Dune: The Sleeper Has Awakened — 3 weeks ago
WORTH CONSUMING!
Oh Dune. You could have been so amazing. There is a lot to like about David Lynch’s screen adaptation of Dune: the crazy montages, the almost impressionistic acting, the beautiful sets. But it all falls apart because of the story. There’s just too much story to cram into a two and a half hour long movie. So we have a disjointed plot that is stuck together with an unbearable voice-over: story-wise the thing is a giant mess. Then again, story-wise Eraserhead is a giant mess, too, but that’s not why you watch Eraserhead. You watch it because of the visuals and the technique. And Dune is much more similar to Eraserhead than I had initially expected. So as an adaptation of a great book, Dune is a failure. But a glorious one.
