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Dune is excellent. However, there are some cop-outs in the sequels. The Lynch movie is visually beautiful, but sorely lacking in content and coherence. The miniseries is very good, IMHO. It is not perfect, but it gets a great deal of the actual story on film. Back when we Dune fans were first hearing about the miniseries, there were people who wanted the original cast of the movie to be cast in the miniseries. They wanted actors in their 40s to be cast as teens! After the cast of the mini was revealed, they criticized the fact that a 24 year old actor looked too old to portray a teen. It was pathetic.

The Lynch movie is visually beautiful, but sorely lacking in content and coherence. Crucial content like the Harkonnnen dinner scene had to be left out.

Not even David Lynch could cram that large a story into the run-time of a movie. The miniseries may have been amateurish in comparison to the film, but it was the only form with time to tell the whole story.