TheRetroCritic

Adapting Frank Herbert's epic sci-fi novel Dune was never going to be easy. So what better choice to direct the epic undertaking but David Lynch, a filmmaker known at the time for directing a weird-ass little movie about a screaming human baby tadpole and something about a guy with elephant-like facial features... Surely THE man for the job. Now I'm not saying that picking Lynch to direct was a mistake, after all, who knew that Tim ' Pee-Wee's Big Adventure ' Burton could pull off Batman ? But if what the studios wanted was some kind of really commercial trilogy or a fast-paced, Star Wars -style action flick then they couldn't have made a weirder choice. But I, for one, am happy they made it. I freakin' love Dune! Now I know it's hardly regarded as Lynch's best work and it's never really listed along with the best novel-to-movie adaptations ever but... it's Dune! By David Lynch! Tell me how that's not all kinds of awesome. Oh