samanthabryant | Viewing: Dune: Redux. Fanedit by Spicediver

Sick day movie marathon day 2. Dune, Redux the fan edit by SpiceDiver. I don't remember exactly how I learned that this existed, but as soon as I did, I was intrigued. There was much I liked in the 1984 movie of Dune and it was also such a hot mess! I wanted to see what someone else was able to make of it.

This edit was quite good. I mean, some flaws were not really fixable, like the unintentional comedy of Baron Harkonnen and some of the wooden acting. But dumping all the unnecessary voiceover and puts things in a semblance of chronological order made the whole thing make a lot more sense.

It still felt choppy here and there, but not nearly as much so as the theatrical cut I first saw all those years ago. The costuming and sets are still brilliant and gorgeous. The intrigue and politics were smoothed out into something almost comprehensible.