Darth Id said:

NeverarGreat said:

Lynch's Dune was a good movie. Perhaps not great, and it doesn't do Dune justice, but I'm glad that it exists.

To put this necro'd thread on topic, I'd rather have too little exposition than too much. I'd say 2001, A Space Odyssey comes dangerously close to having too little exposition, whereas Interstellar has far too much.

I'm gonna go with...uproariously terrible on the whole Dune issue. And certainly not light on the exposition, to forgive an on-topic connection. IIRC, the "film" opened with about 6 1/2 minutes of uninterrupted spoken-word doggerel re "THE SPICE," etc., while the screen just alternated back and forth between shots of two static planets.

I'm not sure how to feel about that exposition dump. Star Wars had one in text form, so if Dune went the same way, would it be viewed as harshly? Dune in book form prefaced most chapters with quotes by the Princess Irulian, so having her preface the movie doesn't seem out of place. However I don't think that it needed to go on for so long. Just a little about Arrakis and the spice, then cut to Caladan.