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... is made for people who have read the book. If you haven't read the book, you will be so lost. I always thought of it as a picture album: casting and sets and costumes is/are perfect.

Somewhere on VCR tape I have the Alan Smithee cut, which didn't make any better a discoverable narrative, but it did show that a lot (oodles, bunches) more footage was shot than was shown (in either). I too would like to see the Lynch cut - I suspect the length would qualify for binge watching.

That was a great pitch by Mitch Benn. But...

...if you haven't read the book, you'd be lost trying to work out what was going on in the movie, though if you had read the book, you'd be disappointed by the liberties taken with the source material. (My suspension of disbelief broke during the opening credits when the Fremen were shown walking in lockstep across sandy dunes. As if giant sandworms were mythical...)

Having said that, it was visually spectacular & the casting was for most part inspired. Patrick Stewart as Gurney Halleck was my favourite, and Kenneth McMillan really chewed up the scenery as The Baron Harkonnen.

I hadn't read the book when I saw the film and I enjoyed it.

But I don't need to entirely understand things to enjoy them.

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