Dune

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Dune

Dec 30 2025 | 00:03:33

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Show Notes

I told someone the other day that I had seen all of the films by David Lynch. But later I realized that I’d forgotten Dune, from 1984, the one widely considered a failure. The completist in me decided I had to watch it. I’ve grown to like Lynch’s work, so it shouldn’t have been a surprise that I enjoyed Dune as well—but somehow it was. Lynch took his chance to direct a big-budget science fiction spectacular that was based on a popular book. Evidently the producer, Dino De Laurentiis, was trying for another Star Wars (the original trilogy had just…

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