Everything GREAT About Dune! (1984) 

"Its called everything great about x, not x is a good movie" is such a perfect and amazing way of describing the celebration of film that is this channel

"As well as Christopher Walken" this joke aged like fine wine.

The Space Guild Navigators (guys floating in the tank) don't fold space. They have an engine that does that. What the *Navigators* do is make sure you don't appear inside a star or planet.

Let's not forget how this movie spawned numerous excellent computer games, including the birth of an entirely new genre.

"Emperory? Emperorish? Emperorous?" Traditionally, "imperious," but those three are much better.

“The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.” ― Frank Herbert, Dune

I... unironically love this version of Dune. It has a certain quality to it like a recital of Beowulf, or the reading of a historical saga. It's a lot of "Paul was here and did this. Paul went there and said that." to it. It's stilted. But enthralling. And, for me, the sheer grandeur of some scenes - the music and the visuals - even though static, or perhaps because they are static, have the feeling of a great imperial hall, or a place burdened by a history of empire and rule. There is something about Lynch's Dune which, for me, captures better than anything else the sheer scale of the story. The fact that you aren't watching a tale about the rebel prince. You are watching the terrible, inexorable unfolding of history before your eyes. Like standing at the foot of the mountain and seeing the avalanche thunder down upon you.

I have to admit I love this film, for me it's pure escapism and sometimes that's all you need.

This movie is so odd. They took a huge book cut out most of it and still managed to make the movie slow paced. It is very confusing.

The best part of Dune 84: When the electric guitar kicks in during the sandworm riding scene.

Dune 1984 is also the only film in cinema history, in which Patrick Stewart questions Sting's worthiness to fight Kyle MacLachlan to the death.

11:40 After the new movie, I can unfortunately confirm that Christopher Walken does not thrive on Arrakis.

Lynch’s Dune has such a unique flavor all its own. It’s clumsily-told, to be sure, but so beautiful to take in. Also it has a pug in it. Jodorowsky’s Dune makes for a great watch if you want to experience something REALLY different.

I’d love a EGA The Road to El Dorado! I loved that movie as a kid and felt like it’s always been underrated

The Walken comment is even funnier now that he has been cast as Padishah Emperor Shaddam

Fun fact: The stilsuits from Dune (1984) were recycled, and used as the costume base for the Borg in Star Trek: TNG

Should’ve seen this one coming and I’m guessing by the “water” hint that next week will be Luca. I hope we also get Everything Great about Cruella, The Suicide Squad and In The Heights soon!

Ive been wanting to get into Dune before the new one comes out, nice

The “Everything Great About Atlantis”must flow. Remember the true hero of the film, Pug Atreudes. Entered the battle with Gurney and survived all those years on Arrakis.

This makes me want that "Everything Great About Dark City" even more.

Fun fact, the entire Dune franchise is based on a pun _”Melange”_ in French means _Mixed_ or _Variety_ The Spice has the ability to extend one’s lifespan So Dune’s main theme is “Variety is the Spice of life”

10:57 That is actually not the reason. The reason is a bit deeper. You see one of the guards is infact deaf. He was chosen precisely because they know the Bene Geserit have power of people with the voice. So Jessica is guising her voice. Making sure that the deaf guard wont be tipped off. This is straight from the books funny enough.

Don’t care about it’s flaws, one of my most favourite movies ever

Thank you for bringing the love for this version of Dune. I've seen it getting a lot of undeserved hate lately. It's very flawed, but has many wonderful aspects and is very memorable.

My family watched the original recently to prepare for the remake, and we now have a running joke where we say "Take a shot" every time someone says "Spice."

So much Dune content on YT these days, I love it!

"muppets but with STIs" no, that's a Peter Jackson movie, Meet the Feebles and I am in no way joking - that's *literally a plot point* I saw this movie before I heard he was making Lord of the Rings, and so the time between the announcement and the first LOTR trailer dropping was full, in my mind, of some truly surreal images

The shields DO come up again in the movie. You show the scene Duncan Idaho uses a shield while fighting the Sadaukar before taking a lucky/precise shot to the head. Shields are important in the backstory to explain why people use low-tech and melee weapons. When everyone has Shields to protect against "normal" weapons and the effect Lasguns have on shields(nuclear explosion) melee weapons are the most effective weapon. You should see Mr Welch's video on the Dune roleplaying game and the Atreides Battle Pug.

Lynch’s Dune is insane and I love it. It's one of my go to movies. I love the books and I can't wait to see the new one, but there is just something about this version that makes hubby scream Muad'Dib when I destroy something in our house, talk about the spice must flow when I season the meat for the grill, and he does not even like "nerdy" stuff like that.

I saw this in the theater when it first came out. They gave out little pamphlets with vocabulary explanations. Also, creepy little Alia grew into Alicia Witt.

11:40 dude how did this guy foresee that Christopher Walken would be walkin' without rhythm in Dune part 2? Also, now I imagine all Sting songs as being about Arrakis. Desert Rose, anyone?

I love the Lynch film as much as I love Kubricks The Shining. Both great films. Both dreadfully terrible adaptations that betray the very point of the source materials... where as LoTR does detours, but is so overwhelming faithful and in love with the source, the detours reflect the greater point.

if the baron doesn't scream "he who controls the spice controls the universe" while floating upward.. I'm getting a refund

"Stilgar do we have nerd sign?" "Usil we have nerd sign the like is which even God has not seen."

Can confirm; Toto is definitely worth getting into. As great as “Africa”, “Rosanna” and “Hold the Line” are, their back catalogue is absolutely stellar. Fun fact; on their 40th anniversary tour, they performed “Dune: Desert Theme” live :)

"it's art you don't always have to love it, just experience it" - Lee

I love what you had to say here. You make a lot of good points. I'm a firm believer in the right to enjoy movies and books even when they are not "good." I had fun with this version of Dune, but my first introduction was my mom asking me to tape the mini series for her and not being able to turn away from the screen. I asked my mom if I could borrow the book from the library and she smiled and said "top shelf, sweetie." We had our own copy, still in my posession 21 years later despite how hard I am on books. It was late but I read the whole thing that night and was instantly obsessed. I've read it cover to cover over 30 times, and go back to favorite passages often. My English teacher loaned me her copies of Dune Messiah and Children of Dune, and I blasted straight through those two and onto the library to get the last three. I love the whole series, especially the improvements in the characterization of women in the last two books. Some of what was written of women in the first book had me like "shit, this is tens of thousands of years in the future, and yet so obviously 1960s."

Since you mentioned about the importance of reading and knowing source material in your video, may I suggest doing a Cinema Wins video on Steven Spielberg's "Adventures of Tintin: the Secret of the Unicorn", as an example of adapting a story to the movie medium correctly. The Adventures of Tintin comic series has a massive cultural influence in Europe (unfortunately not in USA) so I'm sure many European viewers would love your take on the movie. It is an absolutely great adaptation with great cast (Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and etc.), great music by John Williams, great everything and is super fun, even to a viewer who never heard of Tintin before. I think it's a masterpiece and would love to see you do a video about it. On a side note, it would be cool if you did a video on one of the old Jackie Chan movies (Iike Project A for example), since his Hong Kong action movies are really fun and easy to watch.

12:58 ~ How Sting kept a serious face holding that cat milking device is beyond me...not to mention every other scene he looks like he's about to bust out laughing at the absurdity.

This movie was written as if someone wrote an Opera about Dune . It feels like this should be on a stage.

Dark City is the perfect Tech Noir. It is 100% noir and 100% science fiction.

I hope one day you do Everything Great About Cinderella Man since it's in my opinion a great movie and the only recognition it gets is being shown in history class to a bunch of 9th or 10th graders.

Warts and all, I still love this version as it led me to read the books (and the Toto score is absolutely awesome). Looking forward to eventually hearing your thoughts on the Villeneuve film (I just caught it last night in the theater and rewatched again today on HBO Max and love it!), wondering if you think you might do a video or two on the miniseries?

Dude I'm so over the moon that you loved the SciFi mini series too. It's clearly just for Dune book fans but I own it on DVD and have probably seen it 12 to 15 times.

Appreciate all the metal references, especially since the trippy space hand inspired the album cover for System of a Down's self-titled debut.

11:39 speaking of Christopher Walken. The SpICE must fLoW

In the books "the Voice" sounds like speaking, because it is just speaking. Only with carefuly chosen tone and position to subcontiously compel people to do things. (Or at least that's how I understand it)

10:00 if I recall correctly the design team frustrated with David linch asked him to give then some kind of direction on the design. Linch kept telling them to just pick something. The design team said that it wasn't that simple they need constraints to work under to produce a good design. David the proceeded to just grab a random historical book with illustration slam it open to a random page and go "here. This is what house Harkonan looks like." They then proceeded to do each of the houses and groups like that.

They should let Denis Villeneuve adapt RENDEZVOUS WITH RAMA

That space navigator looks like he's in dire need of a bong hit transplant.

"What's in the box?" EGA: Oh no! Brad Pitt: "WHAT'S IN THE BOX???!!!!" Me: FINALLY!!!!

WAIT. It's gone recursive here. Walken was in a music video that referenced Dune, and now he plays the emperor in Dune 2

Watching this movie was what finally got me past the first 50 pages to actually finish reading Dune - just so I would know what the heckie I'd just watched! XD

I wish more book adaptations would be willing to do thought voice overs.

Fun Fact: Sian Phillips actually suggested the bald head look for the Bene Gesserit to David Lynch. Oh & those Sardaukar uniforms….they were made from actual bodybags!!!

11:38 Ooooh, that moment really ages well like wine...

I never read the novel or watched any other adaptation, I just came by this one on Netflix a few months back and I absolutely loved it. Interesting story, super cool world, fantastic music and amazing visuals. I can see why it's not for everyone, as you said, the pacing is really weird and it's kinda campy, but I personally love it.

Can I just say that Jack Nance was such massively talented character actor, that in almost every single role I have ever seen him in after Eraserhead, I have to do a double take and say, "Wait, what? THAT'S Henry from Eraserhead?!"

was not ready for that space pug song but I am here for it HAHA

Like most 'flops' from great directors they go on to be highly influential. The campy haute fashionable costumes and set designs have become a sc fi standard, in fact Lynch's Dune seemed to have a huge impact on fashion designers such as Alexander McQueen, Which in turn fed back into the film world, from the Fifth Element to the Hunger Games. Also the post-modern splicing of the ancient with the modern, science and the mystical you see in most sci-fi these days. Plus just as in Dune, inter-planetary politics are taken more seriously now, no longer cheesy platitudes to fill in between special effects and set pieces. Dune was basically ahead of its time and might be still ahead of our times, that is in a kind of Shakespearean drama in space kinda way. But in the end, the dialogue couldn't sustain the screen-time it was given, Herbert maybe a great sci-fi writer, but he's no Shakespeare. That said when the more theatrical actors got hold of the lines, the dialogue could spring into life. Lynch should/ve recruited his former colleagues from the Elephant Man - Gielgud, Hopkins, and Hurt. Americans and Continentals doing Shakespeare in space falls a little flat. But Lynch should've gone full Shakespeare, and made something impenetrable to the common punter. After all, the far future, like the past- is going to be hard to follow. Perhaps needing several viewings to truly understand. You might even make the case for subtitles I think if he had full artistic freedom, he would've done. No point being half way impenetrable - you've gotta go the whole nine yards. As he now understands.

15:19 Best joke in the video!! I laughed so hard, I nearly choked. My wife asked just what the heck I was watching, and I couldn't answer her for at least a minute or two. Two thumbs way, WAY up dude!!

Now, Dune is an amazing movie. BUT I STILL WANT PRINCESS BRIDE! I've been requesting it for over a year and I'm not gonna stop any time soon!

The Guild Navigator and the Folding Space segment are clearly the MOST "David Lynch" parts of this movie. Like - they were left to post production to add in and the producers just shrugged and said "Look, we're tired of reining you in, David. On these bits - just go all out and do what you want."

love the random Christopher Walken dance, esp since I just learned that he's playing the Emperor in new Dune part 2.

I am once again asking for Everything Great about Ice Age (2002). The studio that made it closed this year, it'd be nice to see some appreciation for Blue Sky and their movies!

Mildly ironic that both Brad and P Stew would land in Starfleet within 15 years

I'm forever grateful for this movie because it was due to this movie that Dune 2 existed which was one of the earliest RTS. Followed by a remake as well as a sequel that was amazing

Now I have seen ALL versions of Dune a combination of ALL of them would be the best!

I rented this and watched it on a whim on a Saturday evening. There are worse ways to spend a Saturday evening. It was worth watching, but I probably will never watch it again. Now Villeneuve's Dune Part 1, I am about to go see it a second time in one weekend, and will definitely watch it multiple times.

Can you do an EGA about Speed Racer, please?

Crazy to think that crazy box shield effect is only on-screen for a minute and it took nearly a YEAR to animate. _Without_ computers!

I love this version so much

While the new Dune looks amazing, I still prefer the '84 version. So much better a film. So cannot stand people hating on this film.

Perfect timing, I get to watch this with dinner

Interestingly you posted this just as I watching this movie. _Un_fortunately I'll have to wait till next weekend to see the new one, as all the seats are taken for tomorrow's showings. That's a good sign for Part 2.

Every time I see the moment with the box, no matter from lynch, miniseries on latest dune, when reverend mother say "put your hand into the box" I see Eric Cartman saying " Put a dollar into the boxaaaa!".

Okay. This...this is a brave one. I love this movie with all my heart, but we all know it's a cinematic disaster and nothing on screen even remotely matches the books. Still. I'm here for it. Bring it on! Tell me why I should love this (I already do)

i think kyle maclachlan should be an instant cinema win

19:18 - Lynch did actually read the book, but he hadn't before the producers asked him to do it. He agreed to after he finished reading.

Kyle is from my hometown and I was blown away by his performance as Paul MuA Diib.

I saw (and enjoyed, albeit while being massively confused) Dune 2021 last night & had a tough time hearing character/location names clearly (saw it in an overly loud IMAX theater) so this might help me iron out some of the details I was confused on.

Dear Cinemawins: You'll likely never see this but watching your Edgar Wright videos again, has made me pine for your input on another British Filmmaking treasure; Ben Wheatley. Kill List, Sightseers, A Field in England, High Rise, and Free Fire may not get the best viewing figures, but it sure would please your loyal subjects on this side of the pond. Keep on Truckin', sir. We love you.

Say Villeneuve's Dune yesterday and enjoyed it, so when I saw this pop up I thought "Yeah, I'll watch that." Started it and remembered this movie goes over the full story and I only saw the first half of it with 2021 Dune. So I guess I'll put this video on hold for a few years while Part 2 gets made...

LOVE the call out to I'm Free (Heaven Helps the Man), a song with: 1. A man who dreams (prescient dreams/visions) 2. A focus on eyes (the blue eyes of the Ibad) 3. A man who fights his fear (the Litany Against Fear) 4. A man who stays where he is out of love (Chani's fate) 5. Virginia freakin' Madsen (Princess Irulan).

We shouldn't be surprised Toto did good with the soundtrack after all it's in the lead singers blood.

Im so looking forward to your take on the new movie. That was just such an experience. I remember watching this one some years ago to go by my "sci fi bucket list" but boy I did not understand anything and like Blade runner...... it just didnt stick. Boy did Dune 2021 get me. It sooo deserved a remake of this quality and I hope this will be our new Saga for years to come.

Can you please do Peter Pan (2003)? It’s so beautiful and the soundtrack is lovely and it has Jason Isaacs in it. It’s the only one my sisters and I watch.

"My name is a killing word." Love this movie out of nostalgia, imagery, soundtrack and another stab at the source material.

I’m praying that we get an “Everything Great about Halloween (1978)” on Halloween

I saw the new movie a few weeks ago and my dad was so mad I hadn't seen this movie yet, so he made me watch it. The best way I can describe it is as a fever dream. This movie stopped making any sense to me after about half an hour, and at some point I think the scriptwriters realized: Oh no, we only have 20 minutes of screentime left, but aren't even half done telling the story... ah, it'll be FINE. And just cut stuff left and right. I think Chani has a total of about 3-5 scenes in the movie, and goes from "who the F*** is this dude" to "I love you Paul" in a single scene, which was the point where I just gave up trying to understand what was happening. I think my father has VERY rose-tinted glasses when it comes to this movie, but even with all the flaws it has, it does have some redeeming qualities with its practical effects, and just the "weird factor" it has. Also: SPACE PUGS

Virginia Madden gets obsessed over a lot. By Vincent Spano in Creator and by a computer in Electric Dreams. 2:48 Freddie Jones needed less makeup than you think. He always had some pretty awesome eyebrows. And that voice is just unmistakable.

That South Park reference to Tom Brady’s fecal matter as that whole episode was a dune parody

A movie I've seen a million times a long time ago. it's got a bizarre place in my heart

Just watched the new Dune, 2.5 hours wasn’t enough I need more and I can’t wait for the next one!

I know I'm most likely the only one asking for it, but what about a video about the new Violet Evergarden movie? That movie is 100% something else in my eyes, even if the most emotional parts get sucked out if viewed in a vacuum away from the main series. I'm not really the type to cry with media, but that two and a half hour long movie got me crying FIVE TIMES. Additionally, the fact this intense orchestral soundtrack came from three countries (Japan, Germany, and Czechoslovakia iirc) is stellar in of itself.

I absolutely love this movie. In no small part, because it was my introduction to David Lynch. And I've never been the same. (In a good way.)

Whenever I hear the word ‘Dune’ I think of the game where you’re a marble and going up and down sand dunes

It's been a few weeks since I last suggested the Captain Underpants movie video, so I'm doing it again now. Great video as always, I'll see y'all next week in the comments of the next video!

Mad Gordon Cole vibes on that cameo. I should add. It's heartwarming how much Lynch stuff made it into the new version. It's better in every way, but he still treated this one with love.

Wow that was a nice surprise. The '84 Version is one of my fav sci-fi movies. I never read the books.