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They tried and failed, but thankfully LynchвЂ™s Dune is still alive for anyone who wants to revisit it.вЂњTell me of the waters of your homeworld, Usul.вЂќ Which is to say that sometimes the film-thing that breeches from the sand is unexpected and ugly and kind of ridiculous-and all the more worth riding for that. But when HerbertвЂ™s weird bloated vision bumps up against LynchвЂ™s weird bloated vision, you get a scene with a bunch of nuns bleeding from the nose while giant worms gather in reverence and a skeleton floats amidst psychedelic lights.

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LynchвЂ™s Dune is hardly his greatest movie, and youвЂ™d be hard-pressed to argue that itвЂ™s even a good movie by most conventional standards. (Lynch does faithfully reproduce HerbertвЂ™s homophobia, though, alas.) His quivering delight as he sprays a male retainerвЂ™s blood across purple flowers is one of the filmвЂ™s most arresting and memorable images-and one definitely drawn from LynchвЂ™s imagination more than HerbertвЂ™s.

The Baron has his servants surgically equipped with heart valves which he can open so their life spell spurts out.

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Kenneth MacMillanвЂ™s Baron Harkonnen lovingly cultivates his own skin disease even as LynchвЂ™s camera lovingly captures his spittle. Lynch revels in the body horror grotesquerie of the Harkonnen villains too. Drops of water fall into a pool ChaniвЂ™s voice whispers, вЂњTell me of your homeworld, Usul.вЂќ The imagistic repetition makes you feel like you, like Paul, have come unstuck in time. In LynchвЂ™s Dune, though, dream images and phrases float from PaulвЂ™s mind into the viewerвЂ™s consciousness with an eerie clarity. He mostly just shows him experiencing visions of Chani, his future wife. Villeneuve isnвЂ™t that interested in exploring PaulвЂ™s future sight. вЂњFear is the mind killer.вЂќ вЂњвЂ™They tried and failed?вЂ™ вЂ They tried and died.вЂ™вЂќ If you donвЂ™t remember anything else from the film, those lines will stay with you, vibrating with the intensity of prophecy. Lynch encourages his actors to flatten their emotional expression, which make the moments of iconic dialogue stand out starkly. But as Lynch aficionados know, the director also has a gift for heightening random details till they make you shiver. The visual wtf of the film is a campy pleasure.

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The servants of the SpacerвЂ™s guild speak for their bloated slug-like masters through what appear to be old-timey portable radio microphones. Sting as the evil Feyd Harkonnen steps out of a steam shower wearing nothing but a bizarre stylized eagle speedo and a smug expression. Patrick Stewart as soldier Gurney Halleck runs into battle carrying a pug dog. Things only get more inexplicably awkward from there. In the filmвЂ™s opening, a princess explains the history of imperial politics while her head fades in and out against a background of stars. If dumpy dream state Dune is the Dune you love, then Lynch is the director for you. A filmed version, arguably, should be dumpy and misshapen and filled with people looking like theyвЂ™ve just been hit in the face with a flounder. ItвЂ™s a book, after all, about giant worms and their psychedelic space poop. Much of the joy of the novel was that it was a top-heavy bombastic wallow in trippy goth weirdness.

And thereвЂ™s nothing wrong with Hollywood blockbuster epic!ДЇrank HerbertвЂ™s Dune, though, wasnвЂ™t just about the action and the adventure as House Atreides fights to control the planet Arrakis, its spice, and its indigenous Fremen. So, yes, the new Dune is much better at being a Hollywood blockbuster epic action-adventure than the old Dune. And LynchвЂ™s decision to add magic sound weapons to HerbertвЂ™s novelвЂ¦why? The second half of the movie collapses narratively as it tries to get in all the plot that Villeneuve has been allowed to spread over two films. Meanwhile, back at the 1984 Dune, Kyle McLachlan as Paul spends most of the film looking as if heвЂ™s just been hit in the face with a flounder, while his voice-over narration tries desperately, and not very successfully, to convince the viewer that he has an inner life. TimothГ©e Chalamet gives our hero Paul Atreides a subtle intensity, and Jason MamoaвЂ™s Duncan Idaho radiates heroic swash and buckle. His massed troops look genuinely massive, and he deploys tactile wind-whipped fabric with the loving attention of a man who has watched a lot of Kurosawa.

Director Denis Villeneuve has a real gift for monumental screen composition. The new Dune is infinitely sexier and more stylish than LynchвЂ™s version.

It has a wretched 44% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, in comparison to the 2021 DuneвЂ™s 83% Fresh.ДЄnd I get it. Once, across the sand blown waste, there rose another Dune, and the people looked into its gaping maw and said, вЂњfeh.вЂќ David LynchвЂ™s adaptation of Frank HerbertвЂ™s novel has been mocked ever since 1984 when it stuck its massive, clumsy snout out of the sand and started exhaling ill-conceived spice clouds of expository dialogue.

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