Loved the movie then, still love it now. Never had read the book before & found the plot totally understandable.
I enjoy the movie although I spend much time complaining while watching it. As someone else posted, I think Lynch did just about as good a job as possible considering the source material. I am annoyed by the change to weirding modules, rather than emphasizing how technology had brought hand to hand combat back to preeminence in warfare. But I’ve grown accustomed to it. I liked Lynch’s ambitious set styling and use of inner monologues in place of pure exposition.
He is the Kumquat Hagendaaz!
…which was flat-out explained in the movie as the"universal super being" and the purpose behind the Bene Gesserit manipulation of bloodlines for thousands of years.
-Joe
Wouldn’t that be the Ben N Jerryserit?
Beer is the mind-killer. Beer is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my beer. I will permit it to pass through me.
Better to be a woman drinking beer without a head, than to be a man without a head drinking beer without a woman!
I have a copy of Doon but have never actually read it.
You should! It has the second-highest number of jokes per page of any book I’ve read. Second only to Bored of the Rings
The food puns do get old after a while. BoTR has a wider range of targets. Doon is still fun!
Lynch should get props for Dune having the coolest closing credits of any movie up to that time.
Saw the movie in my teens, left before I saw the credits, waited 20+ years to actually see the credits :smack:
I just took a look.
It’s just a series of portraits of the characters with an ocean behind them.
I mean… it’s nice and all… but is that it?
And BTW the Buckaroo Banzai end credits came out about six months prior. 
The Bukaroo Banzai end credits are one of the craziest and most enjoyable moments of the movie (considering the movie, it definiely puts the credits in an exclusive club).
Darn, with all this talk of the Dune movie, I feel Bene Gesserit-like compelled to rewatch it again today.
I never noticed this before… but Perfect Tommy’s outfit changes at the 2:17 mark, when they turn and walk past the wall.