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Title: A Huge Disappointment
Review: I had read and enjoyed the first 3 Dune novels and was very excited about seeing this film when it first came out. I'm not quite sure how I managed to sit through this dreadful mess. I did like some of the look of the film but too many things, like the Guild Navigator, looked so silly it made me groan. And the special effects were very poorly executed. The giant sandworms looked like glove puppets. The last scene with the totally miscast little girl lisping the final grand statement was so bad I still can't imagine what David Lynch was thinking. Lynch should have just told this story as a straight ahead adventure and dropped all the internal thoughts, they felt very awkward. Even with all its fights and battles Dune never generates any real excitment or mystery. Flashy and weird yet dull, like a ball gown on a dead horse.
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