don@allegra.UUCP (D. Mitchell) (12/16/84)
If you came to see a David Lynch movie (as I did), you will be delighted. There is no hint of cute robots, and everything is not made out of Chrome and Corningware. This movie is not cute. It is dark, Byzantine and outlandish. If you read Dune, I don't know what you will think. Herbert is there, but so is Lynch. One of my friends is very upset by Lynch's screenplay. Movie critics on PBS (the two guys with the dog) hated it, but they clearly didn't follow the story very well. One complained about the gratuitous violence of tearing a boy's nipple off. It was not his nipple, and the movie made that clear (it was a surgical implant, but I don't want to say more about the plot). The point is, this is a very complex movie. Lynch is not use to making movies for general consumption. I have heard that Lucas was worried that the last Starwars movie might lose the audiance, and Dune's plot is much more intricate. The movie has obvious flaws. Like all Sci-Fi epics, the acting was so bad it made the audience laugh at times when I saw it. They also laughed when people were shown riding sandworms. I think the non-Dune-readers thought the sandworms were a silly idea.