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| A really long but probably still not exhaustive list of all the things that are great about David Lynch's Dune movie. *In the opening credits, Princess Irulan fades in and out for no particular reason. At the end, she fades back in to say, "Oh, I almost forgot..." and then reveals THE MOST IMPORTANT ASPECT OF THE FILM, that the spice is only found on Arrakis. *Music by Toto. Prophecy theme by Brian Eno. *The Guild Navigators are giant nasty floating hairless mole creatures. They pay people visits by transporting their whole tank around. *The Guild Navigators' lackeys talk into a 1940s microphone to translate their language. Also their language sounds mostly like growling and it's probably more fun to listen to that than the translation. *The swampy puddle the Guild Navigator's tank leaves behind in the Emperor's chambers. Mop this up, Emperor of the Known Universe! *Emperor Shaddam IV has "Terror Troops." *The computer introduction to all the planets. *Baron Harkonnen wants to steal the Duke's signet ring. We're not told there's anything special or powerful about it, so I guess he'd just really like to have it. *Paul identifying everyone coming to visit him by the sound of their footsteps. *Patrick Stewart as a pissed off Gurney. *Thufir's eyebrows. This pretty much goes for all Mentats. *Gurney and Paul fighting with personal shields and "killing" each other simultaneously. *Jurgen Prochnow!! *"Put your hand in the box." *How simply nasty the Harkonnens are. Sometimes this is too much (the Baron's skin diseases and not-well-disguised pedophilia) but other times, you've got the Beast Rabban crushing an insect just to drink what's inside. *Brad Dourif repeating the Mentat Mantra. *Sting!! *The transport sequence where House Atreides moves to Arrakis. I actually think this is really well done. You get a good sense of the size of their ships, and how they're transported by the Guild Navigators. *Paul eating mini-spice snausages on Arrakis. Kyle MacLachlan makes them look pretty tasty. *Max Von Sydow!! *Liet-Kynes thinks it's impressive that Paul knows how to fit his stillsuit desert fashion. *Linda Hunt, for some reason. *Yueh for some reason betrays his entire society, but screws over the Harkonnens too by smuggling the signet ring for Paul and giving the disabled Duke a poison gas tooth. Yueh makes no sense in this movie. *The tooth will work because Yueh knows the Baron will be gloating over the Duke, and he's right. *Brad Dourif's truly awesome "twitch, then yell and fall backwards with arms extended" death. *Standard David Lynch actor Jack Nance as Nefud, whose only purpose seems to be to hilariously overemphasize his lines and play a weird Harkonnen instrument. *Paul and his mom are approximately the same age. *The Fremen are a mysterious, hard-to-know people that anthropologists have spent years learning about. But Paul and Jessica meet and indoctrinate themselves the same afternoon they're stranded in the desert. *Paul is such a badass that he becomes a tribal leader. This seems to happen a few days later. *Stilgar is so great in this movie. Everett McGill plays him somewhere between Bruce Lee and Zapp Brannigan. *The Beast Rabban yanks a cow tongue right out of the dead animal for a snack. *Feyd Rautha hates Paul for no reason. *Baron Harkonnen makes Thufir pet a hairless medicinal cat (which has a rat strapped to it) to receive his antidote. This never comes up again in the film. *Paul's Fremen name (Maud'dib) is a word that you can use to kill with weirding modules. His girlfriend yells it when she's zapping Harkonnens. *Patrick Stewart: "You young pup!" *Worm ridin'. *All men who have tried to drink the water of life have died. It's a known poison that will kill any man except the chosen one. Nevertheless, countless idiots have tried it anyway. The ego! *Stilgar quote: "Usul, we have worm-sign the likes of which God has never seen." *The Emperor and his generals sit around this giant shared video game module to man the weapons. *Giant sand worms >> Terror troops *Everything about Paul and Feyd's knife-fight. *Sting: "I will kill him!" *Patrick Stewart: "This is a Harkonnen animal!" *Rain, which seems like a wonderful achievement, although if you think about it, it would actually completely neutralize the Fremen advantage on Arrakis. I guess we just learn that Paul can make it happen, but presume he won't ever do it again. *End credits where we see stillshots of all the actors. We try to remember if some of them were actually in the film. | ||||||
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