NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Claudio Carvalho David Lynch's "Dune" is a cult sci-fi, and the 2000 remake is a long but also good movie. "Children of Dune" was released in Brazil in three DVDs, and I have just watched the first one - "Children of Dune – The Empire of Harkonnen". I did not like this first part, since the story is very confused and has elements of soap-opera. The cinematography, the visual and sound effects are great, but there are too many characters without previous development, and betrayals, plots and subplots for a 93 minutes running time, and in the end I was completely lost of who is who in the story. My vote is five.Title (Brazil: "Filhos de Duna – O Império de Harkonnen" ("Children of Dune – The Empire of Harkonnen")

lamoreauxba This "version" of Dune has all the qualities of a Sci Fi original. Poor casting, horrible acting (think high school play), bad effects, cheesy dialogue, and just a trashy unoriginal feel to it. The costumes look like something my grandmother pinochle team would wear to a square dance.I tried as best I could to sit through this piece, but alas, it could not be done. Maybe if I was 8 and knew nothing about quality cinema. The fact that this has such a high rating on IMDb speaks about the quality of American Cinema these days.If you liked the books or the Lynch movie do not watch this.OMG the acting is so bad.

Abd L Azeez Alkalidy Dune 2000 TV series, with so little budget of $20,000,000 they were able to treat it with so much love and care that would only make you wonder what would they did if they didn't had to make it on so tight schedule and low budget, it's a story of a wasteland that was made so many times but never like this, when just a boy had to leave his home land and face terrible destiny of becoming a messiah, you can feel, watch how his character grow, At the end he is not the same person, and the best part is you can believe it. Almost most of the actors are unknown, but they all (well ...most) fit their parts perfectly, William Hurt as Duke Leto Atreides, i always though Leto to be a stronger character, but he did a great job, i got used to him in the first minutes, Alec Newman as Muad'Dib, this is the Muad'Dib in my mind, and now after seeing the series i can never visualize Muad'Dib other than him , and that is a big deal because Muad'Dib is my all-time hero , Saskia Reeves as Lady Jessica Atreides is not as good as i was hoping, she have few minutes to shin , like when she talk's to paul about him going too far , fearing for him and the rest of the universe, Ian McNeice as Baron Vladimir Harkonnen , there will never be a better Baron Vladimir Harkonnen than him , he is so good here i think he was born for this part, it's so good to see actors like him have a part where they could really show their true talents, he is outrages , melodramatic, with sick twisted cunning mind, whenever he is on the screen i think he is giving the series a whole new dimension. if you are frank herbert's fan , or a fan of any kind of Si-Fi, or simply love deep philosophical story , this is a must watch

SnoopyStyle Based on Frank Herbert's classic science fiction novel, this is a 3 part TV miniseries for Sci-fi channel. It is a fair attempt at the epic material. The obvious comparison is to the 1984 David Lynch version.First the easy comparison is the special effects. This version does a lot of green screen work. It's early CGI done competently for the times. It looks good enough, but the 1984 has the amazing visual style. This feels very much like a low resolution copy. It's got to be expected. I certainly wouldn't deduct any marks for it.The 1984 version was a complete mess storywise. I never read the books. This version is much more clearer. The 4 hours running times have a lot to do with that. It flows a lot better.The acting is there for the big roles in this movie. Alec Newman does a good job as the Muad'Dib. He feels like a young hero type. Backing him up, there are some great actors like William Hurt, Saskia Reeves, and Ian McNeice. The acting for the '84 version is much deeper. Overall, they're both flawed presentations of a complicated epic sci-fi series.