A digitized delusion of grandeur.
What is first and foremost lacking in this production is atmosphere, more specifically the dense dune-driven heightening of atmosphere that is David Lynch's work.I do not care that even Frank Herbert himself has been involved in this work. Because, you see just like Peter Jackson's interpretation of Tolkien's books on the silver screen is not really marred by his versions of them, David Lynch has done just the same with his version of the Dune story.
And neither can fine acting give that kind of mesmerizing feel for what is happening as the story unfolds. David Lynch understood the immense importance of the actual building of the presence of the surroundings, whether it was on Caladan, Giedi Prime or Dune itself.
And the beginning minutes of the movie Dune is so superior in its thick feeling, with music, the narrative and the pictures. It's like a mini-movie in itself even before the film has really begun. Splendid in all its grandness.
That grandness is never present here, with one exception. Almost every scene with Susan Sarandon as Princess Corrino has that sense of atmosphere. But otherwise it's just too thin.
I want to be impressed by expressions, whether it is in how the story is told, the actors expresses their persona's or the general feel of it all. This has neither of those (except where noted).
No. Learn from master Lynch and his visions. They were done visually with so small computer help compared to this, and is yet a hundredfold more expressive, with still impresses me. Not a small feat.
score 2/10
dracopticon 14 October 2014
Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw3104307/15155
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