Film
Dune
- Director
- David Lynch
- Certificate
- 12A
- Running Time
- 136 mins
A critical and box office disaster on release in 1984, David Lynch‘s diabolical bash at adapting the sprawling Frank Herbert novel is now apparently being hailed as a ‘cult classic’ by uncritical Lynch acolytes and those who have obviously never sat through it. If your eyes aren’t glazing over during the lengthy opening voiceover, they will be during the dense next hour or so, which is seemingly scripted by Basil Exposition.
Kyle MacLachlan makes his screen debut as the scion of a noble family which is at war with a rival clan for control of a barren planet where the mind-expanding ‘spice’ is mined. Warning: also includes Sting. Roger Ebert called this the worst movie of the year, describing it as “a real mess, an incomprehensible, ugly, unstructured, pointless excursion into the murkier realms of one of the most confusing screenplays of all time.”
So why’s it coming back to haunt us now? Well, there’s another version on the way, this time directed by Denis Villeneuve.
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