everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Brilliant and touching

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

I'd seen parts of the David Lynch Dune movie and it was decent, and when I heard that the Sci Fi Channel was doing a miniseries based on the original Frank Herbert novel, I was excited. Maybe it would do more justice than the movie. Turns out it was actually pretty darn good.They brought in a lot of foreign actors, and not just American ones, and William Hurt was good as the father of Paul Atreides. But some of the acting was a little stiff and some might think that the guy playing Paul was a little too old. Maybe a twenty-something-year-old would have been nice. But the visuals were pleasing and the technology looked well done. I've only seen the miniseries once, and I wouldn't mind seeing it again. At least the Baron didn't look too revolting. And the sandworms were definitely formidable. The ornithopters could have been more exotic-looking but they were decent and were much better than the ones in the David Lynch movie.Bottom line: If you were put off by the movie and want something a little more accurate and exotic, this should be on your to-do list. If it were me, I'd keep both for comparison. That way we don't have to fight. And it's not a contest. Just try to enjoy one or the other, or even both, okay?

The pace through the plot is about right in this mini-series (the 1984 film was in too much of a hurry). There is reasonable adherence to the book - it would take double the time to follow everything in the book. The shortcuts are reasonable (e.g. dropping Paul's second Fremen name "Usul"). Score is good, with a memorable and pretty theme tune; although personally I would have put more into the rhythm in a few places for contrast (it's more ambient than necessary throughout IMO).One or two gripes: the spice-affected eyeballs look like they have back- lighting wired in - there was no need to deviate from the book's simple deep blue iris and light blue sclera, i.e. without going bionic on the lighting.Accents of actors are sometimes good, sometimes inconsistent. For example, if Shaddam has an Italian accent, then some of it should rub off on his children. And the Fremen accent is all over the place - sometimes Egyptian, sometimes east European. And given that the Fremen language is clearly a descendant of Arabic, then "Shadout Mapes" shouldn't rhyme with "grapes" - I'd choose either "mar-pess" or "mar- pesh" - in fact the latter would sound the more convincing to me in the context of the story.As other reviewers have hinted at, but not covered specifically, the director fails to represent the idea of prescience nor the role of the mentat properly. Instead of presenting these as visions and calculations (respectively) of the possible future, as described in the book, we see almost randomly juxtaposed images, much more suggestive of the 70's hallucinogenic culture than the book intended, in spite of its 70's publication date.Nevertheless, in comparison with what the genre usually offers, I still give it ten out of ten.

I was immediately disappointed early in the series when I realized how they had poorly cast Paul, who is a central character holding the entire movie together. Paul is calm, collected, prescient with razor-sharp perceptive skills; mature ahead of his time. In the series, Paul is petulant, arrogant, rash and almost childish. He lacks much of the presence that he needs to project. The cast around him is decent (e.g. William Hurt as Leto Atriedes), the special effects good for its time, but it still falls sadly short. It won't stop Dune fans from watching it, but I leave the film feeling dissatisfied and a sense of the waste.

This is an incredibly well made mini series. Perhaps the best made miniseries of all time.Dune is obviously about Mars. There are even photos of sand worms like the ones shown on this series taken on Mars. How did Frank Herbert knew all this is the biggest mystery, but there seems to be an underground knowledge about Mars that's been passed down from eons ago as Swift's Gulliver's Travel mentions about the "Two moons of Mars" in his novel that was written hundreds of years ago.But back to Dune, for the budget, the series has incredible special effects, and acting is first class.You really feel that this is happening in Mars, uh sorry, Dune.If you haven't seen it yet, it's really worth your time to look for it, and spend time watching it.