Dune 1984 extended version download

The rock star Sting, with his smile of festive malevolence, is a slight exception, but try not to blink if you want to see him; his role is extremely brief. Everyone is upstaged by the dialogue, decor, and fussily attention- getting costumes of the sort that just might be remembered at Oscar time. There are no traces of Mr. After a grueling four-year production, the resulting film is certainly one of the strangest big-budget extravaganzas ever made.

I'll be the first to admit that narrative coherency is not the picture's strongpoint. The Frank Herbert novel was quite long and very densely plotted, an epic tale of politics, religion, war, science, philosophy, environmentalism, and adventure.

The movie attempts to cram all those elements into a 2 hr. It drops the audience into the middle of Hebert's complex universe with insufficient introduction and little attempt to explain the reams of confusing alien terminology. Even the book needed a glossary to help readers navigate the likes of Mentats, Bene Gesserits, Gom Jabbars, ornithopters, crysknives, and the Kwizatz Haderach.

The movie has no such handy reference that viewers can refer to. When the Fremen leader tells our hero to, 'Take this Kiswa Maker Hook of our sietch,' almost none of those words have been defined in proper context for the audience to understand.

As if that weren't perplexing enough, characters often go by multiple names. The lead Paul Atreides is known as either Usul or Muad'Dib at different points in the story, for reasons not sufficiently spelled out here. If you aren't already familiar with the book, it's easy to get hopelessly lost. Some storylines are so compressed that the movie has to bridge them with frustrating and clunky voiceover narration. The major romantic subplot is covered in its entirety by the single line, 'Paul and Chani's love grew,' as if that were all we'd need to know about why these two characters who just met are all of a sudden acting like they're married.

And there's no avoiding the fact that the entire last act of the movie falls completely apart, from its indifferently-directed huge battle sequence to the absurdly anticlimactic final line. In terms of storytelling, the film is clearly a mess. But what a wonderfully rich, elaborate, and fascinating mess it is.

To be honest, plot clarity has never held much interest for David Lynch. He's a visual artist, more concerned with evoking moods and atmosphere than exposition. His best films such as 'Blue Velvet' and 'Mulholland Drive' can be argued to have little narrative logic at all, but work instead based on emotional logic.

Scenes connect and stories progress because Lynch makes you feel them bind together, even when the puzzle pieces don't fit together easily. He's a filmmaker obsessed with details and textures, and tells his stories more through their arresting images than their dialogue.

The director has never been much concerned with the mechanics of staging an action scene, but he's called upon to wrangle a couple of big ones here. The results feel disappointingly perfunctory; you can tell that Lynch just wants to get them out of the way so that he can skip ahead to the juicier character moments to follow.

As you can imagine, this creates something of a conflict with the needs of the Hollywood studio system, especially when it comes to adapting an existing literary property with a huge fan base.

Yet for all its failings of story clarity, Lynch's 'Dune' is nonetheless a faithful adaptation of Herbert's novel, sometimes too faithful. It retains most of the author's arch dialogue, much of which is not inherently cinematic in nature, and tries to keep as many of the major subplots as it can pack in. The picture would have been better served as a movie if Lynch had been less faithful to the book and had streamlined out some of the less crucial storylines, even at the expense of upsetting the most fervent 'Dune' fans.

Lynch's attention to the nuances of character is a spot-on perfect replica of the book's. As of , the Alan Smithee version had been released in a two disk set containing both the Lynch version and the extended version.

However, many scenes were edited out once again: The heart plug scene when the baron is introduced is not in the extended version anymore it is still in the original. The scene where Thufir discovers the burning wierding modules is also missing, as well as Thufir's death scene. Thufir's death scene is included as a deleted scene in the special features.

It comes on two discs and has English Dolby Digital Audio. However, the first video release and all releases of the film after the first video were uncut, and had a "15" rating until , when it was reclassified " Japanese Laserdisc boxset TV version correct feature running time is actually min 34 sec despite being cited as mins.

This is due to the fact that the end of Part 1 side 2 has the closing credits, consuming at 3 mins 27 secs , while the intro to Part 2 side 3 has a summary of Part 1 using repeated footage consuming 6 mins 41 secs. Part 2 side 4 has same closing credits for another 3 mins 27 secs. A third version of "Dune", seen on KTVU in San Francisco in , is the only one that edits together footage from both the theatrical and TV versions, putting back the violent scenes such as the "heart sucking sequence" and theatrical versions of some scenes such as Paul and Jessica running from a thumper.

DUNE, from the Frank Herbert books of the same name, is one the great movies along with others that make up the twentieth Century movie experience. Some of these movies in the twentyfirst century are being re-made. However the originals are sometimes the best. Notable appearances - "the Pug" which became an icon in its own right and many more too many to mention. Reviewer: DevonSeaMoor - favorite favorite - November 9, Subject: Bloody version of Dune I didn't enjoy this version of Dune much, it's too bloody, and violent to my taste.

There's very little talk and interaction between the characters, compared to Frank Herbert's version of Dune. I've found that version when I made use of Vuze for a couple of years.

There are two parts, Dune and Children of Dune, if I remember correctly. I might upload that movie here.