emperor and his father's evil nemesis when they assassinate him and free their desert world from the emperor's rule.
11 September 1961, Chicago, Illinois, USA
4 February 1922, Vincennes, Indiana, USA
4 November 1917, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
20 November 1959, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
12 September 1927, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK
24 June 1936, Everett, Massachusetts, USA
21 April 1930, Rome, Lazio, Italy
20 January 1946, Missoula, Montana, USA
13 July 1940, Mirfield, Yorkshire, England, UK
5 March 1936, North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
19 July 1937, New York City, New York, USA
1941 in Mieres, Asturias, Spain
October 5, 1959 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
July 30, 1964 in Minatitlan, Veracruz, Mexico
10 April 1929, Lund, Skåne län, Sweden
2 October 1951, Wallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK
11 July 1953, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
8 November 1962, Mexico
14 May 1945, Kensington, London, England, UK
18 March 1950, Huntington, West Virginia, USA
22 February 1959, Yakima, Washington, USA
8 December 1933, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
19 July 1947, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
2 July 1932, Brooklyn, New York, USA
March 21, 2014
Underrated, especially for devotees of the book. An impressively faithful if necessarily streamlined adaptation, though heavy on industrial-looking art direction and grotesque makeup effects.
July 18, 2011
The problem is that the imagery isn't rooted in any story impulse, and so its power dissipates quickly.
May 20, 2003
Several of the characters in Dune are psychic, which puts them in the unique position of being able to understand what goes on in the movie.
February 21, 2014
An incoherent, strange, plotless, poorly structured mess that has to be seen to really be believed.
January 15, 2016
There's some pleasure to be had from its misguided spectacle...but only if you embrace the mystery rather than try to define it, which is true, really, of all of Lynch's work. Surrealism isn't meant to be sorcerered into making sense.
July 18, 2011
Most sci-fi movies offer escape, a holiday from homework, but Dune is as difficult as a final exam. You have to cram for it.
March 26, 2009
Dune is a huge, hollow, imaginative and cold sci-fi epic.
December 15, 2014
It's bad - as bad as they come - but also built to last, and as the years roll on, its fascinating qualities continue to grow.
July 30, 2012
There's not a shred of humor in it, and it's a bleak look at humanity's future. But I was swept into the fantastic world.
October 23, 2004
This movie is a real mess, an incomprehensible, ugly, unstructured, pointless excursion into the murkier realms of one of the most confusing screenplays of all time.
January 07, 2013
Critics at the time labeled it "confusing"; I don't see how, considering that you hear what everyone is thinking, all the time, and they repeat their key thoughts constantly so that their actual acting never has to do the job of telling the story.
January 26, 2006
Lynch's third feature may have been a commercial disaster, but it gets under your skin and is marked by unforgettable images and an extraordinary soundtrack.
