{"id":51600,"date":"2015-06-23T05:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T05:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/23\/movie-review-dune-1984-2.html"},"modified":"2015-06-23T05:00:05","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T05:00:05","slug":"movie-review-dune-1984-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/23\/movie-review-dune-1984-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: &quot;Dune&quot; (1984)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How did they they do science fiction before computer graphics? Balls-to-the-wall audaciously. There&#39;s lots of things to criticize the De Laurentis \/ Lynch rendition of <i>Dune<\/i> for, but timidity and lack of vision is not one of them.<\/p>\n<p>(Previous review: <a href=\"http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/dune\/\">http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/dune\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p> <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23fatherdaughtermovieweek\">#fatherdaughtermovieweek<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/dune\/1'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/xlxFdgT_mFNogaOSoE9S6kFnG3bPtmRmjge4V3zRYfIRpFYKdRJbleiTqaEF_FWo7np5mcCppRaBRU50egXisXYurwazXKN1i0dtuWXckCQ4KZckhHfpL4H2rdAxpx8zXZjHRxsUYmtH-Cl-DX0TjOCKwgUXeXsH980bzCwFlg=w120-h120' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/dune\/1'>A &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733; review of Dune (1984)<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nSay 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&#8217;s original beyond recognition, it&#8217;s so freaking audacious that you have to respect it for what it attempts (and so often succeed at).\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/75ohttDFVbY'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did they they do science fiction before computer graphics? Balls-to-the-wall audaciously. There&#39;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\/) #fatherdaughtermovieweek A &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733; review of Dune (1984) Say what you will about it as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/23\/movie-review-dune-1984-2.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Movie Review: &quot;Dune&quot; (1984)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[872],"class_list":["post-51600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","tag-fatherdaughtermovieweek"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":127811,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/25\/movie-review-penguins-of-madagascar-2014.html","url_meta":{"origin":51600,"position":0},"title":"Movie Review: &quot;Penguins of Madagascar&quot; (2014)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 25-Aug-15 6:31pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The Penguins work better in smaller doses, but if you just consider this movie as a string of those smaller doses stitched lightly together (which isn't too too difficult to do), it's an amusing way to pass an hour and a half. #fatherdaughtermovieweek A \u2605\u2605 review of Penguins of Madagascar\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":37896,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/26\/movie-review-dune-1984.html","url_meta":{"origin":51600,"position":1},"title":"Movie Review: &quot;Dune&quot; (1984)","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 26-Jun-13 10:24pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Herbert purists may find a lot to pull their hair out here, but David Lynch goes big and it (mostly) pays off. \u00a0Been a while since I've seen the film, and I took advantage of Bachelor Week to do so -- and don't regret a single minute. 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