How did they they do science fiction before computer graphics? Balls-to-the-wall audaciously. There's lots of things to criticize the De Laurentis / Lynch rendition of Dune for, but timidity and lack of vision is not one of them.
(Previous review: http://letterboxd.com/three_star_dave/film/dune/)
A ★★★★ review of Dune (1984)
Say what you will about it as an adaptation of the original, the David Lynch Dune is spectacle of the highest degree, full of grand (practical / blue-screen) FX and vision that outpaces the ability to show it. It reads like Biblical passage, quite intentionally, and if it warps some of Frank Herbert’s original beyond recognition, it’s so freaking audacious that you have to respect it for what it attempts (and so often succeed at).
Ya they need to remake dune duh
Syfy did a fairly faithful Dune adaptation in the early 00s. It was not early as epically engaging as the Lynch version.
Ya
Dune was amazing like John Carter which was completely under appreciated lol