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It's not only that, though that's certainly part of it. I understand that wishful thinking is part and parcel of these threads. That's something I indulge in myself on occasion. Still, some posters seem to think that the initial release prints might have been bad, but the photography wasn't. And...

I read--and loved--the book, and the movie was still utterly incomprehensible. It makes no sense. So much is left out or scrambled or wrong or just plain ludicrous, they might as well have called it "Dino" instead of "Dune".

If you read the book, you'd hate the film even more. And beyond that it's not a Lynch film. He has stated repeatedly that it's not his film. He has disowned it. Dino de Laureniits took out whatever personal stuff there was. Yes, there are some nice landscspes, but Lynch is not a landscape...

I think Freddie Francis is one of the greats. But as Lord Dalek states in the above post, they used sub par camera and lenses and also I think the prints were cheaply processed as well. Dino de Lautretiis was a notorious cheapskate. I saw "Dune" opening day in one of the best theaters in New...

AS someone once said, "You pays your money and takes your chances." But there's a big difference between "Django" & "Dune". "Django" was made the way the director wanted, without producer interference. Also, though I don't care for it, "Django" is a major Italian film, quite expressive and...